Arabic Staffan de Mistura (SdM): Good evening, it has been an intense day so let me recap my points if I may. Let me make some comments and then it will take some questions because I think it is worth it having your questions and I would take exceptionally five questions, in view of the long day…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i. of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, International Organization for Migration, United Nations Office for Disaster…

Transcript of the stakeout by the Special Envoy for Syria after the meeting of the Humanitarian Access Task Force Arabic version SdeM: Let me raise some points that have been raised so far in these meetings. I cannot deny that everyone in the meeting was disappointed; indeed many of them are…

Staffan de Mistura (SdeM): Since we have not seen each other for a while, I will try to be a little bit more extensive. I just returned actually today after a quite intensive visit to Moscow, Amman, Damascus, Teheran, and the main purpose was to sound the authorities in these capitals about their…

Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, and Ma Zhaoxu, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva, yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding whereby China will finance the full refurbishment…

Media Statement from the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria The Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, has just briefed the Security Council by Videoconference from the last leg of his trip, on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2268. Mr. de Mistura arrived in Tehran…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the International Organization for Migration, the United…

Transcript of press stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura Following his meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs in Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian Thank you. Well I came to Teheran to meet Deputy (Foreign)…

Robert Dufter Salama, the new Permanent Representative of Malawi to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.Mr. Salama is an export trade and investment promotion specialist who worked at the…

Good afternoon everyone. I just ended some talks and discussions with His Excellency the Foreign Minister (Walid) Muallem and his team. The purpose was to discuss the preparation of the Geneva talks. The Geneva talks which we are planning to start, as you know, on the 13th of April, upon my return…