Syrian government delegation arrives in Geneva for peace talks

Record ID: 898838

  • Title: Syrian government delegation arrives in Geneva for peace talks
  • Date: 10th July 2017
  • Summary: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (JULY 10, 2017) (REUTERS) **** WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **** UNITED NATIONS BUILDING U.N. BUILDING WHERE TALKS ARE BEING HELD SIGN READING (French and English) "DOOR 13" VARIOUS OF U.N. SPECIAL ENVOY FOR SYRIA, STAFFAN DE MISTURA, WALKING INTO U.N. BUILDING SAYING THEY WILL WORK HARD SYRIAN GOVERNMENT DELEGATION CONVOY ARRIVING TO THE U.N. FOR TALKS SYRIAN DELEGATION HEAD AND SYRIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N., BASHAR AL-JAAFARI, WALKING INTO BUILDING SYRIAN GOVERNMENT DELEGATION WALKING INTO BUILDING
  • Embargoed: 24th July 2017 10:26
  • Keywords: Syria talks Staffan De Mistura al-Jaafari government rebels peace civil war
  • Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
  • City: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Topics: Government/Politics,United Nations
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016P4WBWN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: U.N. special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura and the Syrian government delegation led by Syrian ambassador to the U.N., Bashar al-Jaafari, held their first meeting on Monday (July 10) in Geneva, as a fresh round of U.N.-sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to the six-year war resumed.
    More than 400,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the conflict, and the negotiations seek to bring the warring sides closer through discussion of four "baskets": constitution, governance, terrorism and elections.
    This new session is the seventh of a series of peace talks rounds which have been held in Switzerland for the past two years, with all of the previous ones resulting in scant progress.
    Hours before the start of the talks, however, a U.S. - Russia brokered ceasefire came into effect in southwest Syria, and was still holding, in the first peace-making effort of the war by the U.S. government under President Donald Trump.
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