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UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths has started consultations with the parties to the Yemeni conflict over resuming the settlement negotiations in November after the previous negotiations in Geneva failed, media reported on Friday.
The UN-mediated talks were expected to be held in early September in Geneva, but the representatives of the Houthi movement failed to come because the Saudi-led coalition, which controls the Yemeni air space, did not allow them to leave and return peacefully.
According to the Al Arabiya broadcaster, the Austrian government offered Griffith to hold a new round of talks in Vienna.
After meeting with Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr and Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, two officials in the resigned Hadi regime, in Saudi Arabia, Griffith traveled to Oman to discuss the Yemeni conflict with Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, the media said.
Also, Griffith had already held talks with the Houthis to discuss possible steps to restore trust between the warring parties, the broadcaster added.
Yemen has been gripped by the civil war with the resigned regime headed by Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi fighting the Houthi movement. The Hadi regime is backed by the Saudi-led coalition that has been carrying out airstrikes targeted at the areas controlled by the Houthis since March 2015.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
