Paris (Debriefer) - The next two months will see peace negotiations between the Yemeni warring parties, the Houthi foreign minister said Monday, to discuss ways out of war and arrangements for political process with international help.
The recent prisoner swap gave a great glimmer of hope to reach inclusive, sustainable peace sought for by all Yemenis, FM Hisham Sharaf added.
The Houthi group introduced many initiatives offering an end to sorties and to blockade in return for an end to missiles fired at Saudi sites, he told Monte Carlo radio.
"We offered to Saudis that we would secure their borders if they secure our borders and stop interfering in our interior affairs."
The UN envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, has been exerting great efforts in this regard, the Houthi official said, expecting that the envoy would succeed if "all parties have goodwill".
Sharaf called on the international community to support the peace efforts made by Griffiths, and to stop selling weapons to countries involved in war.
He denied charges of receiving support and arms from the "friend country" of Iran.
"We carry out the military attacks against Saudi lands, using locally-developed missiles by means of the stockpile that was abundantly available in the Yemeni armed forces' caches."
However, the Houthi diplomat said Tehran would be a direct party to the forthcoming peace process in Yemen.
The group sent peace gestures to all parties, offered national reconciliation between warring parties and formed a team tasked with "settlement between Yemenis who fought each other, but we have received no tangible reaction with those messages."
FM Sharaf unveiled soon steps to strike a new prisoner swap deal by the end of this year, hoping that such steps would continue until all the detainees are freed.
"We the Yemenis don't need to capture each other."
