- Saudi Arabia has notified the US Secretary of State John Kerry when he was in Muscat its acceptance of announcing ceasing-fire, but it has not implemented.
- Riyadh has justified its delay by waiting for an official demand from the government of Mansour Hadi to stop the raids, it has announced after two days a truce of forty-eight hours waiting the commitment of the other party.
- After the end of the deadline which did not witness any kind of ceasing-fire, Saudi Arabia had announced that the truce has failed because the other party has not committed.
- It is certain that the Saudi acceptance was an expression of the need to stop the attacks which the borders with Yemen are exposed to as ground violations, incursion, and attacks to the Saudi depth.
- It is certain that the exchange of stopping the raids with ceasing-fire cross the borders is a Saudi interest.
- It is certain that the announcement of Muscat did get the acceptance of Mansour Hadi and his group as the latest version of the initiative of the UN envoy, because it means its end.
- Certainly, stopping the raids by Saudi Arabia without ceasing-fire in Yemen will lead to the fall of Hadi's group and the collapse will lead to a Saudi loss.
- Saudi Arabia is confused and it will grant Hadi's group more money for an organized abandonment of the authority through a settlement and ensuring its limits to prevent any uncontrolled collapse.
Translated by Lina Shehadeh,
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