The Yemeni delegation comprising representatives of Ansarullah revolutionaries and other political factions insisted in Geneva on the importance of a humanitarian pause in conflict-hit country during the holy month of Ramadan.

The Yemeni delegation comprising representatives of Ansarullah revolutionaries and other political factions insisted in Geneva on the importance of a humanitarian pause in conflict-hit country during the holy month of Ramadan.

During talks with the UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the Yemeni delegation insisted that the truce should be during Ramadan month, al-Manar correspondent in Geneva, where a UN-backed Yemen talks are taking place.

The other negotiating side includes the Saudi-backed government.

Commenting on his meeting with the delegation of Ansarullah and other policial factions, the UN special envoy described that the dialogue as “hard”, noting that the outcome of the talks in Geneva still unclear in light of different points of view.

Earlier on Tuesday, Ansarullah accused Saudi Arabia of trying to sabotage peace talks in Geneva, noting that the resigned Saudi-backed government was trying to impose its own agenda on the UN.

The team including Ansarullah and its allies arrived a day late in Geneva on Tuesday for the UN-backed talks after being stranded in Djibouti -- a delay they described as deliberate by Riyadh.

A UN-chartered plane carrying the Yemeni team had left Sanaa on Sunday afternoon but was forced to wait in Djibouti for nearly 24 hours, forcing them to miss Monday's opening of the talks and a meeting with UN chief Ban Ki-moon.

They accused Saudi Arabia of asking Egypt and Sudan to close their airspace to the chartered plane.

"It was Saudi Arabia which asked its allies" to take the action with the aim of "torpedoing the negotiations", Adel Shujah, a member of the Yemeni team, told AFP after arriving in Geneva.

He added that they were able to travel on to Switzerland only after the United States and Oman intervened.  

Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.

Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.