Despite significant progress in the political transition, conflicts between government forces, the Houthis and other armd groups after the draft constitution and power-sharing arrangements led to an escalation of military violence in mid-2014. Despite agreements brokered by the then UNITED Nations Special Adviser, the Houthis and allied units of the armed forces, they took control of Sanaa and other parts of the country in September 2014 and in the months that followed. On December 13, 2018, the government of Yemen and the Houthis in Sweden reached an agreement on the port and the city of Hudaydah, including the mutual re-establishment of troops from the port and the city and the establishment of a government ceasefire, an agreement on the exchange of prisoners and prisoners and an agreement on Ta`iz. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General was responsible for negotiating an agreement to end the conflict and allowing the resumption of the political transition process, in accordance with the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the results of the National Dialogue and Security Council resolutions. A few months after Yemen`s unification, the relationship between Sanaa and Riyadh was decisively derailed by the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who also threatened Saudi Arabia. Saleh, who had good relations with Hussein, took a stand against the U.S. military intervention requested by the Gulf Arabs. THE GCC members quickly ended all budgetary aid in Yemen and nearly one million Yemeni expatriates were expelled from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. This severely damaged the country`s fragile economy and contributed to the outbreak of a civil war in 1994, in which southern separatists attempted to re-establish the former South Yemen. All GCC countries, with the exception of The Qatar countries, would offer financial and political support to the secessionists, although Saleh quickly gained the upper hand and won the war.
Many Gulf officials, including Yemenis, attributes the snubbing of Yemen to then president Saleh`s lack of initiative and will.