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New York, 12 February 2016 The Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect, Jennifer Welsh, expressed alarm at the deepening humanitarian emergency and lack of protection of…

Arabic version The second meeting of the Task Force on Humanitarian Access in Syria will take place tomorrow at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The meeting will be co-chaired by the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, and Mr. Jan Egeland, Senior Advisor to the Special…

SdeM: Let me first of all say I had a conference call with the 18 countries who are part of the International Support Group. We had a video conference just today in Geneva, and we were reporting together with Yacoub El Hillo and Khawla Mattar how this long night took place. And I must say, I must…

A NATIONWIDE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES IN SYRIA The Secretary-General welcomes the agreement announced today by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, as co-chairs of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) Ceasefire Taskforce formed in Munich, on the…

The Secretary-General welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2268 by the Security Council, which endorsed the Joint Statement of the United States and the Russian Federation, as Co-Chairs of the ISSG, on the Cessation of Hostilities in Syria, and the demand that it begins at 00:00 Damascus…

SdeM: Today, there’s been quite a lot of discussions and events taking place here in Geneva related to what happened just now. And by midday today, there were 97 armed groups plus the Government, all the major regional and international stakeholders, who indicated in time – by, as you remember…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, 1. On behalf of the Secretary-General, I welcome the adoption – I hope soon, of a resolution, which will address the issue we worked on for long. We have come a long way since the first meeting of the International Syria Support Group in Vienna on 30…

The Secretary-General met Foreign Minister Lavrov today, and thanked him for his significant role in achieving recent progress on Syria.

Geneva (01 March 2016)- The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, today announced that intra-Syrian peace talks will resume in the afternoon of 9 March 2016. The 7 th of March 2016 was initially set as the target date for the resumption of peace talks. In order to allow…

Thank you. I will take two or three questions. The first thing I will like to say is, I would like, on behalf of the Secretary-General and of my own team, to express my own condolences and those of the United Nations for this horrific attack which took place in Ankara yesterday. It is the first…

SdeM: We had a late afternoon meeting today; it started around 5:00 o’clock and ended a few minutes ago. It was with the HNC, the High Negotiations Committee. The first moment of this meeting was dedicated to commemorating by standing, everyone in silence for a minute; we should have been standing…

RER: Good afternoon. We had a useful meeting today. We discussed issues of substance as you will recall on Monday. The government of Syria delegation provided us with some ideas on the political process. We reacted to them, through seeking further clarifications. I think that the discussion was…