Mogherini, de Mistura discuss latest developments in Syria

BRUSSELS, Sept 15 (KUNA) -- European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini met in Brussels Friday evening with the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura and discussed the latest developments in the Syria crisis .
According to statement released by Mogheriniآ’s office Saturday, they discussed the upcoming high-level meeting on Syria which the EU will host in the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on 26 September.
The two sides focussed on the situation in Idlib and Northern Syria, the ongoing work to support the Syrian people there and the imperative of preventing a full-scale military offensive and the humanitarian catastrophe that would ensue.
Mogherini and the Special Envoy exchanged views about their outreach to the Astana guarantors, whom they call on to preserve the de-escalation zone in Idlib, it said.
They also discussed the preparations in Geneva for the creation of a constitutional committee in order to restart the process for a political transition in Syria and the ways in which the European Union can support this process, including efforts to get the parties to the conflict back to the negotiation table.
Mogherini reiterated the long-standing EU position on reconstruction: the European Union will be ready to assist in the reconstruction of Syria only when a comprehensive, genuine and inclusive political transition on the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 2254 (2015) and the 2012 Geneva Communiquأ©, is firmly under way. (end) nk.rk