Five gulf states and Egypt on Friday called for a Security Council meeting on the 3-week-old civil war in Yemen.
Diplomats said the council would hold closed-door consultations on the request Tuesday. Monday is a U.N. holiday.The meeting was requested by Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Egypt.
Qatar was the only member of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council not to sign the letter to the council president, which asked simply for a meeting "to discuss the situation in Yemen."
A proposed resolution was also circulated informally among Security Council members calling on all parties to the conflict to agree to an immediate cease-fire and the resumption of a political dialogue.
It would also call for an immediate halt to any further shipment of arms or other material that would contribute to continuation of the conflict, which broke out May 4 after nearly a year of feuding between President Ali Abdullah Saleh and southern strongman Ali Salem al-Baidh. The two leaders merged North and South Yemen into a single state in 1990.
The resolution would ask Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to send a fact-finding mission as soon as practicable to assess prospects for a renewed dialogue.