Ansarullah Downbeat on Yemen Peace Talks in Sweden
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An official with Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement offered a downbeat assessment of the prospects for an upcoming round of UN-initiated talks in Sweden aimed at ending the war on Yemen.
In an interview with Tasnim on the sidelines of the Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran, Adnan Ali Qafla, director of foreign relations affairs at the executive bureau of Ansarullah movement, said the peace negotiations that the UN is going to hold in Sweden are not independent talks on their own.
The talks in Sweden will be consultations that are planned to turn into lengthy negotiations, he said, adding that Ansarullah will not be expecting much from the first round of the talks.
The negotiations will be in fact complementary to the talks held in the past and could trigger a political solution to the conflicts in Yemen, he said.
Ali Qafla also underlined that the Yemeni nation will overcome the US-Saudi-Emirati-Zionist invasion of their territories and win a victory over the aggressors in the near future.
The UN envoy for Yemen announced on November 16 that Yemeni warring sides have agreed to attend talks in Sweden aimed at ending a three-year Saudi-led war that has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis by pushing Yemen to the brink of famine.
Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council that he planned to bring the parties together “soon” in Sweden.
Yemen is in the grip of a humanitarian disaster with millions facing starvation and disease after years of war on the country.
The Saudi-led war in Yemen started in March 2015 as an attempt to crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement in the region and reinstall former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
