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UN envoy Martin Griffiths left Sana’a on Thursday following a three-day visit to Yemen during which he held intensive talks with Houthi leaders.
“Griffiths left the country without issuing any press statements,” a source at Sana’a International Airport told Anadolu Agency.
The source, who asked not to be named as he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the UN envoy had departed Yemen for the Jordanian capital, where his office is located.
Griffiths arrived in Sana’a on Tuesday to speak with Houthi leaders about implementation of a UN-backed ceasefire in Yemen’s coastal Hodeida province.
While in Yemen, Griffiths also met with Denmark’s Michael Lollesgaard, head of a UN observer force based in Hodeida.
In December, the Houthis and Yemen’s Saudi-backed government agreed to withdraw all their fighters from the coastal province by Jan. 7.
Although the deadline was missed, Griffiths has said the warring parties both remain “committed” to implementing the agreement’s terms.
Yemen has been beset by violence and chaos since 2014.
The crisis escalated in 2015 when a Saudi-led military coalition launched a devastating air campaign aimed at forcefully reinstating the resigned regime of former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Since then, thousands of Yemenis, including numerous civilians, are believed to have been killed in the conflict.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
