Top Houthi political figure Saleh al-Sammad today expressed the faction’s openness toward peace talks with the Saudi Arabian-led coalition, provided that the attacks on Yemen halt.
“We have no conditions except a halt to the aggression and sitting on the dialogue table within a specific time period,” Sammad said, saying they would also like a neutral party to oversee the dialogue.
The Russian government is probably a prime candidate for this, as one of the few nations trying to push a humanitarian ceasefire to allow the Red Cross to deliver aid.
Negotiations are unlikely, however, as the Saudi government has ruled out any end to airstrikes unless former President Hadi is restored to power. Though Sammad once served as a top adviser to Hadi, he insisted Yemenis do not support the return of the former military leader.
Saudi Arabia is a barbaric regime, they have shown their barbarism in Syria, Iraq and now yeman, they are the state sponserd barbarism all over the world, another Israeli regime supported by the non existing european and USG democracy.
Over 5 million syrian people are in refuge camps all over middleeast, over a million child are killed and these people still believe in their religious game, a falsified concept of a modernized barbarism in power.
So Russia is neutral? Antiwar has been baught by Russian and Iranian shia investors it seems. This article is biased and wrong. This comment will surely be censored…
[moderator’s note: Your last sentence appears to have been as wrong as the two preceding it … – TLK]
moderator – cut the guy a bit of slack, honest men can also be very stupid
Pendulum,
I DID cut him a bit of slack! I let the comment through, didn't I?
Although I guess that isn't really cutting slack. We don't have a rule against thinking (or saying) that Antiwar.com is in the pocket of [insert bogeyman here].
How the world turns — Keep the upper half happy and they will keep the lower half enslaved
For both Saudi Arabia and Empire USA have one big thing in common, they both function as a dictatorship and to get the large number of slave-drivers needed to do so, they simply allow the upper half to hoard all the wealth. For human greed is most predictable.
Yes, if you can get 53% to believe the lie that 47% pay no taxes, you can get the 53% to hate the 47% and vote to take even more from the 47% and give it to….drum roll… the 1%.
why doesn't the Houthis shoot a few scud missiles into Saudi Arabia? Don't the Houthis have any anti aircraft weaponry?