Al-Houthi calls coalition for arbitration, proposes 12 arbitrator countries

SANAA, April 2 (YPA) – Member of the Supreme Political Council Mohammed Ali al-Houthi on Wednesday offered a new initiative to the coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, calling on it to “accept the arbitration of 12 countries.”

In a post on his Twitter account on midnight Wednesday, al-Houthi talked about the so-called “three references” and the conditions for responding to the call of ceasefire.

Mohammed al-Houthi affirmed the response to the UN Secretary-General’s call to the warring parties in Yemen to stop the ceasefire and devote themselves to face the novel Corona epidemic (COVID-19).

“As the world is facing the Corona pandemic, the coalition countries and their mercenaries must abandon their conditions and what they called references and others,” al-Houthi said.

“The solution is a decision and a will,” he added, in an indication that the “references” are no longer commensurate with the variables of reality during the five years of war.

However, he stressed the necessity of stopping the war and lifting the siege first, and said: “Our response to the ceasefire call does not mean that we accept what has been rejected from the beginning.”

At the end of his tweet, al-Houthi said, addressing the coalition: “We call on the coalition countries to accept the arbitration of 12 countries within Arab, Islamic and Asian quartets in addition to the United Nations to rule between Yemen and the aggression countries.”

YPA