GENEVA, June 23 (Xinhua) -- The UN Special Envoy for Syria announced Thursday that he will brief the UN Security Council on June 29 after holding consultations in New York and Washington in view of resuming intra-Syrian talks aiming to broker an end to the five-year conflict next month.
"We have to continue preparing for various options regarding the intra-Syrian talks," he said after convening with the humanitarian taskforce members in Geneva's UN headquarters.
"The aim is still July because August is not a fictional date but a real timetable," he added.
The UN mediator has been vying to get intra-Syrian talks back on track since negotiations seeking to reach a political agreement by August 1 were put on hold in April this year.
Both the humanitarian situation in the country at war since 2011 and fighting between government troops, opposition forces and terrorist factions have prevented negotiations from resuming.
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