UN envoy to Yemen says momentum to end the war is building

The U.N. envoy for Yemen
The U.N. envoy for Yemen

The U.N. envoy for Yemen said Friday the momentum to endthe country's devastating five-year war is building, pointing to a nearly 80percent drop in airstrikes nationwide in the last two weeks, a strengthenedcease-fire in the key port of Hodeida, and the beginning of the kind ofleadership needed to restore peace to the Arab world's poorest nation.

Martin Griffiths told the U.N. Security Councilthat developments since infighting between the internationally recognizedgovernment and separatists in Yemen's south in August "are beginning to produceresults."

In possibly the mostimportant sign "that something is changing," he said the dramatic reduction inairstrikes compared with the two previous weeks indicated "a reduction in thetempo of the war, and perhaps a move towards an overall cease-fire."

Griffiths also noted that thecessation of missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia by Houthi militia, whichthe group announced on Sept. 20, "has been sustained for a second month in arow."

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