The new UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, is awaiting a task to end multiple coups suffered by the legitimacy in Yemen, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman said.

In a statement posted today on Facebook, Karman pointed out that Yemen is facing three different coups, namely an Iranian-sponsored Houthi coup and two others sponsored by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. 

Any efforts by the new envoy to Yemen should be first focused on ending these multiple coups, otherwise nothing would change and he will fail just like his predecessors did, she emphasized.

The United Nations announced on Monday the appointment of Martin Griffiths, a UN envoy to Yemen, to succeed former envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, whose contract will finish at the end of next February.

Ould Cheikh Ahmed was appointed as an international envoy on April 25, 2015, replacing Gamal Benemar, who resigned following the failure of efforts to end the conflict in Yemen.