Alwaght- Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says the Saudi-led military coalition that has imposed an embargo on the country blocked its delegation from flying to Geneva to attend United Nations-sponsored peace talks.
According to Yemen's al-Masirah TV the UN could not secure required authorizations from the Saudi-led coalition which controls Yemen’s airspace. UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths called on Yemen’s government and the Ansarullah movement to work towards a deal to end the war, remove foreign forces from Yemeni territory, and establish a national unity government.
Speaking at a press conference Wednesday on the eve of the talks, Griffiths said the upcoming "consultations" between the conflicting parties in Geneva offered a "flickering signal of hope."
"The people of Yemen ... are desperately in need of a signal of hope. We would like to think that the work we will do together in these next days will begin to send a flickering signal of hope to them.”
The UN official also said the talks would begin by trying to build trust between the two parties and substance will come later.
Saudi-led military coalition involved in an illegal aggression on Yemen has imposed a blockade on the impoverished country's air, sea, and land borders thus threatening the lives of millions in the most impoverished Arab state.
Saudi Arabia, backed by the US, UK and the Israeli regime, launched its war on Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to crush Ansarullah and reinstate former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime.
More than 15,000 people have been killed since the onset of the campaign more than two and a half years ago. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war.
Another 2,100 people have died of cholera since April as hospitals struggle to secure basic supplies across the country.
