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Wednesday 13 Jan 2016 - 12:14 Makkah mean time-3-4-1437
London, (IINA) - British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Tuesday that British troops, who are helping to identify targets for a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, reported that they haven’t found any deliberate breaches of humanitarian law by the Kingdom, Arab News reported.
Addressing the House of Commons, Hammond said: “I can’t tell you whether it is six people, but we do have a military presence in Saudi Arabia, and we are working with the Saudi Arabians to ensure the following of correct procedures to avoid breaches of international humanitarian law”.
“That is to ensure that target sets are correctly identified, that processes are correctly followed to ensure that only targets that are legitimate military targets are struck”, Hammond said.
He said that there was “no evidence of a deliberate breach of international humanitarian law”.
Meanwhile, a round of UN-brokered Yemen peace talks will not begin on January 14 as planned but may take place a week or more later, UN spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told a regular UN briefing in Geneva on Tuesday.
After the round of talks on December, UN Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he would bring the two sides together again on January 14, with Switzerland and Ethiopia both mentioned as possible locations. However, a meeting this week is no longer on the table.
“He is looking at a date after January 20”, Fawzi said. “It’s taking him some time to get the parties to agree on a location”.“He wants to go for a location in the region. So his first option is to find a location acceptable to all parties in the region, but he has Switzerland of course in the back of his mind as an option”.
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