Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Yemeni popular movement, Ansarullah, will not take part in any talks to be hosted by Saudi Arabia, its spokesman announced on Thursday.
"Ansarullah will not participate in any talks which will be hosted by Saudi Arabia," Mohammad Abdel Salam told on Thursday.
He, meantime, stressed that while the Saudi-led military strikes and siege against Yemen continue, no negotiations will be held to settle the crisis in the country.
Abdel Salam said Ansarullah wants the political talks to be held with the UN support for ending the crisis in Yemen.
In relevant remarks last night, Abdel Salam called for holding UN-monitored talks among different Yemeni political parties, and underlined that Saudi Arabia should completely halt its airstrikes against Yemen.
"We want resumption of national talks in Yemen under the auspices of the UN," Al-Mayadeen television quoted Abdel Salam as saying on Wednesday.
The Ansarullah spokesman reiterated that the Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen should also come to a complete halt, and said, "Saudi Arabia uses Al-Qaeda as a weapon for sparking tribal conflicts in Yemen and the problem in some Southern provinces is with Al-Qaeda terrorists and not the political parties."
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for 29 days now in a bid to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has claimed the lives of around 2,900 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children. The attacks have also left thousands of people injured.
Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries of the Houthi movement.
Despite Riyadh's claims that it was bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes were flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures, even with unconventional weapons.
Five Persian Gulf States -- Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait -- and Egypt that are also assisted by Israel and backed by the US declared war on Yemen in a joint statement issued on March 26.
Riyadh officials said the Saudi-led coalition operations in Yemen are now entering a political phase, but the latest reports from different Yemeni cities say that the Saudi airstrikes are still underway.
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