The UN’s peace envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura arrived Monday in Damascus for talks with Syrian officials in a fresh bid to resolve the country’s four-year war.

The UN's peace envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura arrived Monday in Damascus for talks with Syrian officials in a fresh bid to resolve the country's four-year war.

The international envoy met Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, in which he briefed him on the consultative talks he held recently in the Swiss city Geneva, SANA news agency reported.

“De Mistura presented his review to al-Moallem during a meeting in Damascus on Monday,” SANA said.

On his part, AL-Moallem, briefed the UN envoy and the accompanying delegation on the developments in Syria, expressing support to de Mistura’s efforts towards a political solution to the crisis in Syria, SANA added.

According to the Syrian agency, there was stress during the meeting on the importance of what came out of Moscow inter-Syrian talks, held in January and April of 2015, and the need to follow up on them so as to make possible a Geneva 3 meeting, after two rounds of talks held in the Swiss city failed to bring about results.

According to Syrian newspaper Al-Watan, the envoy will be in Damascus for three days to "inform Syrian officials of the consultations" he has led in Geneva since last month with various parties to the conflict.

De Mistura's spokesman said Sunday the trip would give government officials "the opportunity to express their own views around the Geneva Consultations," AFP news agency reported.

The envoy "also plans to discuss the current humanitarian situation in Syria and ways to increase access to besieged and conflict-affected communities".