Syrian Ambassador to the U.N. Bashar al Jaafari is welcomed by United Nations mediator Staffan De Mistura
The chief government negotiator at Syria peace talks in Geneva said on Friday he had received a paper from U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura and would now study it, but a first meeting had covered nothing but the format of talks.
"During this round of talks we discussed the format of upcoming meetings... exclusively," Bashar al-Ja'afari told reporters after about two hours of discussions.
"At the end of the meeting de Mistura gave us a paper and and we agreed to study this paper. We shall inform him of our position vis-a-vis this paper," he said. He corrected an interpeter who described it as a "document", and gave no details of what it said.
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