Will the death of Khashoggi and the congressional elections stop the Yemen war?

The United Nations envoy to Yemen Martin Griffith said the case of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his consulate in Istanbul, and the approaching midterm elections of the United States; behind the call to stop the war in Yemen. While the Houthi group said it had not received any UN invitation to attend a new round of negotiations.

In an interview with CNN, Griffith noted that the two events were a catalyst for the launch of the call to stop the war in Yemen, and Western interests - not only in Washington and the region but also in Europe - also encouraged that call.

The UN envoy noted that the fear of imminent famine in Yemen also contributed to the call to stop the war, and stressed that the United States of America has an opportunity to end that war.

However, "calls to end the war is, and take practical steps for that is another," according to the UN official.

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For his part, the head of the negotiating team of the Houthi group Mohamed Abdel Salam said that his delegation has not received any contact or invitation from the United Nations, nor from international parties on a new round of negotiations.

He added that the American talk about a new round of negotiations is a bid to ease the global pressure on the suffering of the Yemeni people, pointing out that Washington's positions preceded the preparation of a large-scale military escalation in the west coast of Yemen.

"The US support for the alliance of aggression continues at all levels, and the failure of the military escalation in the West Coast indicates the failure of the Saudi-Saudi alliance, which will not be able to achieve anything," he said.

Although he stressed that his group extended its hand to the honorable and just peace that preserved the country's freedom and independence, he considered that the United Nations was an ineffective organization and that the resolution was not in its hands.

Last Thursday, Abdul Salam called on the United States to "lift the political cover of the aggression against Yemen and stop logistical and information support to prove the truth of the recent calls by its officials on the situation in Yemen," in response to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's call to stop the war on Yemen and return to the negotiating table. This month.