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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.
U.N. officials have sought
to downplay expectations
from the talks in Sweden,
saying they don’t foresee
rapid progress toward a
political settlement but hope
for minor steps that would
help to address Yemen’s
worsening humanitarian cri
sis and prepare a framework
for further negotiations.
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