Briefing to the UN Security Council by the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura
Madam President [ US Ambassador Haley], 1. Thank you, Madam President, for this opportunity. We believe this is a very appropriate timing for doing it, particularly because the focus is on Idlib. We have been hearing it…
Remarks at the end of Security Council Briefing on Idlib By Un Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan De Mistura on Idlib
Thank you Madam president for giving me back the floor. This time I really believe I need it because this meeting is potentially crucial -- like the, we were hoping and still hope the meeting in Tehran was and should be, and…
Transcript of Joint Press Stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, Following Security Council Briefing
SdeM: Sorry for the delay, but it was a very intense and long, and useful, in my opinion, opportunity for expressing various angles of many countries. As you know, Turkey spoke, Iran spoke, and the Syrian Arab Republic. So…
Transcript of Press Stakeout by Jan Egeland, Senior Adviser to the UN Special Envoy for Syria
JE: Thank you. The main issue at the Humanitarian Task Force today was naturally the very important agreement reached between the President of Russia and the President of Turkey. We were informed of the details of the…
Remarks by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, at the EU-Hosted High Level Event on Syria
SdeM: Thank you, thank you, Federica for organizing this, for hosting this event, and for the words you just said. This is a very timely meeting, and an important one. The UN and the EU have had an exemplary cooperation since…
Transcript of Press Stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura
SdeM: Hello everybody. It has been a long meeting so forgive me. We will have only two questions, why? Because you will have plenty of opportunity asking me very deep questions at my last briefing in November, so today, I…
Remarks by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura Following meeting with Minister Walid Al-Moualem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic
SdeM: Good afternoon. We had a long meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister al-Moualem, and during this meeting, we had a very frank and very intense exchange of opinions concerning the constitutional…
Briefing to the security council by M. Staffan de Mistura, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Syria
Arabic Querido Señor Presidente, Le agradezco mucho por esta oportunidad desde Beirut. I would take this opportunity to update you and Members of the Council since my briefing, which took place last week in New York. Today, I…
Transcript of Press Stakeout by UN Senior Adviser, Jan Egeland
JE: Thank you very much, we just completed a Humanitarian Task Force meeting. It was a meeting where we had some rare moments of feeling that we achieved, through humanitarian diplomacy, what we have so many times before…
Briefing to the Security Council by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura
Thank you, Mr President, and good to be with all of you 1. Since my last time I briefed you, the Secretary-General had announced that Mr Geir Pedersen of Norway, a good friend of mine - and an excellent choice if I may say -…
Transcript of Press Stakeout by UN Senior Adviser, Jan Egeland
SP: Thank you very much and good morning ladies and gentlemen, and members of the press corp. As you all know the Special Envoy, Staffan de Mistura is currently still in Astana, and it is because of this absence, his absence…
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Statement of behalf of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura
Arabic version Russian version Special Envoy de Mistura appreciates the work done at the Astana meeting by the three guarantors -- the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey -- to ensure…