Yemen, Saudi Arabia talks ongoing: Ansar Allah official to Al Mayadeen
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The official says the main hurdles concern humanitarian issues.
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Member of the Supreme Political Bureau of the Ansar Allah movement Ali Al-Qahoum (Yemeni media)
Negotiations between Yemen and Saudi Arabia are still ongoing, the member of the Supreme Political Bureau of Ansar Allah movement Ali Al-Qahoum confirmed to Al Mayadeen on Friday, stressing that the stumbling part in the talks lies in the humanitarian issues, such as opening airports and ports, disbursing salaries, finding sustainable mechanisms, releasing prisoners, and resolving the humanitarian file wholly to progress in the other files.
The Ansar Allah official praised the Omani efforts to end the war, saying, "The Omani mediator is making great efforts to advance" the situation.
He also expressed an optimistic outlook on the situation of the negotiations, adding that there are "good approaches to some humanitarian files."
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Al-Qahoum highlighted Yemen's national concern to progress and actually execute the points pertaining to the humanitarian file while also continuing to discuss the disbursement of salaries to all Yemenis from the revenues of their national wealth of gas and oil and finding sustainable mechanisms to alleviate the suffering of the Yemeni people.
"The course of events and negotiations is positive," he said, adding that "guarantees and sustainable solutions and mechanisms do exist." Al-Qahoum also pointed out that visions and ideas are being exchanged between negotiating parties in order to reach solutions that would be in the interest of the nation.
"It is time for Saudi Arabia, which is leading the aggression, to boldly turn into a peacemaker," the Yemeni official said, indicating that "this matter is in its [Saudi] interest and the interest of the region and Yemen."
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"Saudi Arabia must take into account the two countries' mutual interests, move from the position of the aggressor to that of a friend, build equal strategic relations [with Yemen], and let go of past dreams and its dark vision, which led Saudi Arabia to [lead] the aggression against the country."
He pointed out that it is about time to acknowledge the reality and the changes in Yemen and the region and to work seriously for a new Yemen in exchange for a new Saudi Arabia based on effective and correct political and diplomatic presence, "which would place it [Saudi Arabia] among the world influential forces, both in the political and diplomatic arenas."
This new reality "will be met with Arab and Islamic satisfaction and an active role in line with Saudi Arabia's new directions, in moving toward building equal and good strategic relations with Yemen and the Arab and Islamic surroundings, and getting out of the American mantle."
