After delays, the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has decided that negotiations have now formally begun.
After nearly five years of hostilities, the United Nations says at least 250,000 have died and millions of Syrians have fled.
Envoy de Mistura wants concrete results and has planned additional meetings.
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