The Guardian | Patrick Wintour: Special envoy calls for emergency meeting of security council as violence flares

The sudden surge in violence in Yemen could scupper fragile moves towards a peace settlement, the UN�s special envoy for the country has said.

�We have to get the genie back in the bottle,� said Martin Griffiths. �Whoever started this renewed violence, it is unequivocally the case that there has been a huge rupture of confidence and a huge loss of life for the sake of uncertain territorial gains.�

Griffiths, who is calling for an emergency meeting of the UN security council, said he had �a very real fear of the wheels coming off� in a region already made less safe by the fallout from the killing of the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani in a US raid in Baghdad earlier this month.

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