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UN Syria Envoy Geir Pedersen said that he sees “possibilities for progress” on Syria in 2022 in a briefing to the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Monday. Noting that Syria was still a long way away from implementing UNSC Resolution 2254, which provides for a political solution to the Syrian war, he said there was hope for the wider political process. Pedersen said that the current status quo in Syria is “unacceptable” with 14 million people in the country in need of “(humanitarian) assistance” – the highest number since the beginning of the war in 2011. He also said that the country has been loc…