Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura, who has served previously in Afghanistan and Iraq, is to become the new UN envoy to Syria, diplomats said Wednesday. He is to replace Lakhdar Brahimi who resigned at the end of May after two rounds of peace talks yielded no concrete results and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was re-elected in June.
His nomination was been confirmed to members of the UN Security Council but has not yet been announced officially by the United Nations. One diplomat said de Mistura would represent the United Nations and "have an Arab deputy." Brahimi, a well-respected and seasoned Algerian diplomat with extensive experience in the Middle East, was officially joint representative of both the United Nations and Arab League to Syria.
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