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1st LD: New round of Syria international talks to be held in New York, UN chief says

Xinhua, December 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here Wednesday that a new round of Syria international talks will be held in New York on Friday.

At his year-end press conference at UN Headquarters in New York, the UN chief said the next round of Syria talks will kick off in New York on Dec. 18 following a meeting of the UN Security Council on Syria.

The move aims to seek a political solution to the longstanding Syrian conflict, which broke out in March 2011 and has killed 250,000 people.

Parties concerned met in previous two rounds of meetings held in Vienna, Austria in late October and mid-November to seek a roadmap to end the nearly five-year war in Syria.

The prolonged war in the country has triggered a refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe. Enditem