A new round of talks will be convened in early September to end the war that has ravaged Syria since 2011, the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura told a press conference Friday.
U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Wednesday he did not expect an immediate breakthrough when Syria peace talks restart on Thursday but wanted productive talks that relaunch the process towards a political solution to end the six-year war.
The battles' heat is scorching Syria's northern city of Aleppo with the prospects so dim as a result of the widening gap between the conflicting parties as well as the ideas for defusing the tension.
UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, is arriving Sunday in the capital Damascus for a brief meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem.
The United Nations(UN) Special Envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura said Thursday that high-level talks between officials from the United States and Russia working to implement a ceasefire in Syria are ongoing and likely to last until Saturday.
The United Nations' Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said Thursday night he was informed that Russia was ready to support his proposal of a 48-hour ceasefire in order to provide humanitarian assistance to the Syrian city of Aleppo.
Syrian peace talks aiming to broker an end to the five-year conflict will not resume in the next two to three weeks, United Nations(UN) Special Envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura's office announced in a statement Thursday.
As the latest round of talks seeking to broker a political end to the Syrian crisis concludes, UN mediator Staffan de Mistura hoped that a paper outlining 12 points of commonality between warring factions would form the basis for substantive negotiations in April.
Syrian opposition delegate Bassma Kodmani stressed on Thursday the High Negotiations Committee's (HNC) wish to move quickly with ongoing talks so as to find a solution to the Syrian crisis within a six month timeframe.
UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said Monday that the intra-Syrian talks aim to reach a "clear roadmap" for the five-year-old crisis.
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said Wednesday that Syria talks scheduled to start today will take place on a staggered basis, with people involved in UN-backed discussions arriving up until the end of the week so as to start substantive talks by March 14.
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura told press on Monday that intra-Syrian talks initially planned to start on Monday have been delayed until Jan. 29.
United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on Monday said he regretted the Syrian National Coalition's (SNC) decision to pull out of proposed talks between warring factions, adding he hoped their stance may yet evolve.
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Monday condemned Sunday's air raids on a market place in Douma, located northeast of Damascus.
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