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Talks aimed at ending Yemen’s civil war opened in Kuwait on Thursday, with Kuwait’s foreign minister appealing to both sides to "turn war into peace" after more than a year of conflict which has killed 6,200 people and caused a humanitarian crisis.
The talks, bringing together Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and its General People’s Congress party allies with the Saudi-backed regime of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, were originally scheduled to start on Monday.
The talks are expected to focus on creating a more inclusive government and restoring state authority over the country, which is now divided between the Houthis and Hadi’s regime.
The crisis began in September 2014 when the Houthis entered the capital Sana’a. A Saudi-led Arab alliance attacked last year, launching a campaign of mostly air strikes against the Ansarullah in support of Hadi’s forces.
The Ansarullah movement and the GPC had accused the Saudi-led coalition and Hadi supporters of failing to honor a truce that began on April 10, and refused to send their negotiators to Kuwait until the truce was consolidated.
They agreed to join the talks following intervention by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
