{"id":20065,"date":"2018-10-27T19:24:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20065"},"modified":"2018-10-27T19:24:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T19:24:51","slug":"un-says-damascus-is-blocking-efforts-to-end-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20065","title":{"rendered":"UN says Damascus is blocking efforts to end civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"64.1772151899\">\n<p>Leaders from Turkey, Russia, France and Germany are meeting in Istanbul to discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/05\/syria-civil-war-explained-160505084119966.html\">conflict in Syria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/un.html\">United Nations<\/a> has said that Damascus is blocking efforts to draft a new constitution which is key to ending the country&#8217;s civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura has been hopeful that high-level meetings will lead to a solution, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2007\/07\/200852518514154964.html\">Bashar al-Assad<\/a>&#8216;s government has repeatedly objected to the names de Mistura included on the list and has now challenged his authority to make the list at all.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s James Bays reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders from Turkey, Russia, France and Germany are meeting in Istanbul to discuss the conflict in Syria. The United Nations has said that Damascus is blocking efforts to draft a new constitution which is key to ending the country&#8217;s civil war. Outgoing UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura has been hopeful that high-level meetings&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20065","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\/20065","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=20065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}