State Department says US envoy visits Middle East to support Yemen’s cease-fire

A durable ceasefire and political settlement are the only paths forward to ending Yemen’s eight-year-long destructive war, according to the statement.

Tim Lenderking, the United States special envoy for Yemen, is visiting the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia this week to support efforts to renew and expand a United Nations-mediated ceasefire in Yemen, the State Department said on Thursday. This comes one day after the region.

The department reminded the Houthis that the world is watching their actions and urged them to cooperate with the UN and heed Yemeni calls for peace in a statement.

A durable ceasefire and political settlement are the only paths forward to ending eight years of destructive war in Yemen, according to the statement.