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Transcript of Press Stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, following Security Council Briefing
20 December 2018
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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 intervention and there were…
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Briefing to the Security Council by Staffan de mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria
20 December 2018
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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 exactly the length of the First World War. The…
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Statement of behalf of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura
18 December 2018
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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-General to fundamentally advance the possibility of establishing a…
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Statement of behalf of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura
14 December 2018
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The efforts to establish a constitutional committee have been the subject of continuing consultations. In this context, Special Envoy de Mistura anticipates hosting high-level representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey in Geneva early next week as he finalizes his assessment, to be…
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Transcript of Press Stakeout by UN Senior Adviser, Jan Egeland
29 November 2018
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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, due to the Astana meeting, he had asked me on the occasion of Jan Egeland’s last day as Senior Adviser and Chair of the ISSG Humanitarian Task Force, to…
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Statement of behalf of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura
29 November 2018
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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 that the Idlib de-escalation arrangements are sustained. He is very grateful to President Nursultan Nazarbayev for the generous hospitality and…
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Statement on behalf of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura
28 November 2018
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Special Envoy de Mistura and his team recently met with a diverse group of thirty members of Syrian civil society in the context of the regular engagement undertaken by his Office via the platform of the Civil Society Support Room (CSSR).
CSSR participants in this round of consultations gathered in Geneva on 26-27 November 2018. They came from different…
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Statement on behalf of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura
27 November 2018
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Special Envoy de Mistura received an invitation from the Government of Kazakhstan, on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey – the guarantors of the de-escalation agreement – to participate in the high-level meeting in Astana on 28 and 29 November 2018.
The Special Envoy, in…
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Briefing to the Security Council by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura
19 November 2018
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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 - will be the new UN Special Envoy for Syria, following my own announcement that I will be moving on in the near future. The precise date…
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Transcript of Press Stakeout by UN Senior Adviser, Jan Egeland
15 November 2018
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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 failed to.
First, Rukban, since January we have tried and failed to reach this most desolate place on earth, where 40,000-50,000 civilians have lingered,…
