{"id":36287,"date":"2019-03-19T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36287"},"modified":"2019-03-19T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T18:22:44","slug":"syrian-businessman-linked-to-assad-arrested-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36287","title":{"rendered":"Syrian businessman linked to Assad arrested in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"44\">\n<p>\nUNITED NATIONS:\u00a0The United Nations will present a new plan for the pullback of forces from Yemen&#8217;s flashpoint city of Hodeidah following talks with the government and the Houthis, a UN envoy said Tuesday.<br \/>The redeployment of forces was agreed in December under a ceasefire deal reached in Sweden that offered the best hope in years of moving toward an end to the war that has pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.<br \/>&#8220;Following constructive discussions with both parties, there is significant progress towards an agreement to implement phase one of the redeployments of the Hodeida agreement,&#8221; said a statement from Martin Griffiths, the UN envoy for Yemen.<br \/>&#8220;Operational details will be presented to the parties in the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) for endorsement shortly,&#8221; he added.<br \/>The UN envoy&#8217;s statement did not give a date for the start of the pullback, which would mark the first step towards de-escalation.<br \/>Griffiths said he &#8220;looks forward to the swift endorsement of the plan.&#8221;<br \/>The United Nations announced a deal on the two-stage pullback from Hodeidah city and its ports on February 17, but the redeployment failed to materialize on the ground.<br \/>UN diplomats said the Houthis\u00a0were refusing to pull away from the ports as part of the first stage.\u00a0<br \/>Griffiths and head of the RCC, Danish General Michael Lollesgaard, have been holding talks with all sides to overcome the final hurdles.<br \/>The Red Sea port of Hodeidah is the entry point for the bulk of imported goods and relief aid to Yemen.<br \/>The conflict in Yemen has unleashed the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian conflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS:\u00a0The United Nations will present a new plan for the pullback of forces from Yemen&#8217;s flashpoint city of Hodeidah following talks with the government and the Houthis, a UN envoy said Tuesday.The redeployment of forces was agreed in December under a ceasefire deal reached in Sweden that offered the best hope in years of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36287","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=36287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}