Local Editor

A United Nations [UN] conference aimed at restarting peace talks in Yemen has been postponed as Saudi Arabia’s US-led aggression on the impoverished country continues.

A UN official said on Sunday amid uncertainty over who would attend the negotiations that, "I can confirm that the meeting has been postponed".

The decision was announced after Yemen’s fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that he would not be present during talks unless his demands are met.

On the other hand, the Houthis have said that they are prepared to take part in the peace talks if the Saudi regime stops its military aggression on Yemen.

Ansarullah spokesman Mohamed Abdel-Salam said recently this week that as long as the Saudi regime goes on with its airstrikes on the Yemeni people, they cannot accept to sit down at the negotiating table.

The UN secretary-general had earlier in the day announced that peace talks aimed at ending the crisis in Yemen would begin in the Swiss city of Geneva on May 28.

Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression against Yemen on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in a bid to undermine the Ansarullah movement, and to restore power to Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia ally.

The UN says that nearly 2,000 people have been killed and 7,330 injured since March due to the conflict in Yemen.