turkey just get us right up to date with what he was saying where is where is syria right now for mr de mistura. well in a position where mr de mistura i think cannot be happy with where he is right now as he is about to leave his job in his speech to the security council he revealed that november will be his last month he said for purely personal reasons this is an extremely experienced u.n. diplomat but he has a young family and a young child and he's been doing this job for four years of very frustrating job for the special envoy taking over from two previous special envoys one of them a former secretary general and he really hasn't made a great deal of progress the current efforts as his geneva talks in many ways in recent years have been user by efforts led by the russians in a stana is to try and form a constitutional committee for syria right now that's going to have three parts a government side an opposition side and a civil society component now it's that civil society component that is controversial mr de mistura making it clear when he talks about the security council that it's main

syria special envoy stefan de mistura his efforts for most of this year have been narrowed to focus on getting a committee together to draw up a new constitution for syria mr de mistura travel to damascus in recent days because the syrian government has been repeatedly objecting to names on the list for the committee but when he met syrian deputy prime minister walid muallem things went backwards even further with the syrians now even questioning mr de mistura as of thirty to draw up the list we do have a theater challenge that. it is like danger to nowhere for your growth challenge for the coming week that caused from some council members directed not just to the syrian government but also to its russian ally and even russia has given the un and this council assurances it has proved too weak to deliver or it was all the cynical smic screen designed to dying ferret attention and energy while russia syria and iran prosecuted the military campaign western nations are hoping that the istanbul summit pressure can be put on president putin to force the syrian government to reengage with the united nations they want the constitutional committee to be formed befo

a military solution to syria james i think of names like kofi annan the regime which preceded mr de mistura any ideas about who may follow him because clearly the job's not finished. the job's not finished mr de mistura hasn't finished he's going to damascus in the next week he's still trying to get a constitutional committee together the syrian government dragging its feet it's not clear why they would now not drag their feet given that he's already said he's leaving the job he may well have lost a bit of leverage in his last month in the job names are being mentioned for the job i've had my ear to the ground i've heard that mr de mistura might be leaving for some months nicol i'm glad enough who's the un's man on the middle east peace process based in jerusalem young qubit shoes the u.n. special represented in iraq he's also been mentioned as a ram tain lumber he's a former foreign minister of algeria and the last name i heard in the mix is a veteran norwegian diplomat who also served as a former u.n. representative in the past and that's gary pettus and he's currently the norwegian ambas

i would myself be moving on as of the last week of november mr de mistura tried everything from local truces to meetings of key international players in twenty sixteen he managed to get syrian government representatives to geneva to meet with a delegation that for the first time represented many of the opposition elements including key fighting groups this promising opportunity stopped in its tracks by military action during the talks by syria and its russian ally therefore taken deficient to bring them bertie for them voted for did it not there and if not the fate of the haven't they basically formed your top. i am not referring to all military activities. it was russian air power and the iranian forces on the ground that changed the balance of power the russians then began to pushing talks first in a starter then in sochi thank you very much as a rival to mr de mistura as geneva process in over four years at press conferences and in interviews they seem to one thing that was your mantra there is no military solution and yet in that time we've seen starvation used as a weapon we've s

syria special envoy stefan de mistura as efforts for most of this year have been narrowed to focus on getting a committee together to draw up a new constitution for syria mr de mistura travel to damascus in recent days because the syrian government has been repeatedly objecting to names on the list for the committee but when he met syrian deputy prime minister walid muallem things went backwards even further with the syrians now even questioning mr de mistura as of thirty to draw up the list we do have a theater to challenge that betray it is language of the no ever for your growth challenge you read it for the coming week back because during or from some council members directed not just to the syrian government but also to its russian ally either russia has given the un and this council assurances it has proved too weak to deliver on or it was all the cynical smic screen designed to dying ferret attention and energy while russia syria and iran prosecuted the military campaign western nations are hoping that the air stumbles summit pressure can be put on president putin to force the syrian government to reengage with the united nations they want the cons

focused on the political process which is no doubt important is necessary i would like to thank mr de mistura for his work to establish a constitutional committee there was. a decision in sochi in january but unfortunately such a committee has not met to date but this is important so that this political process at the end of which there must be elections free elections which are accessible to all syrians even those dispersed in the jasper so that this process can happen and we would like to express our engagements and that everybody is called upon to do what they can in order to make it possible for such a meeting of the constitutional committee before the end of the year in order to start this political pros says i think this is very important. to show that there is no military solution to start a conflict beyond that we also spoke about the free and secure or safe return of refugees but this is tied to preconditions and must be coordinated closely with you and committees like the un h.c.r. and there must be undertakings that there will be no persecution or arrests. this is human terry and b

i would myself be moving on as of the last week of november mr de mistura tried everything from local truces to meetings of key international players in twenty sixteen he managed to get syrian government representatives to geneva to meet with a delegation that for the first time represented many of the opposition elements including key fighting groups this promising opportunity stop to me its tracks by military action jury in the talks by syria and its russian ally if therefore they can deficient to bring him bertie for them voted for did it not there and if not they fake it up or haven't they basically formed your top. i am not referring to military activity. it was russian air power and iranian forces on the ground that changed the balance of power the russians then began to pushing talks first in a stana then in sochi thank you very much as a rival to mr de mistura as geneva process in over four years at press conferences and in interviews they seem to one thing that was your mantra there is no military solution and yet in that time we've seen starvation used as a weapon we've seen

yes i've been hearing about it for some months in fact i asked mr de mistura about it a few weeks ago and he said i'm staying on for the time being while he is still staying on for the time being he'll be leaving at the end of november his reasons are personal reasons he's a veteran u.n. diplomat in his seventy's but he has a young family and a young child and he's put his life his family life on hold for the last four and a half years while he's been doing this job a very very difficult job for the united nations a job that really hasn't gone the way he wanted it to go he's been trying to get both sides around the table to come up and initially with a transitional government for syria that didn't work he did in twenty sixteen managed to get a syrian government delegation there with the most representative delegation he could get of the syrian opposition which actually for the first time included some of the armed groups on the ground the problem then was when he was carrying out those talks there were airstrikes taking place during those talks on the opposition by the syrian governme

syria special envoy stefan de mistura his efforts for most of this year have been narrowed to focus on getting a committee together to draw up a new constitution for syria mr de mistura travel to damascus in recent days because the syrian government has been repeatedly objecting to names on the list for the committee but when he met syrian deputy prime minister walid muallem things went backwards even further with the syrians now even questioning mr demas stories of thirty to draw up the list we do have a theater challenge that betray it is like danger to nowhere for your growth challenge for the coming week back because during or from some council members directed not just to the syrian government but also to its russian ally either russia has given the un and this council assurances it has proved too weak to deliver or it was all the cynical smic scream designed to dine at attention and energy while russia syria and iran prosecuted the military campaign western nations are hoping that at the istanbul summit pressure can be put on president putin to force the syrian government to reengage with the united nations they want the constitutional committee to b

to give you some heads up if i may i would myself be moving on as of the last week of november mr de mistura tried everything from local truces to meetings of key international players in twenty sixteen he managed to get syrian government representatives to geneva to meet with a delegation for the first time represented many of the opposition elements including key fighting groups this promising opportunity stopped in its tracks by military action during the talks by syria and its russian ally if therefore they can. to bring it temporarily for them dreaded for did not do any know the fate of the haven't they basically formed your top. i am not referring to military activities. it was russian air power and iranian forces on the ground that change the balance of power the russians then began to pushing talks first in a starter then in sochi as a rival to mr de mistura as geneva process in over four years at press conferences and in interviews they seem to one thing that was your mantra there is no military solution and yet in that time we've seen starvation used as a weapon we've seen repressi

the syrian opposition you've got there they don't represent the actual fighters on the ground so mr de mistura is key moment was in early twenty sixteen when he managed to get a much broader syrian opposition to the table with the syrian government the syrian government though at that point really wouldn't engage on any of the issues and completely ignored the process although they did attend it in geneva and of course what's changed since then is not diplomacy really although the russians have taken control of diplomacy that's happened because the military tide has changed and that's happened because of russian airpower and iranian troops on the ground all along mr de mistura who i've spoken to so many times during all of this has said there is no military solution in syria you have to ask was he ever right about that james peyser diplomatic editor reporting live from the u.n. in new york james thanks very much. events moving very fast on the ground in turkey because in turkey the team of investigators have now finally entered the consul's residence in istanbul turkey sources telling al-jazee

blame because the tide turned militarily with the help of russian airpower and iran on the ground mr de mistura throughout his four or so years in the job has repeatedly told me in interviews in press conferences there is no military solution in syria but you have to just look at what's happened and revolve the most brutal tactics involved those barrel bombs the chemical weapons on the slaughter on the civilian population in the end there seems to have been a military solution because the assad regime control much of syria james bays our diplomatic editor at the u.n. thank you still with syria and the nessie border crossing between syria and jordan has reopened now that it's obviously good news for syria's neighbors have been hit by the closure of what was a crucial overland trade but this is also about damascus which is hoping for an end to its political and economic isolation we've got the map here we have a little zoom into the north sea border crossing you'll see it's a pretty major facility on that border there like a big processing center on that side the syrian side and if i just stop th

the latest on the conflict in syria and of course into its seventh year let's listen in to what mr de mistura is saying. so let me recall how we did arrive at the middle east that deeds are now on the table and indeed have been further revised more than once and updated in the new list. please continue thank you. this final statement talk of the need to include i quote. i'm quoting the thought you find of the ignorant mr president syrian eg birth civil society independent tribal leaders and women and court wait a quarter again adequate representation of fear nick and religious complement and court the sochi final statement made clear that it was the year the geneva process ended facilitation of the visual envoy that the final selection would be made. actually in truth it went even further than that the secular general has asked me to remind the council that in addition to the terms of this or chief final statement itself an explicit un russian understanding was made during the consultation which took place just before a un attended torching namely that i as a special envoy would be free to dr

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de mistura the u.n. and peace envoy to syria. yes peter a short while ago we saw the fundaments to our walk into this conference hall stuff on the mr a brief the u.n. security council just yesterday saying that in one way or the other he failed in his mission he went to damascus this week to try to convince the syrian government to accept the composition of a u.n. committee a u.n. committee that is supposed to draft a new constitution the syrian foreign minister telling him flat out this is a syrian problem and this should be discussed by syrians themselves and we do not want any foreign intervention interference the russians instead of saying that they are planning to pressure the syrian government to cooperate they say we need to be patient what europe wants is this a u.n. led political process the geneva truck to make progress to move forward and that involves creating this constitutional committee that will lead to elections and they say unless that happens we're not paying money for any reconstruction so yes bush are empowered really because russia has changed the battlefield it is now in his favor it is in the favor of the sy