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UN Special Envoy to Yemen warns situation is exceptionally vulnerable to renewed violence in Hodeida.
United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths said that peace in the war-torn country will only happen through a negotiated solution, calling on all warring sides to make compromises.
“This conflict has already claimed too many victims, and it threatens the collapse of the state and the disintegration of the social fabric. And every day that we together lose translates into immeasurable more effort, time and resources that will be required to rebuild the institutions and infrastructure necessary for a return to civility and a dignified life for the people of Yemen,” said Griffiths at a two-day consultative meeting with Yemeni public and political figures in Amman.
An escalation of violence in Yemen since the start of the year has shattered more than three months of calm in the five-year-old conflict.
He raised deep concerns about the escalations in east of Sana’a which he said may threaten progress, limited though as may be in Hodeida, where the situation is exceptionally vulnerable to renewed violence.
Since January 2019, Amman has witnessed several meetings between representatives of the Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and the resigned regime of former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the last of which was in the middle of this month, when the two parties agreed on a detailed plan to complete the first large-scale exchange of prisoners and detainees since the beginning of the conflict.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
