RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Yemen met with the United States’ envoy to Yemen Timothy Lenderking on Monday in Riyadh, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
Saudi Ambassador Muhammad bin Saeed Al-Jaber held a meeting with Lenderking and the US ambassador to Yemen Steven Fagin, on the importance of maintaining the UN-brokered truce in Yemen.
During the meeting, the officials discussed joint efforts to make the truce a success and noted the importance of the Houthis militia’s commitment to its terms. They also discussed the need to open the roads leading to Taiz to ease the humanitarian suffering of civilians.
They also said the aim is to reach a permanent ceasefire in Yemen in order to start the political process between the Yemeni government and the Houthis.
