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Syria welcomes appointment of Staffan de Mistura as UN special envoy

AMMAN, July 23 (KUNA) -- Syria welcomed Wednesday the appointment of Staffan de Mistura as a special envoy for the United Nations to Syria.
It expressed hope that de Mistura's policy would be based on objectivity, impartiality, rules of international law and principles of the United Nations as well as the respect for national sovereignty and not to interference in the internal affairs of other states, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a letter to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
UN Secretary-General appointed de Mistura as a UN envoy to Syria on July 10, succeeding Lakhdar Brahimi, who resigned last May. (end) ta.ss