RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Yemen Mohammed bin Saeed Al-Jaber is visiting Sanaa as parts of efforts to stabilize a ceasefire in Yemen, Al-Ekhbariya reported on Monday.
“I am visiting Sanaa along with a delegation from the brotherly Sultanate of Oman to stabilize the truce and ceasefire,” Al-Jaber said.
He added that he also wants to “support the prisoner exchange process and explore venues of dialogue between Yemeni components to reach a sustainable, comprehensive political solution.”
Days earlier, Rashad Al-Alimi, chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, said that the eight-member council is now more cohesive and committed to achieving its objectives of ending the Houthis’ rebellion and alleviating Yem-en’s humanitarian crisis one year after its formation.
Al-Alimi, speaking to Yemenis on the first anniversary of the council’s creation on Friday, vowed to restore state insti-tutions and offer more concessions to achieve peace in Yemen, noting that the council has endured difficult times that threatened its unity over the past year.
“The Presidential Council was put through rigorous tests for an entire year, and today it is more coherent and adheres to the legitimate goals and aspirations of its people in building an inclusive civil state based on justice, equality, respect for human rights, public freedoms, ensuring women’s participation, and good neighborliness,” the Yemeni leader said in a statement carried by the official news agency SABA.
Al-Alimi threatened to use military force to expel the Houthis from Sanaa and other areas of Yemen under their con-trol if the Yemeni militia did not embrace current mediation efforts to end the war.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Yemen said on Monday he had travelled to the country’s Houthi-held capital to strengthen a truce and push dialogue that could end the country’s eight-year-old war.
“I visit Sanaa along with a delegation from the brotherly Sultanate of Oman to stabilize the truce and ceasefire,” Mohammed Al-Jaber said on Twitter in the first official comment from Saudi authorities about the trip.
He added that he also wants to “support the prisoner exchange process and explore venues of dialogue between Yemeni components to reach a sustainable, comprehensive political solution.”
