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The UN envoy for Yemen will hold a new round of talks with the Houthi Ansarullah movement and the Saudi-backed resigned regime in the coming days as the United Nations said Thursday that a ceasefire in the key port city of Hodeida was holding.
Martin Griffiths will travel to the capital of Sana’a on Saturday for talks with Houthi leaders and with the head of a truce monitoring committee, Dutch general Patrick Cammaert, said UN spokesman Farhan Haq.
He will then head to Riyadh to meet with former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and other officials.
The United Nations is hoping to bring the sides together later this month, possibly in Kuwait, to follow up on the progress made in talks in Stockholm in December, diplomats said.
Under the agreement reached in Sweden, the Houthis agreed to redeploy from Hodeida, the Red Sea port that is the entry point for food aid to millions of Yemenis on the brink of famine.
"The cessation of hostilities in Hodeida continues to hold," said Haq.
Meanwhile, the Houthis stated that the Saudi-led coalition carried out low-altitude flights over the city.
The council is expected to hear a report from Griffiths next week, but no firm date has been decided for that meeting.
The war in Yemen escalated in March 2015, when Hadi fled into Saudi exile and the Saudi-led coalition launched a military aggression.
The conflict has unleashed in Yemen what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
