MOSCOW. Nov 29 (Interfax) - UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura says it is unfortunate that parties to the Syria talks in Astana failed to speed up the formation of the Syrian constitutional committee.
"Special Envoy de Mistura deeply regrets that at a special meeting in Astana with the three Sochi co-conveners, there was no tangible progress in overcoming the ten-month stalemate on the composition of the constitutional committee," de Mistura said in his statement.
"This was the last occasion of an Astana meeting in 2018 and has, sadly for the Syrian people, been a missed opportunity to accelerate the establishment of a credible, balanced and inclusive, Syrian-owned, Syrian-led, UN-facilitated constitutional committee," he said.