A meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen will be held in Moscow on Monday (January 21), Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin told journalists on Friday. “A meeting with Mr. Pedersen, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for ...
The United Nations’ new envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, arrived in Damascus on Tuesday on his first trip since being appointed, an AFP correspondent reported. The seasoned Norwegian diplomat, who replaces Staffan de Mistura, is the fourth negotiator to have been appointed UN special envoy to Syria since the war ...
