UN envoy urges speedier Syria talks to avoid seventh year of war
The UN envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura.
(Reuters) Negotiations to end the war in Syria must speed up, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told Reuters on Wednesday, on the sixth anniversary of the start of the conflict.
“There is no way that we should be accepting the fact that the sixth anniversary becomes the seventh,” he said.
“It’s becoming one of the longest and most cruel wars of recent years. That’s why there is a need for an acceleration of any type of negotiations – in Astana, in Geneva, in New York, wherever.”