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Saturday 06 Jun 2015 - 15:53 Makkah mean time-19-8-1436
 Dubai (IINA) - Yemen’s Houthi rebels agreed on Friday to attend UN-brokered peace talks in Switzerland, which the war-torn country’s exiled government confirmed it too would attend.
“We accepted the invitation of the United Nations to go to the negotiating table in Geneva without preconditions,” said Daifallah Al-Shami, a politburo member of the rebels’ political wing, AFP reported. He said that the rebels “will not accept conditions” from other parties. Ezzedine Al-Isbahi, information minister of the Yemeni government exiled in Riyadh, said it would send a delegation to the talks provisionally scheduled for June 14. UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the Security Council on Wednesday that the government had agreed to attend but that he was still in consultation with the rebels. “The government agreed to participate in the Geneva talks,” Isbahi said. He said the meeting would involve “consultations on implementing Resolution 2216.” The April Security Council resolution imposed an arms embargo on the Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels and demanded they relinquish seized territory.
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