Syria opposition cancels UN envoy meet

  03 February 2016    Read: 665
Syria opposition cancels UN envoy meet
The main Syria opposition coalition, the so-called High Negotiations Committee (HNC), says it will not attend a planned meeting with the United Nations special envoy for Syria.
"There is no meeting with (Staffan) de Mistura," planned for Tuesday afternoon, HNC member Farah Atassi told reporters outside of the UN headquarters in the Swiss city of Geneva, where the Syria peace talks are going on.

"We presented the demands that we wanted to demand. At this moment, there is no reason to repeat ourselves with de Mistura," she added.

The gathering was to be the opposition delegation`s second meeting with the Swedish-Italian diplomat as part of the UN-brokered peace Geneva negotiations aimed at finding a political solution to the conflict in Syria.

United Nations spokeswoman Khawla Mattar also confirmed that there would be "no other meetings today" in Geneva with de Mistura.

Earlier in the day, the UN envoy held talks with the Damascus government delegation. The meeting came one day after de Mistura announced the beginning of peace talks proper in the Swiss city of Geneva.

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