After Houthi Rejection, Yemen Government Agrees to Extension of Truce
The Yemeni government announced on Sunday evening that it agreed to extend the UN truce in the country, an hour after the Houthi militias rejected it.
“The Yemeni government on Sunday evening informed the UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, of the agreement to extend the truce in the country,” Foreign Minister Ahmed bin Mubarak said in a press statement.
The Yemeni minister did not provide further details on the position of the Houthi militias, which announced an hour before the end of the actual truce time that they did not agree to the UN proposal to renew the truce, and maintained their position that the talks reached an impasse.
The humanitarian truce in Yemen expired at 7 p.m. local time without a UN declaration of extension due to the position of Houthi militias.
Yemeni media reported that the UN envoy informed the Presidential Command Council that Houthi militias agreed to extend the truce. However, Houthi militias denied this through their spokesman, Mohammed Abdul-Salam, claiming that no agreement was reached.
Houthi militias have attacked Dhale fronts in a pressure during which the coup sought to achieve political gains through media and field maneuvering in the last moments.
According to observers, the Yemeni government has taken positive and good steps to alleviate human suffering throughout the country, including in the provinces that are under the armed control of Houthi militias supported by the Iranian regime.
The Presidential Council describes the Houthi militias’ positions on peace as “hostile,” calling for sufficient international pressure to push the militias to deal seriously with peace, and to put the interests of the Yemeni people above the interests of their leaders and Iran.
The truce went into effect at 7:16 p.m. Yemen time on April 2 and has been extended twice, achieving qualitative momentum on the cessation of military operations. The Houthis, however, refused to implement a key provision of the truce, namely the opening of the Taiz roads.
