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The United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths on Friday called on the two warring Yemeni parties to show political commitment.
“Yemenis are looking for genuine progress to be achieved in Sweden. This requires political commitment from everyone,” wrote Griffiths on a Twitter post.
The UN envoy also applauded the presence of the two Yemeni delegations around one table during the opening ceremony of the Consultations in Sweden as a “positive step”.
Griffiths called the Sweden Consultations as a “resumption of the political process to urgently end the conflict in Yemen.”
The UN stepped up its push for peace in Yemen amid global outrage at the Saudi regime over the gruesome assassination in early October of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which is being widely blamed on the architect of the Yemen war, Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman.
Under growing international pressure, Riyadh and its allies ultimately submitted to Ansarullah’s demands and returned to the negotiating table in the hope of finding a way out of the war, which has failed to achieve its objectives.
Source: Yemenwatch.net
