YEMEN Press Agency

US envoy to Yemen describes talks with Russia on Yemen as useful

SANAA, Sept. 24 (YPA) – The US envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking, has described his contacts with Russia on Yemen as useful.

The Russian “Novosti” news agency quoted Linderking as saying: “We have a regular dialogue with Russian representatives on Yemen, and I find this dialogue very useful.”

The US envoy stressed the need for the international community to maintain its unity and the agreed approach to ending the war, in order to accelerate the peace process in Yemen.

He said, “First of all, there is only a political solution, and there is no military solution to this war,” adding that the United Nations, or its envoy, must have unconditional access to all parties.

In February, the White House appointed Lenderking as envoy to Yemen, but he was unable to make significant progress to end the war on the side of the United Nations.

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