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Monsieur le président [François Delattre, France], dear friends, ambassadors, Let me update you on developments and lay out some of the plans that we have for the next round of the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva, and then brief you on some of the other potential initiatives. We are seeing very…

JE: We just finished the meeting of the Humanitarian Task Force, a very bleak report was delivered from us, on the UN side, I feel as if we are now returning to some of the bleakest days of this conflict again, at least the fears are that we are now returning with civilians in cross fire in too many…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, 1. I am briefing you from Geneva, as we are preparing for round 8 of the UN-convened intra-Syrian talks. Let me explain how we got here over the past month, and the approach to the talks at the moment. 2. Last month, you remember, I said: after Raqqa…

SdeM: Thank you very much. I will take questions of course, that is why I will just give you a little bit of a summary here This round of talks in Geneva is number 8, and we are planning to have it lasting up to the 15 th of December. As you remember the intention was to actually have them for two…

SdeM: Thank you very much. First of all let me pass the floor very quickly to Jan because we just had today a humanitarian taskforce and it did address a very serious issue that while we are trying to serious meaningful talks in Geneva, the humanitarian situation is concerning, very concerning in…

SdeM: Thank you Alessandra.Let me make some few comments and then of course I will be available and open for questions. We have just completed the 8 thround of the intra-Syrian talks.I will give you some ideas and where we are, more or less.You must understand that the deep assessment of this round…

Mr. President, Dear colleagues and friends at the Security Council, Let me say at the beginning how much my team and I are grateful for the support we received this year from the Security Council. Since this is my last briefing this year and the end of the Security Council membership for some of you…

RER: Good evening, I had a two-hour meeting today with Dr. Fayssal Mekdad, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic, which was held in the framework of the continuous consultations between the Office of the Special Envoy and the Syrian government, on different…

In Vienna on 25 and 26 January 2018 I engaged in consultations in a special round 9 meeting with the delegations of the Government of Syria and the Syrian Negotiations Commission within the framework of the UN-facilitated political process on Syria. In accordance with the invitation, I focused on…

The Secretary-General, having been fully briefed by his Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, and taking into account the statement by the Russian Federation that the outcome of the Congress of the Syrian National Dialogue, which will be held in Sochi on 29-30 January 2018, would be brought…

Let me thank the Russian Federation for inviting me, also on behalf also of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkey, to attend this Congress which is meant to contribute to the Geneva process I am aware that there were intense discussions in this room today and you are proving it…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, 1. I have come to New York to convey in person, I could have done it by video as we have done many times, to the Security Council the Secretary-General’s grave concern at the escalation of violence in Syria – and to urge you to focus on de-escalating…