CAIRO (Reuters) – The head of Yemen’s Houthi supreme political council, Mahdi al-Mashat, on Sunday said the group was not against extending a U.N.-brokered truce, despite describing it as “not encouraging enough”.
“What is not possible is accepting any truce in which the suffering of our people continues. I call for a genuine and encouraging cooperation that leads to improving the humanitarian and economic benefits of any upcoming truce,” he said in a speech carried by Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.
(Reporting by Mahmoud Mourad and Ahmad Elhamy; Editing by David Goodman)
