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GENEVA / YEMEN PEACE TALKS
STORY: GENEVA / YEMEN PEACE TALKS
TRT: 02:08
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 DECEMBER 2015 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, UN Special Envoy for Yemen:
“ What we have been able to discuss, as I said, and the parties have agreed upon, is we have developed a general and strategic framework which captures in fact the entire content of the agreement that we are hoping to be able to achieve between the parties which is an agreement which both deals with the content of the Security Council resolution 2216, but at the same time also deals with issues related to the security because what is very important beyond the withdrawal of the heavy weaponry is to ensure security tomorrow. That we don’t get for instance any vacuum in term of security as we know that there are a lot of terrorist groups today operating in Yemen and this is something extremely dangerous.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, UN Special Envoy for Yemen:
“We have been able to develop a number of confidence building measures that will ensure that this framework is also coherent and is supported by a base because unfortunately the trust between the two parties is almost nil. But the details of this will be certainly revealed in the coming weeks, because the two parties have agreed to come back to us with proposals on how we can undertake the withdrawal, how we can undertake the issue of heavy weaponry and the medium size weaponry.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, UN Special Envoy for Yemen:
“It is extremely important that any agreement we will reach should be an inclusive agreement where all the parties are agreeing, should be supported by a consensus around complex issues and specially should not leave any security vacuum. And therefore should not undermine any future chance of a sustainable and long-term peace, because if we do any agreement that is one sided or that is imposing a condition on one side rather than the other, I don’t think that we benefit for the peace in the longer term. ”
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Yemen's conflicting parties have agreed on a broad negotiating framework for ending their war at talks in Switzerland which ended on Sunday after six days negotiations. Under the auspices of the United Nations, a delegation of the Government of Yemen and a joint delegation of Ansarallah and the General People’s Congress met in Magglingen, Switzerland to conduct peace consultations.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, concluded yesterday (20 December) at a press conference that “what we have been able to discuss, as I said, and the parties have agreed upon, is we have developed a general and strategic framework which captures in fact the entire content of the agreement that we are hoping to be able to achieve between the parties which is an agreement which both deals with the content of the Security Council resolution 2216, but at the same time also deals with issues related to the security because what is very important beyond the withdrawal of the heavy weaponry is to ensure security tomorrow. That we don’t get for instance any vacuum in term of security as we know that there are a lot of terrorist groups today operating in Yemen and this is something extremely dangerous.”
During the talks the parties agreed to form a Co-ordination and De-escalating Committee consisting of military advisors from both sides, facilitated by the United Nations.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said that “we have been able to develop a number of confidence building measures that will ensure that this framework is also coherent and is supported by a base because unfortunately the trust between the two parties is almost nil. But the details of this will be certainly revealed in the coming weeks, because the two parties have agreed to come back to us with proposals on how we can undertake the withdrawal, how we can undertake the issue of heavy weaponry and the medium size weaponry.”
The parties also agreed to lift all forms of blockade and allow safe access for humanitarian supplies to all affected governorates, including Taizz.
Unfortunately, numerous violations of the cessation of hostilities affected the progress of the talks. Both sides accuse each other of violating the ceasefire.
The UN Special Envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, continues to try to bridge difference between the two sides. “It is extremely important that any agreement we will reach should be an inclusive agreement where all the parties are agreeing, should be supported by a consensus around complex issues and specially should not leave any security vacuum. And therefore should not undermine any future chance of a sustainable and long-term peace, because if we do any agreement that is one sided or that is imposing a condition on one side rather than the other, I don’t think that we benefit for the peace in the longer term. ”
The participants agreed on a mechanisms for the release of prisoners, once a permanent ceasefire is in place and that they would put forward proposals on how to manage the withdrawal of forces and heavy weaponry.
The UN Special Envoy for Yemen said the two sides would meet again on Jan. 14 at a location that still needs to be confirmed.
Yemen, which was swept by mass Arab Spring-inspired protests in 2011, was this year plunged into war after the Houthis overthrew the central government, prompting Saudi Arabia and other Arab states in March to launch a military campaign.
The eight-month conflict in impoverished Yemen has killed nearly 6, 000 people and caused a major humanitarian crisis.
A military alliance of mostly Gulf Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia began bombing rebel movements in March to try to restore the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
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