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| Yemeni tells al-Houthi to hang it up |
| 2005-06-14 |
| Yemen is trying to convince northern rebels to surrender to avoid more clashes, which have cost more than 700 lives, the foreign minister said on Tuesday. Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi told Reuters that state troops were in "full control" of rebel areas in the mountainous north of the Arab state and that the situation was stable. "I hope they surrender because we do not want more bloodshed as a result of this futile conflict which is being instigated by old-fashioned ideas about rules and government in Yemen," he said on the sidelines of a meeting in Qatar. Yemen says rebels loyal to slain Shi'ite cleric Hussein al-Houthi want to install clerical rule and preach violence against the United States and Israel. Last month, Yemen's president said Houthi's father, who is blamed for the new round of fighting, agreed to a peace deal, but there have been some small clashes since then. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |