STOCKHOLM - The Houthi delegation to the talks on the Yemeni crisis settlement hopes that the sides will be able to achieve significant progress on the reopening of the airport in the capital Sanaa on Sunday, Abdul Malik Ajri, a member of the Houthi-led Political Bureau, said.
On Friday, Abdulaziz Jabari, an adviser to the Yemeni president and a member of the government delegation to the ongoing crisis settlement talks in Sweden, told Sputnik that the government was ready to reopen the airport if Houthis withdrew from it and the authorities could inspect planes. The same day, the delegation said that the government had not submitted its written proposal on the issue yet, as discussions on confidence-building measures were still underway.
“Today and yesterday we discussed the question of the opening of Sanaa airport and we hope that tomorrow there will be very positive results concerning the issue of opening Sanaa airport despite the fact that the other side insists on its position. We try to find other ways to communicate with the other side,” Ajri told reporters.
Ajri stressed that the Houthis “are trying very hard for the suffering of the people to diminish and for the economy to become better for our people.”
Yemen has been gripped by a civil war between President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s government and the Shiite Houthi movement since 2015. The government is backed by the Saudi-led coalition that has been carrying out airstrikes that target areas controlled by the Houthis since March 2015.