SANAA, Jul 1 (NNN-YPA) – Yemen’s Houthi group sent a delegation to Jordan’s capital, Amman to resume the UN-sponsored truce talks with the Yemeni government, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported, yesterday.
The delegation would discuss violations of the ongoing truce and the opening of roads in Taiz.
There was no comment yet from the Yemeni government.
On Tuesday, UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, urged the Houthi group, which controls large swathes of northern Yemen, to open the main roads to the besieged city of Taiz in south-western Yemen, in accordance with the terms of the ongoing truce.
Grundberg made the appeal, during his meeting with Mohammed Abdulsalam, Houthi’s chief negotiator for the ongoing ceasefire, in Muscat, Oman’s capital.
“Opening roads is critical to ease the humanitarian suffering of Yemenis and build confidence,” the envoy said in a tweet.
Ending the Taiz siege is the last major term to be fulfilled under the agreement, reached by the country’s warring parties, before starting the ceasefire in Apr.
The government-controlled Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, has been under siege since the civil war erupted in late 2014. Lifting the blockade would facilitate the movement of citizens and their access to humanitarian aid.
