Security Council fails to agree on joint statement on Syria

SANAA, Feb. 10 (YPA) – The UN Security Council on Tuesday failed to agree on a joint statement on Syria.
The Council held closed consultations on the political settlement of the Syrian crisis, the first of its kind in a long time, according to France Press.

The UN special envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, urged the members of the UN Security Council to unify their stance to break the deadlock controlling the Syrian file, during a closed session in which he declared the “failure of the political track,” according to diplomats.

After the closed session held by the Security Council via video technology, Pedersen told reporters that “the current divisions of the international community must be overcome.”And he considered that “there is a need to adopt constructive international diplomacy on Syria,” Without this, the chances of real progress on the constitutional track remain, ”as he put it