UN Syria Envoy: All Should Work to Attain Peaceful Solution to Crisis in Syria

TEHRAN-The United Nations Envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said on Saturday that all parties are demanded to work extensively to attain a peaceful solution to the crisis in Syria.

In a news conference in Tehran, Brahimi said that Iran should be invited to peace talks in Geneva.

“We believe that the participation of Iran in the Geneva conference is natural and necessary as well as fruitful, so we are hopeful that this invitation is made,” Brahimi said, according to Press TV.

Lavrov, Brahimi agree to continue work on convocation of Geneva-2 conference

In the same context, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Brahimi have agreed to continue their joint work on the convocation of the Geneva-2 conference, including their efforts on that score at the consultations in Geneva on November 5th in the Russia–US–UN format. Lavrov and Brahimi have held a telephone talk today, Russia’s Foreign Minister said.

Lakhdar Brahimi briefed the Russian Foreign Minister on his tour of a number of Middle East countries and his contacts involving the preparations for the international Geneva-2 conference on Syria.

Lavrov stressed the necessity of continued efforts of Brahimi in the formation of a single representative delegation of the Syrian “opposition” for talks with the government as well as the necessity to ensure the participation of the key regional states in this conference.

H. Mustafa