UN Special Envoy for Syria Arrives in Damascus Ahead of Geneva Peace Talks

© REUTERS / Denis BalibouseUN mediator for Syria Staffan de Mistura attends a news conference after a meeting with a delegation of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) during Syria peace talks at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 17, 2016.
UN mediator for Syria Staffan de Mistura attends a news conference after a meeting with a delegation of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) during Syria peace talks at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 17, 2016. - Sputnik International
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UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has arrived in Damascus with a working visit, the Al Mayadeen broadcaster reported on Sunday.

A Kurdish man waves a large flag of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) political wing, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), during a demonstration against the exclusion of Syrian-Kurds from the Geneva talks in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on February 4, 2016 - Sputnik International
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DAMASCUS (Sputnik) – The UN diplomat is expected to hold talks with the Syrian foreign minister and his deputy, the television channel said.

De Mistura said earlier that he planned to visit Damascus and Tehran ahead of the start of a new round of Syrian peace talks.

The Syrian reconciliation talks are expected to kick off on April 11, with the government’s delegation anticipated to come to Geneva on April 14.

Earlier on Sunday, a member of the Russian delegation stated that Syrian government representatives will arrive in Geneva following the Syrian parliamentary elections due to be held on April 13.

The previous round of Syrian talks in Geneva finished on March 24. The round saw all delegations submit their settlement proposals to Syrian Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, who then produced a final paper with points of convergence between the parties.

The peace talks followed a Russian-US-brokered ceasefire deal reached on February 27. On March 14, Putin ordered Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to start withdrawing most of Russia's military contingent from Syria, which had been conducting strikes against terrorist targets since late September.

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