The Ansarallah Houthi movement of Yemen has rejected a plan for a ceasefire in the war on Yemen put on the table by U.S. envoy Timothy Lenderking. Lenderking, during a virtual panel hosted by the Atlantic Council yesterday called it a “sound plan,” but complained that the Houthis had given their ongoing offensive in Marib province a higher priority. “If we cannot make progress now, the country will spiral into greater conflict and instability,” he said, without providing details of the plan beyond saying that the Saudis supported it.
The Houthis wasted no time rejecting Lenderking’s plan, however. “The proposal of the US special envoy is adventurism that may leave Yemen in a more dangerous situation than the current one. The US proposal has nothing new, only Saudi Arabia’s conditions for a ceasefire. If Washington’s proposals were acceptable, we would have agreed on them during the talks with Saudi Arabia,” a spokesman for the Houthis, Mohammed Abdessalam, told the Almasirah broadcaster on late Friday, reported Sputnik News.
