Yemeni Ansarullah Open for More Talk: We Accepted Dialogue to Restore Peace, not Surrender

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Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionary movement announced it is open for additional talks with representatives of the country’s former Saudi-backed government in case underway negotiations in Sweden make progress.

“If we leave these consultations having made progress -- progress in building confidence and finding a framework -- we can hold a new round of talks" in the coming months, spokesman and chief negotiator for the movement Mohammed Abdul-Salam said on Sunday.

Speaking on the sidelines of the talks that are taking place in the rural village of Rimbo, Abdul-Salam reiterated Ansarullah’s call for reopening of Sana’a International Airport in the Yemeni capital. The terminal has been closed except for a few select aid flights for nearly three years now.

Separately, however, he made clear that his delegation participated in the UN-brokered peace negotiations to restore peace in the conflict-plagued Arab country, and not to surrender.

Abdul-Salam told Lebanon-based Arabic-language al-Mayadeen news network that it was not the Ansarullah delegates who called for indirect talks with representatives from the administration of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, but in fact it was the other way around.

He highlighted that the Ansarullah 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.”

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team