The United Nations’ peace envoy for Syria will attend talks next week convened by Iran, Russia and Turkey on shoring up a ceasefire in Syria, the UN spokesman said Thursday.
Staffan de Mistura will lead the UN delegation to the meetings in the Kazakh capital of Astana that are due to begin on Monday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked De Mistura to attend “in light of the complexity and importance of the issues likely to be raised in Astana, and of the senior level at which the conveners of the meeting will be represented,” said spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
Guterres “is looking forward to the Astana meeting being a positive step, ahead of the resumption of intra-Syria negotiations in Geneva,” he added.
UN-brokered peace talks on Syria are due to resume in Geneva on February 8.
Source: AFP
