US Peace Plan for Yemen Meant to Reorganize Saudi Forces: Ansarullah Negotiator
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A senior member of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement, who is involved in UN-brokered peace talks to resolve crisis in the war-torn country, described a new US-proposed peace plan as a ploy to help Saudi Arabia escape more defeats and reorganize its military forces near Yemen.
Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Hamid Razzaq said Yemen's Supreme Political Council has not formally received the recent US-proposed plan so far, but referred to the initiative as a way to reduce pressure on the Saudi military forces, who have suffered heavy defeats in the war on Yemen.
The so-called peace plan is not a solution indeed, but a ploy to pull the Saudis out of an impasses and help them re-deploy forces along the southern Saudi border provinces, including Najran, Jizan, and Asir, he warned.
Razzaq also argued that Saudi Arabia will definitely breach the peace plan and start to accuse Yemenis of obstructing the peace talks as soon as their forces are stationed along the southern borders.
His comments came after US Secretary of State John Kerry in late August revealed a plan to restart talks to end the war in Yemen with help from Saudi Arabia.
Speaking at a press conference with his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir in the Saudi city of Jeddah, Kerry had called on the Houthis to cease shelling across the border with Saudi Arabia, pull back from the capital Sana’a which they took control of two years ago, cede their weapons and enter into a unity government with their domestic foes.
Saudi Arabia launched an aggression on Yemen in late March 2015 in a bid to return former fugitive president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, to power. Nearly 9,400 Yemenis, including 4,000 women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.
Yemenis, in return, have been carrying out retaliatory attacks on the Saudi forces deployed in the country as well as targets inside Saudi Arabia.
