Gargash: UAE military pressure led to diplomatic progress in Sweden
UAE Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs Anwar Gargash welcomed a UN-brokered ceasefire for the battleground
port city of Hodeidah.
"We welcome the (truce) accord
reached in Sweden," Minister Gargash said on Twitter.
"The diplomatic progress was
made possible by sustained military pressure against the Houthis along the Red
Sea and around Hodeidah," Gargash said.
He also revealed that there were
5,000 UAE soldiers engaged in fighting to recapture Hodeidah from the rebels.
UN secretary general Antonio
Guterres announced that Yemen’s warring sides have agreed after week-long peace
talks in Sweden to a province-wide ceasefire in Hodeidah.
Guterres has said the ceasefire is “an
important step” for the best interest of the Yemeni people.
Earlier, UN envoy Martin Griffiths
revealed positive progress in the peace talks between the Houthis and the
Yemeni government.
Reuters reported that the two sides
agreed to exchange around 15,000 prisoners as a means to bolster confidence.
