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| Yemen govt delegation eschews Kuwait-hosted peace talks |
| 2016-07-16 |
| [AA.TR] UN envoy to 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... Ismail Ould Cheikh on Friday evening headed to Saudi capital Riyadh in an effort to persuade a Yemeni government delegation to take part in the planned second round of Kuwait-hosted hosted peace talks with the Shia Houthi murderous Moslem group. A source close to the talks, who spoke anonymously due to restrictions on speaking to media, told Anadolu Agency that delegations representing the Houthis and their primary ally, former Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , had both already set out for Kuwait from Oman to participate in the talks, which had been slated to kick off Friday. It remains uncertain until now, however, whether the UN envoy succeeded in convincing the government delegation to return to the negotiating table. The Yemeni government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi continues to demand implementation of UN Resolution 2216 -- which calls on the Houthis to lay down their arms and withdraw from cities they currently occupy -- and the 2011 Gulf Initiative. On Thursday, members of the government delegation declared that they would not take part in talks in Kuwait until their conditions were met. |
| Posted by:Fred |