Yemen government says no peace talks with Houthis yet

[WorldNews]

By Angus McDowall and Mohammed Ghobari RIYADH/CAIRO (Reuters) - Yemen's exiled government will not agree to peace talks until Houthi rebels implement a U.N. Security Council resolution requiring them to quit cities and hand over captured weapons, its vice president said on Tuesday. U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the Houthis had given him “guarantees” they would attend talks in Geneva at the end of May where he hopes the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, now based in Saudi Arabia, and the rebels can negotiate a way to end months of fighting. Hadi's vice president, Khaled Bahah, said: "I think we are going, at the end, to sit with the Houthis, but we are not going to sit with the Houthis without (their) implementation of (U.N. Security Council resolution) 2216." "It has to be implemented as a good sign first," Bahah told reporters on the sidelines of talks in Riyadh.

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