The UN Security Council expressed its disappointment at the failure to extend the truce in Yemen, and called on the Yemeni parties to work urgently to extend it, accusing the Houthis of obstructing UN efforts to reach an agreement due to what it considered "extremist" demands.
The Council stressed - in a statement - that the truce achieved benefits for the Yemeni people, and that its extension would also provide an opportunity to reach a cessation of hostilities and a comprehensive political settlement in accordance with Security Council resolutions.
He called on the Yemeni parties, especially the Houthis, to engage constructively in the negotiations, refrain from provocation and give priority to the Yemeni people, according to the statement.
American concern
The US special envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking, said that Washington is concerned about the Houthis' rejection of the United Nations' offer to extend the armistice in Yemen, which expired last Sunday, calling on them to show more flexibility.
Lenderking added that the Houthis had imposed impossible demands to extend the truce, and that if they showed flexibility, the door would be opened to the option of peace, explaining that it was important for the Houthis to return to the negotiating table.
Lenderking explained that there are two options;
Either return to war, or extend and expand the armistice.
He pointed out that the level of violence in Yemen is still low, fuel ships are still unloading their cargo at the port of Hodeidah, and civil aviation continues from Sanaa airport.
The US envoy said that basic elements of the truce in Yemen are still in place, and the talks led by the United Nations and US diplomacy are continuing.
The first truce, agreed for the first time in April, gave Yemen the longest relative lull in the seven-year conflict between the legitimate government, backed by a Saudi-led military coalition, and the Iran-aligned Houthis.
In the same context, the Pentagon said that US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had telephone conversations with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Khalid bin Salman - on Tuesday - in which he expressed his concern over the failure to extend the armistice in Yemen.
In a statement, the Pentagon added that Austin also expressed his strong desire to avoid any resumption of hostilities in Yemen.
The US Secretary of Defense welcomed Saudi Arabia's continued support for UN-led negotiations to extend the armistice in Yemen and reach a lasting peace, according to the Pentagon.
The Houthis: Our conditions are not impossible
On the other hand, the leader of the Ansar Allah Al-Houthi group, Hussein Al-Ezzi, said that the conditions put forward by the group are neither difficult nor impossible.
He added that these conditions seem impossible for what he described as the coalition of aggression and the complicit international community, because they used to rob the rights of Yemenis, as he put it.
On the second of this October, the armistice under the auspices of the United Nations ended in Yemen, after it was extended twice.
And on Sunday, the so-called Supreme Political Council of the Houthis, in a statement issued after a meeting in the capital, Sanaa, announced its rejection of a UN proposal to extend the armistice, because it did not meet the demands of the Yemenis, as he described it.
As for the Yemeni government, it announced, on Saturday, through an official source, that it would deal positively with a UN proposal to extend the armistice.
Among the most prominent provisions of the truce: a ceasefire, the restart of commercial flights through Sanaa International Airport, the flow of fuel to the port of Hodeidah (west) and the opening of the roads of the city of Taiz besieged by the Houthis.