Yemen has 'never been so close to peace': UN envoy

AFP , Friday 15 Apr 2016

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The UN envoy for Yemen on Friday sounded cautiously optimistic about prospects for peace talks opening in Kuwait next week.

"We have never been so close to peace," Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the Security Council.

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