UN envoy for Yemen invites warring parties to pre-negotiation consultations next month

John Ging, Director of the Coordination and Response Division, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), briefs the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Yemen at the UN headquarters in New York, Aug. 2, 2018. The UN special envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, said Thursday that he is going to invite the warring parties in the war-torn country to consultations in Geneva next month. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)