The United Nations team tasked with monitoring the ceasefire in Yemens flashpoint city of Hodeidah, headed by Major General Patrick Cammaert, was faced by Houthi intransigence in the second round of meetings held with Houthi coupist and government delegations. No breakthrough was registered at the meetings, despite the window for implementing phase one of the UN-brokered Stockholm truce agreement having passed. Meanwhile, the UN announced that its envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths will arrive on Saturday to Sanaa and then travel to Riyadh in an effort to save the crisis situation haunting the ceasefire agreement. Yemeni government spokesman Rajih Badi told Asharq Al-Awsat that there has been little to no progress made in implementing the agreement, blaming Houthi militias’ lack of cooperation. “We are still held up at ground zero, with Houthi intransigence blocking any noteworthy progress from being achieved,” Badi said while pointing out the unavailability of any display of good intentions showing Houthis’ will to go through with the Stockholm agreement. Cammert was forced last Thursday to terminate talks with Yemeni warring parties after Houthis refused having a humanitarian relief convoy transporting medical support and food aid to the coupist stronghold in Sanaa vetted at the port of Hodeidah. Badi also noted that Cammert’s efforts to advance the ceasefire implementation process hit a dead end after Houthis stalled pulling out armed militants from the three key ports covered by the agreement. According to government sources affiliated with the meetings chaired by Cammert, another dispute erupted with Houthis refusing to cooperate on forming local authorities that would run the port. Houthis, according to sources with knowledge of the matter, insist on keeping coup-appointed followers assigned to administrative posts at the ports, without allowing any of the former public service employees to resume their jobs. Badi also told Asharq Al-Awsat that the meetings of the joint coordination committee headed by Cammert would reboot meetings on January 8 after Griffiths’ tour to Sanaa and Riyadh concludes.