Mohammed Abdul Salam, spokesman for the Yemeni Ansarullah movement and head of the country’s negotiating team, denied reports of direct talks with the United States in Oman, stressing that it would respond with all its might if the Saudi aggression coalition attacked.
Mohammed Abdul Salam, spokesman for the Yemeni Ansarullah movement and head of the country’s negotiating team, denied direct talks with the United States in Oman, saying all contacts were mediated by Muscat.
Reuters claimed on Thursday that US officials and officials from the Yemeni National Salvation Government (based in Sanaa) had talks in the Omani capital, Muscat.
Abdul Salam told Sputnik news agency: The contacts were made through our Omani brothers. There was no direct contact.
On stressing that “The United States was at the forefront of aggression against Yemen,” he said: We have informed them (Omani) of our position on resolving the conflict in Yemen. In the event of an attack or siege (by the invading Saudi coalition), we will respond with all our might. So if they (the Americans) want to resolve the conflict, they must end the violence and lift the siege.
Abdul Salam said that Ansarullah called for an end to the war in Yemen in all parts of the country, not just in some areas, and for the lifting of the air, sea and land blockade of the country.
The Yemeni official reiterated that their relationship with the Americans was indirect and that no progress had been made.
Reuters quoted two US officials as saying that several high-ranking US officials, including Timothy Lindkerking, had met with Ansarullah officials in Muscat on February 26th.
The US sources also claimed that Washington was seeking an end to the six-year war in Yemen. The US Treasury Department announced on Tuesday that two commanders of the Yemeni Ansarullah movement had been sanctioned.
On Wednesday, Mohammad Abdul Salam reacted to remarks by US officials about sanctions against the movement’s commanders.
Abdul Salam concluded by emphasizing that the United States “seeks to prolong the war and escalate the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.”
Last night, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken condemned the actions of the Yemeni Ansarullah movement in defense of the Yemeni people, without mentioning the aggression of the Saudi aggressor coalition in Yemen, and announced that two of the movement’s commanders has boycotted.
Biden had said in this regard: “The war against Yemen must stop and we will stop all our support for offensive operations there.”
The Biden administration claims to be trying to stop the war in Yemen as the war began with the green light of former US President Barack Obama’s administration under Biden.