{"id":30950,"date":"2019-01-28T19:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T19:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30950"},"modified":"2019-01-28T19:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T19:23:30","slug":"hodeidah-truce-prisoner-swap-timelines-pushed-back-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30950","title":{"rendered":"Hodeidah truce, prisoner swap timelines pushed back: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1443191\/middle-east\" readability=\"50\">\n<p>\nSANAA: The UN envoy for Yemen said Monday the expected timeline for a truce in the flashpoint city of Hodeidah and a prisoner swap between warring parties had been pushed back.<br \/>Envoy Martin Griffiths hosted hard-won peace talks between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and rival Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Sweden last month.<br \/>The two parties, who have been at war for four years, agreed at the talks to a mass prisoner swap and an ambitious cease-fire pact in Hodeidah, the Red Sea city home to the impoverished country\u2019s most valuable port.<br \/>Griffiths, who arrived Monday in Sanaa on his third trip to Yemen this month, said there had been \u201cchanges in timelines\u201d for both deals.<br \/>\u201cThat momentum is still there, even if we have seen the timelines for implementation extended, both in Hodeidah and with regard to the prisoner exchange agreement,\u201d he told Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.<br \/>\u201cYet such changes in timelines are expected, in light of the facts that the timelines were rather ambitious and we are dealing with a complex situation on the ground.\u201d<br \/>Griffiths also confirmed reports retired Dutch general Patrick Cammaert, who heads a monitoring team tasked with overseeing the Hodeidah truce, would be replaced. Cammaert arrived Saturday in Yemen.<br \/>\u201cGeneral Cammaert\u2019s plan was to stay in Yemen for a rather short period of time to &#8230; lay the ground for establishing the Hodeidah mission,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cAll the speculations about other reasons for General Patrick\u2019s departure are not accurate.\u201d<br \/>The Houthis, who control Hodeidah, have accused Cammaert of not being up to the task and of pursuing \u201cother agendas.\u201d<br \/>Hodeida was for months the main front line in the Yemen war after government forces supported by Saudi Arabia and its allies launched an offensive to capture it in June.<br \/>But a precarious calm has largely held in the city since the cease-fire agreement came into force on December 18.<br \/>The Hodeidah agreement stipulates a full cease-fire, followed by the withdrawal and redeployment of rival forces from the city \u2014 two clauses that have yet to be fulfilled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANAA: The UN envoy for Yemen said Monday the expected timeline for a truce in the flashpoint city of Hodeidah and a prisoner swap between warring parties had been pushed back.Envoy Martin Griffiths hosted hard-won peace talks between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and rival Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Sweden last month.The two parties, who have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30950","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\/30950","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=30950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}