Geneva, SANA- UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday that he has prepared \u201c a paper of principles\u201d which consists of 12 items to be as \u201c a common ground\u201d among the Syrian sides which participated in the dialogue of Geneva.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cThe paper I have prepared represents my conception as a mediator for the Syrian-Syrian dialogue, it includes guiding principles that help in the next stage, but don\u2019t enter in the details,\u201d de Mistura said at a press conference in Geneva.<\/p>\n
He added \u201cI am satisfied with what has been achieved as we could exceed this round without any problem or rejection from any part,\u201d indicating he will seek to enter in the details in the next round.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will start the next round of talks on the time that we have fixed which couldn\u2019t be postponed after the 9th<\/sup> or 10th<\/sup> of April as the participating delegations can arrive successively,\u201d de Mistura said.<\/p>\n He added \u201cI have a positive impression on all the sides which participated in the dialogue, they were positive and behaved in a great professional way,\u201d affirming \u201cthe delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic has focused on the principles that would lead us to the details while the opposition delegation concentrated on the future of Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n De Mistura pointed out that the demand of the Syrian people is \u201ccessation of violence\u201d, so \u201cpriority is for preserving the cessation of hostilities agreement and the continuation of the humanitarian aid.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMaintaining those two demands after years of war is not possible without a political process which leads to a solution to the crisis,\u201d de Mistura said, affirming that the basis of this solution is international resolution No. 2254.<\/p>\n He affirmed that applying the cessation of hostilities agreement has positively affected the life of the Syrians, calling for keeping work in it as it helps make the Syrian-Syrian dialogue a success.<\/p>\n De Mistura called for keeping push towards the dialogue process, hoping the Russian-US talks in Moscow would offer help in the next stage.<\/p>\n He hoped the Kurds would participate in the Syrian dialogue, saying ” I discussed this issue at the Security Council,” adding “the Kurds are Syrians and I will seek to have them in the dialogue and representation would include all Syrians.”<\/p>\n The paper prepared by de Mistura calls for maintaining Syria\u2019s territorial integrity and sovereignty, rejecting any foreign intervention and rejecting terrorism as well as calling for ensuring suitable conditions for the returning of refugees to homeland.<\/p>\n Mazen<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Geneva, SANA- UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday that he has prepared \u201c a paper of principles\u201d which consists of 12 items to be as \u201c a common ground\u201d among the Syrian sides which participated in the dialogue of Geneva. \u00a0\u201cThe paper I have prepared represents my conception as a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,100,22],"tags":[9255,1494],"class_list":["post-72807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-news","category-slide","tag-de-mistura-prepares-a-paper-of-principles-at-the-end-of-geneva-current-talks","tag-staffan-de-mistura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}