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Wednesday 20 May 2015 - 13:24 Makkah mean time-2-8-1436
 New York (IINA) - A U.N.-sponsored peace conference on Yemen will be held in Geneva Thursday May 28, Al Arabiya News reported citing sources from the U.N. General Secretariat. The U.N. is yet to announce the date of the conference or its agenda of work.
The talks, which are expected to bring together representatives from different Yemeni political factions to re-launch peace talks. Yemeni Prime Minister and Vice President Khaled Bahah is likely to represent the government in the conference, even though the Yemeni government does not consider itself party to the negotiations, reported Al Arabiya. Yemeni President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi will not attend the conference, but U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will be giving the opening speech at 3:PM local time. Al-Arabiya NY Bureau Chief emphasized in his reporting that the convening of the Yemen Geneva conference is not a given certainty, since PM Bahah has announced today that for the conference to take place, Houthi militia must first implement SC resolution 2216.
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