Yemeni fighters complying with Stockholm agreement: Ansarullah official

A senior official from Yemen’s popular Ansarullah Movement, which has been defending the nation against a Saudi-led war, says the movement will comply with the Stockholm agreement on a ceasefire in the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah.

Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the Head of Ansarullah’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee, made the pledge during a meeting with UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths in the capital Sana’a on Sunday.

"We informed the UN envoy that we are ready to implement all the terms and conditions of the Stockholm agreement without any retreat or moving away from it," Yemeni satellite TV channel al-Masirah quoted al-Houthi as saying.

Elsewhere in his remarks, al-Houthi said a second round of negotiations between the warring parties could be hosted "soon" in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

Talks on Yemen's failed economy "could take place soon in Amman or by video conference, which I discussed with the UN envoy," Al-Houthi said.

Senior Ansarullah officials also told the visiting UN envoy that the Saudi regime had repeatedly violated the UN-brokered ceasefire in Hudaydah over the past two weeks.

Griffiths arrived in Sana’a on Saturday for talks with Ansarullah leaders to shore up a ceasefire in the country's lifeline port city. He will later travel to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to meet with former Yemeni government officials.

The UN envoy's trip is part of a new round of talks to follow up on progress made in the Swedish capital in December, when both sides agreed to a prisoner exchange and a truce in Hudaydah.

The city, a lifeline for millions of Yemenis, has seen some of the heaviest fighting in the Saudi-led war, which Riyadh began in March 2015.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates launched the Hudaydah offensive in June 2018 but have been facing strong resistance from Yemeni armed forces — led by Ansarullah fighters — as well as the city’s residents.

The war has martyred tens of thousands of Yemeni people and made the country the world's worst humanitarian disaster.

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