State media cited Rashad Al-Alimi, chairman of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council, as saying the government is prepared to accept any form of peace plan that will bring an end to the country's civil war, which began in 2015.
Al-Alimi made the comments during a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, while the two leaders discussed the latest developments in the ongoing Yemeni conflict and potential pathways to permanent peace, according to reports by state-run Saba News Agency, quoting Xinhua.
The Yemeni leader praised the UN for efforts to contain the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, even though he laid much of the burden squarely on Saudi Arabia and Oman for facilitating a UN-sponsored political process.
He said any steps toward peace should be fairly well-founded on the "references of the comprehensive solution agreed upon nationally, regionally, and internationally, especially relevant resolutions of international legitimacy.".
Guterres reiterated the UN's support to the Yemeni government, vowing to mobilize available resources to relieve the Yemeni people's suffering and redouble efforts to revive the political process.
The meeting at the highest level is taking place at a critical juncture as Yemen has been battling a decade-long conflict between the internationally recognized government and the Houthi movement that controls the capital, Sanaa, and all of the northern provinces.
Yemen has stayed in fragile calm since the United Nations announced on October 2, 2022, that the two rival parties had failed to extend and expand a six-month truce that had been in effect.
It is these long, protracted, and futile diplomatic efforts that have seen neither party give in to negotiate finding solutions to the war, killings estimated to have taken hundreds of thousands of people, and threatening millions with the specter of famine.
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