Saudi Arabia denies WSJ report claiming Houthis demanded $51bn to halt hostilities
Saudi Arabia has denied a report by the US-based Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that Yemen’s Houthis had demanded $51 billion from kingdom in return for a “negotiated halt” to the ongoing hostilities between the two sides. A report by the Journal claimed on Thursday that the kingdom had approached the Houthis “to see what it would take to arrive at a negotiated halt to the hostilities”, and the group demanded $51bn in return. The report, citing unnamed sources, further claimed that the Houthis would want to be “officially recognised … as the rulers of Yemen”. But Saudi Deputy Minister for Public…
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same Saudi denial of the WSJ report on Houthi demands, and nothing in it contradicts Report 1.
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