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A ceasefire in Yemen will start on Dec. 14, the eve of planned peace talks in Switzerland next week, the head of the Ansarullah delegation to the peace talks said Saturday.
"Based on what had been agreed upon, there will be a halt of the aggression on the 14th of this month," Mohammed Abdul-Salam told a news conference broadcast live from the Yemeni capital Sana’a.
The United Nations has invited fugitive former Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government and the Ansarullah to peace talks in Switzerland starting on Dec. 15, after the sides agreed a draft agenda and ground rules for the talks.
Hadi’s Prime Minister Khaled Bahah said Friday he was determined to end the fighting that had killed nearly 6,000 people since March and caused widespread damage to the economy and infrastructure.
Abdul-Salam complained that the United Nations had not taken into account all the remarks his group had made on the draft but said the group and its allies would try to press their demands at the talks.
"We are in constant coordination, together with the General People’s Congress party, and we will all go with a national will aimed at stopping the aggression and lifting the siege," he told the news conference.
Yemen has been under Saudi airstrikes on a daily basis since Riyadh launched its military campaign against the impoverished nation in late March, in a bid to undermine the Ansarullah movement and restore power to Hadi, a staunch Saudi ally.
More than 7,500 people have been killed and over 14,000 others injured ever since. The strikes have also taken a heavy toll on the impoverished country’s facilities and infrastructure.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
