A ceasefire in Yemen will start on Dec. 14, the eve of planned peace talks in Switzerland next week, the head of Ansarullah delegation to the peace talks said Saturday

A ceasefire in Yemen will start on Dec. 14, the eve of planned peace talks in Switzerland next week, the head of Ansarullah delegation to the peace talks said Saturday.

"Based on what had been agreed upon, there will be a halt of the aggression on the 14th of this month," Mohammed Abdul-Salam told a news conference broadcast live from the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

The United Nations has invited Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government and Ansarullah to peace talks in Switzerland starting on Dec. 15, after the sides agreed a draft agenda and ground rules for the talks.

Hadi's Prime Minister Khaled Bahah said Friday he was determined to end the fighting.

Abdul-Salam complained that the United Nations had not taken into account all the remarks his group had made on the draft but said the group and its allies would try to press their demands at the talks.

"We are in constant coordination, together with the General People's Congress party, and we will all go with a national will aimed at stopping the aggression and lifting the siege," he told the news conference.