Yemen’s rebels and their allies said that they had set up a council to rule the war-torn country.
The deal was announced on Thursday in Sana’a in a statement signed by officials from the rebel Houthis and allied General People’s Congress Party of Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The signatories said they had agreed on forming a 10-member higher political council to be in charge of Yemen’s affairs.
Yemeni Foreign Minister, Abdulmalek al-Mikhlafi, who leads the government’s team at the Kuwait talks, accused the rebels of “wasting a chance for peace.
He said the rebels move came as representatives from Yemen’s internationally recognized government and rebels are negotiating in Kuwait to end the war.
The Yemeni minister described it as a move that could wreck ongoing UN sponsored peace talks
Al-Mikhlafi said that coup plotters have succeeded in convincing the world that they are against peace and the reason for failure of Kuwait consultations.
The Yemen conflict has intensified since March 2015 when the mostly Shiite rebels advanced on the southern city of Aden, prompting Saudi Arabia and fellow Sunni allies to start an air campaign in Yemen against the group.
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