Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi accused the Houthis of intransigence in the face of international efforts to bring peace to Yemen, while his government condemned the confiscation of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council containers of the Yemeni currency in the south of the country.

Hadi met today, Tuesday, in his residence in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, UN Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths, who has been trying for months, without success, to push the parties to the conflict (the Houthi group and the Yemeni government and the Saudi-Emirati coalition) to accept a peace plan that puts an end to the war that has been going on for more than five Years.

The Yemeni presidency said that President Hadi praised the efforts of the UN envoy and his tireless efforts to achieve peace, despite what he described as the Houthis' intransigence, and stressed that his government is adhering to peace options to inject the blood of Yemenis, and that it made concessions to that end.

Hadi also stressed his country's keenness to achieve comprehensive peace according to the three references to achieve sustainable security and stability in Yemen and the region, apart from what he described as patchwork and posting crises.

The Yemeni president accused the Houthis of intransigence and carrying out what he described as an exotic agenda in the service of Iran's project in the region, as he put it.

These talks come a day after the UN Security Council issued a unanimous statement expressing its concern over the slow pace of negotiations to bring peace to Yemen, and called on the parties to resume them urgently and immediately agree to a ceasefire.

In another meeting with the American ambassador to Yemen Christopher Henzel, the Yemeni president praised the Yemeni-American relations, and confirmed his government's endeavor to commit to implementing the terms of the Riyadh agreement that his government signed with the Transitional Council last November.

The Yemeni News Agency quoted Henzel as affirming his country's support for Yemen and its legitimate leadership to overcome the challenges it faces.

The Yemeni government accused the transitional council of the coup against the Riyadh agreement after announcing what it called self-management in the southern governorates through the use of armed force. The gunmen of the council recently took control of Socotra governorate, which is located 350 kilometers from the south coast of Yemen, as well as they controlled areas of Abyan, and they sought To declare self-administration in Hadramout.

Currency containers
On the other hand, the Yemeni Foreign Minister, Muhammad al-Hadrami, said that the conversion of the path of the currency containers of the Central Bank yesterday by what militia supported with Emirati forces from the port of Mukalla in Hadramout (southern Yemen) described and detained at its headquarters is rejected.

Al-Hadrami added in a tweet on the Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs website that this is not one of the tasks of the Emirati forces, and that his country has not requested the support of the coalition for this, warning that there will be consequences for such practices.

Local sources have confirmed to the island that a unit of the so-called Hadrami elite has transferred 280 billion Yemeni riyals of central bank money from Mukalla to the headquarters of the Emirati forces.

These developments come at a time when a Yemeni military source announced that the Transitional Council gunmen targeted a number of the National Army sites with mortars in Al-Tariya area in Abyan Governorate, which is located in the south of the country.

The Saudi-Emirati coalition had deployed its forces in the clashes in Abyan as part of a new cease-fire in the governorate.