SANAA, Jun 8 (NNN-YPA) – The Yemeni government delegation, yesterday, accepted a revised proposal, presented by the UN envoy over lifting the Houthi siege on the city of Taiz, state-run Yemen TV reported.
The delegation spent the past days negotiating this issue with Houthi representatives in Jordan’s capital Amman, under the auspices of UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg.
The government delegation called on Grundberg and the international community, to press the Houthis to re-open the roads to Taiz, it noted.
The Houthis, which control large swaths of northern Yemen, have yet to comment on the issue.
In a written statement posted on Monday, the UN envoy said, he presented the revised proposal based on the discussions with both sides, without elaborating the details.
Grundberg’s proposal came, after various talks on lifting the siege of Taiz produced little result, jeopardising the fragile truce reached by the country’s warring sides in Apr.
The government-controlled Taiz has been under siege since the civil war erupted in Yemen in late 2014. Lifting the blockade would facilitate the movement of citizens and their access to humanitarian aid.
It is also the last major term to be fulfilled, pursuant to the agreement reached by the warring parties, before entering the ceasefire.
The warring parties also agreed to resume commercial flights to and from the Houthi-held Sanaa airport, and allow the entry of fuel ships into the Houthi-held port of Hodeidah, which both have seen breakthroughs in the past two months.– NNN-YPA
