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Transcript of press remarks by Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria Geneva, 27 April 2016
27 April 2016
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SdM: Again, my apologies for the delay. Sit, if you want to sit instead of standing. No, please. I and the colleagues here will allow that. Please, please. Let me say a few words, and since you have been waiting for so long, I will be also giving a chance for questions beyond the usual three and four, because you deserve my respect for you staying as late as now.
So today, as you know, we ended this round of intra-Syrian talks and I just briefed the Security Council a few minutes ago. The last round of talks were the ones previous to this one…
5 years 3 months ago
Verbatim transcript of press stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr.Staffan de Mistura
22 April 2016
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Good evening. Monday I think I told you that today I was going to make a pause in the moment and come out from the meetings and come here and talk to you about what we have come up with, in terms of taking stock and what are the next steps of this round of negotiations, the Intra-Syrian Talks.
So that is what I am planning to do, and focusing on that on my own explanation, and of course I will take questions.
Let me, if you allow me, remind you and remind myself about what are these Intra-Syrian talks, because we have to put it into perspective.…
5 years 3 months ago
Transcript of press stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr Staffan de Mistura, following a meeting of the Humanitarian Access Taskforce
21 April 2016
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Staffan de Mistura (SdM): I was away yesterday for personal family reasons, so my apologies if I could not be with you yesterday. But we all have a family, too, and sometimes we do have a coincidence of urgent family issues to address and I had to do so, so my apologies. Nothing political, no significance on that, no reasons except my own family.
We have - and I am representing Jan Egeland, who was connected on the phone with us - we have an analysis, which I think is quite important today because…
5 years 4 months ago
Transcript of press encounter by the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, after his separate meetings with the delegations of the Syrian Arab Republic and the High Negotiations Committee
18 April 2016
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Staffan de Mistura (SdM): Good evening, it has been an intense day so let me recap my points if I may. Let me make some comments and then it will take some questions because I think it is worth it having your questions and I would take exceptionally five questions, in view of the long day.
First of all some general comments, if I may. No one can deny that the fighting currently taking place in some areas, particularly in Aleppo, is…
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Transcript of the stakeout by the Special Envoy for Syria after the meeting of the Humanitarian Access Task Force
14 April 2016
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Transcript of the stakeout by the Special Envoy for Syria after the meeting of the Humanitarian Access Task Force
Arabic version
SdeM: Let me raise some points that have been raised so far in these meetings. I cannot deny that everyone in the meeting was disappointed; indeed many of them are actually frustrated by the lack of new convoys, in particular in some areas which, as you know, have been identified as besieged areas and identified also by the various international documents. We have not been able to reach so far Douma…
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Transcript of press stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura
13 April 2016
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Staffan de Mistura (SdeM): Since we have not seen each other for a while, I will try to be a little bit more extensive. I just returned actually today after a quite intensive visit to Moscow, Amman, Damascus, Teheran, and the main purpose was to sound the authorities in these capitals about their own advice on how to make sure that this current phase of the Intra-Syrian talks are as productive or as effective as possible.
I must say all of them – that’s why I have to correct a little bit the perception of those who preceded me – indicated interest and support…
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UNOG AND CHINA SIGN AGREEMENT ON THE RENOVATION OF ROOM C6 OF THE PALAIS DES NATIONS
12 April 2016
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Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, and Ma Zhaoxu, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva, yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding whereby China will finance the full refurbishment and renovation of Cinema Room (Room C6) of the Palais des Nations.
“I am delighted that China is contributing to the preservation of the Palais des Nations, which constitutes a historical heritage for mankind and an operational hub of the international system.…
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Transcript of press stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura Following his meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs in Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
12 April 2016
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Transcript of press stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura
Following his meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs in Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
Thank you. Well I came to Teheran to meet Deputy (Foreign) Minister Amir-Abdollahian because this is part of the preparation for the Geneva resumption of its talks, which are…
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Verbatim transcript of stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria following his meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem
11 April 2016
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Good afternoon everyone. I just ended some talks and discussions with His Excellency the Foreign Minister (Walid) Muallem and his team. The purpose was to discuss the preparation of the Geneva talks. The Geneva talks which we are planning to start, as you know, on the 13th of April, upon my return from this regional trip.
The Geneva talks’ next phase are crucially important, are crucially important, because we will be focusing in particular on political transition, on governance, and constitutional principles. We…
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Transcript of press conference by United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura
08 April 2016
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Staffan de Mistura (SdM): The main reason for meeting you today is actually to give you a little bit the overall scenario in what direction we are going, because you have the right to know how this will proceed and what is happening.
Since you have been so much involved already in the past, let me just do a little bit of a sum up of the context, and then we go into the next steps.
Timing of the talks: I have seen lots of reports and messaging about: are the talks postponed? Are they taking place before, after, whatever.
Remember the background…
