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WORLD The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Sunday, December 9, 2018 7C Rebel delegates at Yemen peace talks report progress NARIMAN EL-MOFTYI Associated Press A boy sits in a damaged car, Feb. 10, in Mocha, Yemen. Envoys from Yemen’s warring parties are headed to Sweden for more peace talks to stop the three-year-old war. BY IVANA BZGANOVIC AND HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press RIMBO, Sweden - Yemeni rebel delegates at talks underway in Sweden to try end their country’s ruinous civil war reported progress on Saturday on the key issues of reopening the airport at the capital, Sanaa, and the implementation of an agreement reached earlier this week on the exchange of prisoners. U.N. special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, struck a positive note, say ing in a brief statement read to reporters that the two sides were demonstrating a “positive spirit” in the talks, held at a castle in the town of Rimbo, north of Stockholm. Yemen’s four-year con flict, which has pushed the country to the brink of famine, pits the country’s Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, against Yemen’s internationally recognized government supported by a Saudi-led coalition. The United Nations has long led a push to resolve the conflict but past attempts at talks have led nowhere. “The two parties are engaged in a serious and constructive way in dis cussing the details of confi dence-building measures,” Griffiths said. “We hope we will achieve progress during this round of consultations.” Also speaking on Saturday, rebel delegate Abdul-Malik Al-Hajri said enough progress has been made on the airport issue that some “positive results” could be announced as early as Sunday. “There was a wide-rang ing discussion yesterday and today on the re-opening of Sanaa airport and, God willing, there will be some positive results tomorrow on a comprehensive scenario for the reopening of Sanaa airport,” he told a news conference. He gave no details except that one proposal made by the rebels was for Sanaa- bound aircraft to stop at another city in the region for inspection before they pro ceed to the Yemeni capital. He suggested Amman, Jor dan’s capital, as a candidate for an inspection stopover. The Houthis captured Sanaa in 2014, forcing the government into exile and plunging the impoverished Arab nation into civil war. With the Houthis in control of most of the country, a Saudi- led, U.S.-backed coalition entered the war in March 2015 on the side President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government. The Houthis now control the north of the country while the govern ment controls the south. The war has killed tens of thousands and made Yemen the world’s worst humani tarian crisis with 22 of its 29 million people in need of aid, according to the U.N. The airport in rebel-held Sanaa has been closed since August 2016 by order of the Saudi-led coalition, leav ing the rebel-held north of Yemen heavily relying on the Red Sea port of Hode- The war has killed tens of thousands and made Yemen the world s worst humanitarian crisis with 22 of its 29 million people in need of aid. ida, which is controlled by the Houthis, for delivery of much-needed humanitarian aid and fuel supplies. The two sides have been stalemated over Hodeida. On the issue of the pris oner exchange, al-Hajri said the rebels were prepared to release all of those they hold, provided the other side reciprocates. The two sides, however, agreed on incremental releases, with 200 prisoners from each side being simultaneously released. He did not say when that would start. 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