{"id":14305,"date":"2018-09-08T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T09:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14305"},"modified":"2018-09-08T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T09:23:07","slug":"yemens-geneva-talks-fall-apart-as-government-delegation-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14305","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s Geneva talks fall apart as government delegation leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"75\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">UN-backed talks between Yemen&#8217;s warring parties ended before properly getting off the ground, with the UN envoy acknowledging that it had not been possible to convince the rebels to come to Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t manage to get&#8230; the [Houthi] delegation from Sanaa to come here&#8230; We just didn&#8217;t make it,&#8221; Martin Griffiths told reporters in Geneva on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was &#8220;too early to say when next round of consultations will take place&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Yemeni government representatives who had flown to Geneva to take part in the long-awaited UN-sponsored peace talks said they would return home on Saturday after the rebels failed to show up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Speaking on condition of anonymity, the government representative said the delegation had decided to return home after the talks were put on hold for three days.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthi rebel delegation had declined to attend until the United Nations met several demands including providing guarantees it would be able to return to the Yemeni capital Sanaa afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>More soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE: <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN-backed talks between Yemen&#8217;s warring parties ended before properly getting off the ground, with the UN envoy acknowledging that it had not been possible to convince the rebels to come to Geneva. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t manage to get&#8230; the [Houthi] delegation from Sanaa to come here&#8230; We just didn&#8217;t make it,&#8221; Martin Griffiths told reporters in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}