Joint Committee To Monitor Troops' Withdrawal From Yemen's Hudaydah - Russian Ambassador

Umer Jamshaid Published December 14, 2018 | 05:31 PM

A special committee, comprised of the Yemeni government, Houthi movement, and the United Nations representatives, will be created to control the withdrawal of Houthi militants and government troops from the Yemeni port city of Al Hudaydah, Russian Ambassador to Yemen Vladimir Dedushkin told Sputnik on Friday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 14th December, 2018) A special committee, comprised of the Yemeni government, Houthi movement, and the United Nations representatives, will be created to control the withdrawal of Houthi militants and government troops from the Yemeni port city of Al Hudaydah, Russian Ambassador to Yemen Vladimir Dedushkin told Sputnik on Friday.

"A joint committee of the two [conflicting] sides will be created to control the withdrawal of these forces, and this committee will be set up with the participation of UN representatives and the UN military," Dedushkin said.

Dwelling on the results of the one-week UN-mediated talks on Yemen crisis settlement in Sweden, the diplomat said that the withdrawal of troops from the port city envisaged creation of some 0.6 mile-wide buffer zone in the first week, with the full withdrawal slated to finalize in 45 days.

The sides to the Yemeni conflict also agreed to exchange over 4,000 war prisoners in late January 2019, which will finally settle this issue, he added.