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Question: During the beginning of the conversation you said that you really supported and you highly evaluated and appreciated the Astana and Sochi processes, how do you think they are going to affect the prospective of the situation? and what contributions are they going to make. SdeM: You started…

SdeM: Thank you. For me it was very important to come to Tehran, Iran is a major player, and is heavily involved into the Syria issue, and now is the time for urgent consultations. Last week was a very dangerous week, and a very difficult week, and we have a priority now to bring the temperature…

SdeM: Thank you Federica. First of all, thank you to Belgium for organising this very useful and important occasion. Today, as Federica was saying, we are sending a message that the conference tomorrow is not only among countries - and many of them have a stake, and want to have a stake, in the…

JE: We just finished a long meeting of the Humanitarian Taskforce.  We had a long list of challenges, a long list of problems, and there were somber reports from our colleagues in the field, from Damascus, from Gaziantep, and our Regional Coordinator, Panos Moumtzis, who had come from Amman. The…

SdeM: Good afternoon. We had a useful ninth meeting in Astana with some concrete discussions on de-escalation. As you know de-escalation is the priority of Astana, and our priority too, especially on the major pending issue, which is still pending, but requires a lot of homework, the issue of Idlib…

The Secretary-General is gravely concerned by the recent military escalation, including ground offensives and aerial bombardments, in southwestern Syria. The attacks have resulted in the displacement of thousands of civilians, the majority of whom are moving towards the Jordanian border. The…

Mr. President, Vassily Alekseevich, thank you so much for this opportunity. Dear members of the Security Council: 1. When I last briefed this Council on 16 May, I spoke of three bottom-line priorities: 1) de-escalation; 2) reviving the political process and; 3) bridging different groups of…

The Secretary-General is deeply alarmed by the military offensive in southwestern Syria and its devastating toll on civilians. He calls for an immediate cessation of the military operations. The Secretary-General recalls that the southwest area of Syria is part of a de-escalation agreement agreed…

The Secretary-General is gravely concerned by the resumption of the military offensive in southwest Syria and its continued devastating impact on civilians. An estimated 750,000 lives are in danger and up to 325,000 people have been displaced. The Secretary-General fully supports today’s statement…

JE: I think it was very clear today at the humanitarian task force that we are entering a new chapter in this very long, very bloody, very cruel, very bitter war in Syria. Hopefully we are seeing the beginning of the end to the big war. There are signs that we may now have access to people we were…

The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about the growing risks of a humanitarian catastrophe in the event of a full-scale military operation in Idlib province in Syria. The Secretary-General once again reaffirms that any use of chemical weapons is totally unacceptable. The Secretary-General…

Staffan de Mistura: Thank you very much and good to be together with Jan on this, the subject is Idlib. Idlib is our first priority and our second priority is Idlib again because we are very concerned. So, I will make a few general comments and Jan will make his own, and I will open up for questions…