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Yemeni govt ready for peace negotiations, says PM

Khalid Bahah meets US ambassador to Yemen in Riyadh.

Khalid Bahah, Vice-President and Prime Minister of Yemen, has said his government was ready for a peace negotiations provided Houthi rebels and ousted former president Ali Abdullah Saleh are serious and sincere about implementing the UN Security Council resolutions, especially the resolution No 2216.
Bahah made these remarks while holding talks with US ambassador to Yemen, Matthew H.Tueller, at a meeting in Riyadh.
According to the Yemeni official news agency SABA, Bahah underscored the keenness of the government to stop the war. The meeting also discussed the status of the current operations to recapture the city of Taiz.
SABA quoted the US ambassador as saying that his country was committed to supporting the legitimate Yemeni government.
Yemeni president's advisor Yaseen Makawi met the US ambassador and discussed with him the bilateral relations and latest developments in the light of the victories achieved by the national armed forces and the popular resistance against Houthi rebels. Makway underlined the importance of the role of the US in making UN resolutions binding on Houthi and Saleh militias.
Meanwhile, the UN aid chief accused Houthi rebels of blocking and diverting humanitarian aid deliveries to Taiz where some 200,000 people are living under siege.
"Houthis are blocking supply routes and continue to obstruct the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian aid and supplies into Taiz city," said Stephen O'Brien, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs.
Trucks carrying aid are blocked at checkpoints and "only very limited assistance has been allowed in," he added in a statement.
O'Brien said it was 'unacceptable' that some of the aid destined for the city's needy was being diverted away from those people.
Some 200,000 people are in need of drinking water, food, medical treatment and other life-saving assistance in Taiz, a 'deeply concerned' O'Brien said.  

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