Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council welcomes UN peace plan

 Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council has praised the UN peace proposal, despite the Houthis' mounting Red Sea strikes. The council's leader, Rashad Al-Alimi, stated that the Yemeni government is committed to complying with UN-brokered peace efforts, primarily by paying public employees in Houthi areas. The UN Yemen envoy, Hans Grundberg, announced that warring factions in Yemen agreed to implement a new ceasefire and empowered him to prepare a road map for peace based on paying public salaries, opening roads, resuming oil exports, opening Sanaa airport, allowing more ships to dock at Hodeidah port, and laying the groundwork for an inclusive peace. Yemeni analysts argue that the Houthis would actively oppose the peace plan and strive to derail it, citing rights groups' accounts of the Houthis resuming sniping operations in Taiz and escalating drone and missile assaults on commercial and navy vessels in the Red Sea. The Houthis' attempt to spark a conflict in the Red Sea is seen as a significant danger to peace efforts.