ADEN, Yemen, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's President Abdu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi met with new UN envoy Martin Griffiths on Tuesday to discuss ways to resume the UN-brokered peace negotiations between warring factions.
Yemen's Foreign Minister Abdul-Malik Mekhlafi and other high-ranking officials attended the meeting held in Hadi's temporary residence in Saudi Arabia's capital of Riyadh, the official Saba News Agency reported.
President Hadi told Griffiths that the previous peace talks facilitated by the United Nations showed that the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels don't honor deals and don't care about the international resolutions.
Hadi said "we will always continue to call for peace to affirm our principle attitude, out of our national and moral responsibility toward our nation."
According to Saba, the UN envoy Griffiths expressed his optimism in the prospect of achieving the Yemeni people's aspirations and ending the people's suffering.
He said that he would spend intense efforts to mediate peace.
In February, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Martin Griffiths of Britain as his special envoy for Yemen to succeed Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed of Mauritania.
Previous attempts by the UN envoy Ould Cheikh Ahmed had failed to reach a political settlement and end the conflict between the Yemeni rival forces.
The Saudi-led coalition has intervened in the Yemeni conflict since March 2015 to roll back the Houthi rebels and support the internationally recognized President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was forced into exile by the Houthis.
The nearly three years into Yemen's civil war have killed over 10,000 Yemenis, mostly children, and displaced 3 million others, creating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
The war between Houthis and the coalition-backed Hadi's government forces has recently intensified in the northern Yemeni provinces and in the areas in the western Red Sea coasts.
