Yemen government tells UN it agrees to conditional truce

Yemen's government told the United Nations on July 8 it would agree to a truce to end more than three months of fighting provided key "guarantees" were met, a spokesman said.

"The Yemeni authorities have informed the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon of its agreement to implement a truce in the coming days," spokesman Rajeh Badi told Reuters by phone from the government's seat of exile in Saudi Arabia.

Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the spokesman said, had "set guarantees for the success of the truce".

These included the release of prisoners by Yemen's dominant Houthi group, including the loyalist defense minister, as well as the Houthis' withdrawal from four southern and eastern provinces where they are fighting local militias.

The United Nations has received a letter from the Yemeni government and was "seeking clarification from the parties," said Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

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