Abdulmalek al-Huthi, leader of Yemen's Shiite rebels who bear his name, accused the exiled government Tuesday of attempting to impose its own agenda on the United Nations and peace talks in Geneva.

"They tried to impose their own agenda," said Huthi, in a televised speech on the Iran-backed rebels' Al-Masirah television channel, accusing the Yemeni government of using the United Nations and envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed as a "tool."