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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

(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 Azaz, cutting off health services to tens of thousands of people and…

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 Welsh, expressed alarm at the deepening humanitarian emergency and lack of protection of…

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…