Mohammad Ali Houthi: Saudis deceive public opinion,they have not yet submitted a written plan.
A senior member of Yemen’s Ansarallah movement stressed that talks with the US side in Muscat were not direct, and said that Sanaa had not yet formally received the Saudi initiative.
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a senior member of Yemen’s Ansar al-Islam movement and a member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, spoke to Russia Today on Monday evening about recent talks with Martin Griffiths, the UN envoy to Yemen, and Timothy Landerking. His American counterpart offered.
Following the announcement of Saudi Arabia’s allegations of a ceasefire in Yemen, news sources reported on Sunday that the UN envoy to Yemen and his US counterpart had arrived in Riyadh after talks with the Sanaa delegation in Oman to discuss Sanaa’s conditions for Raise the Saudi side.
Today (Tuesday), Russia Today published another part of Mohammed Ali al-Houthi’s remarks and quoted him as saying that the talks between Ansar al-Islam and the Americans in Oman are not direct and that Sanaa has no problem negotiating with the American side at the same table.
The senior Ansarullah member added: “What we have achieved so far with the Omani people does not reach the level of what should be presented in the attitude of peace. “Human issues cannot be exchanged for military issues in a country that, according to the international community, is in the worst humanitarian crisis.”
Al-Houthi went on to cite US statements about Ansar al-Islam’s role in Yemen’s future, saying: “We know that US statements do not go beyond media controversy and we do not view them as [credible] statements. We also do not expect Americans to play a role in the future of our country. “The United States has moved in the wrong direction of enmity with the people because of the Jewish domination of their decisions, and ultimately we say death to the United States is because they are actually killing us.”
In another part of his remarks, a senior Ansar al-Islam member referred to Saudi Arabia’s recent alleged initiative for a ceasefire in Yemen, saying that Sanaa had not received any formal written letter from Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad Ali al-Houthi further stated that after receiving the Riyadh initiative, this initiative will be reviewed and responded to. “In order to say that we rejected the Saudi initiative, we have to receive a written initiative that this has not happened, and this initiative [so far] is an unwritten statement,” he said.
Al-Houthi stressed: “If Saudi Arabia is serious about this initiative, it will make real decisions; “Decisions that begin with not exchanging human issues with other issues, not military issues and so on.”
The Saudis are distracting the public mind
A senior Ansarullah member also said that the Saudis were distracting public opinion because “international law does not allow the siege to be used as a weapon while they are doing so, and instead of criminalizing the siege, they announced an initiative that we still officially We have not received it yet; “An initiative that the international community encouraged.”
