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The British delegation to the UN is presenting a resolution aimed at implementing a ceasefire in Yemen's civil war, it emerged on Friday. The British delegation to the UN is presenting a draft resolution aimed at implementing a ceasefire in Yemen's civil war following the bombing of a funeral which killed 140 mourners last week. 
The conflict between the exiled government and Houthi rebels - complicated by Saudi Arabian and Iranian military support respectively - has claimed over 10,000 lives since violence broke out in March 2015.  "We have decided to put forward a draft Security Council resolution on Yemen calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a resumption of the political process," British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told reporters in New York on Friday. 
The conflict between the exiled government and Shiite Houthi rebels - complicated by Saudi Arabian and Iranian military support respectively - has claimed over 10,000 lives since full scale violence broke out in March 2015. More than 6,000 are believed to have died in Saudi-led coalition air strikes on the capital Sanaa. 
Several Western governments have come under renewed pressure to stop billions of pounds' worth of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, the exiled internationally recognised government's main ally. 
Saudi Arabia has launched an investigation into the strike that hit a funeral hall on Saturday, but has denied culpability for the attack. 
The motion for an internationally agreed ceasefire comes amid military action in the civil war this week which saw the US fire retaliatory strikes at Houthi rebel territory after Houthi rockets failed to hit a US ship off the country's coast. Iran sent two of its own warships to the Gulf of Aden, sparking fears of a regional escalation. 
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