Ansarullah Official: Foreign Intervention to Make Geneva Talks on Yemen Fail
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior member of the Political Council of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement stressed the necessity for holding “Yemeni-Yemeni” talks to end crisis in the war-hit country, saying that foreign intervention will make UN-brokered talks end in failure.
“Foreign intervention is the biggest problem in reaching a solution to (the political crisis),” Mohammad al-Bakhiti said in an interview with the Tasnim News Agency.
“…the talks should be Yemeni-Yemeni and any intervention by foreigners will lead to the failure of the talks,” he noted.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched Yemen peace talks in Geneva on Monday with a call for a humanitarian truce.
The Arabian Peninsula country has been engulfed in turmoil since Saudi Arabia and some of its allies launched military attacks on March 26 without a UN mandate.
They have been carrying out deadly air strikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
The Saudi airstrikes have claimed the lives of more than 2,600 people so far while over 8,000 others have been wounded, most of them civilians.