Yemen’s internationally recognised government has given Shia Houthi militias until Sunday to sign a UN-brokered plan to
end the country’s devastating civil war after the Houthis rejected the plan at peace talks in Kuwait.
“If they want peace, they have to sign the peace deal and we were patient,” Foreign Minister Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi, who is also Yemen’s Deputy Prime Minister, told reporters on Monday.
Mekhlafi’s deadline came after Yemen Government delegates decided to leave Kuwait on Monday when the Houthi side spurned the UN peace proposals saying they
did not create “the general consensus for an accord,” according to a statement cited by the Savage news agency.