'Deep Divisions' Between Yemeni Parties Prevent Peace Talks, UN Envoy Says

The U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen said Wednesday that "deep divisions" among the warring parties prevent him from calling for a new round of peace talks. "The parties are divided over whether a new round of talks should be convened with or without a new cessation of hostilities," U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the U.N. Security Council. "I have not, unfortunately, received sufficient assurances that a new cessation of hostilities, should I call for one,...

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