Houthis reject Hadi's call for peace talks in Saudi Arabia
Iran Press TV
Tue Mar 3, 2015 3:51PM
The Yemeni Houthi movement has rejected President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi's call for United Nations-brokered national reconciliation talks to be moved to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, Press TV reports.
According to Press TV correspondent, the Houthi movement as well as the General People's Congress dismissed Hadi's proposal, with the Houthis saying that they regard the call as an insult to Yemen and Yemeni people.
On Tuesday, Hadi said the talks should be moved to the headquarters of the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC) in Riyadh after different parties failed to agree on a location for the resumption of national dialogue inside Yemen.
"As Aden and Taez are not accepted by some, I call for shifting the talks to the headquarters of the [P]GCC in Riyadh," the Yemeni president said during an address to tribal chiefs in Aden.
According to one of Hadi's aides, the Yemeni president also suggested that the [P]GCC's six members back up the reconciliation talks.
The previous rounds of peace talks, held in the capital, Sana'a, have failed to result in a resolution to the political crisis in the country until now.
Hadi's proposal come days after the Southern Movement separatists, which is pursuit of the breakaway of the areas of the formerly independent south, declared their withdrawal from the UN-backed national dialogue.
The separatists said they would not participate in the talks until they were moved out of the country.
In January, the Yemeni president the cabinet of Prime Minister Khaled Bahah stepped down. However, the Yemeni parliament rejected Hadi's resignation, urging him to later withdraw his resignation after he escaped house arrest in Sana'a.
Since then, Hadi has met with several tribal and provincial figures in Aden to garner support against Ansarullah fighters of the Houthi movement who took over Sana'a following the failure of the Yemeni government to provide security and properly run the affairs of the country.
In February, Ansarullah revolutionaries, who took control of the capital last September, dissolved the Yemeni parliament and announced a constitutional declaration on the Transitional National Council following weeks of clashes with government forces.
The Houthi movement played a key role in the 2011 uprising that forced the country's dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to quit after 33 years in power.
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