Yemen rebels agree to attend Geneva peace talks

AFP, DUBAI: Yemen's Huthi rebels agreed yesterday to attend UN-brokered peace talks in Switzerland, which the war-torn country's exiled government confirmed it too would attend. "We accepted the invitation of the United Nations to go to the negotiating table in Geneva without preconditions," said Daifallah al-Shami, a politburo member of the rebels' political wing. Speaking to AFP, he added that the rebels "will not accept conditions" from other parties. Ezzedine al-Isbahi, information minister of the Yemeni government exiled in Riyadh, said it would send a delegation to the talks provisionally scheduled for June 14. UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the Security Council on Wednesday that the government had agreed to attend but that he was still in consultation with the rebels.

Yemen rebels agree to attend Geneva peace talks

AFP, DUBAI: Yemens Huthi rebels agreed yesterday to attend UN-brokered peace talks in Switzerland, which the war-torn countrys exiled government confirmed it too would attend. We accepted the invitation of the United Nations to go to the negotiating table in Geneva without preconditions, said Daifallah al-Shami, a politburo member of the rebels political wing. Speaking to AFP, he added that the rebels will not accept conditions from other parties. Ezzedine al-Isbahi, information minister of the Yemeni government exiled in Riyadh, said it would send a delegation to the talks provisionally scheduled for June 14. UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the Security Council on Wednesday that the government had agreed to attend but that he was still in consultation with the rebels.