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TEHRAN, Feb 12 -United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has stressed the need for a “new beginning” in the Arab country, which has been facing nearly eight years of foreign-sponsored militancy, adding that a focus on the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group is still required.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - “We need to see a new beginning inside of Syria. We need to build trust between the different communities and to make sure that we move forward in parallel with the political process,” Pedersen said at a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Berlin on Tuesday.
He added, “We need still also to focus on the Daesh, and the fact that the Daesh is dramatically weakened but perhaps not completely defeated.”
The Norwegian diplomat, who took over from Staffan de Mistura in January, also pointed to “Israeli bombardments of the Syrian territory” as something which needed to be “sorted out.”
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