The UN special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said Thursday he plans to suspend peace talks between the country’s warring parties at the weekend but that negotiations will resume later.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed has been mediating the talks between President Abed Rabboh Mansour Hadi’s government and the Ansarullah revolutionaries in Kuwait since April 21, without a major breakthrough.
"We plan to hold the final session [of the talks] on Saturday," he noted.
The talks would resume later, he said, without providing a specific date or the location but he added that they could return to Kuwait.
The envoy said all difficult issues were discussed and some achievements were made during the negotiations.
"We wanted to have a sustainable and lasting peace agreement," said Ould Cheikh Ahmed who on Wednesday briefed the UN Security Council about the talks.
The United Nations estimated that the war on Yemen killed more than 6,400 people and displaced 2.8 million since then, when a Saudi-led Arab coalition launched a military campaign in support of Hadi.
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