{"id":18886,"date":"2018-10-17T21:24:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T21:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18886"},"modified":"2018-10-17T21:24:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T21:24:51","slug":"iran-calls-us-sanctions-on-paramilitary-force-blind-vindictiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18886","title":{"rendered":"Iran calls US sanctions on paramilitary force \u2018blind vindictiveness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1389451\/middle-east\" readability=\"45\">\n<p>\nUNITED NATIONS: The United Nations envoy for Syria announced on Wednesday he will step down at the end of November after more than four years in the key post, setting back UN efforts to end the seven-year war in Syria<br \/>\u201cI will myself be moving on as of the last week of November,\u201d Staffan de Mistura told the UN Security Council during a meeting on the crisis in Syria.<br \/>The Italian-Swedish diplomat, who became the UN\u2019s third Syria envoy in July 2014, said he was leaving for \u201cpurely personal reasons\u201d and had discussed his plans to leave with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.<br \/>\u201cI am not laying down the charge until the last hour of the last day of my mandate,\u201d he said.<br \/>De Mistura will be traveling to Damascus next week to push for the creation of a committee to agree on a post-war constitution for Syria.<br \/>Syria is resisting the UN-led effort to set up the constitutional committee that will be comprised of government officials, opposition members and representatives of civil society.<br \/>De Mistura was appointed UN envoy for Syria in July 2014 after veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi resigned following the failure of peace talks in Geneva.<br \/>Brahimi spent two years in the position, stepping in after former UN chief Kofi Annan quit just six months into the role.<br \/>More than 360,000 people have died in the war in Syria, which began in March 2011 as an uprising against President Bashar Assad but has since morphed into a complex war with myriad armed groups, some of which have foreign backing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations envoy for Syria announced on Wednesday he will step down at the end of November after more than four years in the key post, setting back UN efforts to end the seven-year war in Syria\u201cI will myself be moving on as of the last week of November,\u201d Staffan de Mistura&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}