Conflicts to Watch in The New Millennium

Yemen. According to analysis written in U.S. News, Pakistan's strategic
calculations firmly believes that if the Saudis enter into a ground war in Yemen – with or
without Pakistani military – it will become a stalemate; therefore, Pakistan is increasing
its efforts to potentially help engineer a face-saving solution to achieve a ceasefire and
end the war.
On 12 April, Saudi Arabia rejected Iran's request about a ceasefire in Yemen. Saudi
Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, at a news
conference with his French counterpart Laurent Fabius, that "Saudi Arabia is a
responsible for establishing legitimate government in Yemen and Iran should not
interfere." Australia called for the ceasefire in Yemen, because of the civilian casualties
numbers. On 16 April, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon requested an immediate
ceasefire in Yemen. Also he said all parties must stop war as soon as possible.
Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif submitted four-point Yemen peace plan
to United Nations. In this letter he pointed to enormous civilian casualties and
destruction of civilian infrastructure. He said the only way to stop the war is to require
that Yemeni parties form a national unity government without any foreign military
intervention. Furthermore, since 21 April 2016, peace talks have started in Kuwait at the
Bayan Palace. In June 2015, a solution to ending the Saudi intervention in Yemen
sought the participation of a Yemeni delegation to the Geneva peace talks; the
delegation came under attack in the Geneva peace talks.
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