Yemen president insists on Huthis pullback for UN talks

Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi on Saturday laid out his exiled government's demands to attend UN-brokered peace talks, including the withdrawal of Houthis from territory they have seized, the Daily Mail reported.

Just five days head of the Geneva conference, Hadi was unwilling to budge as he reiterated his conditions in a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Hadi said he was in favour of Thursday's talks but insisted the United Nations press the Houthis to pull back from regions they captured across Yemen, according to the official Saba news agency.

The embattled leader demanded the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2216.

The April resolution called on the Houthis to relinquish territory they seized and surrender weapons they took from the army and other state institutions.