{"id":33986,"date":"2019-03-04T01:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T01:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33986"},"modified":"2019-03-04T01:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T01:22:54","slug":"uks-hunt-says-yemen-peace-deal-is-now-in-last-chance-saloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33986","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s Hunt says Yemen peace deal is now \u2018in last chance saloon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nLONDON: The Stockholm Agreement is now in \u201clast chance saloon,\u201d\u00a0British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said in a statement during a visit to Yemen\u00a0on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n“The process could be dead within weeks if we do not see both sides sticking to their commitments in Stockholm.”<\/p>\n

\nThe British foreign secretary held talks with his Yemeni counterpart in government-held Aden on Sunday, in the first visit by a western foreign minister to the war-torn country in years.
“I am here because this is really the last chance for peace,” Hunt said from Aden, in a video uploaded to his Twitter account.<\/p>\n

\nThey discussed an agreement on a ceasefire and prisoner exchange between the warring sides, brokered by the United Nations at talks in Sweden in December, the state news agency Saba said.<\/p>\n

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\nJust completed Yemen visit. My thoughts, from the port of Aden, on why the situation could spiral back quickly to full scale war and what needs to happen to stop that pic.twitter.com\/pzTPJdNBA8<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) March 3, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nHunt’s visit to Yemen is part of his trip to the\u00a0Gulf region to urge the immediate implementation of the UN-brokered Stockholm Agreement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nThe foreign secretary added that a\u00a0peace process in Yemen\u2019s main port city \u201ccould be dead within weeks\u201d without more committed effort from both sides.
The agreement to implement a troop withdrawal in Hodeidah, a lifeline for millions facing famine, by Jan. 7 was intended to clear the way for wider negotiations to end the four-year war but progress has been slow.<\/p>\n

\nOn Saturday, the foreign secretary\u00a0met with Saudi Arabia\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim Al-Assaf and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir in Riyadh.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nHunt said that he and Al-Jubeir agreed that progress on the agreement\u00a0was \u201coverdue,\u201d and that it\u00a0is \u201cvital for Hodeidah to be cleared of militia urgently\u201d so that a humanitarian corridor can be opened.<\/p>\n

\nHe also met\u00a0Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi in Riyadh earlier on\u00a0Saturday, and\u00a0Houthi militia spokesman Mohamed Abdul Salem on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON: The Stockholm Agreement is now in \u201clast chance saloon,\u201d\u00a0British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said in a statement during a visit to Yemen\u00a0on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “The process could be dead within weeks if we do not see both sides sticking to their commitments in Stockholm.” The British foreign secretary held talks with his Yemeni counterpart in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33986","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\/33986","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=33986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}