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Mahdi al-Mashat (President of the Houthi Supreme Political Council; de facto head of state in Sanaa) — statement to Xinhua, 20 Sep 2024: the Houthi conditions for peace — paying salaries, opening Yemen's airports and ports, releasing all prisoners, compensation/reparations, and the complete withdrawal of all foreign powers from Yemen.
English 
Yemen 2024-09-20 Tier 2 — primary or translation
Politician: Mahdi al-Mashat
Original source: https://english.news.cn/20240921/06874bd6d2cd465fa0d96652310234b4/c.html
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The only solution to achieve peace is ... paying the salaries of Yemenis, opening Yemen's airports and ports, and releasing all prisoners.
Among the requirements of peace are also the payment of compensation, redress for damages, and the complete withdrawal from the Republic of Yemen by all foreign powers. English translation
[Source is English (Xinhua, a neutral international news agency, reporting his statement; this is Xinhua's English rendering of remarks he made in Arabic); tier-2, confirmed verbatim against the fetched page. NOTE: the "..." inside the first quote is Xinhua's own ellipsis (an elision in their printed quote), not the figure's; the trailing commas in the source are rendered here as periods.] Declared position of Mahdi al-Mashat — President of the Houthi (Ansar Allah) Supreme Political Council, the de facto head of state of the Houthi-controlled government in Sanaa, northern Yemen. Setting out the movement's CONDITIONS FOR PEACE with the internationally-recognized Yemeni government and the Saudi-led coalition (September 2024), he framed peace around: paying the SALARIES of Yemenis (including in Houthi-held areas), reopening Yemen's AIRPORTS AND PORTS (lifting the blockade), RELEASING all prisoners, paying COMPENSATION and reparations for war damage, and the COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL of all foreign powers from Yemen. This is the HOUTHI GOVERNING-AUTHORITY / PEACE-NEGOTIATION pole — the Sanaa de-facto-state's diplomatic terms (sovereignty, end of blockade, reparations) as a negotiating party in the Saudi-Houthi peace track — a distinct facet of the Houthi movement from the maritime-pressure doctrine (Mohammed Ali al-Houthi) and the religious-political leadership (Abdul-Malik al-Houthi), and the counter-pole to the internationally-recognized government. [Axes: war-and-peace (conditions for peace; end of blockade; prisoner release; reparations), sovereignty (complete foreign withdrawal; Yemeni self-determination), governance (the Sanaa authority's state functions — salaries, ports), regional-axis (the Houthi side of the Yemen conflict vs the Saudi-led coalition).]
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(al-Mashat, 2024) al-Mashat, M.. (2024). Mahdi al-Mashat (President of the Houthi Supreme Political Council; de facto head of state in Sanaa) — statement to Xinhua, 20 Sep 2024: the Houthi conditions for peace — paying salaries, opening Yemen's airports and ports, releasing all prisoners, compensation/reparations, and the complete withdrawal of all foreign powers from Yemen.. english.news.cn. Retrieved July 28, 2026, from https://english.news.cn/20240921/06874bd6d2cd465fa0d96652310234b4/c.html
al-Mashat, Mahdi. 2024. "Mahdi al-Mashat (President of the Houthi Supreme Political Council; de facto head of state in Sanaa) — statement to Xinhua, 20 Sep 2024: the Houthi conditions for peace — paying salaries, opening Yemen's airports and ports, releasing all prisoners, compensation/reparations, and the complete withdrawal of all foreign powers from Yemen.." english.news.cn. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://english.news.cn/20240921/06874bd6d2cd465fa0d96652310234b4/c.html.
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