GCC offers to host peace talks between Yemeni factions, including Houthis, in Riyadh

SANAA, 16 March 2022, (TON): The Gulf Cooperation Council is sponsoring unprecedented and comprehensive peace talks between warring factions in Yemen, including the Iran-backed Houthis that could begin in Riyadh before the end of this month.

A senior government official told “the Gulf Cooperation Council will invite all Yemeni components, both supporters and oppositions, and the putschist Houthis would have some seats in the talks.”

They added ‘the talks might start on March 27 and would continue for at least one week.”

The official said “Former Yemeni government ministers and outspoken politicians such as Ahmed Al-Maysari, Saleh Al-Jabwani and Abdul Aziz Al-Jubari would be invited.”

“Almost no one will be excluded.”

According to a report that quoted a military official “meanwhile, a car bomb attack on Tuesday on a convoy in which a Yemeni southern military commander was traveling in Abyan province killed two soldiers and seriously injured two more.”

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