Yemen’s Houthi rebel chief says he is ready to hand over control of the key port of Hodeida to the United Nations if the Saudi-led coalition backing pro-Government troops halts its offensive, a French newspaper reported.
“We told the UN envoy, Martin Griffiths, that we are not rejecting the role of supervision and logistics that the UN wants to hold in the port, but on the condition that the aggression against Hodeida stops,” Abdel Malek al-Houthi said in an interview with le Figaro published online late yesterday.