War-scarred Yemen’s internationally recognised government accused the Iran-aligned Houthi movement on Monday of failing to reopen roads to the besieged city of Taiz, a key element of a truce agreed between them, reports Reuters.
Yemen’s warring parties, who have traded accusations of non-compliance with the two-month UN-brokered truce, agreed last week to renew it for a further two months.
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Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak his Aden-based, Saudi-backed government supported any move to expand the truce to a lasting peace.
“(But) there is a main issue in the truce terms that have not been abided by completely which is opening roads on the besieged cities of Taiz and other provinces,” he told a news conference.
The Houthis have in turn accused the government of failing to deliver an agreed number of fuel ships into the port city of Hudaydah and allow a quota of flights to leave and land at Sanaa, both of which are held by the group.
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