Noth­ing new in the Yemen’s pres­i­dent Ali Abdul­lah Salih speech, repeat­ing the same points count­ing his “achieve­ments” to “mod­ern­ize” the coun­try, with­out men­tion­ing the corruption.

He also repeated his con­di­tions to seize fire fire the Houthis, except he replaced one point (Houthis to release of the Ger­man hostages) with this point (no aggres­sion on the Saudi Ara­bia territory).

There is one thing needs to be noted, the Houthis call for talks with Saudi Ara­bia came after many arti­cles appeared on the Saudi Ara­bia media call the Yemeni gov­ern­ment to talk to the opposition.

The Op-Ed of the Saudi news­pa­per Al-Watan for exam­ple said the following:

The cur­rent stage in Yemen require con­sid­er­able work to strengthen unity, because the nation can and need all the efforts of all its cit­i­zens.… The author­ity should lis­ten to the oppo­si­tion, because that would effect the miss­ing power balance.

Some­thing sim­i­lar on other Saudi news­pa­per Al-Rriyadh:

Poverty is often the rea­son behind these events in Yemen … The respon­si­bil­ity on the Arab coun­tries, includ­ing the Gulf-States specifically.