The UN had to suspend humanitarian mission temporarily in Syria, which was to be held as a part of the ceasefire agreement in the cities of Az Zabadani, Madaye, Foix and Kefrayya. …
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The General Coordinator of the Syrian National Coordination Committee, Hassan Abdel Azim, said that the threat of ISIS spreading throughout Syrian territory is intensifying Russian-US cooperation, despite the aggravation of the …
The General Coordinator of the National Coordination Committee of Syria, Hassan Abdel Azim, has called for the need to expedite the convening of the Geneva 3 conference. …
Randa Kassis, president and founder of the Movement of the Pluralistic Society, said today that the Syrian opposition will gather for another round of talks in Astana in mid-September. She said the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, will be invited to the talks, RIA Novosti reports. Syrian opposition groups held talks in Astana on May 25-27, concluding it with a document urging all foreign militants to leave the country. The document emphasized the need to form a united front to combat terrorism. Six participants refused to sign the document.
According to Jesse Shaheen, a spokeswoman for the UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said meetings of the envoy with the National Coalition of the Syrian Opposition and Revolutionary Forces are to take place in early June in Istanbul.
The Russian Permanent Representative to the UN, Alexey Borodavkin, said that he will meet with the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, in Geneva on May 14, Gazeta.ru reports.
According to the results of a closed meeting of the UN Security Council, the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General, Staffan de Mistura, is going to invite Iran to hold consultations on Syria in Geneva, beginning in early May.
"It is important that all those who have an influence on the conflict in Syria be included in discussions. As to the exact list of those who will be invited to this new effort, it has not yet been decided," TASS cited the official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric.
UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said in an interview with the Independent daily that the global community should listen more closely to Russia on the crisis in Syria, if it wants to end the conflict.
Spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich said that the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, and his deputy, Ramzi Izz-Eddin, might attend the second round of inter-Syrian talks in Moscow on April 6-9, TASS reports.The meeting will stimulate the inter-Syrian dialogue based on the Geneva Communique of June 30, 2012. Lukashevich noted that the second round would be more substantial.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that the crisis in Syria can only be ended at the negotiating table, even if it requires the participation of President Bashar al-Assad."The way to end the violence will only be achieved through negotiations for a political solution. Even though this will require negotiations with the Assad regime," TASS cited him as saying.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and heads of major agencies and worldwide organizations have invited internet users to take part in a new campaign on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the bloody conflict in Syria. The campaign, called 'What Does It Take?', takes place on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that the international community and the UN Security Council had not set out a clear strategy regarding the Syrian crisis. Commenting on the question of possible further steps if the initiative of U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on the local freeze in Aleppo will fail, he said that there is no backup plan.