a href="/myfiles/Images/2015/03/01/me01_big.jpg" title="Women take part in an anti-Houthi demonstration in Sanaa on Saturday. The banners read: "Hadi is a people's legitimacy" and "No to the armed militia .. Yes to the civil state!" — Reuters" Women take part in an anti-Houthi demonstration in Sanaa on Saturday. The banners read: "Hadi is a people's legitimacy" and "No to the armed militia .. Yes to the civil state!" — Reuters KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait has joined its Gulf partners Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) and decided to reopen its Yemeni embassy in Aden, instead of the militia-controlled capital Sanaa. “In the framework of supporting constitutional legitimacy in Yemen represented in President Abedrabbu Mansour Hadi... the state of Kuwait has decided to reopen its embassy in the city of Aden,” the Foreign Ministry said, quoted by the official KUNA news agency. The ministry said the decision was in accordance with an agreement by the foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council. Saudi Arabia and the UAE also announced this week that they would reopen their Yemen embassies in Aden. Hadi fled to the southern coastal city a week ago after escaping house arrest in Sanaa, which the Shiite Houthi militia overran in September before seizing power this month. The three Gulf nations were among many countries, including Britain and the United States, that shuttered their embassies in Sanaa this month over security fears. Western-backed Hadi, who rescinded a resignation he offered last month and has declared all actions by the Houthis to be illegitimate, has said he hopes to make Aden secure for foreign diplomatic missions. Aden was the capital of an independent south Yemen before the two Yemens were united in 1990. Meanwhile, rallies against the Houthis took place in several places across the country, including cities of Taiz, Hodida, Bayda and Dhamar. Hadi insists on keeping the country together. "Yemen will not have security without its unity," he told Aden TV on Friday. Also Friday, a spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said the critical conditions in Yemen were being closely monitored with great concern as the political dialogue was faltering. In Geneva, Ravina Shamdasani said the UN organization has documented a number of unlawful arrests, arbitrary detentions and targeting of journalists recently. "It is crucial that all sides exercise restraint and work to resolve the political impasse in a peaceful manner and to avoid the situation from spiraling out of control," Shamdasani said. — Agencies
