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"This morning, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States met to discuss ways to break impasse in Yemen...Together with UN Special Envoy Ismail [Ould Cheikh Ahmed], we agreed on a renewed approach to negotiations with both a security and political track simultaneously working in order to provide a comprehensive settlement," Kerry said.
Kerry explained that the newly-agreed approach will include prompt establishment of a new unity government in Yemen and the transfer of arms to a third party. "The final agreement in broad outline would include in the first phase the swift formation of a new unity government with power shared among the parties, the withdrawal of forces from Sana and other key areas, the transfer of all heavy weapons including ballistic missiles and launchers from the Houthis and forces aligned with them to a third party," he said.
Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict between the government headed by Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and Houthi rebels, the country's main opposition force. The Houthis are backed by army units loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Since March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition of mostly Persian Gulf countries has been carrying out airstrikes against the Houthis at Hadi's request despite a ceasefire agreed shortly before. The UN-brokered talks to end the Yemeni conflict started in Kuwait on April 21, although, the talks ended in early August, with the government and Houthi rebels failing to come to an agreement.
Comment: Note that Yemeni representatives weren't included in the conversation. Note also how it's presented in terms of these countries intervening to keep the warring parties apart. Thing is, those 4 countries ARE the primary war party.
This is what the Empire of Chaos recently did in Libya; simply invent a 'new unity government' - one with zero popular, democratic support - and declare it to be 'the' unity government.
The only reason they're doing so now in Yemen is because the popular Houthis recently established an actual unity government with former leader Saleh and his loyalists.
Western reality-creating, aint it great?