The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths has left Sana’a International Airport on Monday, evening after a two-day visit, during which he met with President of the Supreme Political Council Chairman Mehdi Al-Mashat and other officials of the National Salvation Government.

However, he has not met with Leader of the Revolution Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, contrary to the usual practice.

Several media outlets quoted “informed sources”, saying that “the UN envoy left Sana’a after the meeting for several reasons, including the refusal of SayyId Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi to meet him.”

According to media reports, the sources attributed Griffiths’ departure, as well as Sayyid Al-Houthi’s refusal to meet him, to “fallacies he [Griffiths] mentioned in his recent briefing to the Security Council.”

One of the most notable shortcomings in the UN envoy’s brief on the Security Council is his claim that “coalition airstrikes have decreased by 80% in the last two weeks and stopped in the last 48 hours” last Friday.

“The UN envoy’s claim in his briefing to the Security Council about the airstrikes of aggression were untrue. [The invading coalition] has launched 12 airstrikes in the past 48 hours,” Brigadier Genersl Yahya Sare’e, spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces said