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                     UN-led Peace Talks for Yemen in Doubt

   by VOA News

   A U.N.-brokered peace conference for Yemen scheduled to take place
   later this week appeared in doubt Monday with Yemeni officials saying
   the talks had been postponed.

   There was no immediate public confirmation from the U.N. that
   Thursday's meeting would be delayed.

   Yemen's President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, who fled to Saudi Arabia two
   months ago, has demanded Houthi rebels abide by a U.N. Security Council
   resolution and withdraw from the territory they have seized before the
   talks can proceed.

   Yemeni officials on Monday cited those demands and described the
   conference as indefinitely postponed.

   U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the talks last week,
   urging both sides to participate without any preconditions and to
   resume working toward a political resolution to the country's crisis.

   The U.N. says violence in Yemen has killed more than 1,000 civilians,
   and that there is the risk for the conflict to spread further in the
   region.

   Since late March, neighboring Saudi Arabia has led a coalition carrying
   out airstrikes against the Iranian-allied Houthis who swept into
   Yemen's capital late last year and surged to the southern city of Aden
   in March.
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