Ceasefire in Yemen will be extended for seven days after it officially expires Monday, the head of the ousted government negotiation team said Sunday at UN-brokered talks in Switzerland.
“The truce will be extended for seven more days and will then be automatically extended if it is respected by the other party,” Foreign Minister in the exiled government, Abdel Malak al-Mekhlafi, told reporters in Bern, referring to the Yemeni army and the popular committees who are confronting the Saudi-led aggression against the Arab impoverished country.
The decision, at the request of fugitive president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, was communicated to the United Nations, Mekhlafi said, noting that its automatic renewal had been part of the army and the committees’ commitment to respect Security Council Resolution 2216.
The resolution, adopted in April, calls on the revolutionary committees allies, to withdraw from territory captured last year including the capital Sanaa, and to lay down their weapons.