Saudi king says setting up centre to coordinate Yemen humanitarian work

"We hope that the United Nations will participate effectively with what this centre will shoulder, including coordinating all humanitarian and relief works for the Yemeni people with the participation of the countries that are supporting the Gulf initiative," he said in a speech at the start of a summit of Arab heads of state in Riyadh carried live by the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya channel.

(Reporting by Ahmed Tolba in Cairo, writing by Sami Aboudi, Editing by William Maclean and Andrew Heavens)