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Both parties affirmed their support for the Personal Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General, Staffan de Mistura, and his efforts to advance the political process based on the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council.

The resumption comes days before a meeting of the Security Council, which will hold consultations behind closed doors to hear briefings from the United Nations Special Envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, and the president of Minurso.

Pedersen, who replaces Staffan de Mistura, is the fourth negotiator to have been appointed UN special envoy to Syria since the civil war broke out in 2011.

A Vienna venue for the indirect talks between the Syrian government and the opposition would be a first under the mediation of U.N. special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.

Before Jaafri’s remarks, the outgoing UN envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, briefed the Security Council session on the outcome of the Geneva talks two days earlier, which were attended by top diplomats of Iran, Russia and Turkey.

Pedersen will replace outgoing representative Staffan de Mistura, who spent four years in the role.

Speaking to Russian News Agency of Sputnik, Gatilov said that the new consultations between Russia, Iran and Turkey and UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura are still underway.

The UN envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura says one way or another there needs to be a political end to the war "or we will see this war reach new levels of horrors".

The UN peace envoy for Syria Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura will host senior officials from a range of Western and Middle-Eastern countries next month for talks on drafting a new Syrian constitution, the UN said Tuesday.

In 1987, she was discovered by director Staffan Hildebrand and starred in the film Ingen kan älska som vi ("Nobody can love like us").