LONDON: British troops are helping identify targets for a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen and haven’t found any “deliberate” breaches of humanitarian law, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Tuesday.

The British government hasn’t disclosed details of the UK military involvement.

Hammond told lawmakers in the House of Commons that “I can’t tell you whether it is six people, but we do have a military presence in Saudi Arabia and we are working with the Saudi Arabians to ensure the following of correct procedures to avoid breaches of international humanitarian law.”

“That is to ensure that target sets are correctly identified, that processes are correctly followed to ensure that only targets that are legitimate military targets are struck,” Hammond said.

He said there had been “no evidence of deliberate breach of international humanitarian law.”

Meanwhile, a round of United Nations-brokered Yemen peace talks will not begin on Jan. 14 as planned but may take place a week or more later, UN spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told a regular UN briefing in Geneva on Tuesday.

After the December round of talks, UN Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he would bring the two sides together again on Jan. 14, with Switzerland and Ethiopia both mentioned as possible locations.

But a meeting this week is no longer on the table.

“He is looking at a date after Jan 20,” Fawzi said. “It’s taking him some time to get the parties to agree on a location.”

“He wants to go for a location in the region. So his first option is to find a location acceptable to all parties in the region, but he has Switzerland of course in the back of his mind as an option.”