Description
Added on the 06/12/2018 11:48:08 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Cars carrying members of a Yemeni rebel delegation and the team of UN peace envoy Martin Griffiths drive out of the VIP area of Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. The Yemeni rebel delegation accompanied by Griffiths arrived in Sweden late Tuesday for high-stakes talks with the government aimed at ending the devastating war. IMAGES
Images show an aircraft flying under the banner of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) departing from Sanaa International Airport to Aden International Airport with released prisoners, previously held by Yemen's Huthi rebels, aboard. IMAGES
A plane transporting released Huthi prisoners takes off from Aden airport towards Sanaa as the three-day exchange of prisoners between cities in Yemen and its oil-rich neighbour, Saudi Arabia begins. Nearly 900 prisoners from Yemen's civil war will be exchanged in the biggest prisoner swap since 2020, after a delegation from Saudi Arabia, which launched a military intervention in 2015, held talks with Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels this week in an attempt to end hostilities. IMAGES
Zalmay Khalilzad, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, says "it will be better for Afghanistan if we could get a peace agreement before the election, which is scheduled in July." SOUNDBITE
Rival sides in Yemen's civil war, the country's foreign minister Khaled al Yamani and rebel negotiator Mohammed Abdelsalam shake hands after agreeing a ceasefire for a vital port on the seventh day of the UN-brokered peace talks in Sweden. IMAGES