Moscow Urges Global Support for Peace Conference in Sochi

Date: 31 January 2018 - 21:53

News ID: ۴۹۵۶۳

MOSCOW (Dispatches) – Russia calls on the international community to offer all possible assistance to the Syrian National Dialogue Congress – a peace conference in Moscow, local media reported Wednesday.
"Syrians still have a long and difficult way to go, because most complicated tasks are yet to be solved. The international community need(s) to provide all possible support to those efforts," TASS news agency quoted Alexander Lavrentyev, the Russian presidential envoy for Syrian settlement, as saying.
The Syrian talks began Monday in the Russian city of Sochi. Around 1,600 figures were invited by Moscow as part of the Russian efforts to advance a political solution to end Syria's seven-year war.
Lavrentyev also said the Sochi event as well as its outcomes will give impetus to the Geneva platform, and Russia is ready to further provide all possible
Meanwhile, the UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, was upbeat about the outcome of the intra-Syria talks in Sochi, hailing an agreement on the formation of a committee to be tasked to draft a new constitution for the war-torn country.
In the final declaration of the Sochi talks, the participants agreed on the formation of a constitutional committee composed of representatives of the Syrian government, the opposition and independents for the drafting of a constitution in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 2254, de Mistura told reporters at UN Headquarters in New York via video conference.
He emphasized that the achievement at Sochi will be a contribution to the UN-led Geneva process for Syria.

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura (C) delivers a speech at the end of a plenary session at the Syrian Congress of National Dialog, in the Russian resort city of Sochi, on January 30, 2018.