I guess they weren’t really really interested in ….”peace”.
Heavy fighting in Yemen as officials say peace talks delayed
Unconfirmed reports say UN peace talks on Yemen scheduled for later this week have been delayed. But they are much needed, as heavy fighting continues in the country’s month-long civil war.
Senior Yemeni politicians said late on Sunday that a United Nations peace conference aimed at ending a bloody civil war sparked by a Shiite Houthi rebellion has been indefinitely postponed.
The officials from various parties, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that no new date had been set for the talks, which had been scheduled to take place on Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland.
UN officials have not confirmed the postponement, with spokesman Ahmad Fawzi saying in Geneva that plans were going ahead for the talks to start on schedule.
The Houthi rebels had said they would participate in the talks. But exiled Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi had demanded that the rebels comply with a UN Security Council resolution calling on them to withdraw from cities they had seized before taking part.
The demand could have precipitated a delay in the talks, as the rebels have so far failed to heed the resolution taken by the Council last month.