Jordan agrees to host a U.N. sponsored Yemen meeting on prisoner swap

Jordan agreed on Tuesday to a U.N. request to host a meeting between the Yemeni government and the Houthi group to discuss a prisoner swap deal that would allow thousands of families to be reunited, a Foreign Ministry statement said.

The statement did not say when the meeting of a follow-up committee set up to discuss implementing the deal would convene.

(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Alison Williams)