A member of the Yemeni internationally recognized government’s negotiating delegation, revealed that intensive efforts are underway to resume negotiations on the exchange of prisoners and detainees with the Houthi rebels during the current week.
In a statement to Yemen Monitor, Hassan Al-Qubaissi, affirmed that the commitment to the final deadline for concluding this file on January 27 remains in place, despite the current temporary pause.
He added that the negotiation track is currently going through a phase of “temporary suspension” due to overlapping issues.
Al-Qubaissi suggested that “if negotiations resume this week, there will be sufficient time to finalize the remaining outstanding issues and close the file definitively.”
These remarks come amid widespread public anticipation of the outcomes of the negotiation rounds, alongside international and UN pressure to end the suffering of thousands of detainees and forcibly disappeared persons on both sides, and to turn this humanitarian file into an entry point for building confidence in the path toward a comprehensive political settlement.