JE: We just finished a meeting of the Humanitarian Task Force, of the International Syria Support Group, and this is our findings. After several really very bad weeks for humanitarian access in Syria, we have made progress of late in reaching the besieged areas in Syria. It was very significant…

The Secretary-General met today with H.E. Mr. Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The Secretary-General and the Foreign Minister exchanged views on the situation in Syria. The Secretary-General emphasized that the coming weeks were crucial in advancing a political…

Deputy Secretary-General: Thank you very much. It is good to be back in Geneva, great to see you. I came from New York this morning. I am asked to speak at the Human Rights Council this afternoon. I was the President of the General Assembly ten years ago and conducted the negotiations creating…

My apologies but I just finished a long and intense discussion at the Humanitarian Taskforce and in view of the fact that there are so many issues coming up and being discussed, I had to stay until the end, of course, so my apologies for keeping you waiting. One or two general comments and then of…

UN Deputy Special Envoy, Ramzy E. Ramzy Good afternoon everybody. We just concluded a meeting of the Humanitarian Taskforce. It was an important and useful meeting. It comes against the backdrop of two developments, as you are aware. There has been some positive movement in terms of humanitarian…

Joint press stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura and UN Senior Adviser, Jan Egeland Special Envoy de Mistura Good afternoon. I am going to address two points and then I will leave it to my friend and colleague, Jan, to actually go deeper on this. But the two points that I…

Following the joint press stake-out earlier today in Geneva between the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura and Senior Advisor, Jan Egeland, the Special Envoy briefed the Security Council on the current situation in Syria. This was his first briefing to the Council since the…

The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Jableh and Tartous, Syria, on 23 May, for which Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Da’esh) claimed responsibility, during which more than a hundred people were killed and injured.…

Special Envoy de Mistura: Good afternoon. I am here to explain, because it is the first opportunity following (Vienna), also to explain to you what happened in Vienna and elaborate further. I owe it to you. You are in Geneva. My base is in Geneva and then link it to what has been the discussions…

Joint stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura and Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz [The statement below by the UN Special Envoy followed opening remarks by the Austrian Foreign Minister] Thank you very much. I will speak in English although as you know I speak German…