{"id":9608,"date":"2019-09-21T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T08:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9608"},"modified":"2019-09-21T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T08:28:22","slug":"yemens-houthis-propose-truce-with-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9608","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s Houthis Propose Truce with Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebel group announced Friday that they had halted attacks on Saudi Arabia and called on Riyadh to make a similar move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We announce the cessation of targeting the territory of Saudi Arabia with unmanned aerial vehicles and ballistic missiles, and we expect the same from Saudi Arabia,&#8221; Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthis\u2019 Supreme Political Council, said in a televised speech on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his group&#8217;s control of the Yemeni capital Sanaa.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Mashat stressed that his group reserves the right to respond if Saudi Arabia fails to respond to its initiative to stop attacks.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that the Saudi-led coalition forces would incur &#8220;the greatest damage&#8221; from the continuation of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Mashat called on the Saudi-led coalition to lift the ban on Sanaa International Airport and stop intercepting ships bound for the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>He also called on the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and all parties to engage in serious and genuine negotiations leading to comprehensive national reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>He said his group had fulfilled nearly 90% of its obligations under an agreement reached late last year in Sweden and accused the Yemeni government of not fulfilling its obligations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebel group announced Friday that they had halted attacks on Saudi Arabia and called on Riyadh to make a similar move. &#8220;We announce the cessation of targeting the territory of Saudi Arabia with unmanned aerial vehicles and ballistic missiles, and we expect the same from Saudi Arabia,&#8221; Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthis\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9610,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions\/9610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}