The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir announced here today that a five-day ceasefire in Yemen will begin next Tuesday. In a statement at a press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Paris today that the truce requires that Houthi militia and its allies, including the ousted President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh and forces loyal to him should commit themselves to the truce. He also said that the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, had already appropriated an amount of $ 274 million for relief assistance as part of the efforts exerted by the United Nations in Yemen in this regard. This is in addition to the assistance provided by Saudi Arabia to Yemen, pointing out that there will be a lot of organizations and other countries that would like to participate in the distribution of aid in Yemen. He added that we hope that those who support the Houthis would, during this period, support the leaders in order to seize and commit to this important and expressive, opportunity, stressing that ceasefire does not mean peace, but all parties should find their way to return to the negotiating table and they have to make hard choices more than ceasefire. --More 00:34 LOCAL TIME 21:34 GMT تغريد
