The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer met UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura to discuss the possible impact of the upcoming talks in Astana on bringing peace to Syria.
“Everybody knows that the next important step and crossroads will be in Astana, and I think everybody is eager to see that there is a process ongoing that leads to the ceasefire which holds, and that there is a process in Astana going on which has a strong link to the overall UN efforts to find peace in Syria. We discussed those issues together and I gave [de Mistura] a feedback from my recent trips to the region,” Maurer told Sputnik.
The peace negotiations on Syria will take place on Monday in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari will represent the Syrian government at the talks while the foreign-backed armed opposition groups will be represented by chief negotiator Mohammad Alloush.
On Thursday, the United Nations said in a statement that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had asked de Mistura to head the UN delegation to the Astana talks on the Syrian crisis.
Source: Sputnik
