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The United Nations special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has embarked on a new journey to initiate peace negotiations, starting from Omani capital city of Muscat.
Ahmed referred to his meeting with the Omani Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yusuf bin Alawi as very positive. Oman has expressed the need to end the war in Yemen as soon as possible, he added.
Sources at Al Arabiya have confirmed that the UN envoy is set to meet President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi in Aden as per his contact with parties in the Yemini crisis.
Saudi Arabia has come under international opprobrium for the sheer size of the casualties from the war it is leading since March 2015 to crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement and bring back the former Yemeni government to power.
The offensive has so far killed 12,000 amid countless reports suggesting deliberate and indiscriminate targeting of civilian infrastructure by Saudi jets and mercenaries.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
