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Tehran, SANA- Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister for the Arab and African affairs Hussein Amir Abdullahian stressed that any plan, that is characterized with realism, for solving the crisis in Syria should consider the main factors, including the Syrian people and leadership as well as the serious fight of terrorism to be more comprehensive and effective.
Abdullahian voiced, in a meeting with UN Under Secretary General Jan Eliason in Tehran on Monday, Tehran’s support for the political solution presented by UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura to politically resolve the crisis in
Syrian.
Earlier on September, de Mistura, set out to the Council a new approach based on the formation of four thematic working groups to work for holding dialogue among all Syrian parties.
Earlier this month, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Mouallem announced before the UN 70th General Assembly Syria’s agreement to participate in the four brainstorming committees of experts proposed by De
Mistura whose role he said is mainly to exchange ideas and conduct unbinding preliminary consultations whose agreed-upon outputs can be used to prepare for the launching of Geneva 3.
Eliason, for his part, underlined the need for following up political solutions to the regional crises, and called for increased efforts of all sides to help resolve the political crises in Syria and Yemen.
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