Posted on 04/09/2023 2:02:56 PM PDT by FarCenter
A Saudi delegation was in Yemen's capital on Sunday to negotiate a potential new truce with the Iran-backed Huthi rebels who control the city, diplomats said, as Riyadh sought a way out of the war.
The Saudi officials are "in Sanaa to discuss moving forward to create peace in Yemen," said a Yemeni diplomat based in the Gulf region,
Saudi officials did not respond to requests for comment.
The delegation's arrival comes roughly a month after China helped broker a surprise rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, fuelling hopes for progress on ending the Yemen conflict that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
The top Saudi and Iranian diplomats met in Beijing on Thursday, pledging to work together to bring "security and stability" to their turbulent region.
Omani mediators arrived in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Saturday.
The Huthis seized the city in 2014, triggering the conflict with the internationally recognised government which has been backed for eight years by a military coalition led by Riyadh.
A truce announced roughly a year ago has significantly reduced active hostilities within Yemen, and is still largely respected even though it officially expired in October.
A Yemeni government source, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said on Saturday that the Saudis and Huthis had agreed in principle on a six-month truce to pave the way for three months of talks on establishing a two-year "transition" for the war-torn country.
The deal is expected to fulfil key Huthi goals, including paying salaries of civil servants in Huthi-controlled areas and lifting operational restrictions on Huthi-controlled airports and ports.
Also on Saturday, the head of the Huthis' prisoners of war committee told rebel media that 13 prisoners freed by the Saudis had arrived in Sanaa, in exchange for one Saudi released earlier.
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This is gonna really upset DC and the CIA.
“This is gonna really upset DC and the CIA.”
Tell me about it. Seems like Russia and China are running around the world putting an end to wars even FASTER than the Neocons can start new ones.
The Neocons (and their cheerleaders) are going to get very, very ANGRY!
John Bolton’s mustache will flip upside down in protest.
And the crazy thing, DC is so incompetent that they will send Blinken to protest or Kirby will come out and oppose it.
Then the world will watch China appearing to be mediating things, and we try to stir things up.
Huthis fight like all hell
They won’t stop Iran or not
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YI5ZcMFGPgr2/
THIS will mean the end of American domanice in world affairs, all because of the neoCONs had to start a war in Ukraine.
Obama and now Biden have managed to make MBS and the Saudis hate the DC deep state more than even the Shiites in Iran
That’s quite a feat.
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