After more than six years of war, Yemen needs peace. It's the only way to stop the humanitarian catastrophe, the country's foreign minister Ahmed Awad BinMurbarak says (Photo: Krar Almoaed/Dietrich Klose)

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Yemen foreign minister to EU: to stop the war, talk to Iran

EU & the World

by Koert Debeuf, Brussels,

Yemen's foreign minister Ahmed Awad BinMubarak has a clear message to the European Union: to be united, and to talk to Iran, in order to achieve peace in Yemen.

"I ask the EU to use all the leverage it has to give a message to the Houthis and Iran," BinMubarak said in an interview with EUobserver.

What that message should be, is accepting the UN's proposed deal for a ceasefire, reopening the airport in Yemen's capital Sanaa, reopening the seaport of Al Hudaydah and to restart poli...