De Mistura Expresses Hope for Drastic Changes in Syria by Year-End
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In an interview with Sputnik correspondent Anastasia Levchenko, UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura expressed hope for drastic changes on the ground in Syria by the end of the year.
Referring to the train of intra-Syrian talks, de Mistura said train has definitely left the station in the sense that the worst-case scenario for Syria could be being forgotten as a crisis and becoming like Somalia was for many years, and that was a problem that looks unresolvable.
Secondly, the train has left the station, because now world leaders are very much focusing together on what are the priorities, along which the Syrian crisis can be deconstructed from its complexity.
That's why a so-called simplification seems to be taking place. In that sense, the priority seems to be among everyone that fighting Daesh and re-conquering, liberating Raqqa and freeing the siege of Deir ez-Zor is an important joint priority.
Commenting on whether he would hold future rounds of talks in august and September, de Mistura said that: "We intend to make sure that this work that we are doing, which is a preparatory work for the right moment, when we can perhaps really say we have now a peace conference in Geneva, will continue both in August and in September, and probably also in October and perhaps, frankly, in November.
Because we hope that by the end of the year we will be having quite a different picture in Syria.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the UN envoy said the Syrian Kurds should not be ignored, and their representatives must be allowed to take part in drafting the country's new constitution.
In six rounds of talks since early 2016, the fractured opposition has never united in one delegation, meaning that de Mistura cannot hold face-to-face talks between the Syrian government and a single, united opposition delegation.
Source: Sputnik, Edited by website team
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