Houthi rebels have announced truce date on Saturday ahead of scheduled peace talks with the government in Switzerland for war-torn Yemen.
Head of the Houthi delegation to the peace talks, Mohammed Abdul-Salam, announced that the truce date will commence on Monday a day before the United Nations-brokered meeting on Tuesday, foreign media reported.
While addressing a news conference in the Yemen’s capital Sanaa, Salam said, ‘Based on what had been agreed upon, there will be a halt of the aggression on the 14th of this month,’ ‘We have agreed to the ceasefire to lift the suffering of our people and to deliver humanitarian assistance to them,’ he added.
It should be mentioned here that the UN invited Hadi’s government and the Houthis for holding peace talks in Switzerland starting on Tuesday, after the sides agreed on a draft agenda and ground rules for the talks.
