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Kuwait City: UN-brokered peace talks to end 13 months of armed conflict in Yemen opened in Kuwait City yesterday after a rebel delegation arrived following a three-day delay, state television reported. The talks grouped representatives of Yemen’s government, a rebel Shia Houthi delegation and their allies from former president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s party, along with United Nations special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed.
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Khaled Al Sabah opened the meeting by hailing the talks as “a historic opportunity” to end the bloodshed. “Today, you have one of two options — a secure nation that guarantees an honourable life or the ruins of a nation,” he told the warring parties.
AFP
