In a note to correspondents issued this morning, the UN spokesperson confirmed that Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura had invited “as many of the parties as possible” to the Geneva Consultations on Syria scheduled to begin on 4 May at UN Headquarters in Geneva and expected to last for an initial period of five to six weeks.
The meetings, the noted added, would serve to facilitate discussion on the “dire situation” in Syria today and provide a forum for all parties to deliver their “candid views on where we stand vis-a-vis implementation of the Geneva Communiqué almost three years since it was adopted.”
According to the UN spokesperson, the Special Envoy and the Deputy Special Envoy, Ramzy Ezzeldine Ramzy, will conduct closed and separate consultations with each party.
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Consultations on resolving the Syrian conflict, organized by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, that will start in Geneva on May 4 and continue for up to six weeks, will be held with no media access, the United Nations said in a statement Friday...
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The talks are not themselves formal peace negotiations, but rather what U.N. officials described as an effort to see whether the will and conditions exist to restart the peace process.
De Mistura will meet separately with each party, including both government and opposition representatives. The Islamic State group and the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra have not been invited to participate.
The U.N. mediated two rounds of peace talks more than a year ago with the goal of brokering a cease-fire and setting into motion a Syrian-led political transition to lead the country out of the crisis.
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