"Russia hopes that another meeting on Yemen should take place in the near future ... Russian Ambassador ... 'The Yemeni crisis is rooted not only in domestic problems but in external factors as well' ... a number of countries are seeking to use this crisis as a pretext to impose international sanctions against the leaders of some of Yemeni forces or to impose economic settlement schemes designed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ... 'This is what triggered the Houthi rebellion' ... 'It is easy to unleash a war but it is much more difficult to stop it' ... 'The latest intra-Yemeni meeting' ... was held on the basis of an agenda agreed by the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy' ... 'It was the first direct contact between the conflicting parties' ... 'the parties have been trying to link the talks with preconditions.' ... 'Houthi rebels' ... 'insist on the termination of bombardments, while the government demands' ... 'the release of all political prisoners being held by the Houthis and the lifting of siege from' ... 'Taiz' ... 'Russia is urging all parties to overcome technical problems as soon as possible. It stresses the fact that putting forward any preconditions would be counter-productive.' ... 'It is to be hoped the Yemenis in Sana and Riyadh develop the awareness there can be no military solution to the conflict and another meeting should take place no matter what in the near future. We hope this will be so' ... 'The ambassador also pointed out that Arab countries are beginning to understand the difference between the regional policy of Russia and Western partners, primarily the United States, more clearly. 'The Yemeni crisis is, undoubtedly, one of the links in the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ that swept the Middle East in 2011' ... 'The attempts of the West to impose its own agenda on the Arab people did take place and are occurring now stimulating the growth of the crisis' ... 'I would not like to slide into ideological formats, but people in the Arab world are beginning to understand more clearly the difference between the regional policy of Russia and Western partners, above all, the United States' ... 'the West still finds it hard to perceive the emerging polycentric world order, and sometimes cannot get rid of the obsession to topple the unwanted regimes and attempts to ‘appoint’ regional government leaders at its own discretion'"
http://tass.com/politics/855213
