Yemeni Political Analyst and Expert:‎

The Arab coalition has taken a policy of “killing time” in regard to Yemen

Rasa – Mr. Abdullah al-Sharafi pointing out that the political process has always been a excuse for the ‎Saudi coalition, said, “The outcome of the negotiations in Sweden must truly end the crisis in Yemen ‎and the war in that country.” ‎

News ID: 441977

Date: 09 December 2018 - 09:43

RNA – In an interview with Rasa News Agency, Mr. Abdullah al-Sharafi, a Yemeni political analyst ‎and expert, referred to the negotiations between the Yemeni parties in Rimbo, ‎Sweden and said, ‎‎“The subject of the political process is not new and has been raised from the very beginning of the ‎Arab coalition’s aggression against Yemen and has repeatedly been proposed by the Arab coalition to ‎mislead public opinion in order to pretend that along with the war, they are seeking a political ‎solution. Otherwise, the political strategy of the aggressors is nothing more than killing time on the ‎battlefields.” ‎

He added on to say that the topic of negotiations, which will led by ‎the Special Envoy of the Secretary ‎General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, has a human dimension and making decisions for these ‎negotiations will have humanitarian goals‏.‏‎ The political dimension of the negotiations hasn’t been ‎ascertained at this time but it’s possible that the ‎political dimension may be the agreement between ‎the Yemeni parties and the attack by the coalition of the port of al-Hudaydah or the Yemeni missile ‎attacks on Saudi positions‏.‏‎ However, the political dimension ‎of the negotiations must be within the ‎framework of ending the aggression of the Arab ‎coalition against Yemen‏.‏

Mr. al-Sharafi referred to the positions that may be taken by the Saudis after the negotiations in ‎Sweden and said, “The Arab coalition has committed a great number of crimes against Yemen, both ‎against the rights of the people of this country and also against its infrastructure and government ‎centres. Saudi Arabia and the coalition under the command of this country are required to assume ‎responsibility for the crimes they have committed and compensate Yemen for this but it’s clear that ‎from a dominant position and power, the United States and Western countries have turned Saudi ‎decisions into passive decisions.”‎

He concluded, “The results of the negotiations in Sweden may be in the same direction as Abd-‎Rabbuh Mansour Hadi [President of Yemen] sought through the National Dialogue and the Initiative ‎of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). But Ansarullah seeks out the ‎results that could end the crisis in ‎Yemen and solutions have been presented from the negotiations in Sweden, such that in ‎addition to ‎the political crisis, the economic crisis in the country can also be solved‏.‏‎”‎

For only the second time since the conflict began, officials from President Abd-Rabbuh Mansour Hadi’s ‎government and representatives from the Ansarullah Islamic Resistance Movement joined the ‎negotiations aimed at discussing ways to end the Saudi-led war that has killed an estimated 56,000 ‎people and left a staggering 22 million needing humanitarian assistance.‎

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