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Thursday, January 21, 2016
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
Syria taps UN envoy as chief negotiator for peace talks
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSyria’s UN envoy will be the regime’s chief negotiator in upcoming peace talks, a government source says, as a dispute over the opposition’s representatives threatened to delay the negotiations.
Syria’s UN ambassador, Bashar al-Jaafari, will be the government’s chief negotiator, with Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Moqdad heading the delegation, the source says.
The latest bid to end the Syrian war through indirect talks between the government and opposition is scheduled to begin on January 25 in Geneva. But a disagreement over which parts of the opposition will be present, and who will represent them, is posing new obstacles.
— AFP
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