UN special envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, cautions that the country's caretaker administration must proceed cautiously to secure a smooth lifting of sanctions. He highlights the need for a credible process leading to a new transitional government that includes all segments of Syrian society.
The UN’s special envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, meets the country’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Damascus in December.The UN’s special envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, meets the country’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Damascus in December.
Treading carefully so as not to damage links with a government of contradictions and factions, Pedersen said many Syrians had received signals of inclusiveness but that there were concerns about a lack of transparency. He expressed no criticism of Sharaa for setting out a four-year timetable for national elections – more than two years longer than set out in UN resolution 2254 – accepting that a resolution passed in 2015 could no longer be implemented literally because it was predicated on a reconciliation between the opposition and the previous regime of Bashir al-Assad. “There is a need for a new approach and a new mode of thinking,” he said.
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