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The Secretary-General condemns the abhorrent attack carried out on 12 June in Idlib city, Syria
The Secretary-General condemns the abhorrent attack carried out on 12 June in Idlib city, Syria, which hit a vegetable market and the only bakery in the area. The apparent air strike took place while a ceasefire stipulated in the Four Towns Agreement, which covers Idlib city, had reportedly been…
Near verbatim transcript of the press stakeout given by the Special Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Jan Egeland
JE: We just finished a meeting of the Humanitarian Task Force, of the International Syria Support Group, and this is our findings. After several really very bad weeks for humanitarian access in Syria, we have made progress of late in reaching the besieged areas in Syria. It was very significant that…
Statement by Staffan De Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria, at informal briefing to the General Assembly
Mr. President, Excellencies, Thank you for the invitation to join Stephen O’Brien and Ivan Simonovic at this meeting. I will obviously defer to both Stephen and to Ivan on the subjects of their own competence and professional knowledge. And I will still refer to the linkages that exist between my…
Near verbatim transcript of joint press stakeout by Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Jan Egeland, Senior Special Advisor, and Yacoub El Hillo, UN Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syrian Arab Republic
Geneva, 23 June 2016 SdeM. Good afternoon, again sorry, but we just finished our Humanitarian Task Force. So let me just start by first making one or two general comments on the overall picture and on the political overall picture. I have the pleasure here as you can see, to have both Jan Egeland…
Near verbatim transcript of the press stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura following the Security Council meeting
New York, 29 June 2016 Good afternoon. You already heard [from] the Chairman of the Council, the Ambassador of France. Let me first summarize what we did and then of course I will take questions. The first point was that we all remembered with sadness and horror the terrorist attack in Istanbul. It…
Near verbatim transcript of stakeout by Mr. Jan Egeland, Senior Special Advisor to the U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Mr. Staffan de Mistura
Geneva, 30 June 2016 Good afternoon to all, we just finished the meeting of the Humanitarian Taskforce of the ISSG and a milestone in that regard was reached in Syria last night, because areas number 17 and 18 out of the 18 besieged areas on the UN list was reached. Arbin and Zamalka hadn’t been…
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Media Statement from the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria
Arabic Version Geneva (7 July 2017) - The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, extends his wishes to the Syrian people on the occasion of Eid el-Fitr. Mr. de Mistura also welcomes all efforts, including by the International Syria Support Group co-chairs through their joint…
Near verbatim transcript of joint press stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, UN Senior Advisor Jan Egeland and WHO Representative in Syria Elizabeth Hoff
SdeM. Good evening, bon après midi. I will make some overall comments of the situation and then I will take some questions and then after that I will definitely make sure and hope that you will make use of what Jan Egeland has to tell us about this humanitarian meeting. We also have the privilege of…
Near Verbatim transcript of stakeout by UN Senior Adviser Jan Egeland
Geneva, 21 July 2016 Jan Egeland (JE).: We have now been working in the Humanitarian Taskforce of the ISSG since mid-February, about five months. When we take stock after this first half year, this year, we see that we [the UN] have now reached 1 million people, in hard to reach areas and in…
Verbatim transcript of remarks delivered by the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, prior to his meeting today with the German Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in Berlin
22 July 2016 I’m looking forward to meet our friend and trusted supporter of the UN efforts, yourself, Minister, and Germany. I will be having an opportunity of discussing exactly what you said. We will be certainly on our side saying thank you, once again, to Germany, because, not only you’re a…
Near Verbatim transcript of stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria Mr. Staffan de Mistura
26 July 2016, Geneva Special Envoy: Good evening. First let me say in French [ few words of condolences and condemnation of today’s church attack in France]. Today as you know we had a meeting in Geneva at the UN premises here with both American and Russian senior officials. The subject was related…
Near verbatim transcript of stakeout by Mr. Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, following the humanitarian taskforce meeting
Good afternoon, and sorry for the delay, but as you know there have been new indications and discussions taking place regarding both Aleppo and the overall situation. Let me first of all say that I am asking my deputy to go to Damascus in the next few days in order to discuss with the Syrian…