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UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura held consultations with the Foreign Ministers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey in Geneva today. These consultations were a key part of the Special Envoy’s intensive effort at the request of the Secretary…

SdeM: Good afternoon. I think we have known each other for a while - you always have been very much following what I have been doing. So let me be a little bit frank, if I can, on this. Today I am going to limit myself simply to what I have been saying at the Security Council, it was a very long…

Mr. President, Thank you for this opportunity to deliver my monthly briefing for the final time of this mandate. I am circulating this full written statement to you – because it is a little bit longer and there is a lot to say. I have served as Special Envoy for four years and four months – almost…

Mr. President, 1. It is an honour to brief the Security Council for the first time as the Special Envoy for Syria, some eight weeks into my mandate. 2. I have taken up this task with all humility, and conscious of the profound grief and suffering of the Syrian people everywhere. I am conscious of…

The Secretary-General is following with great concern recent statements regarding northeastern Syria, in particular the risk to civilians from any potential military actions. He calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint. The Secretary-General emphasizes that civilians and civilian…

Good morning, as you know I have had discussions in Riyadh with the Opposition SNC, and today I continue those discussions here in Damascus with Foreign Minister Muallem We obviously concentrated on the situation in the northeast, and I repeated the Secretary-General’s strong appeal that we should…

Thank you so much Jenifer and good to see you all. Also, to those who have travelled far, good to see you here in Geneva Actually, as we are speaking the 150 members of the Constitutional Committee are arriving here in Geneva As you know we have agreed that this is to be a Syrian-led, Syrian-owned…

Arabic version On the occasion of the launch of the Syrian-led, Syrian-owned Constitutional Committee facilitated by the United Nations, the Special Envoy for Syria welcomes to Geneva the 150 members of the committee, namely: 50 Members nominated by the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic إيهاب…

Good evening. I’m impressed to see all of you here so late. Thank you. We have just concluded a meeting of the Large Body. We had, as you all remember, a very good opening session on Wednesday. I think it was dignified, solemn and that we rose to the historic occasion. The last two days have also…

The historic opening ceremony of the Constitutional Committee was formally launched on 30 October 2019 at the Palais des Nations.

At Thursday’s Humanitarian Task Force meeting in Geneva, Ms. Najat Rochdi and the UN senior humanitarian leadership in Damascus, Amman and Gaziantep briefed members of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) on the overall humanitarian situation in Syria and conducted advocacy on several…

I had a very good discussion with the Council both in the open and in the closed session afterward. You would have heard that there was full support to the work that we are doing in Geneva – of course, they welcomed the launch of the Constitutional Committee. I gave a rather detailed description of…