AFP, KUWAIT CITY: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was to meet Sunday with Yemen’s warring sides in a bid to push forward peace talks that have made no headway after two months.
Ban, who arrived in Kuwait City late on Saturday, was to meet delegates from the Iran-backed rebels and the Yemeni government in a joint session on Sunday, according to a UN spokesman.
UN-backed talks between the Shiite Huthi rebels, who have seized control of large parts of the Arabian Peninsula country, and President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s government have failed to achieve a breakthrough since starting in Kuwait on April 21.
UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has urged both sides to make concessions to end the conflict, which has cost more than 6,400 lives since March 2015 and displaced 2.8 million people.