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Media Statement by the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura
27 August 2016
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Last week, the Special Envoy for Syria appealed for a humanitarian pause of at least 48 hours to deliver United Nations humanitarian aid to Aleppo. He welcomed the response of the Russian Federation to support this proposal.
Since then, the UN developed an Aleppo emergency response plan and conveyed clear UN humanitarian requirements to all…
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Media Statement by the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria,
Mr. Staffan de Mistura
26 August 2016
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Geneva, 26 August 2016 - The situation regarding Darayya is extremely grave. It is tragic that repeated appeals to lift the siege of Darayya, besieged since November 2012, and cease the fighting, have never been heeded.
The Special Envoy has been made aware overnight of an agreement to evacuate residents, both civilians and fighters, starting…
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Transcript (including corrigenda) of joint press stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura and UN Senior Advisor, Mr. Jan Egeland
25 August 2016
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SdeM: Thank you, we are waiting for Yacoub El Hillo who is on his way, because we want to give him a chance today, as it is his last day, as you know, in his current capacity and therefore, we had at the humanitarian task force the opportunity of thanking him and to wish him also the best for…
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Media Statement from the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura
19 August 2016
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Geneva (19 August 2016) - On 11 August, the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, made a particular appeal for the medical the evacuation of people with urgent needs from the besieged towns of Fouah and Madaya.
Today, Mr. de Mistura, therefore welcomes the news of the evacuation of those in need of medical treatment…
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Transcript (including corrigenda) of press stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura
18 August 2016
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SdeM: Good afternoon. Today we had a very short meeting of the Humanitarian Task Force. It lasted not more than 8 minutes. I decided to use my privilege as Chair to declare that there was no sense in have a humanitarian meeting today unless we got some action on the humanitarian side in Syria.
Tomorrow is the World Humanitarian Day and in…
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Media Statement from the the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura
18 August 2016
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Geneva (18 August 2016) - The Special Envoy for Syria, this morning, cut short the regular International Syria Support Group (ISSG) Humanitarian Taskforce meeting, and made, on behalf of the Secretary-General, a strong appeal for a pause of at least 48-hours to deliver UN humanitarian aid to the whole city of Aleppo – a pause…
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Transcript (including a corrigendum) of stakeout by Mr. Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, and Mr. Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria
following the meeting of meeting of the ISSG Humanitarian Taskforce
11 August 2016
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SdeM: Good afternoon. Much is happening, and it has been a long meeting on the humanitarian taskforce for obvious reasons. There have been a lot of new developments this week in terms of…
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Near verbatim transcript of stakeout by Mr. Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, and Mr. Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria,
following the meeting of meeting of the ISSG Humanitarian Taskforce
04 August 2016
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RER. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I will give a general overview of the situation with a particular emphasis on the political process, then Jan Egeland will get into more details…
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Verbatim transcript of stakeout by Mr. Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria
29 July 2016
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Thank you for being available for this further discussion. I must say I owe to you some additional points because all of you asked for some comments on what, at that time, was breaking news, at the humanitarian taskforce. I did not answer your questions then because I said we were going to study the Russian initiative…
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Near verbatim transcript of stakeout by Mr. Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, following the humanitarian taskforce meeting
28 July 2016
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Good afternoon, and sorry for the delay, but as you know there have been new indications and discussions taking place regarding both Aleppo and the overall situation.
Let me first of all say that I am asking my deputy to go to Damascus in the next few days in order to discuss with the Syrian…
