{"id":28395,"date":"2017-10-04T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T07:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2017\/10\/il-ministro-alfano-incontra-l-inviato_0-2\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T07:30:53","slug":"il-ministro-alfano-incontra-l-inviato_0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2017\/10\/il-ministro-alfano-incontra-l-inviato_0\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Alfano meets UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; display: block;\" alt=\"demistura 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/mae\/resource\/img\/2017\/10\/demistura_1.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Minister, Angelino Alfano, met the UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation where he was briefed on the special envoy\u2019s assessment of the situation in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cItaly welcomes the resumption of talks on the Syrian crisis between the US and Russia\u201d stated Alfano, expressing \u201ccautious optimism\u201d on the Astana agreement. \u201cHowever, Astana is not the place to discuss political or constitutional issues which should be dealt with by the Geneva process\u201d continued Alfano. The Minister praised de Mistura\u2019s efforts to maintain \u201cthe complementary nature of the Geneva negotiations\u201d. \u201cThe marked reduction of violence in Syria is a positive development, but in view of past failures, we can\u2019t assume that the agreement will be implemented. We support any action to reduce the level of violence in Syria on condition that it is not short-lived, and produces lasting results\u201d concluded Alfano.<\/p>\n<p>At the press conference, the Foreign Minister commented on the attacks in Tehran against the Iranian parliament: \u201cWe express our solidarity with the victims of global terrorism that can strike anywhere, with the same blatant disregard for human life\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The Foreign Minister, Angelino Alfano, met the UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation where he was briefed on the special envoy\u2019s assessment of the situation in Syria. \u201cItaly welcomes the resumption of talks on the Syrian crisis between the US and Russia\u201d stated [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,76,26],"class_list":["post-28395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-onu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}