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Wednesday 02 Mar 2016 - 11:24 Makkah mean time-22-5-1437
UN envoy for Syria de Mistura (AFP photo)
Geneva (IINA) – UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on Tuesday announced that intra-Syrian peace talks he has been mediating in Geneva will resume on March 9.
While 7 March had initially been set as the target date, the special envoy will now resume the talks two days later, allowing “adequate time to address logistical and practical matters”, according to a statement from de Mistura's Office.
The UN envoy had been mediating the Geneva-based talks, which officially kicked off last month. But on February 3, he called for a pause following differences between government and opposition delegations on the priority of humanitarian issues.
The announcement of the resumption of the intra-Syrian talks comes just days after the UN Security Council unanimously endorsed the joint statement announced last week by UN Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, as co-chairs of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) Ceasefire Taskforce, on the terms of a nationwide cessation of hostilities, which has been in effect since Saturday.
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