Navigation returns to Sanaa airport.. and expectations to extend the UN armistice in Yemen

Hans Grundberg.

Well-informed sources in the temporary Yemeni capital, Aden, expected the announcement of the extension of the UN armistice, which expires after two weeks, to make way for international and UN efforts to launch comprehensive and lasting peace talks.

According to the sources, the next few days will witness an intensification of efforts by mediators and international, international and regional efforts to extend the armistice and move to the stage of direct negotiations to bring peace and end the war in Yemen.

The UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, stressed, in a statement after the first flight departed from Sanaa airport today, that this is the time for concerted efforts and more effort to start repairing what was broken by the Yemeni war, implementing all the armistice commitments to build confidence and moving towards resuming a political process to end the conflict. sustainably.

While the UN envoy welcomed the launch of the first commercial flight from Sanaa airport to Amman in Jordan, he indicated that "intense efforts are being made to support the parties in fulfilling all the commitments they made when they agreed on the armistice.

Today, Sanaa witnessed the implementation of the clause to open the airport, which has been suspended for six years, by taking off the first commercial flight from Sanaa International Airport for Yemenia Airlines, to Jordan, and it is expected that flights will be regular from the airport in the coming days.

The first commercial flight from Sanaa airport came after great efforts made by the United Nations through its envoy to Yemen, with the support of the Arab Coalition to Support Legitimacy, and the international community, as well as the great facilities provided by the Yemeni government to overcome the obstacles that the Houthi militia had set up.

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