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Saturday 13 Jun 2015 - 15:11 Makkah mean time-26-8-1436
 Geneva (IINA) - U.N.-brokered peace talks, set to bring Yemeni warring sides in Geneva, will start Monday instead of Sunday, the United Nations said in a statement.
The delay is due to one of the Yemeni delegations not being able to arrive in Geneva until Sunday evening. The talks are expected to last three days. Earlier, UN spokesman said that special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said that separate “proximity” talks with Yemen’s two main warring parties would be held on Sunday, in the hope of bringing them to the same table eventually. Ahmed has convened the talks to try to end more than two months of war between Iranian-backed Houthis and forces loyal to President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi. “The talks will start as proximity talks, which means the envoy will be shuttling between the two groups in the hope that he can bring them together during these consultations,” spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told a news briefing in Geneva. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will attend the opening day of the talks, which Fawzi said were the start of a process.“They are the first consultations to involve the different sides of the Yemeni conflict since hostilities resumed, and therefore mark an important step as the parties, we hope, embark on a road toward a settlement.”
Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coalition targeted arms depots belonging to the Iran-backed Houthi’s and deposed President Abdullah Saleh’s militias in the capital Sanaa, witnesses told Al Arabiya News Channel on Saturday. The coalition planes also struck houses of those belonging to the rebels. During the airstrikes, the Houthi militias also targeted residential homes in al-Basateen and Al-Mansoura neighborhoods in Aden city, which left several people killed and others injured, according to local journalists there.
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