(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) NEW YORK, July 15 (KUNA) -- The UN announced today that the Yemeni peace talks are expected to resume with both Ansarullah and General People's Congress delegations in Kuwait on Saturday.
UN deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters today that the delegation of Ansarullah and General People's Congress arrived in Kuwait earlier today, while the Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, is currently in Riyadh and is meeting with Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and the delegation of the Government of Yemen.
The State of Kuwait has recently hosted marathon UN-sponsored compromise consultations among the Yemeni parties. However the talks were suspended and were supposed to resume Friday.
Meanwhile, Haq said that the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Jamie McGoldrick, has expressed concern regarding the lack of foreign currency reserves in the Yemen Central Bank. Without such reserves, he said, Yemen's commercial sector is unable to receive lines of credit, curbing Yemen's capability to import key staples such as rice and wheat.
Yemeni families are already paying as much as 30 percent over pre-crisis wheat prices in some areas of the country, as seven million people are severely food insecure, he added.
The UN has provided food assistance to an average of four million people a month between January and May this year. (end) mao.rk