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Tuesday 3 May 2016 - 14:50
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Saudi-backed side sabotaged Yemen peace: Houthi leader

Yemen's Houthi leader hascriticized delegates loyal to Saudi-backedformer president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi for abandoning UN-brokered Yemen peace talks in Kuwait.

Abdel Malek al-Houthi said Monday that hisAnsarullah movement had already signed a ceasefire deal, accusing the other side of stonewalling peace efforts andnot abiding by the truce.

He said a political solution to the Yemen conflict is close at hand, but the obstinacy of the invading countries is an impediment to that goal.

Yemen has seen almost daily military attacks by Saudi Arabia since late March 2015, with internal sources putting the toll from the bloody aggression at more than 9,500.

The Saudi-backedrepresentativessuspended their participation in the peace talks on Sunday in protest at Ansarullah's recent takeover of a military base in theAmran province.

Houthi said Ansarullah representatives attended the talks in a bid to put an end to months of clashes in the impoverished Arab country and establish peace.

Ansarullah spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam accusedthe Saudi-backed side of wasting time and fabricating excuses to continue militancy in Yemen.

Those who dont want peace ... are the ones who create false justifications and reasons to obstruct the talks, Abdulsalam wrote on his official Twitter account.



[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] Spokesman for Yemens Ansarullah movement Mohammed Abdulsalam AFP[/caption]

Airstrikeshavedestroyed Yemen's infrastructure and the impoverished nation is strugglingto cope with shortage of food and basicmedications due to the Saudi blockade ofthe country.

In hisspeech marking the deathanniversary of founding leader Sheikh Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi on Monday, Ansarullah's current leaderwarned Muslim nations of "intricate plots" of the US and Israel in the Middle East.

Houthi said the Israeli regime is responsible for the crises and conflicts plaguing the Middle East region.

Israels anti-Muslim agenda, he said, is carried out by the Zionist lobbyacross the globe, which poses significant threats to the international peace and tranquility.

He said Muslims should closely monitor any move that Washington, Tel Aviv and their allies make in the region.

UN bid to revive talks

The United Nations on Tuesday said its envoy met delegates of Yemen's warring parties separately in a bid to restart peace negotiations.

Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed met both pro-Saudiand Houthi delegations late on Monday in a bid to find a swift resolution to the dispute.

Abdulmalek al-Mikhlafi, who heads the Hadidelegation, told Sky News Arabia there would be no more direct or indirect talks with the Houthis until they withdrew from the military camp.

Despite theSaudimilitary intervention in support of Hadi launched in March last year, the Houthisand their allies still control the capital, as well as much of the northern and central mountains and Red Sea coast.

By Press TV
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