Spokesman for Yemen’s Houthis wears Rolex watches in his international meetings. A $30,000 rosegold Yacht Master and a $25,000 GMT-Master II… Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam earlier expressed the group’s rejection of US envoy to Yemen Timothy Lenderking’s proposal for a nationwide ceasefire in Yemen. Abdul-Salam said the Houthis see that “there’s nothing new” in the US envoy’s proposal, adding that “it represents the Saudi and international vision.” However, the militia group appears to have backtracked its blatant rejection stance later on.
U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths, who has been leading efforts to restart negotiations last held in December 2018 to end the conflict, told the Security Council the U.S. move could have “a chilling effect” on efforts to bring the parties together and should be revoked on humanitarian grounds. emen’s Houthi movement will not walk away from peace talks with the United Nations and Saudi Arabia despite the U.S. decision to designate the Iran-aligned group as a foreign terrorist organisation, the Houthi chief negotiator told Reuters.
