Zionist-puppet ex-Yemen president offers Saudi capital for peace talks

Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has called for United Nations-brokered national reconciliation talks to be moved to the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

On Tuesday, Hadi said the talks should be moved to the headquarters of the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC) in Riyadh after different parties failed to agree on a location for the resumption of national dialogue inside Yemen.

“As Aden and Taez are not accepted by some, I call for shifting the talks to the headquarters of the [P]GCC in Riyadh,” the Yemeni president said during an address to tribal chiefs in Aden.

According to one of his aides, Hadi also suggested that the [P]GCC’s six members sponsor the talks.

The talks, which were previously held in the capital, Sana’a, have so far failed to bring about a resolution to the political crisis in the country.

The recent remarks by Hadi come days after the Southern Movement separatists, who seek the breakaway of the areas of the formerly independent south, announced an end to their participation in the UN-backed national dialogue.

The separatists said they would not take part in the talks until they were moved out of the country.

In January, Hadi and the cabinet of Prime Minister Khaled Bahah resigned. However, the Yemeni parliament rejected Hadi’s resignation, prompting him to later withdraw his resignation after he escaped house arrest in Sana’a.

Since then, Hadi has met with several tribal and provincial figures in Aden to garner support against Ansarullah fighters of the Houthi movement who took over Sana’a following the failure of the Yemeni government to provide security and properly run the affairs of the country.

In February, Ansarullah revolutionaries, who took control of the capital last September, dissolved the Yemeni parliament and announced a constitutional declaration on the Transitional National Council following weeks of clashes with government forces.

The Houthi movement played a key role in the 2011 uprising that forced the country’s dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to quit after 33 years in power.