![French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on 11 January 2018 [Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/d2.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018_1-2-20180111_2_28031917_29667856.jpg?fit=920%2C613&ssl=1)
France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that a peace process for Syria should take place under UN auspices in Geneva and not under Russia in the Black Sea resort of Sochi where a Syrian congress began earlier in the day.
“The resolution of this crisis will happen urgently through a solution under United Nations auspices in Geneva. France has that as an immediate objective. It’s not happening in Sochi, it must happen in Geneva,” Jean-Yves Le Drian told lawmakers.