United Nations – The official who directed the United Nations diplomacy in Syria for nearly seven turbulent years resign.
Gear Pedersen, who held diplomatic positions for decades of the World Authority and Norway, told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that he would leave his position in the “near future”, but he did not say when. The 69 -year -old diplomat said he was intending for a period of “moving for personal reasons” and remained due to rapid and old developments in Syria.
Pedersen was appointed as a special envoy for the United Nations to Syria in 2018, seven years after the country’s civil war. Amid the chaos, the Islamic State group fighters acquired large parts of Nation. In 2019, the last shrapnel lost the land controlled by its fighters, but the sleeper cells are the rest.
Pedersen was accused of implementing the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2254, which aims to enter into a political solution to the conflict between the government of President Bashar al -Assad at the time and his opponents, but the efforts made to mediation have been repeatedly stumbled.
Civil war After the mass anti -government protests in 2011, it began with a brutal government campaign. The fighting killed nearly half a million people, and half of the country’s population was displaced 23 million.
The conflict has been largely frozen for years, as the country was carved to regions controlled by the government and various opposition groups until December 2024, Matthew Assad has been expelled In a thunderbolt rebel attack, led by the President of Syria now, Ahmed Al -Sharra.
The country continued to deal with it Deep political, ethnic and religious divisions.
Pedersen called for international support for Syria and governments to give all its people a voice in the next chapter of their nation.
“For a long time, progress seemed completely impossible – until suddenly came,” he said.
He said, “Today, the Syrian people have a new dawn, and we must ensure that this becomes a bright day. They deserve this a lot,” praising the flexibility and design of the population.
Pedersen has previously played many United Nations roles, including Lebanon Special Coordinator in 2007-2008. He was a member of the Norway team, who negotiated the 1993 Oslo agreements, which led to mutual recognition between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel, and was the representative of the Norway of the Palestinian Authority between 1998 and 2003.
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Siwel mentioned from Beirut.