Houthi evasion towards the Saudi initiative in return for a military escalation to topple Marib
English - Tuesday 30 March 2021 الساعة 07:08 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
The Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, has adopted an elusive tactic in its statements regarding the Saudi initiative to end the Yemeni crisis, so that it appears in most of them an explicit rejection and sometimes implicit rejection of the initiative, with indications of acceptance of studying it, in the context of a maneuver to play on the factor of time and drop more areas in Marib east of the country.
In parallel with the political and media evasion about the initiative, the Houthi militia continues its intense military attacks in Marib, in an effort to achieve more field gains on the ground and delay the truce until after controlling the oil-rich governorate.
In the context of the clear procrastination in dealing with the initiative, Al Houthi, Abdul-Malik Al-Ajri, a member of the group's negotiating delegation, said that "the Saudi initiative is an attempt to evade responsibility and return us to the maze of previous dialogue," but he did not reject it clearly, which is the same thing that Houthi spokesman Muhammad Abdul Salam Felita did
Al-Ajri considered, in an interview with Al-Thawra newspaper, which is under the militia’s control in Sana’a, that what Saudi Arabia presented does not amount to an initiative and is merely a call for dialogue. According to his claim.
However, the Houthi leader went back to saying that "contacts are continuing with the Americans and Saudis through Omani mediators with the aim of reaching an acceptable formula for principles that would be a starting point for dialogue and negotiations with the various parties in order to reach political solutions that end the war and the siege and lead to the normalization of the situation in Yemen." According to him.
On the "three references" that the Saudi initiative emphasized, Al-Ajri said, "The Gulf initiative has become a legacy of the past, because the reality on the ground has become different and that the outcomes of the dialogue are also part of the past and were not agreed upon in the National Dialogue Conference."
