Saudi officials were in Yemen's capital Sunday for talks with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, as part of international efforts to find a settlement to Yemen´s nine-year conflict, officials said.
Saudi Arabia´s delegation, chaired by the kingdom´s ambassador to Yemen, Mohammed bin Saeed Al-Jaber, will hold talks with Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthi´s supreme political council, which runs rebel-held areas in Yemen, according to the Houthi-run SABA news agency.
An Omani delegation, which arrived in Sanaa on Saturday, will also join the talks, the agency reported, citing an unidentified source.
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