{"id":4546,"date":"2018-12-17T19:29:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T19:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationaldiplomat.com\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2018-12-17T19:29:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T19:29:36","slug":"yemeni-government-sees-national-dialogue-as-basis-for-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=4546","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni Government Sees National Dialogue as Basis for Peace Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Yemeni Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Ali Majawar, says any peaceful resolution of the war in Yemen must restore the country\u2019s legitimate authorities<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>He is not optimistic that the Houthis will compromise<\/strong>.\u00a0<em>By Annegret Mathari, 27 Aug. 2018<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Yemeni government says the cause of the \u201ctragedies\u201d in the country is the \u201cCoup d\u2019\u00e9tat of the Houthi militias to oust the legitimate government on\u00a021 September 2014\u201d, the Yemeni Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Ali Majawar, has told the press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said, \u201cAny solution to the Yemeni issue must end the Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat and restore the legitimate authorities, according to the terms of reference agreed upon locally, regionally and internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These include the outcomes of the national dialogue, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) initiative, its executive mechanism and relevant security council resolutions, especially UN Security Council Resolution 2216 which seeks to end Yemeni violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Any move to find a peaceful solution in Yemen that does not go from these terms of reference will not succeed, the causes of the war will persist and the suffering continue, Ambassador Majawar noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Yemeni government is expecting the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffith, to take this into account for the peace consultations in Geneva.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The National Dialogue Conference was a transitional dialogue process held in Sana\u2019a from March 2013 to January 2014, as part of the Yemeni crises reconciliation efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The National Dialogue is a key part of the agreement brokered by the UN and the Gulf Cooperation Council that saw long-time President Ali Abdullah Saleh hand over power to the former vice president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi in November 2011 after an uprising. (Mr. Hadi was subsequently sworn in for a two-year term as president in February 2012 after an election in which he stood unopposed.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Support for Griffith\u2019s Hodeida-Initiative<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Yemeni government supports every move that would end the Coup d\u2019\u00e9tat and bring peace to Yemen, Ambassador Majawar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The government is supporting Mr. Griffith\u2019s recent initiative for the Port and City of Hodeida, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Griffith has since June been attempting to negotiate arrangements for the Port of Hodeida to be put under UN control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hodeida port is the main conduit for supplies to Yemen, where around 8.4 million people are believed by aid workers to be on the verge of starvation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Arab-led alliance launched an offensive on the town held by the Houthis on\u00a0June 12\u00a0and says capturing Hodeida would cut off the main supply line of the Houthis and force the group to the negotiating table.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Houthis have offered to hand over management of the port to the world body, according to the UN, but the coalition says the group must quit the western coast area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In regard to the separatist Southern Movement, Ambassador Majawar said the focus must be on the results of the National Dialogue Conference, \u201cbecause all of these movements\u201d were part of that conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cYemen is united as a federation as result of the National Dialogue Conference and we are going to implement these outcomes\u201d, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2015 the leaders of the Southern Movement allied themselves with the United Arab Emirates, which are supporting the Southern Transitional Council and in May they occupied the UNESCO-protected Socotra Island in May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Difficult consultations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Regarding the peace consultations, which started on\u00a0September 6, Ambassador Majawar viewed the consultations as difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t think that the Houthis will give any compromise to help the consultations going forward,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He also criticized Iran for fueling the conflict in violation of the UN Security Council resolution 2216 (April 2015) accusing Teheran of having channeled missiles, mines and also drones to the Houthis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Regarding the investigation of the air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on a bus in Dahyan market in the northern Houthi province Saada on 9 August, Ambassador Majawar said, the Eminent Group of Experts, established by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in December, is collecting information on all the violations of International Humanitarian Law in Yemen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And there is also a Yemeni national commission of inquiry working on all violations, he said.\u00a0\u201cThe coalition leadership is committed to investigate all these incidents.\u201d Therefore the question had been directed to the joint incident assessment team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After the results are available \u201cthey will decide, if there is another investigation or not\u201d, he explained. The air strike in Sanaa killed 51 people, among them 40 children, and injured 79 people, including 56 children. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for an independent and prompt investigation into this incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ambassador Majawar reiterated that the coalition was not responsible for another attack, on 2 August on the port and the Al-Thawra hospital in Hodeida. According to him it was a mortar shell attack, carried out by the Houthis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At least 41 civilians, including 6 children and 4 women, were killed and 111 others injured, among them 19 children and 3 women. Ambassador Majawar deplored, the attack in Hodeida received less international attention than the one in Sanaa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yemeni Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Ali Majawar, says any peaceful resolution of the war in Yemen must restore the country\u2019s legitimate authorities He is not optimistic that the Houthis will compromise.\u00a0By Annegret Mathari, 27 Aug. 2018 The Yemeni government says the cause of the \u201ctragedies\u201d in the country is the \u201cCoup d\u2019\u00e9tat<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=4546\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[532,548],"tags":[611,2234,2248,3168,3252,267,3716,3752,2064],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contributing-writers","category-international-diplomat","tag-ambassador","tag-annegret-mathari","tag-arab-emirates","tag-griffith","tag-hodeida","tag-international-diplomat","tag-majawar-ali","tag-martin","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}