De Mistura: relations between RF and US contribute to search for settlement of Syrian crisis

The special envoy of the UN Secretary General, Staffan de Mistura, said today at a press briefing in Geneva on Syria that special relations between Russia and the US had a positive impact on the search for ways to resolve the Syrian crisis.

"In my opinion, the special relations that Russia has established with the other co-chair of the International Syria's support group – the United States – greatly contributed to the clarification of some frameworks, which were very helpful to me during the negotiations, as well as to the target group for the cessation of hostilities, the operational (monitoring) and the center of the target group on humanitarian issues,'' Tass cites him as saying.