(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Yemen's government told the United Nations on Wednesday that it agreed to a conditional truce to end more than three months of fighting and hopes it can be implemented in the coming days, spokesman Rajeh Badi said.
"The Yemeni authorities have informed the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon of its agreement to implement a truce in the coming days," Badi told Reuters by phone from the government's seat of exile in Saudi Arabia.
Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the spokesman said, had set "guarantees" for a pause, including the release of prisoners by Yemen's dominant Houthi group and their withdrawal from four provinces where they are fighting local militias.
Saudi Arabia and an Arab coalition have been bombing the Iran-allied Houthi group and their allies in Yemen's army in order to restore Hadi and back armed opponents of the Houthis.
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