GENEVA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th August, 2018) Talks with different parties to the conflict in Yemen give the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hope that it will be possible to bring more international staff back to the country, Peter Maurer told Sputnik.
In early June, the ICRC said they were recalling 71 workers from Yemen because of multiple security challenges the staff were facing there.
"A lot of interactions have taken place in Yemen with different parties to the conflict. Today � I am a little bit more optimistic that given the conversations that the ICRC had over the last couple of weeks, we will soon have the possibilities to bring the international staff in larger numbers back to Yemen," Maurer said.
The ICRC president stressed that the organization had always intended to return as soon as possible.
The talks with the parties to the conflict are moving in the right direction, Maurer said, adding that he was feeling more hopeful than two or three weeks ago.
Yemen has been engulfed in a civil war between Houthi insurgents and the government of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi since 2015. A coalition of several states led by Saudi Arabia joined the conflict to support Hadi.
