Representatives from Yemen's exiled government, the Houthi fighters, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh's General Peoples' Congress and other opposition groups are expected to attend the talks in Switzerland, which began on Monday morning.
But the Houthi delegation missed the first day of talks after they were stranded at Djibouti airport without clearance to take off.
Stephane Dujarric, a UN spokesperson, said the Houthi delegation would arrive on Tuesday morning in a UN-chartered plane.
Zif al-Shami, the leader of the delegation, said Egypt, which is part of the anti-Houthi Arab coalition, blocked the plane's journey, an accusation the Egyptians denied.
Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, attended the opening session of the talks, posing for photographs with a number of representatives of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
He called on all sides to implement a new "humanitarian pause" at the start of Ramadan later this week.
"The region simply cannot sustain another open wound like Syria and Libya," he said....
[Al Jazeera and agencies]
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