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New Yemeni government holds discussions with EU Ambassador

5 January 2021

The Yemeni government reiterated its support for the peace process led by the UN Envoy, Martin Griffiths, on the basis of the three references. It is reported that Griffiths plans to kick off a series of meetings to revive comprehensive political talks on the draft Joint Declaration.

“The government's vision is based on supporting the task of the UN envoy on the basis of the three references: the GCC Initiative, the outcomes of the National Dialogue Conference and UN Resolution 2216,” Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed BinMubarak said Monday during a meeting with European Union Ambassador to Yemen Hanse Grundberg.

According to Saba news agency, BinMubarak and Grundberg discussed humanitarian issues and the Houthi militias’ terrorist attack on Aden Airport last week.

BinMubarak praised efforts exerted by the UN Envoy to Yemen for solving the country’s crisis and made it clear that the terrorist attack was meant to spread chaos and violence in Yemen.

Grundberg pointed out to the EU statement, which denounced the airport attack that aimed at foiling hopes of peace. He expressed support to the government of Yemen for realizing peace, hoping that the attack will not affect its mission.

Yemeni Prime Minister, Maeen Abdulmalik, said results of preliminary investigations show that Houthis had launched the attack on Aden’s airport while the world was watching live the arrival of the new government.

Abdulmalik’s statements came as he received Monday in the temporary capital Aden families of a number of the persons who were killed in the attack.

"We won't forget the martyrs' blood nor abandon the wounded, we must work jointly to get rid of this calamity, put down the coup and restore the state," the PM said.

 

Source: commonspace.eu with Asharq Al-Awsat (London) and agencies. 
Photo: Yemeni PM, Maeen Abdulmalik receiving families of victims from the Aden airport attack (Twitter: @Yemen_PM). 

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Dennis Sammut is the Director of LINKS Europe Foundation and Managing Editor of the web portal commonspace.eu.

He was born in Malta, and lived most of his life in Oxford.

He has a Masters in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE), and was awarded a doctorate by the University of Oxford for his thesis on the end of the British period in Arabia. He served as senior member of St Antony’s College at Oxford University from 2016-2018. Since February 2019 he has lived in The Hague, The Netherlands.

In December 2006 Dennis Sammut was awarded the OBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to peace in the Caucasus. This work has been central to his activity over the last three decades, where he worked to develop dialogue at track two and track one and half levels, and he has been particularly dedicated to design and develop confidence-building measures as tools to support peace processes.

Dennis Sammut has travelled widely in the post-Soviet space, and accompanied many of the processes that have defined the region since 1990. His six video diaries where he talks about some of the events, and his own experiences were published on commonspace.eu in February 2024.

His hobby is cooking.

 

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