"Ould Cheikh Ahmed met today in the Sultanate of Oman with assistant secretary-general of General People's Congress Party Yasser Awadi and Ansar Allah [also known as the Houthi movement] spokesman Mohammed Abdessalam. He discussed with them the possibility of the resumption of negotiations in Geneva," the source said.
The source added that the representatives of the parties had urged the special envoy "to stop the Saudi aggression" against Yemen, as well as to lift the blockade established nearly a year ago.
According to the source, the parties said that it was inappropriate to continue the negotiations while the bombing was taking place.
Yemen is engulfed in a military conflict between Houthis, the country’s main opposition faction, and government forces.
In March, a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states began airstrikes against Houthis in Yemen at the request of President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, causing hundreds of civilian casualties in the military campaign. According to the Yemeni Health Ministry, the bombardments of the coalition in the country have killed over 7,000 people and injured more than 16,500.
