Al-Thawra Net
Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, said that his country was not surprised by Houthis ( Ansarullah) and GPC party positions toward UN envoy’s proposal.
“We received the news from Kuwait as UN envoy having put on the table a proposal which is dealing only with the military aspect of the situation, which emphasizes the need for the Houthis and the Saleh people to lay down arms, to withdraw from the cities etc. and the political aspect was missing,” he said.
” It did not come as the surprise to us in that context that the Houthis and Saleh walked away from that proposal,” he noted.
Churkin added that it has been a very difficult conversation, because the talks broke down, but Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Representative of the Secretary‑General for Yemen, is an eternal optimist and a very hard worker, “he is continuing his efforts. In fact, he reassured us that his contacts are going to continue and he is going to work towards a comprehensive political settlement.”
Churkin pointed out that it is extremely upsetting that after 16 month of war there are still serious problems and sometimes one gets the feeling that one or the other party is not really in the mood of coming to a political solution which is very regrettable because of the humanitarian costs of the war are enormous, ” it’s a forgotten war, overshadowed by other conflicts in the region, but the suffering of the people can’t be compared with anything else we are talking about in the Security Council.”
Russia’s United Nations ambassador warned that the humanitarian costs of the war are enormous and it is a forgotten war overshadowed by other conflicts in the region, but the sufferings of people cannot be compared with anything else we are talking about in the Security Council.
