AhlulBayt News Agency - Syrian Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem announced in a press conference on Saturday that the Syrian Arab Republic delegation received a letter from the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura scheduling Monday as a date for meeting at the UN HQ in Geneva within the Syrian-Syrian dialogue.
“Meeting with our delegation at first is a good thing,” he said.
“We are looking forward to having dialogue with the broadest spectrum of opposition groups in implementation of de Mistura’s mandate by the UN Security Council and the two Vienna communiques, particularly the national opposition that is not linked to any foreign agendas,” al-Moallem added.
He commented on the UN Envoy’s recent statements, saying “de Mistura doesn’t have the right to talk about presidential elections as this issue is an exclusive right of the Syrian people,” dismissing what the envoy said as “a deviation from all the UN documents, and we do not accept that de Mistura would give up objectivity to please this or that party.”
As for the upcoming parliamentary elections, al-Moallem said fulfilling the elections is part of the constitution, stressing that this issue should be respected where no reservations can be accepted by anyone, calling for a high turnout of Syrian voters.
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