The UN’s Syria envoy said on Thursday that he will hold talks with Russian officials next week but without the US present after previous plans for a trilateral meeting were “postponed”.
UN peace mediator Staffan de Mistura said his meeting with Russia’s deputy foreign minister Gennady Gatilov is set for Monday in Geneva. “The trilateral meeting is not off the table, it is simply being postponed”, de Mistura told reporters. Asked why US President Donald Trump’s representatives decided to skip the meeting, de Mistura said: “you should ask them, frankly.”