{"id":40219,"date":"2019-07-23T16:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40219"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T16:22:36","slug":"un-says-war-in-yemen-is-eminently-resolvable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40219","title":{"rendered":"UN says war in Yemen is ’eminently resolvable’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The war in Yemen<\/a> can be stopped because the warring parties recognise a military solution is unattainable after four years of conflict and are working to pullback troops from a key port city.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

UN envoy Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday all fighting sides and the international community support a United Nations peace deal brokered in Sweden last December and are making progress towards achieving it<\/span>.<\/p>\n

“I believe that this war in Yemen is eminently resolvable,” Griffiths told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n

“Both parties continue to insist that they want a political solution and the military solution is not available, they remain committed to the Stockholm agreement in all its different aspects.”<\/p>\n

Yemen has been in the grip of a devastating power struggle between the Saudi-Emirati backed government and Iran-aligned Houthi fighters since late 2014.<\/p>\n

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What can be done to resolve the conflict in Yemen? (24:40)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The conflict has intensified since 2015 when the Houthis advanced on the ousted government’s temporary base in the city of Aden, prompting Saudi Arabia and its allies to start a military campaign against the group.<\/p>\n

Operational agreements<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Griffiths said while the Stockholm agreement was taking some time to be implemented, both sides saw it as a gateway to opening up negotiations on a political solution, and the international community supported the deal.<\/p>\n

Last week a meeting between the warring sides, on the neutral ground of a UN ship in the Red Sea, brought a surprise breakthrough, with agreement on technical aspects of a ceasefire deal in the flashpoint port of Hodeidah.<\/p>\n

Griffiths said those talks had made more progress than he expected, reaching operational agreements on troop withdrawal plans under the Stockholm deal, which envisages a UN-backed team taking over management of the port as the two armies pull back.<\/p>\n

Several issues remain unresolved, including how to handle the port’s revenue and governance, and how to handle local security forces, Griffiths said.<\/p>\n

He said he also took heart from the movement of coalition forces out of Yemen.<\/p>\n

Last month, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began scaling back its military presence, Western diplomatic sources told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

Griffiths said it was a deliberate push towards a commitment to peace.<\/p>\n

But the peace process was still vulnerable to a “detonation” such as attacks on Saudi infrastructure that could open up a regional conflict, he said, adding he was attempting to de-escalate things before they reached that point.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a senior Emirati official,\u00a0Anwar Gargash, said\u00a0the UAE and “the rest of the coalition are not leaving Yemen<\/a>“, in an opinion piece\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Humanitarian disaster<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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UAE to reduce troop presence in Yemen: Reports<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The Saudis fear the Houthis will give their regional rival, Iran, a strategic foothold in the Arabian Peninsula.<\/p>\n

The warring sides have fought to a stalemate, and several rounds of UN-sponsored talks, the last held in Sweden in December, have failed to implement any deal to end the war.<\/p>\n

After four years of fighting, the Houthis still control much of the country, including the capital, Sanaa.<\/p>\n

Since 2015, tens of thousands<\/a> of people – mostly civilians – have been killed in the conflict.<\/p>\n

The fighting has triggered what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 3.3 million people displaced and 24.1 million – more than two-thirds of the population – in need of aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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