Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Geneva, SANA- ” Today we engaged in talks with the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffande Mistura, during this round of talks we discussed the format of the upcoming meetings and by this I mean that throughout our meeting we discussed issues pertaining to the format of the talks exclusively,” Head of the Syrian Arab Republic delegation to the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari said.
In a press statement following his meeting with de Mistura on Friday, al-Jaafari added: ” At the end of the meeting de Mistura handed us a paper and we agreed to examine and study this paper and we shall get back to him in our next meeting as we shall inform him accordingly of our position on the contents of this paper ,”
Al-Jaafari said: ” The details of the next meeting shall be agreed upon with the diplomatic channels in cooperation with the office of de Mistura.”
On Thursday, the opening session of the 4th round of the intra-Syrian dialogue was held at the UN HQ with the participation of the delegations of the Syrian Arab republic, al-Riyadh opposition group and other opposition groups.
SANA delegate to Geneva said that the meetings between the Syrian Arab Republic delegation and the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura are continuous. Next meeting shall be agreed upon with the diplomatic channels.
Sources in the UN stressed that the delegations of oppositions failed to reach an agreement among them so far and clearly the talks in the fourth round of the Syrian-Syrian dialogue in Geneva will be indirect.
Earlier, delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic headed by Bashar al-Jaafari held a session of talks with the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura at the UN headquarters in Geneva in the framework of the 4th round of the Syrian- Syrian dialogue held in the Swiss city.
De Mistura said during the opening session that the effort launched in in Geneva is an opportunity to put the political solution for the crisis in Syria on track, affirming that there should not be any preconditions for the talks.
The previous round of Geneva talks ended on the 27th of April, 2016.
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