AS DELIVERED   Thank you, Mr. President,   Today, I am briefing you from Beirut.   1. As we mark this month twenty years since the passage of Security Council resolution 1325, let me recall the central role that Syrian women must play and are indeed playing in the political…

Thank you so much, really a pleasure connecting with you again, of course, I had hoped it could be in person, sitting together with you in Geneva. Maybe in the not too distant future, we will be able to do that again. I am sure you are just as busy as we are covering COVID-19, among other headlines…

Arabic versionمبعوث الأمم المتحدة لسوريا غير بيدرسون إحاطة لمجلس الأمن 29 نيسان/أبريل 2020 ______السيد الرئيس 1- دعا أعضاء مجلس الأمن الشهر الماضي "كافة الأطراف لضمان فترة مستدامة من الهدوء على كامل الأراضي السورية وأعادوا التأكيد على الحاجة إلى التطبيق الكامل لقرار مجلس الأمن 2254". وقد…

(Near verbatim transcript)SES: Good afternoon and thank you for accepting the short delay, but as Ahmed very clearly mentioned, there have been changes during the whole day in order to make room for other press conferences. Let me make some general comments, or some few specific comments too,…

(Near verbatim transcript)United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura (SES): I am pleased to address you today here in Geneva. As you know, it was announced after my briefing to the Security Council and upon instructions from the Secretary-General starting this week – today, we, the…

(Near verbatim transcript)SES: Good afternoon. The reason why I was planning to see you and be able to talk to you is also to ensure, first of all, it is the beginning of the year; second, there is a lot of things happening, other things may be happening; and three, to have a feeling of where we…

Good afternoon, it’s true the discussion went on for a long time because the issue is certainly coming to the attention of the Security Council in view of the humanitarian situation and also the developments on the ground. That’s why we’ve been having a long consultation. I did brief the Security…

SES: Thank you. Good afternoon to everyone. Good to see you and my apologies for keeping you waiting a little bit today and previous days but I was looking for this opportunity to meet you. At the same time, I was thinking it was going to be a normal opportunity but what happens regarding Syria,…

JSRS: Good day to you all, thank you for coming on a Saturday. We’ve just held our last meeting for this session. It was as laborious as all the meetings we have had but we agreed on an agenda for the next round, when it does take place. The agenda is of four points that we have been discussing…

Near verbatim transcript of press conference by Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS) Lakhdar Brahimi Geneva, 13 February 2014JSRS : Good evening everyone. We just had a two hours meeting with Wendy Sherman, Under-Secretary of State from the United States and Gennady Gatilov, Deputy…