Today, Monday, in the US capital, Washington, the work of an international conference on Yemen kicked off, with the participation of a group of Yemeni politicians, researchers and Western officials.
The conference was organized by the Tawakkol Karman Foundation, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, and Democracy in the Arab World Now.
The conference focused on discussing the current state of war in Yemen and ways to end it, in order to achieve lasting peace and democracy, as well as achieving transitional justice and rebuilding Yemen after ending the conflict.
The US envoy to Yemen, Timothy Lenderking, said that his country is committed to finding a solution to the crisis in Yemen, despite the lack of clarity in the prospects for reaching peace, and that Washington believes that the year 2023 will provide an opportunity to end the conflict once and for all.
Lenderking blamed the Houthis for thwarting efforts to bring peace to Yemen, noting that it was the Houthis' demands that exacerbated the conflict and the failure of the armistice efforts.
For her part, Tawakkol Karman - Nobel Peace Prize winner - criticized the way the international community and the United Nations dealt with the Yemeni file, which made peace in Yemen impossible.
She pointed out that the efforts of the international community lead to a clear desire to leave Yemen to the Houthi militia on the one hand and the coalition on the other, and the result is that the great powers and Western governments have secretly or openly supported the continuation of the coalition war on Yemen and the occupation of Yemen.