UAE Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said his country and the rest of the coalition did not leave Yemen despite the redeployment by UAE forces. The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffith, said the redeployment of UAE troops could be "a momentum for peace."
Gargash said in an article published in The Washington Post on Tuesday that his country would "work differently and its military presence would remain in Yemen" and that it would "continue to provide advice and assistance to local Yemeni forces."
Abu Dhabi announced early this month to reduce its forces in several areas in Yemen as part of the "redeployment" for reasons described as "strategic and tactical."
The UAE minister said the Huthis "should view the UAE move as a confidence-building measure to create new momentum to end the conflict." "There was no easy victory and there will be no easy peace," he said. "Now is the time to double the focus on Political process ".
The Houthis
On the other hand, the President of the Supreme Political Council of the Houthis Mahdi al-Mashat, the group's readiness to stop its rocket and air attacks on Saudi Arabia if the Saudi-UAE alliance committed itself, and facilitated the arrival of aid through the ports of Yemen, adding that the next step is to start a political process in a calm environment.
In a related context, the UN envoy to Yemen told a press conference in Geneva that the redeployment carried out by the UAE forces in Yemen could be "a momentum towards peace."
Griffith said the war in Yemen could be stopped because both warring parties and international political parties supported a UN-brokered deal in Stockholm in December.