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- Jordan’s foreign minister added that the country has received ‘7,000 Yemenis since the start of the armistice’
DUBAI: Jordan’s foreign minister Ayman Safadi said on Monday that Amman is ‘committed to continuing its support for Yemen and enhancing its stability.’
Safadi, who spoke in a joint press conference with his Yemeni counterpart, Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, said Jordan supports the truce in Yemen and ‘roads to Taiz must be opened.’
“A comprehensive agreement must be reached in Yemen in accordance to the Gulf’s references and initiatives,” he said.
Jordan’s foreign minister added that the country has received ‘7,000 Yemenis since the start of the armistice.’
Also speaking at the conference, bin Mubarak accused the Iran-backed Houthis of not abiding by a key element in the UN-brokered truce to reopen roads to the besieged city of Taiz saying the group was “running away” from its commitments.
He said the Houthis ‘imposed’ the war on the country after the militia’s failed uprising, laying a siege on Taiz and its residents for seven years using ‘minefields’.
Bin Mubarak confirmed his government's support to expand the truce into a ‘comprehensive political agreement.’
He said all nations are ‘facing the Iranian project’, which chose Yemen as its station.
Meanwhile, Safadi condemned the recent attacks in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque during the meeting.
‘We are committed to the two-state solution,’ he said.
Bin Mubarak also announced an upcoming visit of Rashad Al-Alimi, the chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, to Jordan.