The envoy to Yemen from United Nations told the press that he has got plans to invite the parties involved in the conflict to hold meeting in the Swiss city of Geneva in September this year.

While speaking at the UN’s Security Council, Martin Griffiths said on Thursday that he hopes the meeting will allow the government and Houthi rebels to be able to discuss “the framework for negotiations, to agree on relevant confidence-building measures and specific plans for moving the process forward”.

“[It has been] two years since the last round in Kuwait so my principal message and request to this council today is that we urge the parties to resolve this conflict through negotiation rather than through military means,” Griffiths said.

“After having consulted with the parties, I plan to therefore invite them to Geneva on September 6 for a first round of consultations.”

Griffiths becomes the third such person to take the task of trying to bring a complete end to hostilities in the Arab world’s poorest nations and he hailed the support he has received from both sides.

But he was very cautious regarding the hopes he has got as the  situation for millions of Yemeni civilians could further worsen in case a perfect solution to the ongoing conflict is not reached within a reasonable timeframe.

A report from a journalist at the UN headquarters in New York, said that Griffiths was not trying to address a specific hotspot in the Yemeni conflict but is rather trying to look for a comprehensive peace settlement and restore a “semblance of normality for the millions of Yemenis who have been living under a very brutal civil war for the past several years”.

“Does this mean it’s going to be a one time and they are going to find an actual political solution? Probably not but there is a real sense that this is the moment to try to get both sides back into some sort of conversation about ending their political gripes.”

Previously on Thursday, air raids by a Saudi and UAE-led coalition battling against Houthi rebels resulted in the killing of not less than 20 people in Hodeidah, as per one stats, while other death tolls records put the figure much higher. The attacks, which fell very close to the city’s main public hospital, al-Thawra, hit the strategic city’s fishing port and fish market.

The war in Yemen which can be said to be the region’s poorest country, begin in the year 2014 after the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels seized full and complete control of the capital, Sanaa, and began advancing south towards the country’s third-biggest city Aden.

Concerned by the sudden rise of the Houthi rebels, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of several Arab states launched a military offensive in 2015 in the form of a massive air campaign targeted at reinstalling the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

As a result, not less than 10,000 people have been killed and at least 40,000 wounded, mostly from Saudi-led air raids.

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