GENEVA - Yemen's foreign minister slammed a UN envoy Saturday for "appeasing" Huthi rebels by not squarely blaming them for the failure of peace talks in Geneva. Yemen's foreign minister slammed a UN envoy Saturday for "appeasing" Huthi rebels by not squarely blaming them for the failure of peace talks in Geneva. "I believe that the words of the Special Envoy... were unfortunately appeasing the coup plotters and giving them excuse," Khaled Yamani told reporters. His comments came shortly after UN envoy Martin Griffiths announced that talks scheduled this week had ended after the rebels failed to show up. He insisted that in private conversations with his delegation, Griffiths had "expressed his dissatisfaction with (the) unjustified position" of the Huthis not to come to Geneva.

Source: Bangkok Post September 08, 2018 10:18 UTC