GCC welcomes Yemen's agreement

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has welcomed an agreement between the Yemeni government and the Houthi group yesterday that ended a crisis that paralyzed the country for weeks.
Foreign Ministers of the six-nation GCC, who held a coordination meeting ahead of the UN General Assembly's (UNGA) 69th session last night, hoped the agreement would end violence and pave way for enhancement of Yemen's security and stability.
The GCC, "while regretting the developments in Yemen, welcomes the agreement and hopes it will lead to cessation of violence and commitment to legitimacy, and boosting security and stability of Yemen," the foreign ministers, whose meeting was chaired by Kuwait's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, said in a statement.
The foreign ministers hoped the agreement, signed in accordance with outcome of the national dialogue, would enable Yemen overcome "this critical phase of its history." Representatives of political parties, including the Houthi group's Ansar Allah, signed the deal at the Presidential Office in Sanna in the presence of President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Yemen Jamal Benomar.
The GCC top diplomats reiterated support to Yemen and President Hadi in his endeavors to preserve the legitimacy of the country and stop the bloodshed.
They called on all parties to avoid provocation and commit to a political approach that would prevent Yemen from "chaos and violence that will threat the security, stability and unity of Yemen." They said all parties in Yemen should comply with all recommendations of the national dialogue.