Delegation of Yemen’s revolutionaries, Ansarullah, had not yet arrived in Geneva for a UN-backed peace talks because their plane was delayed.

Delegation of Yemen’s revolutionaries, Ansarullah, had not yet arrived in Geneva for a UN-backed peace talks because their plane was delayed.

AFP news agency quoted sources as saying that the Yemeni team comprising members of the Ansarullah and other factions, that oppose the Saudi-led war on the Arab country, left Sanaa on Sunday afternoon but were forced to have a long halt in Djibouti.

Sources within the Yemeni movement told al-Manar that the delay of the plane was deliberate.

However they said that the plane will take off from Djibouti at Monday noon.
The UN-brokered talks on Yemen were supposed to start in Geneva early on Monday in the presence of UN chief Ban Ki-moon.

The UN's peace envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said that Monday would see the start of "preliminary inclusive consultations" on the war that has claimed more than 2,500 lives and sparked a "catastrophic" humanitarian crisis.

Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-US coalition.

Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.

Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.