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Top officials from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, key players in a coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement, have discussed military cooperation following a positive response by Riyadh to a truce offer from the revolutionaries.
Saudi's deputy defence minister Prince Khalid bin Salman met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan in the UAE capital to discuss "coordination and joint action in defence and military affairs", Emirati state news agency WAM reported Monday.
The two officials, who spoke late Sunday, also discussed the "challenges" facing the Gulf region and "their implications on the security" of the region, WAM said.
Last week, Prince Khalid said on Twitter that a truce offer made last month by Yemen's Houthis was "perceived positively" by the kingdom and hoped it would be "implemented effectively".
Since 2015, Riyadh has led a military coalition to forcefully reinstate the resigned regime of Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people, most of them civilians, according to humanitarian organizations, and left Yemen faced with what the UN terms the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
The Houthis offered to halt all retaliatory attacks on Saudi Arabia as part of a peace initiative to end the devastating conflict, later repeating their proposal despite continued air strikes from the Saudi-led coalition.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
