The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed left the Saudi capital Riyadh on Wednesday without meeting fugitive Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi or any other official to discuss the international body’s peace plan.
According to a senior official, the UN envoy had failed to convince the Yemeni regime to accept the UN peace plan.
The same source added the Mauritanian diplomat "met in Riyadh with some 18 ambassadors of the countries which sponsor the peace process in Yemen," without giving further details.
Ahmed told the UN Security Council late October that his peace plan envisioned the appointment of a new Yemeni vice-president and the formation of a national unity government.
The plan also called for the establishment of military and security "committees", tasked with overseeing the eventual surrender of weapons by the Houthis and their eventual withdrawal from the cities of Sana’a, Hodeida and Taiz.
Last Saturday, Hadi voiced his rejection of the peace plan. Earlier this year, Hadi’s regime and the Houthi Ansarullah movement engaged in two rounds of UN-sponsored peace talks in Kuwait, neither of which registered any breakthroughs.
Yemen has been wracked by chaos since late 2014. The conflict escalated in March of last year when Saudi Arabia and its allies launched a massive military campaign aimed at restoring Hadi back to power.
Since the conflict erupted two years ago, thousands of people have been killed in the violence and some three million forced to flee their homes. The Saudi aggression has also taken a heavy toll on Yemen’s facilities and infrastructure.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
