The Yemeni government said it welcomed "all efforts to restore peace" after the UN called for the warring parties to enter negotiations.
"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...is ready to immediately launch talks on the process of confidence-building, primarily the release of all detainees and prisoners, as well as those who have been kidnapped or subject to enforced disappearance," the government said in a statement carried by the state-run Saba news agency.