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Transcript of a press encounter with Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, after today's meeting of the Humanitarian Access Task Force
17 March 2016
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Jan Egeland: We just finished the fifth of the taskforce meeting on humanitarian matters of the ISSG, International Support Group for Syria.
We could report that today the third convoy to the four towns has been able to go on its way. They are delivering as we speak to Madaya, to Zabadani, to Kafreya and to Foah. That convoy was held up twice in the last week because of fighting and it shows that still it is very difficult in many areas to get through with our…
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Transcript of press encounter with Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, after a meeting with the High Negotiations Committee (HNC)
17 March 2016
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Staffan de Mistura (SdeM): Good evening. Well, it is a good thing to recap. We had today three events, and you must have had already one debriefing on that. We had the Humanitarian Task Force. Jan Egeland debriefed you on that. And the perception we have is that the progress this time is being slow, let’s be frank. But when we were actually having the meeting there was the news that the convoys were moving towards 50,000 new beneficiaries. But we are eager to see an incremental…
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Transcript of the press encounter by Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzy Ezzeddine Ramzy following a meeting with the Syrian Government Delegation
16 March 2016
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RER: Good afternoon. We had a useful meeting today. We discussed issues of substance as you will recall on Monday. The government of Syria delegation provided us with some ideas on the political process. We reacted to them, through seeking further clarifications. I think that the discussion was substantive, and it laid the ground for further important substantive discussion in the future.
We also, just for your information, will be continuing our discussions with other participants this…
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Transcript of press encounter by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, following his meeting with the High Negotiations Committee
15 March 2016
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SdeM: We had a late afternoon meeting today; it started around 5:00 o’clock and ended a few minutes ago. It was with the HNC, the High Negotiations Committee. The first moment of this meeting was dedicated to commemorating by standing, everyone in silence for a minute; we should have been standing in silence for 300,000 minutes, remembering all those in Syria who have died during the five years of these tragic events of their own history.
We then went into the discussions about how to proceed on the…
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Transcript of Press Briefing by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura
14 March 2016
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Thank you. I will take two or three questions. The first thing I will like to say is, I would like, on behalf of the Secretary-General and of my own team, to express my own condolences and those of the United Nations for this horrific attack which took place in Ankara yesterday. It is the first opportunity for me to say so. I did call very early this morning, the Turkish Ambassador here in Geneva, to express our own sadness about it.
Let me qualify a little bit now the talks, and then give you some indications about information I can give you at this stage, we…
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Transcript of Press encounter with Staffan de Mistura after his meeting with the Syrian Arab Republic delegation
14 March 2016
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SDeM: During the first meeting, which lasted about more than an hour together with the representation of the delegation of the government of the Syrian Republic, and led by ambassador Jafaari, we, as expected, went through various procedural issues that we wanted to clarify so we are all on the same page.
This is exactly what we will do with everyone else we will be meeting. Then we also came up with the fact that the next meeting, which is expected to take place on Wednesday morning, will be focusing on the agenda, the one set…
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Transcript of press encounter with Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria; Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria and Yacoub El Hillo, UN Resident/ Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Represen
09 March 2016
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SdeM : Good morning. A few general points to put it into context, and then I will give the floor to you, Jan, and to Yacoub. One general point regarding the humanitarian aspect, but there will be more details on it, and then put it into context with the talks, that I’m sure you’re interested in. And then, how the issues of humanitarian aid, the cessation of hostilities and the talks…
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Transcript of the Press encounter of Staffan de Mistura and Jan Egeland on progress of Humanitarian Access Task Force
04 March 2016
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SDM: Good afternoon, thank you for your patience, I will address a few points that are of overall relevance to what we are trying to do: the current state of affairs of the cessation of hostilities and secondly how that has an impact on the humanitarian aid. I will give the floor to you Jan, and I will make some comments about the resumption of the Geneva Intra-Syrian Talks. Everything is in one way or not connected.
So let me first of all address the issue about cessation of hostilities which, as you know naturally, has…
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THE SECRETARY-GENERAL REMARKS TO THE MEDIA WITH MAESTRO DANIEL BARENBOIM
29 February 2016
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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
It is a pleasure for me to welcome today United Nations Messenger of Peace Daniel Barenboim and members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
For the past nine years, Maestro Barenboim has used his extraordinary talent and commitment to promote peace and tolerance, the core values of our Organization, as a United Nations Messenger of Peace.
Well before that, he was uniting young musicians from Israel and Arab countries to foster dialogue and people-to-people diplomacy, in the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra that he founded with…
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SECRETARY-GENERAL DESIGNATES THE WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA AS UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL ADVOCATE FOR CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING
29 February 2016
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today designated the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as a United Nations Global Advocate for Cultural Understanding. The designation took place at an event at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), attended by the Secretary-General and by the world-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, the Orchestra’s co-founder and a UN Messenger of Peace.
“The work of the Orchestra is testimony to the power of music to break down barriers and to build bridges between…
