Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discussed the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the situation in Yemen in phone talks on Wednesday, a source in the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
ANKARA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 12th December, 2018) Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discussed the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the situation in Yemen in phone talks on Wednesday, a source in the Turkish Foreign Ministry said."Our minister today held telephone talks with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and discussed the conflict in Yemen and the climate agreement," the source said.
Yemen has been gripped by a civil war between President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi's government and the Shiite Houthi movement, officially known as the Ansar Allah, since 2015. The government is backed by the Saudi-led coalition that has been carrying out airstrikes that target areas controlled by the Houthis since March 2015.
The reconciliation talks between the government delegation and representatives of the Houthi movement began in Sweden last week and will last through Friday.
The 24th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) is taking place on December 2-14 in the Polish city of Katowice. The main goal of the conference participants is to discuss ways of implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
