'The US has called for a ceasefire in Yemen within 30 days followed by UN-brokered peace talks, sparking guarded hopes for a breakthrough in the international effort to end the country’s disastrous three-year war.
Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, and Jim Mattis, the US defence secretary, both said on they wanted to see a swift end to the fighting between Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led military coalition supported by the US and UK.
“Thirty days from now we want to see everybody around a peace table based on a ceasefire,” Mr Mattis said in Washington.'
- Raf Sanchez,
US calls for ceasefire in Yemen within 30 days, sparking hopes of diplomatic breakthrough, October 31, 2018
Context'..a lasting ceasefire .. to rewrite the Syrian constitution..'(To Heal) - Healing Grief and Trauma - '..the means to alleviate a great amount of human suffering..'