Pedersen Acknowledges Stagnation in Political Process in Syria, Fears Another 'Collapse'

Volunteers in a refugee camp in Idlib spray children with water to mitigate the impact of high temperatures. (AFP)

The United Nations Special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, regretted that during two years of frozen front lines, the international community had not seized upon the window provided by that relative calm to build a credible political process.

“We need to be honest about the mismatch between the scale of our collective political efforts and the scale of the challenge at hand,” he stressed.