The UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh revealed on Friday that Yemeni warring parties have agreed to peace talks in a week as the conflict and Saudi-led airstrikes are escalating.
News agencies quoted Cheikh as saying the talks will find ways to reach a ceasefire and resume peaceful power transition.
Moreover, the talks will seek to establish a framework of a mechanism to implement the UN resolution 2216 which called on the Houthi militants to cede power, withdraw from cities and return weapons they seized after ousting the government, according to the reports.
Cheikh said the Yemeni government, the General People's Congress and the Houthi militants will attend the talks. The time and the venue of the talks will be announced in days, he said.
With support from the former president, the Houthi militants ousted the government sparking a civil war in late 2014 and, later in March, the Saudi-led military intervention.
The UN has sponsored talks, the latest were in Geneva in June, between the warring parties in an effort to end the armed conflict which has resulted in a humanitarian catastrophe but all failed.