UN Envoy Hans Grundberg concluded his talks in Muscat on Thursday, as part of his efforts to renew the Yemeni truce and start a comprehensive political process.
Earlier this week, the UN envoy visited Riyadh and met with Saudi officials, before landing in the interim Yemeni capital, Aden, to meet with Rashad al-Alimi, head of the Presidential Leadership Council.
Grundberg’s office reported on Twitter that the UN envoy visited Muscat and met with senior Omani officials and the Houthi militia spokesman, Mohammed Abdul Salam.
It added that discussions touched on “ways to build on the current de-escalation and start an inclusive Yemeni-owned political process under UN auspices to bring the conflict to a sustainable end.”
Since the end of the six-month truce last October, the Houthi militia has rejected efforts to renew and expand it to include paying employees’ salaries and improving humanitarian conditions, while deliberately launching terrorist attacks on oil export ports in the liberated areas.
Yemeni official sources said that Al-Alimi renewed his “commitment to the just and comprehensive peace approach, and his support for regional and international efforts to push the Houthi terrorist militias to deal positively with all good endeavors, to launch a comprehensive political process led by the United Nations, in a way that meets the aspirations of all Yemenis in restoring the state and achieving security and stability.”
Underlining full support for the UN envoy’s efforts, Al-Alimi called for “strict international positions to reduce the human suffering that the militias seek to exacerbate with the support of the Iranian regime and its subversive project in the region.”
In parallel, the government called on the political parties opposed to the coup to unite efforts to restore the state, as announced by the Minister of Information, Muammar Al-Eryani.
“Eight years of the Iran-backed Houthi militia coup confirmed beyond any doubt that uniting efforts behind constitutional legitimacy, strengthening confidence and overcoming differences between all components represent the only, shortest, and safest way to restore the state and preserve the identity and dignity of the Yemeni people,” the minister said in official remarks on Thursday.
