The Houthi rebels will not participate in an eventual peace dialogue if it takes place in Riyadh because they consider Saudi Arabia to be their “enemy” in Yemen's civil war, a Houthi leader told AFP on Thursday.
“We will accept any invitation to dialogue that does not take place in an enemy country,” declared anonymously a Houthi authority, who assured that the rebels “will always reach out to peace.”
A head of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) told AFP on Tuesday that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) seeks to organize a dialogue in Riyadh, where it is based, between the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels to end the conflict that Yemen has been going through for seven years.
Yemen, the poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula, has been experiencing a devastating war since 2014 between the Houthis, supported by Iran, and the government backed by an international coalition led by Saudi Arabia, in which the United Arab Emirates is a key player.
The diplomatic efforts made in recent years under the guidance of the UN to bring the parties closer together have failed to reach a peace agreement.
According to the UN, the war has killed nearly 380,000 people and generated one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
A donor conference organized on Wednesday by the UN raised $1.3 billion of the $4.3 billion required to address the situation in the country, which is on the verge of a large-scale famine.
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