News - Yemen: The Minister of Information, Dhaif Allah al-Shami, confirmed that the National Delegation's going to Riyadh was not due to the Saudi invitation, but rather through Oman's mediation.

Al-Shami continued, “Saudi regime is trying to present itself as a mediator in the Yemen war, and this will not succeed because it is a party that led the aggression.”

He emphasized that, "It is not possible to skip over the humanitarian issues in the negotiations and go to politics first," noting that "the issue of stopping the war on Yemen is in the hands of Saudi Arabia."

Earlier, the National Delegation, accompanied by the Omani Mediation Delegation, left the capital, Sanaa, Thursday evening, for Riyadh on a private Omani plane, to complete the negotiating rounds.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, claiming the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power.

The US-Saudi aggression continues to target neighborhoods and populated areas and destroy the infrastructure and capabilities of the country, in light of a suspicious international silence.

The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there.