CCTV9英语新闻：Peace talks overshadowed by truce violations

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura says this latest round of peace talks has been overshadowed by violations of the ceasefire. He added that the parties involved cannot ignore one bloodshed after another.

 

He said, "This round, this round of talks have instead been overshadowed, let's be frank, by a substantial and indeed worrisome deterioration of the cessation of hostilities.

 

We cannot ignore that and we have not ignored it and I have mentioned it to the (United Nations) Security Council. We cannot ignore the fact that during these talks we have been having incidents, one after the other.

 

In the last 48 hours, we have had an average of one Syrian killed every 25 minutes, one Syrian wounded every 13 minutes."

 

UN envoy: We didn't get into specific names in talks

 

De Mistura spoke to reporters in Geneva after briefing the Security Council at the end of a two-week round of talks. He said the Syrian ceasefire was on the brink of collapse but can still be salvaged.

 

When asked whether President Bashar al-Assad's role had been raised in the talks, the envoy said they did not get into names of people or their positions in specific. De Mistura stated that the concept of a political transition with a new constitution has already been a lot for the talks.