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‘Stress test’ for Syria peace: UN envoy
View(s):UNITED NATIONS, United States, April 25 (AFP) -The United Nations envoy to war-torn Syria said that he will know by the end of June if there is any appetite among the opposing sides to find a peaceful way out of the conflict.
During closed discussions with the 15-member UN Security Council, Staffan de Mistura acknowledged that the “odds and conditions for launching a political transition are no better now than six months ago,” diplomats at the briefing said.
The Damascus regime and opposition forces are not showing “much new willingness to negotiate” in the four-year war that has left 220,000 people dead, de Mistura said, according to diplomats.