Alwaght- Yemen’s Ansarullah movement rejected United States' initiative for resolving Yemeni crisis, saying Washington only seeks to weaken the resistance group.
The Ansarullah spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam said Saturday that the plan put forth by US Secretary of State John Kerry aims at depriving Ansarullah fighters of their arms in their fight against Saudi aggression.
Kerry earlier called on Ansarullah to lay down its weapons including ballistic missiles and to pull back from the capital Sana’a. In return, the US secretary of state said Ansarullah and allies can have a share in Yemen’s future unity government.
"Whoever has a greedy eye on our weapons, we will have a greedy eye on his life,” Abdulsalam wrote in a message posted on Facebook.
Meeting his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir on Thursday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the US Secretary of State has said that there was no military solution for the Yemeni crisis, adding details about the new plan to find settlement in Yemen. Adding more details, John Kerry said that the plan came as part of efforts for making a comprehensive reconciliation in Yemen, and that in first steps it included immediately forming a national unity government and retreatment of the forces from the capital city of Sana'a and other key regions of the country and also handing over all of the heavy arms including ballistic missiles and the launching bases that are in the hands of Ansarullah movement and its allies to a third party.
Meanwhile, talking to the Al-Mayadeen news network in Dubai, the spokesman for the US State Department has said that the details of the new peace plan would be completed in the upcoming days as the diplomatic negotiations go ahead with the UN.
Forming the national unity government and disarming Ansarullah are actually key demands of Saudi Arabia but what appears new in Kerry's words is handover of the arms to a third party.
Saudi Arabia formed a coalition of the Arab countries and, while having a full Western backing, especially by Britain and the US, brought Yemen under its unceasing airstrikes in March 2015, killing about 10,000 people. But after 500 days not only the Saudis failed to make remarkable success but also they are witnessing their southern areas being counter-attacked continuously by the Yemeni forces.
On Thursday, the Ansarullah-run Al-Masirah TV network aired images provided by the Yemeni forces near Saudi Arabia's Najran province showing destroying of the Saudi military equipment and also fleeing of the Saudi troops from their posts. These battlefield conditions have caused the analysts to talk about military defeat of Saudi Arabia in the war.
