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Key Documents
Negotiation News
Additional Resources
Peace Agreements and Other Relevant Instruments
Treaty of Islamic Friendship and Arab Brotherhood (Treaty of Taif) 20 May 1934
Joint Declaration issued by the Presidents of the Two Parts of Yemen (Kuwait Agreement) 30 March 1979
Agreement Establishing a Union between the Yemen Arab Republic and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen 22 April 1990
Agreement on a Ceasefire in the Republic of Yemen 30 June 1994
Memorandum of Understanding between the Saudi Arabia and Yemen 26 February 1995
International Border Treaty between Yemen and Saudi Arabia 12 June 2000
Six-Point Ceasefire between the Government of Yemen and the Houthi 12 February 2010
Agreement Implementing Governance Transition in Yemen 1 July 2011
Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) Initiative 1 November 2011
Agreement on the Implementation Mechanism for the Transition Process in Yemen in accordance with the Initiative of the GCC 5 December 2011
Presidential Decree No 184 of 2011 to Form a Government of National Reconciliation 7 December 2011
Peace and National Partnership Agreement 21 September 2014
Yemen: Constitutional Proposal 15 January 2015
Seven Point Peace Plan (Muscat Principles) 19 October 2015
Stockholm Agreement (Agreement on the City of Hodeidah and Ports of Hodeidah, Salif, and Ras Isa & Statement of Understanding on Ta’iz) 13 December 2018
Agreement for the Exchange of Prisoners, Detainees, Missing Persons, Arbitrarily Detained, and those under House Arrest 13 December 2018
Riyadh Agreement between the Government of Yemen and the Southern Transitional Council 5 November 2019
Agreement between the Joint Forces and Ansar Allah (Houthis) 6 February 2021
UN Initiative for a Two-Month Truce 2 April 2022
Conflict Parties
GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF YEMEN
Letter from the Permanent Representative of Yemen to the UN Secretary-General 7 December 2016
Statement issued by the Permanent Representative of Yemen to the United Nations 5 June 2017
Letter from the Permanent Representatives of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen to the United Nations 31 January 2019
ANSARALLAH (HOUTHI MOVEMENT)
SOUTHERN TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL (STC)
SAUDI ARABIA
Letter from the Permanent Representatives of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen to the United Nations 31 January 2019
Statement Welcoming the UN Two-Month Truce Initiative 4 April 2022
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Letter from the Permanent Representatives of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen to the United Nations 31 January 2019
Mediation and Peace Operations
NATIONAL DIALOGUE CONFERENCE
NDC: Final Report of the Working Group on State Building and Constitution 17 August 2013
NDC: Final Report of the Working Group on National Reconciliation and Transitional Justice 17 August 2013
NDC: Final Report of the Working Group on Sustainable Development 17 August 2013
NDC: Final Report of the Working Group on Building the Foundations for the Security and Military Institutions 18 September 2013
NDC: Final Report of the Working Group on Rights and Freedoms 18 September 2013
NDC: Final Report of the Working Group on Independent Institutions and Special Issues 18 September 2013
NDC: Final Report of the Working Group on Good Governance 18 September 2013
NDC: Final Report of the Working Group on the Sa’adah Issue 18 September 2013
NDC: Final Report of the Southern Working Group 23 December 2013
Final Communique of the National Dialogue Conference 16 January 2014
National Dialogue Outcomes Document 25 January 2014
Guarantees for the Implementation of the Outcomes of the Comprehensive National Dialogue Conference 21 June 2014
CONSTITUTIONAL DRAFTING COMMITTEE
Presidential Decree No 26 of 2014 on the Establishment of a Constitution Drafting Committee 8 March 2014
Draft Yemeni Constitution 15 January 2015
REGIONS COMMITTEE
Final Report of the Regions Committee 10 February 2014
United Nations and Regional Organizations
UN SECURITY COUNCIL
UNSC Resolution 2014 (2011) 21 October 2011
UNSC Resolution 2051 (2012) 12 June 2012
UNSC Resolution 2140 (2014) 26 February 2014
UNSC Resolution 2201 (2015) 15 February 2015
UNSC Resolution 2216 (2015) 14 April 2015
UNSC Resolution 2451 (2018) 21 December 2018
UNSC Resolution 2452 (2018) 16 January 2019
UNSC Resolution 2564 (2021) 25 February 2021
UNSC Resolution 2624 (2022) 28 February 2022
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
First Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict 20 April 2016
Report of the Secretary-General on Implementation of UNSC Resolution 2451 28 December 2018
Report of the Secretary-General on Implementation of UNSC Resolution 2451 21 January 2019
Second Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in Yemen 3 June 2019
Statement on Yemen 25 March 2020
Third Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in Yemen 27 August 2021
UN OHCHR & HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
OHCHR, Report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Situation in Yemen 25 July 2013
Human Rights Council, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Yemen 7 April 2014
Human Rights Council, Resolution 30/18 12 October 2015
Human Rights Council, Resolution 36/31 29 September 2017
Human Rights Council, Report of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen 17 August 2018
Human Rights Council, Report of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen 3 September 2019
Human Rights Council, Report of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen 28 September 2020
Human Rights Council, Report of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen 10 September 2021
GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL
GCC Statement on Yemen 26 March 2015
GCC Foreign Ministers Statement on the Situation in Yemen 21 January 2015
EUROPEAN UNION
European Council, Council Conclusions on Yemen (10369/18) 25 June 2018
European Council, Council Conclusions on Yemen (6179/19) 18 February 2019
EU Statement on the Latest Developments in Yemen 22 September 2019
EU Statement on the Formation of the New Government 19 December 2020
European Parliamen, Resolution (2021/2539(RSP)) on Accountability for Human Rights Violations 11 February 2021
EU Statement on UN-led Peace Efforts 19 July 2022
EU Statement on UN Truce Expiration in Yemen 4 October 2022
European Council, Conclusions on Yemen (1085/22) 12 December 2022
Other Governments
JOINT STATEMENTS
Friends of Yemen Co-Chairs’ Press Statement 24 September 2014
Quad (UK, US, UAE, Saudia Arabia) Joint Declaration 13 February 2019
Quad Joint Declaration 27 April 2019
Joint Communique of the P5 plus Germany, Kuwait and Sweden 27 September 2019
Joint Communique (Germany, Kuwait, Sweden, UK, US, China, France, Russia and the EU) on the Conflict in Yemen 17 September 2020
Quint (Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, US) Joint Statement 18 July 2022
Quad Joint Statement 24 September 2022
UNITED KINGDOM
UK Statement on Sanctions Against Houthi Military Leaders 11 November 2021
FCDO Statement on UN-brokered Truce in Yemen 1 April 2022
UNITED STATES
Statement by the US Secretary of State on the Revocation of the Terrorist Designations of Ansarallah 12 February 2021
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