UN-brokered Yemeni peace talks in Kuwait entered a fourth day on Sunday with government and Shiite Houthi rebel delegations still far from reaching an agreement to end 13 months of war.
The delegations resumed “talks and started the plenary session,” Charbel Raji, spokesman for the UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, told AFP without providing further details.
Sources close to the talks said on Saturday that the two sides had failed to reach an understanding on the need to firm up a fragile ceasefire in place since April 11.
Ould Cheikh Ahmed acknowledged the negotiations were difficult but expressed hopes for progress. “The atmosphere of the talks is promising and there is common ground to build on in order to reconcile differences,” the UN envoy said in a statement issued late Saturday.