Kuwait’s emir Wednesday urged Yemen’s warring parties to press ahead with peace talks, a day after the Hadi delegation threatened to pull out of the U.N.-brokered negotiations.
Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, whose country is hosting the talks, called on the two sides to continue negotiating to "reach positive results", the official KUNA news agency reported.
The appeal came after the emir met separately with the two delegations and the U.N. envoy, in an attempt to salvage the talks that began four weeks ago.
Senior officials from Kuwait have repeatedly mediated and sought to prevent the collapse of the negotiations aimed at ending nearly 14 months of bloodshed.
Foreign Minister of the fugitive Yemeni government, Abdulmalek al-Mikhlafi, who heads the Hadi delegation, threatened Tuesday to quit the talks with the Houthi Ansarullah movement, giving the U.N. envoy a "last chance" to make them comply with U.N. resolutions.
The United Nations estimates that more than 6,400 people have been killed and 2.8 million displaced in Yemen since March last year.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
