Yemen..International efforts to move to comprehensive peace consultations
UN envoy to Yemen Hans Grenberg.
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The United Nations and the international community are making intensive efforts to extend the armistice and to reach a political solution to end the conflict in Yemen for nearly eight years, embodied in the Jordan consultations sponsored by the European Union, in the presence of the UN envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg.
Diplomatic sources said that the ongoing consultations in Jordan aim to unify and coordinate international efforts in order to restore the path of the settlement process and return to extending and expanding the armistice and moving towards permanent peace negotiations in Yemen.
According to the sources, the international community wants to move the Yemeni consultations to an advanced stage away from the details that lead to differences between the Yemeni parties, as happened in the terms of the armistice that the terrorist Houthi militia refused to extend, under the pretext of disbursing employee salaries.
On the ground, the Houthi militias are seeking to defuse the situation and return to fighting by invading the city of Marib and heading towards oil and gas sources, in the Safer area, and reaching gas fields and export areas in Shabwa, near Marib, according to field sources, confirming the arrival of new Houthi reinforcements to the vicinity of Marib. Led by the unrecognized Houthi defense minister.
The sources stated that Major General Muhammad al-Atifi, appointed as Minister of Defense in the unrecognized Sanaa government, led huge Houthi combat reinforcements, including ballistic missiles and their launchers, as well as modern marches that were smuggled through the port of Hodeidah, to the fronts south and northwest of Ma'rib.
According to the sources, the Houthi leadership minister threatened to use these weapons to gain access to oil and gas sources, and to control the Yemeni coast, which threatens international navigation in the Arab and Red Bahrain.
In Lahj, southern Yemen, clashes renewed between the southern and joint forces on the one hand, and the terrorist Houthi militia, which tried to penetrate the primary defenses of the forces stationed in the Al-Dhawari and Al-Dabi sectors, northwest of the Karsh front in the north of the governorate.
A military source in the Al-Anad axis stated that the confrontations that took place in the past few hours, left Houthis dead and wounded, and Houthi gun positions and weapons in the seam areas, while two soldiers were killed and another wounded in the ranks of the southern and joint forces.
The joint and southern forces had sent huge reinforcements to the axes of Lahj and Abyan, with the aim of securing the contact areas located with the Houthi militias in the governorates of Al-Bayda and Taiz.
In Taiz, the forces of the Yemeni army and the local resistance, west of Taiz, thwarted several infiltration attempts by Houthi militia members towards their locations in Al-Dabab, Al-Kadha, Al-Ahtoub and Maqbana in the western countryside of Taiz governorate, and inflicted heavy losses on them, according to field sources, confirming the militias’ failure to implement the control scheme over the areas Overlooking the link between Taiz and the western coast.
The sources indicated that the militias are trying to achieve gains on the ground on the fronts in the countryside of Taiz, supporting their position refusing to open the main roads included in the provisions of the humanitarian truce, and strengthening their position during the ongoing side consultations under the auspices of the United Nations in the Sultanate of Oman and Jordan.
She explained that the militias launched sporadic attacks on army and resistance positions in the Al-Silw front, southeast of the governorate, and others towards the Aqaba Munif front, east of the city, which were confronted and thwarted by the forces stationed on those fronts.
In Al-Bayda, the Houthi militia failed to launch a guided ballistic missile from one of the platforms that were installed in the vicinity of the city, the center of the governorate.
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