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Office of the Special Envoy for Syria Press Statement - Resumption of Intra-Syrian talks
01 March 2016
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Geneva (01 March 2016)- The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, today announced that intra-Syrian peace talks will resume in the afternoon of 9 March 2016.
The 7th of March 2016 was initially set as the target date for the resumption of peace talks. In order to allow adequate time to address logistical and practical matters, the…
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Staffan De Mistura, Special Envoy for Syria - Briefing to the Security Council pursuant to Resolution 2254(2015)
27 February 2016
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Mr. President, Members of the Security Council,
1. On behalf of the Secretary-General, I welcome the adoption – I hope soon, of a resolution, which will address the issue we worked on for long. We have come a long way since the first meeting of the International Syria Support Group in Vienna on 30 October 2015. Much has also…
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Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Syria
26 February 2016
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The Secretary-General welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2268 by the Security Council, which endorsed the Joint Statement of the United States and the Russian Federation, as Co-Chairs of the ISSG, on the Cessation of Hostilities in Syria, and the demand that it begins at 00:00 Damascus time on 27 February.
The full implementation of this resolution -…
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Transcript of the Press Conference by UN Special Envoy for Syria
Staffan de Mistura, Geneva 26 February 2016
26 February 2016
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SdeM: Today, there’s been quite a lot of discussions and events taking place here in Geneva related to what happened just now. And by midday today, there were 97 armed groups plus the Government, all the major regional and international stakeholders, who indicated in time – by, as you remember, midday, which was the time for…
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Office of the Special Envoy for Syria Press Release
18 February 2016
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Arabic version
The second meeting of the Task Force on Humanitarian Access in Syria will take place tomorrow at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The meeting will be co-chaired by the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, and Mr. Jan Egeland, Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy, and will be attended by representatives of the ISSG members. The purpose of this second…
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Transcript of Press Stakeout by Mr. Jan Egeland following the meeting on Task Force on Humanitarian Access in Syria
18 February 2016
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Geneva, 18 Feb. 2016
My name is Jan Egeland, I am the Special Adviser of the Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura. I Co-chaired this second meeting of the task force for the humanitarian access for the International Support Group for Syria, and I am happy to say that we could report progress since the first meeting a…
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Transcript of stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura
Damascus, 18 February 2016
18 February 2016
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SdeM: Let me first of all say I had a conference call with the 18 countries who are part of the International Support Group. We had a video conference just today in Geneva, and we were reporting together with Yacoub El Hillo and Khawla Mattar how this long night took place. And I must say, I must say, they were all very encouraged by the…
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Joint Statement by Mr. Yacoub El Hillo, UN Resident and Humanitarian
Coordinator in Syria and Mr. Kevin Kennedy, Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the
Crisis in Syria on Attacks on Hospitals and Schools in Syria
17 February 2016
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(Damascus, 16 February 2016)
Yesterday, reports indicate that six hospitals and one primary health care facility were damaged or destroyed in air attacks in northern and southern Syria, including the only operational hospital in…
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Statement by the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect on the situation of civilians in the Syrian Arab Republic
15 February 2016
Statements and Speeches
New York, 12 February 2016
The Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect, Jennifer…
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Statement of the International Syria Support Group
12 February 2016
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Meeting in Munich on February 11 & 12, 2016, as the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), the Arab League, China, Egypt, the EU, France, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and the United States decided that humanitarian access will…
