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UN envoy calls for new international talks on Syrian war June 25, 2021 at 6:22 pm A man walks through a heavily damaged hospital in the city of Afrin, Syria, Sunday, June 13, 2021. Shells have hit the hosptal Saturday, killing at least 13 people, including two medical staff and two ambulance drivers. It was not immediately clear who was behind the shelling, which came from areas where government troops and Kurdish-led fighters are deployed. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) With no progress toward ending the 10-year Syrian conflict, the U.N. special envoy for Syria called Friday for new international talks on concrete steps like exchanging prisoners and a nationwide cease-fire that the government and opposition could agree on as initial steps to give impetus to a political solution.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) With no progress toward ending the 10-year Syrian conflict, the U.N. special envoy for Syria called Friday for new international talks on concrete steps like exchanging prisoners and a nationwide cease-fire that the government and opposition could agree on as initial steps to give impetus to a political solution.
With no progress toward ending the 10-year Syrian conflict, the U.N. special envoy for Syria called Friday for new international talks on concrete steps like exchanging prisoners and a nationwide cease-fire that the government and opposition could agree on as initial steps to give impetus to a political solution.
But he said he senses that all key players are interested in deepening talks on a way ahead, which is why “we need a new constructive international dialogue on Syria.”
Pedersen said he has been in regular contact with senior officials from Russia, a close Syria ally, and the United States, which supports the opposition, before and since this month’s meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden,. He said he has also been in regular contact with many countries on the 15-member Security Council and key states in the region.
Pedersen said he will go to Rome to talk with foreign ministers at a meeting on Syria convened by Italy and the United States and soon after that, he will head to Moscow. He also plans to consult Turkey and Iran the guarantor states along with Russia in the so-called “Astana process” aimed at ending fighting in Syria ahead of an Astana group meeting in Kazakhstan’s capital in early July.