Geneva talks on Yemen not to bear fruit: Pundit

Press TV has interviewed Ali al-Ahmed, director of Institute for [Persian] Gulf Affairs (IGA), and Daniel Serwer, a professor with the Johns Hopkins University, both from Washington, to discuss the ongoing peace talks in the Swiss city of Geneva over the crisis in Yemen.

Al-Ahmed says the Geneva talks will have very little impact, because the UN Security Council is not involved in the negotiations to urge the 'Saudi aggressors' and their allies to stop the war on Yemen.

Referring to the absence of parties involved in the Yemeni crisis, he says, only the representatives of Yemeni people and small numbers of Riyadh-based politicians are taking part in the conference, but Saudi Arabia is absent.

“This is really a conference about nothing, because the people who can shoot and drop the bomb are not at the conference,” the expert maintains.

The recent developments in Yemen are an “international travesty” because some foreign powers do not want to see Yemenis decide their future, he argues, adding that the UN Security Council is not in a position to declare Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi as president of Yemen.

For his part, Serwer says there are not good chances of success for the Geneva talks on Yemen, as most such conferences bear no results.

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