TEHRAN (Iran News) – Sudan’s new Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok, says he believes there is no military solution to the ongoing conflict in Yemen, which has been under Saudi-led aggression since March 2015.

Briefing journalists on his return from Washington, Hamdok told reporters at Khartoum airport on Sunday that there had been no discussions during his visit about withdrawing any troops.

“Regarding Yemen, we said that there is no military solution and there must be a political solution,” he said. Hamdok vowed to withdraw troops from the Saudi-led war in Yemen, saying on Thursday that his country’s role should be limited to assisting in a political resolution of the conflict.

Hamdok, who is leading the country’s transitional government in a power-sharing pact with the military, has also stated that he will be “absolutely” able to withdraw the remaining troops from Yemen.

The new Prime Minister said his government had “inherited” the deployment in Yemen from Sudan’s former president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was ousted following a popular uprising against his rule in April. Sudan has been one of the main contributors to the so-called Saudi coalition against Yemen, but Hamdok said that his country is currently having 5,000 troops operating in the country, down from a peak of 15,000.

While Sudanese officials have abstained from publishing official casualty numbers in Yemen, Yemen’s armed forces have said a total of 4,253 Sudanese troops have been killed in the conflict.

The developments come as the Saudi-led mission in Yemen has come to a standstill due to the resistance and increasingly sophisticated attacks of Yemeni forces.

Earlier this year, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Riyadh’s most influential partner in the war, was reported to have withdrawn most of its troops from Yemen.

Fearing a protracted quagmire in Yemen, Riyadh has also been reportedly seeking to negotiate an end to the conflict through discussions with the Houthis