Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said on Thursday the crisis in Yemen requires a political solution primarily through implementing the UN resolution No 2216.
We hope that Yemenis can implement this resolution so that they lift their country out of the current crisis and take it to a better future, he said at a press conference with his UK counterpart in London.
Moreover, Al-Jubeir affirmed that his country along with its partners are committed to rebuilding Yemen and providing necessary support to end the suffering of the Yemeni people.
Saudi Arabia has been leading an Arab military intervention against the Houthi militants who ousted the Yemeni government since March.
The resolution approved in April called on the Houthi militants and their allies to cede power, withdraw from Yemeni cities, return military weapons and come back to the political process.
The other GCC states other than Oman, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan are participating in the operation. The US, some EU states, Turkey and other Islamic states are providing logistical and intelligence support to the Saudi-led coalition.
In the meanwhile, media reports said Thursday that the UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh is exerting major efforts to convince the Houthi militants to agree to a ceasefire in order to help the Yemeni people affected by the several-months armed conflicts.
Cheikh has been meeting with representatives from the Houthi group and the General People's Congress in Muscat for days in a fresh UN effort to reconcile the Yemeni factions and then to end the conflict.
The government, which has been staying in and acting from Riyadh for months, has set conditions that the Houthis are supposed to accept to pave the way for a political solution.
The conditions included Houthi agreement to a two-weeks humanitarian ceasefire, withdrawal from all cities including the capital Sanaa, adherence to the UN resolution 2216 and deploying UN taskforce to oversee commitment from all sides.