{"id":94751,"date":"2016-11-29T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=94751"},"modified":"2016-11-29T18:02:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:02:16","slug":"de-mistura-welcomes-trumps-statements-on-the-need-to-focus-on-fighting-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=94751","title":{"rendered":"De Mistura welcomes Trump&#8217;s statements on the need to focus on fighting ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, SANA \u2013 UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura welcomed the position of US President-elect Donald Trump which emphasizes focusing on fighting ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement at the European Parliament on Tuesday, de Mistura referred to Trump&#8217;s statements which he made on several occasions and which emphasized the need to focus on fighting ISIS, saying that he believes that no-one will object to this.<\/p>\n<p>De Mistura likened ISIS to the Ebola virus, stressing the need to fight ISIS in cooperation with Russia because it poses a threat to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the developments in Aleppo, the Envoy said that he believes that while everyone will keep talking about a political solution, there&#8217;s a clear acceleration in the direction of achieving a result on the military level in Aleppo, but he claimed that Russia should be wary about what he called &#8220;a victory at a high price.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also said that Syrian sides must hold dialogue if they want to achieve a sustainable victory over ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, SANA \u2013 UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura welcomed the position of US President-elect Donald Trump which emphasizes focusing on fighting ISIS. In a statement at the European Parliament on Tuesday, de Mistura referred to Trump&#8217;s statements which he made on several occasions and which emphasized the need to focus on fighting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[3896,11796,723,1494,8628,789,2338],"class_list":["post-94751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","tag-aleppo","tag-donald-trump","tag-isis","tag-staffan-de-mistura","tag-un-special-envoy-for-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94751"}],"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=94751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}