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Geir Pedersen assumed office on Monday as the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, replacing the outgoing Staffan de Mistura. His term begins as the Syrian government, for years a regional pariah for its crackdown against the 2011 rebellion, is steadily welcomed in from the cold by key Arab states — making compromise less likely. The […]
