James Jeffrey, US Special Envoy to Syria, met with representatives of Britain, France, Germany, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia at the US State Department.

Saying efforts to advance a Syria political process are at a stalemate, US Syria envoy James Jeffrey it is time to pull the plug on Astana talks.

Citing the failure of the Astana parties, Turkiye, Russia, and Iran, to advance efforts for a Syria constitutional committee at a meeting last week, Jeffrey said the United States would propose getting rid of the competitor to the UN-led Geneva process when UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura departs at the end of the year.

De Mistura is due to give perhaps his final report to the UN Security Council on Dec. 14. Norwegian diplomat Geir Pedersen has been named to succeed him.

If de Mistura is unable to report that he can convene a constitutional committee in Geneva by the end of the year, Jeffrey said it would be the US view that Pedersen takes a different approach.

Saying that Turkiye did not succumb to the vision of Russia and Iran and the Assad regime, Jeffrey pointed the UN and the Geneva process as an address for the solution. "They tried but failed," said Jeffrey pointing Astana process.

Answering the question about Manbij road map between Turkiye and the United States, Jeffrey praises joint patrol mission of Turkiye and the United States in the region.

I am talking with whom I need to do my job," said Jeffrey when asked whether he had talked with PKK officials in Syria. (ILKHA)