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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir speaks at a news conference in Riyadh yesterday.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir voiced support yesterday for peace talks on Yemen’s conflict which the United Nations says will take place this month in Geneva.
“We hope they will be successful,” Jubeir told reporters after a summit of Arab and South American countries in Riyadh.
“We support these negotiations and hope they will achieve peace, security and stability in Yemen,” he said.
Addressing the summit late on Tuesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that his special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, “intends to convene a new round of peace consultations in Switzerland... this month”.
He did not give a specific date but said both the Yemeni government and the Houthis have committed to attend.
“It is critical that all sides lend their political support and engage in good faith,” Ban said.
“There is no military solution to the conflict,” he said, even as deadly fighting raged across the country.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed told AFP last week that he was “very optimistic” negotiations would start between November 10 and 15.
But on Monday in the Saudi capital, Yemen’s Foreign Minister Riad Yassin told AFP the Houthis’ recapture at the weekend of positions in southern Yemen shows they are “not serious” about the peace talks.
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