Ansarullah delegation in Riyadh: Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia claims a delegation representing Yemen’s Ansarullah movement is in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to attend negotiations discussing an end to the Yemeni war.

According to Press TV, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Monday “The Ansarullah delegation is in Saudi Arabia and the discussions are ongoing.”

The negotiations, he alleged, were being held “with the aim of finding a political solution for the Yemen crisis.”

“I believe we have made good progress,” Jubeir claimed.

However, Ansarullah politburo official Mohammed al-Bukhaiti rejected the Saudi foreign minister’s claim about the presence of an Ansarullah delegation in the Saudi capital for negotiations with the Saudi regime, Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen television channel reported.

Last month, Ansarullah freed nine Saudi prisoners of war in exchange for 100 Yemenis as a “humanitarian” move as part of a UN-brokered ceasefire.

Another UN-mediated truce is slated to take effect on April 10. Talks are to follow in Kuwait on April 18.

Yemen has been the target of incessant Saudi military strikes for more than a year. Nearly 9,400 Yemenis have lost their lives since last March.

Saudi Arabia has been pounding Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, for more than a year to undermine the Ansarullah movement and reinstate former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

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