Yemen said on Saturday that it has handed over a timetable to the Shiite Houthi rebels in the north to implement its six conditions for a ceasefire to end their months-long conflict, military-run 26sep.net website reported.
  
"The higher security committee has prepared a timetable to implement the six points, and this timetable envisages the formation of five committees. This document was handed over to ( rebel leader Abdel Malik) al-Houthi via a mediator," presidential adviser Abdul Karim al-Ariani told a press conference in Sanaa, Xinhua reported.
  
"If he signs the document and approves its mechanism, the war will stop immediately," Ariani added.
   
The Yemeni government has always insisted that the army offensive against the Houthi rebels' hideouts should never stop until the rebels commit to five conditions.
  
The five conditions include full withdrawal of rebel forces from all districts they occupied and removal of all road blocks, coming down from their hideouts at the mountains, returning of all military and public equipment seized during battles, releasing of detained military personnel and kidnapped civilians and abiding by the Yemeni constitution and law.
  
Later, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh added a new condition, calling on the rebels to stop infiltrating into neighboring Saudi Arabia.
  
According to the report, the five committees will comprise members from the Assembly of Representatives and Shura Council as well as representatives from the Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia.
  
Four committees of the five will monitor the implementation of the government's terms in the northern regions of Sufyan, Saada and Malaheez as well as along the borders with Yemen. The remaining committee will focus on recovering weapons and regaining control over sites seized by the rebels during the conflicts.
  
A week ago, leader of the Yemeni rebels said they are ready to accept the government conditions after it stops fighting against them.
  
In an audio record of al-Houthi posted on the Internet, he reiterated acceptance of the conditions termed by the government after "the aggression ends."
  
The Yemeni army launched an all-out offensive, dubbed " Operation Scorched Earth", on Aug. 11 against Houthi rebels who Sanaa says seek to re-establish the clerical rule overthrown by the 1962 Yemeni revolution that yielded the republic.
  
The latest conflict between Yemeni government troops and the Houthi rebels in the northern province of Saada is the sixth of its kind since 2004.