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Geneva, SANA- Russia is ready to continue the inter-Syrian consultations in Moscow if necessary along with the UN procedures in Geneva to find out a solution to the crisis in Syria, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva Alexey Borodavkin said Monday.
“If it is necessary, Russia is ready to continue the Moscow consultation process between representatives of the Syrian Government and opposition simultaneously with what is happening in the United Nations,These two processes will complete each other,” Alexey Borodavkin told RIA Novosti.
Moscow hosted two rounds of inter-Syrian talks in January and April 2015, with the two sides-the government delegation and opposition figures- approving Moscow Principles guidelines in the first, and a unified paper assessing the status quo in Syria item of a Russian-proposed schedule in the second.
We hope that the two rounds of Moscow consultations between representatives of the Syrian Government and opposition has contributed to finally launching the train of the political settlement of the crisis in Syria, Borodavkin said, asserting that the start of consultations on a settlement in Geneva indicates that the train is running fast and we hope they would lead to Geneva 3.
Geneva hosted two rounds of talks on the crisis in Syria, the first was held without the participation of the Syrian sides and came out with Geneva Communiqué of June 30, 2012, while the second round, however, was turned into a kind of a media show by the Western countries, who practiced a guardianship role on the delegation of the opposition then, which led to the talks ending with no results.
He pointed out that Russia intends to hold consultations with the UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura on May 14 on the implementation of Geneva 1 Communique.
Moscow’s stance towards the upcoming consultations will be based on what has been reached during the two inter-Syrian meetings held in Moscow and of course on Geneva Communique of June 30 2012, and the UN Security Council’s relevant resolutions, the Russian Ambassador explained.
Earlier Monday, UN Spokesperson Ahmad Fawzi said that de Mistura will hold on Tuesday in Geneva closed-door, separate in-depth consultations with each of the parties on the crisis in Syria.
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