The UN envoy for Syria is hailing a “useful” meeting with diplomats from the five permanent Security Council members, while calling on the rival sides in the war-torn country to get down to “business.”
Staffan de Mistura speaks to The Associated Press after briefing envoys from world powers about the eighth round of UN-mediated peace talks under his guidance, which begins later Tuesday in Geneva.
He was to meet later today with opposition leaders, and said he expected a delegation from the government of President Bashar Assad to arrive Wednesday.
The meeting included Brett McGurk, the US envoy for the fight against the Islamic State group, and the French Foreign Ministry’s political and security affairs director Nicolas de Riviere.
Russia’s ambassador in Geneva Alexey Borodavkin said Russia appreciated the “opportunity,” but “at the same time, we have some doubts about this kind of format, and do not consider it an established one.”
— AP
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