Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh urged on Friday his allies to implement UN Security Council decisions in return for a halt in Saudi-led coalition air strikes.
“I call on Ansarullah to accept all UN Security Council decisions and to implement them in return for a halt in the coalition forces’ aggression,” Mr Saleh said in a statement read out on his behalf on his private television channel Yemen Today.
“I urge them and everyone — militias and Al Qaeda as well as militias loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi — to withdraw from all provinces, especially Aden,” the main southern city where fighting has raged between rival forces.
A UN Security Council resolution this month imposed an arms embargo on the Ansarullah leaders, including Mr Saleh’s own son Ahmed, and demanded that the Houthis withdraw from government institutions they had seized since they overran Sanaa in September.
Mr Saleh, who still holds sway over army units allied with the Houthis, had welcomed the resolution as a way to “stop bloodshed” in Yemen.
