Local Editor

The spokesman of the Houthi Ansarullah movement, Mohammed Abdulsalam, said on Monday that a draft proposal put forth by the United Nations [UN] to end the crisis in the country is flawed.

Abdulsalam said that the UN proposal for a fresh round of negotiations between Yemeni groups only includes the mechanism of the talks and does not address the main crisis in the Arab country and the chief reasons behind it.

Earlier this month [November], the UN special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said that the talks between members of the Yemeni Ansarullah Houthi movement and the government of Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi would begin by mid-November. 

However, the negotiations have not yet been held.

The UN special envoy said that he was working with a team to "reach an agreement on the date... and the subjects that will be discussed within the context of the UN Security Council Resolution 2216". 

Abdulsalam meanwhile also said that the draft proposal does not include political solutions to end the conflict in Yemen. It also does not include the issue of elections or the fight against so-called "Daesh" ["ISIL"] extremists.

Furthermore, he said that the UN draft proposal does not cover a seven-point plan put forth by Ansarullah and Yemen’s General People’s Congress in the Omani capital, Muscat, in July.

Since March 26, Yemen has been under deadly airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition.

The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.

The Saudi aggression has claimed the lives of more than 2,615 civilians, according to the UN. Yet, other organization put the death toll at much higher. According to the Yemeni health ministry, the death toll from the Saudi-led aggression against Yemen so far is more than 6,000, adding that 1,277 of those killed were children.