COLOMBO: The US is working with Saudi Arabia, UAE and the UN to start peace negotiations between Yemen’s government and the Houthis, said US Secretary of State John Kerry.Kerry said the US was working “very hard” to help negotiate a solution to the crisis in Yemen through the UN.
Speaking to reporters in Sri Lanka, Kerry said it was not inevitable that Yemen would become a failed state.
“I will not say yet that the verdict is in on what Yemen is going to be because we are trying very hard, working with the UN, working with our friends in the region,” he said.
“We are working hard to secure a negotiated process through the UN which will bring the parties together,” he said.
“We are having discussions over the course of every day right now in order to push toward this and our hope is that the UN process may be able (to) actually take hold before too long,” Kerry added.