{"id":25440,"date":"2018-12-13T17:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T17:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25440"},"modified":"2018-12-13T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T17:23:34","slug":"ceasefire-for-hodeidah-agreed-at-peace-talks-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25440","title":{"rendered":"Ceasefire for Hodeidah agreed at peace talks: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nLONDON:\u00a0A ceasefire\u00a0agreement has been reached with respect to the\u00a0city of Hodeidah and its port, the Secretary-General of the United Nations\u00a0Antonio Guterres\u00a0announced Thursday at a press conference at the end of peace talks on Yemen.
Guterres added that the agreement between Yemen\u2019s warring parties\u00a0included the deployment of neutral forces and the establishment of humanitarian corridors. A political framework will be discussed in a next round of meetings scheduled for January.<\/p>\n

\nThe withdrawal of armed forces from the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, a vital aid route caught up in the fighting, will happen “within days,” UN Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths\u00a0said.
“The design of the withdrawal is first from the three ports, within days, then from the city,”\u00a0Griffiths told reporters, referring to the Yemeni ports of Hodeidah, Salif, and, Ras Isa.\u00a0
The pullout, which will open a road cutting across Hodeida crucial to humanitarian aid delivery, “has been agreed by both sides”, Griffiths said.<\/p>\n

\nGuterres also said\u00a0that consensus has been reached regarding aid delivery to Taiz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nThe Saudi ambassador to Yemen Mohammed Al-Jaber said that the agreement includes a Houthi withdrawal from Taiz and the release of thousands of detainees.\u00a0
Mohammed Al-Jaber\u00a0said the agreements, which have not been released to the public in full after talks in Sweden, required the Houthis\u00a0“withdrawing from the city and port of Hodeidah, as well as Taiz, and the release of thousands of detainees and prisoners.”<\/p>\n

\nUAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash welcomed the\u00a0agreement between Yemen’s warring parties to a ceasefire in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Thursday.
“Encouraging news today from Sweden. Important political progress made including the status of Hodeidah. The Coalition & Yemeni forces’ military pressure enabled this significant breakthrough,” Gargash said in a tweet.<\/p>\n

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\nEncouraging news today from Sweden. Important political progress made including the status of Hodeida. The Coalition & Yemeni forces military pressure enabled this significant breakthrough.<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u062f. \u0623\u0646\u0648\u0631 \u0642\u0631\u0642\u0627\u0634 (@AnwarGargash) December 13, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nYemen’s\u00a0Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Yamani and Houthi\u00a0negotiator\u00a0Mohammed Abdelsalam shook hands to loud applause at the close of UN-brokered peace talks in Sweden, as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and special envoy Martin Griffiths looked on smiling.<\/p>\n

\nAl-Yamani\u00a0welcomed the\u00a0UN-backed agreement reached at peace talks in Sweden regarding the port city of Hodeidah.
But Yamani, speaking at the end of the talks near Stockholm, said he regretted that the consultations had not resulted in a significant agreement to improve Yemen’s economy which has collapsed after nearly four years of war.<\/p>\n

\nSaudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, Prince Khalid bin Salman, welcomed the United Nations backed agreement between Yemen’s warring parties to a ceasefire in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Thursday.
“The agreement announced today will help bring back security to the region including the security of the Red Sea, a vital water way for international trade,” he said on his twitter account, adding that he hoped Iran-allied Houthis would stop “working on behalf of the Iranian regime\u2019s interests”.<\/p>\n

\nPrince Khalid bin Salman added\u00a0that\u00a0the Kingdom welcomes the Hodeidah agreement and praises the UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths for his efforts. He continued by saying that the Houthi militia\u00a0agreed to withdraw from Hodeidah after military pressure was applied.<\/p>\n

\nYemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed said that\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u2019s support will enable the government\u00a0to overcome difficulties and restore stability in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nBritish Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that the agreement\u00a0between the \u201cYemeni Government and the Houthis is an important step towards ending the conflict in Yemen – the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been working with the United Nations to bring the two sides in this terrible conflict together for the first time in years, including through constructive talks with key Saudis and Emiratis during my recent visits, and regular discussions with Oman.<\/p>\n

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\nMy message from #Yemen<\/a> peace talks in Stockholm pic.twitter.com\/GbB3imL0hm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) December 13, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nUN chief Antonio Guterres led his mediators on Thursday in a last-minute push for a truce in Yemen’s war as the Houthis and the government wrangled over Hodeidah port and Sanaa airport.
The warring parties have been in the rural Swedish village of Rimbofor UN-brokered talks, now in their seventh day, working for an agreement on key issues including a cessation.<\/p>\n

\nEarlier, Sweden\u2019s Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said the outcome of Yemen\u2019s peace consultations will be conveyed to the UN Security Council on Friday.<\/p>\n

\nThe consultations, which started last week near Stockholm, took place in \u201cpositive spirit and good faith,\u201d she said in a telephone interview with Reuters.<\/p>\n

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