Arab coalition will allow evacuation of 50 wounded Yemeni rebels and companions

Arab coalition will allow evacuation of 50 wounded Yemeni rebels and companions



The Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia announced today that it will allow the evacuation of Yemen from a group of 50 wounded rebels, which is a demand of the insurgents to attend the round of peace contacts being organized by the UN.

The injured will be evacuated to Oman in a UN plane that will arrive today at the Sanaa airport, according to the spokesman of the coalition, Colonel Turki al Maliki, in a statement released by the official Saudi agency SPA.

In total, 50 wounded combatants will be evacuated, in addition to 50 companions, three Yemeni doctors and one from the UN, according to Al Malki.

The coalition, which controls the Yemeni airspace, has agreed to facilitate the evacuation at the request of the UN special envoy, Martin Griffiths, "for humanitarian reasons and to build trust among the Yemeni parties in the face of the Swedish peace talks" .

Colonel Al Malki reiterated the commitment of the coalition command to "strive" to support the special envoy of the UN in its attempts to reach a political solution to the Yemeni conflict, unleashed at the end of 2014.

The head of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee, the executive body of the Houthis, Mohamed Ali al Huti, said on Thursday that the insurgents plan to go to the Swedish peace contact round if preconditions are met, including the evacuation of fighters. injured of the country.

The Houthis did not attend the last round of peace consultations, convened by the UN last September in Geneva, among other reasons, because they demanded that the transfer of wounded combatants abroad for medical treatment be facilitated.

The United Nations envoy communicated last month to the UN Security Council that he had received the commitment of both the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels to the peace process.

After the failure of the previous round of consultations, Griffiths was optimistic about the next appointment, which will take place in Sweden this month, with no definite date.

The war in Yemen began in late 2014 when the Houthi rebels seized control of Sana'a and other provinces in the north of the country.

The conflict was generalized in March 2015 with the intervention of the coalition led by Saudi Arabia and supported by the United States and other powers, which act in favor of forces loyal to the Yemeni President, Abdo Rabu Mansur Hadi.

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