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Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they are seeking a permanent cease-fire in the war-torn Arab country.

The US Special Envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, said on Wednesday that the Houthis’ “maximalist demands” had hindered UN efforts to renew a six-month truce in the country that ended in October.

Yemen’s warrig parties should revive efforts for a broader deal to end its devastating seven-year conflict, the UN’s Special Envoy said on Tuesday after failed efforts to renew a truce deal.

The UN has announced that the warring sides in Yemen have agreed to extend the current ceasefire for a further two months.

Warring parties Saudi Arabia and the Yemen’s Houthi movement have resumed direct talks to discuss security along the kingdom’s border and future relations under any peace deal with Yemen, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

Yemen’s warring parties agreed to extend a U.N.-brokered truce for another two months under the same terms as the original deal that was due to expire on Thursday, the U.N. envoy to Yemen said.

Yemen’s exiled president has stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council as international and regional efforts to end the country’s long-running civil war gained momentum with a two-month truce.

A UN-brokered two-month ceasefire in Yemen was broadly holding on its first full day with oil shipments reaching the port of Hodeida, including some ships that have been barred from entering for 88 days.