UN Envoy on Syria to Arrive in Tehran Tomorrow
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League Special Representative on Syria, will arrive in Tehran on Sunday for consultations with high-ranking Iranian officials on ways to resolve the Syrian crisis.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Friday that Lakhdar Brahimi will arrive in the Iranian capital on Sunday afternoon.
The UN-Arab League envoy is scheduled to meet with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, and other senior Iranian officials.
Brahimi had on Thursday, March 13 discussed the Syrian crisis with the UN Security Council members behind closed doors.
Despite insistence by the UN, Russia and other international players that Iran must be involved in resolving the crisis in Syria, Iran did not participate in the international Geneva 2 talks on Syria due to the US opposition.
The second round of talks between delegations representing the Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition in Geneva deadlocked in mid-February with both sides sticking to their positions.
The Syrian delegation said fighting terrorism should be the top priority, but the opposition insisted that formation of a transitional government and resignation of President Bashar al-Assad must come first.
Since the turmoil broke out in Syria in 2011, some 130,000 people have reportedly been killed and millions of others displaced due to the crisis.
