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New York – Meeting with Russian foreign minister ‘very useful,’ says UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.<\/strong><\/p>\n The United Nations firmly supports the Astana initiative on Syria, UN Special Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura said Thursday.<\/p>\n “We strongly support the initiative of Astana,” De Mistura was quoted as saying by Russia’s official TASS news agency after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The January meeting in Astana saw the three countries agree to a trilateral mechanism for observing and ensuring compliance with a cease-fire which came into effect on Dec. 30. “We need to increase efforts in the political process,” said de Mistura, according to TASS. Lavrov said Russia has tried to help reach an agreement with its Turkish and Iranian counterparts for a cease-fire between the Syrian government and opposition. “But we believe that this project could be considered an incentive for real, genuine negotiations between all Syrians,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York – Meeting with Russian foreign minister ‘very useful,’ says UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura. World Bulletin The United Nations firmly supports the Astana initiative on Syria, UN Special Syria Envoy Staffan de Mistura said Thursday. “We strongly support the initiative of Astana,” De Mistura was quoted as saying by Russia’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[639,213,212],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-astana","tag-syria","tag-un"],"views":772,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}World Bulletin<\/h2>\n
\nKazakhstan’s capital Astana Thursday is hosting another intra-Syrian peace talks with representatives of Russia, Turkey, and Iran, who agreed last month to create a cease-fire monitoring group.<\/p>\n
\nDe Mistura told reporters that his talks with Lavrov were “very useful,” TASS reported.
\nHe also confirmed that a new round of Syria peace talks in Geneva will begin next week, on Feb. 23.<\/p>\n
\nIn opening remarks before the closed-door meeting, Lavrov said Russia supports the efforts to implement UN Security Council Resolution 2254, according to a Russian Foreign Ministry statement.<\/p>\n
\n“We also attempted to stimulate the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2254, promoting a political aspect to the Astana meeting,” Lavrov added.
\nHe said that is why Russia presented a draft Syrian constitution, adding: \u201cOf course, is not mandatory.”<\/p>\n