Russia Invited New UN Syria Envoy Pedersen To Moscow - Deputy Foreign Minister

Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published November 12, 2018 | 11:24 PM

Russia has invited new UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen to visit Moscow, but awaits the handover process from Steffan de Mistura, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told Sputnik on Monday.

PALERMO (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 12th November, 2018) Russia has invited new UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen to visit Moscow, but awaits the handover process from Steffan de Mistura, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told Sputnik on Monday.

"We have even invited him to Moscow. But the issue here is when de Mistura will hand over the office to him," Bogdanov said.

According to Bogdanov, Moscow expects that December will be a kind of transition period for this handover process and by late December Pedersen will fully assume his new duties.