DUBAI (Reuters) – The Saudi-led coalition said it approved evacuating wounded Houthi fighters from Yemen for treatment on Monday, meeting a main condition for the group to attend UN-sponsored peace talks in Sweden this week aimed at ending the nearly four-year-old war. The peace talks may start on Wednesday, two sources familiar with the matter said, after UN special envoy Martin Griffiths shuttled between the parties to salvage a previous round that collapsed in September after the Houthis failed to show up. The Houthis had also set as a condition to travel to Sweden that their plane not be inspected by the coalition. A British push for the UN Security Council to take action on the humanitarian crisis has slowed because several member states are wary of impeding the peace talks. Additional reporting by Hesham Hajali in CAIRO and Mohammed Ghobari in ADEN, Writing by Ghaida Ghantous; Editing by Angus MacSwan.

Source: Egypt Independent December 03, 2018 11:26 UTC