The United Nations has officially opened delayed peace talks meant to end more than a year of deadly conflict in Yemen.

The United Nations has officially opened delayed peace talks meant to end more than a year of deadly conflict in Yemen.

After repeated delays over alleged truce violations, Yemeni delegates started negotiations in Kuwait City, live televisions images showed Thursday.

The Yemeni National Delegation arrived on Thursday in Kuwait to reiterate the commitment of the army and the popular forces to the ceasefire and the readiness to end the crisis politically.

The delegation which is led by Mohammad Abdol Salam will participate in the UN-brokered talks which were originally supposed to start on Monday but were delayed after the national forces rejected to show up in protest against what they described as Saudi violations of a ceasefire, in effect since April 11.

Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionary movement had stressed it has the right of retaliation in face of the continuous ceasefire violations carried out by Saudi-led coalition.

Yemen has been since March 26, 2015 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 fugitive president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.