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| Yemeni govt gives Houthis deadline to sign UN deal | |
| 2016-08-02 | |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The foreign minister of Yemen’s internationally recognized government on Monday gave Iran-backed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... militias and their allies a deadline till Aug. 7 to sign a UN peace proposal aimed at ending the country’s civil war. The Yemeni government has already accepted the UN peace proposal on Sunday after more than a year of armed conflict. "If they want peace, they have to sign the peace deal and we were patient," Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi, who is also Yemen’s deputy prime minister, told news hounds. Mekhlafi's deadline also comes after the delegation of Yemen’s government decided to leave Kuwait on Monday after the Houthis side rejected the UN peace proposal. The foreign minister, meanwhile, said: "We’ll return at any moment, even an hour after our departure, if the other side agrees to sign this document which the [UN] envoy presented." Mekhlafi also warned that the Yemeni people will challenge the Houthis who "are working against legitimacy" especially if they continued to be "hurdles" to peace in the country, which he warned to be on the verge of an economic collapse. He said the Yemeni government is "keen to achieve peace," and accused the Houthis and their allies of "torture," "arrests" of political dissidents and the "destruction of cities" and creating "unprecedented situations" harmful to the country. He also reiterated the Yemeni government’s demand for the UN Security Council Resolution 2216. The resolution states that the Houthi militias must withdraw from seized territories including the capital Sanaa. Fahad al-Sharafi, a Yemeni analyst, told Al Arabiya News channel that the UN proposal holds key and important points for peace to be reached in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and to end the current crisis. Sharafi also said that the Houthis have "enough time" to sign the agreement, but it is unclear if they will also follow suit "because within hours" after the UN proposed the peace draft, they rejected it.
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