Alwaght- Yemen's Ansarullah movement has criticized a draft proposal prepared by the United Nations (UN) to end the crisis in the country terming it as defective.
Ansarullah movement spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam said Monday that the UN proposal for a fresh round of talks between Yemeni groups only includes the mechanism of the talks and does not focus on the main crisis in the Arab country and the principal reasons that led to the current situation
The UN special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Sheikh Ahmed recently announced that the negotiations between members of the Yemeni Ansarullah movement and the group led by Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi would begin by mid-November. However, the talks are yet to commence despite the promise by the UN envoy.
Ould Sheikh Ahmed added that he was working with a team to “reach an agreement on the date... and the subjects that will be discussed within the context of the UN Security Council Resolution 2216.”
Abdulsalam said that the draft proposal does not include political solutions to end the conflict in Yemen. It also does not include the issue of elections or the fight against ISIS Takfiri terrorists.
Furthermore, he said the UN draft proposal does not cover a seven-point plan put forth by Ansarullah and Yemen's General People's Congress in the Omani capital, Muscat, in July.
Ansarullah fighters took control of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, in September 2014 and are currently in control of large parts of the Arab country. The revolutionaries said the government of Hadi was incapable of properly running the affairs of the country and containing the growing wave of corruption and terror.
Hadi, along with the cabinet of the former Yemeni prime minister, Khaled Bahah, stepped down in January.
On February 21, he escaped house arrest in Sanaa and fled to his hometown Aden, where he withdrew his resignation and highlighted his intention to resume duties. He later fled the port city to Saudi Arabia.
Unhappy with the advances of the Ansarullah fighters, who are backed by army forces and Popular Committees, Saudi Arabia began a deadly military aggression against Yemen – without a UN mandate – on March 26. The strikes are meant to undermine the Ansarullah movement and restore power to Hadi.
According to a Yemeni coalition of observers monitoring Saudi-led forces have killed over 7,200 people, including almost 2,000 children and women, have been killed and at least 15,000 injured.
The Saudi-led coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah movement fighters, but the coalition warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructure including schools, hospitals, mosques etc.