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SANAA, July 4 (Xinhua) – UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths left Yemen to flee to Sanaa, Yemen, in northwestern Yemen. The capital Sanaa on Wednesday held "fruitful" talks with the rebel leader to avoid major fighting for the strategic port city of Hodeidah in the Red Sea. "During this visit," said Griffiths at the airport, "I held meetings with the leaders and representatives of Ansar Allah (Houthis) and the General People's Congress."
" In this regard, I am particularly grateful to Abdulmalik al-Houthi (the leader of the Houthi movement) whom I met yesterday (Tuesday Griffiths said he would inform the UN Security Council the July 5, results of his talks in Sanaa and Aden
"My talks with the parties will continue in the coming day," said Griffiths, adding that "I hope to see President Abdul Rabbu Mansour Hadi As you know, I had a meeting with him last week, a very positive meeting as usual. "
Martin Griffiths, UN Special Envoy to Yemen, S & H Expresses at a press conference at Yaa International Airport in Sana'a before his Monday, Griffiths arrived in Sanaa after a series of intensified talks last week with exiled Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in Yemen's temporary capital, Aden, and with the leadership of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Abu Dhabi and Saudi leaders in Riyadh
Earlier this week, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash said that his country welcomed the UN peace efforts. 13.
Griffiths' visit to Sanaa comes a few days after Houthi leader Abdulmalik al-Houthi proposed to entrust the management of Hodeidah port to the supervision of the UN.
But Yemeni President Hadi and UAE leader Gargash Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates intervened in the civil war in Yemen in March 2015, after the Houthis seized many populated cities in the north and forced Hadi to with his government in exile in Riyadh.
UN agencies reported that the war killed more than 10,000 Yemenis, mostly civilians, and displaced more than 3 million others.
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