Amman (Debriefer) - The Houthi group is responsible for failure of Amman talks on prisoner swap that ended on Sunday without a deal, head of Yemen's government delegation to the negotiations tweeted late on Sunday.
"The Houthi delegation insisted on thwarting the consultation round, particularly after terror designation was removed," Hadi Haij added, "although the government delegation made many concessions.
"The Houthis kept on obdurately placing obstructions, calling for often repeated unidentified names, and refusing to abide by what was agreed to at Amman 3."
The group also refused to release or swap the four journalists (Amran, al-Waleedi, Hamid and al-Mansouri) and civilian abductees (academics, aged and sick people) despite government delegation's efforts, he said.
For his part, the Houthi senior negotiator accused the government delegation of making the negotiations end with no progress.
The group's "delegation tried every way to help the round succeed, and offered a number of fair proposals to cope with disputes, but in vain," Abdul Kader al-Murtadha added in a tweet.
Earlier on Sunday, the UN special envoy for Yemen expressed disappointment that talks ended without a deal on prisoner swap.
While they did not agree to release captives at this round of talks, the parties committed themselves to continue discussing the criteria for broader release in the future, Martin Griffiths said in a statement.
The UN envoy called for unconditional release of all the sick, injured, aged and child prisoners and the detained civilians including the women and reporters.
On the 15th and 16th of last October, the International Committee of Red Cross facilitated the largest prisoner swap between the two rivals since the war outbreak.
The swap saw 1,056 captives and detainees released from both sides, as part of a first phase that was said then to be followed by other phases.
