The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin and UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen held an in-depth discussion on the tasks of advancing the political process to resolve the crisis in Syria.
Vershinin and Pedersen “held in-depth discussions on the tasks of advancing the political process, led and implemented by the Syrians with UN assistance, as stipulated by UN Security Council Resolution 2254,” TASS news agency quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying in a statement.
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“They focused attention on the issues of resuming the meetings of the Committee of Discussing the Constitution in Geneva and continuing direct intra-Syrian dialogue without any foreign interference,” the statement added.
Iranian Foreign Minister, Hussein Amir Abdollahian, also met with Pedersen in New York.
He condemned the coercive, unilateral measures imposed on Syria, calling on the United Nations to play a more active role to remove those sanctions.
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