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Reuters: Yemen peace talks delayed by fighting despite announced truce
Talks to end a civil war and Saudi-led intervention in Yemen will not begin on Monday as planned, the warring sides said as fighting persisted despite an announced ceasefire.
Delegations representing Yemen's Houthi group and the party of ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh - Saudi Arabia's main antagonists - have yet to head to Kuwait for the peace talks, citing heavy combat and Saudi-led air operations.
"There's no point in going to Kuwait if there's no respect for the ceasefire," a senior official in Saleh's General People's Congress party told Reuters on Monday.
Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam said it has been the movement's demand from the start that dialogue took place "in an atmosphere of peace and stability." Unfortunately, "aggression" had not stopped and air strikes were continuing in different areas, he said.
The U.N.-brokered truce went into effect on April 11.
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