Ahmed Obaid bin Dughr, Prime Minister of Yemen, delivered a written aide-memoire, to the UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffith in reply to the proposals he has earlier presented to President Abdrabbou Mansour Hadi of Yemen during his 10 July visit to Aden. Bin Dughr handed over the replies to the committee in charge of studying the proposals of the UN envoy during a meeting in Riyadh today. In his letter, bin Dughr confirmed his government's commitment to fair and comprehensive peace according to the references parallel to a commitment of the Iran-backed Houthi militias withdrawal from capital Sanaa, and other cities, thus, abdicating power in the capital for the legitimate government and handing over weapons to the State. He underscored the importance of Iran-backed Houthi militia's showing good will before the start of any future consultations, through releasing all prisoners of war and the abducted, and facilitating the access of humanitarian and relief assistance to the needy in all governorates. He confirmed that the reasons behind the current crisis in Yemen is, clearly speaking, the usurp of the legitimate power and the State, drawing the attention that the legitimate government is an aggrieved party of this conflict by the Houthi militias. He demanded the UN to announce rejecting the coup as null and void, citing that his government has a long practice of providing full assistance to the efforts of the UN to stop the war while the Houthi militias, backed by Iran, managed to play fast and loose, and obstinate, leading to sending the endeavors of former UN envoy Ismail Ould Alchiekh to a failure. Bin Dughr cited the Houthi militias latest rejection to withdraw from Al-Hodeida city to evade civilians the repercussions of a street war, noting that the matter has now become mortgaged in the hands of their supporters in Iran who don't care to push the lives of Yemenis to dangers and blackmail Yemen's neighbors as well as the world community as part of their expansionist project to control Bab Al-Mandab strait to threaten the international navigation's safety and security. --More 19:35 LOCAL TIME 16:35 GMT 0029 www.spa.gov.sa/1787264
