UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will attend the Yemen peace talks in Sweden on Thursday.

Earlier, during talks between the two Yemeni delegations the United Nations proposed the withdrawal of their troops from the coastal city of Hodeidah.

Yemeni Foreign Minister Khalid al-Yamani has already said that his country would not accept a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Hodeidah, unless the city is under the control of the legitimate government.

The two sides have agreed earlier to exchange some 15,000 prisoners, including a prisoner swap agreement reached at the start of the current peace talks in Sweden.