IranPress/Middle East: Mohammed Abdul-Salam who attended Sweden talks with representatives of the country’s former Saudi Arabia-backed government, insisted that, "Foreign troops’ presence in Yemen is against the Yemen's constitution and UN Security Council resolutions and is unjustifiable."
“The presence of foreign forces in Yemen is not justified as long as our approach is political settlement of the crisis,” he told to the Arabic-language al-Masirah TV on Tuesday night according to IranPress.
Yemen’s occupied areas are now controlled by foreigners such as British, Saudi and UAE forces, not a group that calls itself “legitimate”, Mohammed Abdul-Salam added, referring to the Yemeni exiled Saudi-backed government which claims legitimacy.
The Ansarullah spokesman announced that in the UN-brokered peace talks in Stockholm, Sweden, the two sides have reached some agreements on ceasefire in some areas, but he said: "I am not convinced that there is real support for establishment of peace in Yemen."
He also said prisoner swap agreement between two sides includes all prisoners who are in Saudi and UAE prisons and Ansarullah knows all Yemeni prisoners in Saudi and UAE.
Abdel-Salam said, foreign backed forces occupied Al Hudaydah and Yemen's National Delegation rejected all accusations of occupation of Hudaydah as the only corridor for international civilian aids.
Mohammed Abdul-Salam also reiterated his group's call for reopening of Sana’a International Airport in the country’s capital.
He highlighted that Houthis are in Sweden for Yemen peace talks and not to surrender, saying, “We called for a transitional phase in order for the remaining issues of the national dialogue to advance.”
Mohammed Abdul-Salam heads a delegation in the ongoing peace talks in Sweden.
The talks opened Thursday on an upbeat note, with the warring sides agreeing to a broad prisoner swap, boosting hopes that the talks would not deteriorate into further violence as in the past.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated Iran's support for the intra-Yemeni peace talks in Stockholm in a tweet on Tuesday.
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Some 8.4 million Yemenis are facing starvation as a result of the Saudi-led aggression, although the United Nations has warned that will probably rise to 14 million.
Three-quarters of impoverished Yemen’s population, or 22 million people, require aid.
Iran and four European countries of Germany, France, Britain and Italy (E4) met to discuss the Yemen peace process, on Monday 10 December in Brussels.
The discussions focused on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen. All sides reiterated their strong support for the ongoing political talks in Sweden facilitated by the UN Special Envoy, Martin Griffiths.
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Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Some 16,000 Yemenis have been killed and thousands more injured since the onset of the Saudi-led aggression. The assaults of the Saudi-led coalition forces have failed to stop the Yemenis from resisting the aggression.
Iran and four European countries of Germany, France, Britain and Italy (E4) met to discuss the Yemen peace process, on Monday 10 December in Brussels.
The United States, and major European countries, including the UK and France, provide Saudi Arabia with various types of support, most importantly arms sales to Riyadh.
According to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), since the beginning of the intervention led by Saudi Arabia and its' allies in Yemen in 2015, about 2,400 children have been killed and 3,600 maimed in Yemen. 101/205
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