Alwaght- A seven-day truce in the Saudi-led aggression on Yemen will start on Monday, the day before planned UN-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland, Ansarullah movement official said on Saturday.
"Based on what had been agreed upon, there will be a halt of the aggression on the 14th of this month," Mohammed Abdul-Salam told a news conference broadcast live from the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
The United Nations has invited Yemeni fugitive President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's faction and Ansarullah to peace talks in Switzerland starting on Dec. 15, after the sides agreed a draft agenda and ground rules for the talks.
Hadi's Prime Minister Khaled Bahah said Friday he was determined to end the fighting.
Abdul-Salam complained that the United Nations had not taken into account all the remarks his group had made on the draft but said the group and its allies would try to press their demands at the talks.
"We are in constant coordination, together with the General People's Congress party, and we will all go with a national will aimed at stopping the aggression and lifting the siege," he told the news conference. In 10th of July, Saudi warplanes have attacked a number of areas across Yemen, violating a UN-sponsored ceasefire that had come into effect minutes earlier. It remains to be seen if the belligerent Saudi regime will respect the Yemeni truce.
The World Health Organization said on Saturday that as of Nov. 12, the death toll in Yemen since March was 5,878 people. A total of 27,867 had been wounded during the same period. Other reports say over 7,600 Yemenis mostly women, children and the elderly have been killed during the nine months a brutal Saudi-led aggression on the impoverished country.
The illegal war on Yemen has inflicted damages on hundreds of important installations in the civilian infrastructure including hospitals, schools, mosques, residential quarters, water reservoirs etc.