UN Envoy Urges Yemeni Parties to Take Decisive Decisions to Resolve Crisis in Yemen

The UN envoy for Yemen Ould Cheikh Ahmed has called on the parties involved in the peace consultations in Kuwait to take decisive decisions to authenticate their intentions for resolving the Yemeni crisis. 
Cheikh Ahmed, addressing the session of resumed consultations among the parties, said the groups should substantiate good intentions for settling the crisis according to the UN Security Council Resolution 2216, other relevant resolutions, the GCC initiative and outcome of the national dialogue. 
Expressing gratitude to the parties for coming anew to the negotiating table, the UN envoy confirmed that the new round of talks, expected for another two weeks, would focus on "maintaining cessation of combat actions in a full and comprehensive manner, activate the pacification committee and other commissions namely the military one tasked with overseeing the (fighters') withdrawal, arms handover and opening safe passages for dispatch of humanitarian aid". 
In the meantime, he added, the prisoners committee will pursue its tasks, in shadow of calls by the international community to release the prisoners and detainees as soon as possible". 
Over the past two weeks, Cheikh Ahmed said, intensives meetings were held in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Oman, discussing a host of political, security, economic and humanitarian issues, indicating that President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi was involved in some of the talks with the Yemeni leaders and the parties' representatives. 
Cheikh Ahmed added that he himself had held talks with the GCC Secretary General Dr. Abdulatif Al-Zayani and other political figures. 
He expressed deep gratitude to the Emir of Kuwait, Government and people for ensuring continuity of the consultations, and extended such appreciation to Saudi Arabia and Oman, according to (KUNA) news agency. 
"We are at a critical period of time where you are being watched by the Yemeni and international communities," he said, addressing the conferees. 
He cautioned that the Yemeni people are awaiting actions, rather than words, warning against renewed breaches of the truce. "The eyes of the Yemenis are pinned on you; do not go back without peace".

Source: QNA