Members of the UN Security Council will travel to Syria and Lebanon next week in a rare trip in which they hope to rebuild confidence in the world body, and support stability in the fragile ceasefire along the Israeli-Lebanese border, the Slovenian mission said on Tuesday.
The visit to Damascus on December 4 will be the council’s first official trip to Syria since the fall of Bashar Al Assad's regime in December, and the installation of new leadership this year.
The delegation is expected to meet Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara, several ministers, politicians, civil society members and NGO representatives.
Samuel Zbogar, Slovenia’s UN ambassador who will take on the presidency of the council ne
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