Ali Abdullah Salih: Yemen's ex-president ready for talks with Saudi Arabia

Former Yemeni president Salih has signalled readiness for talks. The Huthi rebels once allied with him speak of a coup.

Ali Abdullah Salih: Yemen's ex-president ready for talks with Saudi Arabia

JEMENSEX president Ali Abdullah Salih has shown himself in a Fernsehanspracheoffen for talks with hostile neighboring states. " I call all brors in neighbouring States and ir Verbündetenauf to stop aggression against Yemen. Then a new page will be pitched and positively dealt with each or ", SagteSalih.

Salih Fordertezudem The Saudi alliance to completely stop and Hilfslieferungzuzulassen blockade of airports undHäfen country. "Neighborly" could also be spoken to each or again, said Salih.

The Saudi-Arabia-led military alliance expressed a benevolent opinion on offer of talks by Yemeni ex-president. The decision of his party to "take lead" and to put himself on side of population will "liberate" Civil war country Yemen from Iran-loyal militias, coalition shared with state Saudi-Arabian news agency SPA.

Rebels talking about "coup"

The Huthi rebels, on or hand, condemned offer of talks: "Salih's speech is a coup against our Alliance and partnership," said a rebel spokesman in insurgent-controlled television station Almasirah.

In Yemen, Iran-supported Huthi rebels and allied military units of toppled head of state Salih have been fighting for 2014 against troops of Saudi Arabia's Sunni President Abd Rabbo Mansur Hadi. The civil war that has been going on for about three years has triggered a humanitäreKatastrophe in country. Of 27 million inhabitants of Jemenssind, according to United Nations, two-thirds of food-processing. 90 percent of country's food needs to be imported.

Fighting again in Sanaa

In Sanaa, followers of DesEx presidents again battled with former Allied Huthi militias. In Denseit Wednesday's ongoing clashes, more than 80 people were killed and many more injured, according to Saudi FernsehsenderAl Arabija.

Salih's party said that she had taken control of several districts of Sanaa. On photos and videos shared in social networks, recentmonths see how followers of ex-president are tearing down posters of Houthis in denStraßen Sanaa's street lights.

Date Of Update: 03 December 2017, 12:03
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