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![UN envoy Geir Pedersen (left) met with Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mikdad on October 17 [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2022-11/GettyImages-1244033825.jpg?h=36d6ba9e&itok=i1FHzDsK)
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