SG: High Commissioner Filippo Grandi and I have just taken part in an important meeting on sharing responsibility for Syrian refugees through pathways for admission. We are all aware that there is no substitute for a comprehensive and credible political settlement in Syria, and we welcome signs of…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the United Nations Children’s Agency and the United Nations Refugee Agency. UN Secretary-General Mr. Fawzi announced that the Secretary-General would be in Geneva on 30 March…

Arabic versionExplanatory Note This is an Explanatory Note to the Special Envoy’s Paper on Points of Commonalities. It sets out what the official purpose is of the paper. During the course of talks the Special Envoy noted that certain commonalities existed between the two sides in relation to their…

The Human Rights Council concluded its thirty-first regular session this evening after adopting 40 texts – 37 resolutions, two decisions and one Presidential Statement – on a wide range of issues, as well as its report for the session. The Council also adopted the outcome of the Universal Periodic…

Moderator: Good afternoon everyone, and thank you for your patience. Here we are at the end of the first round of the Intra-Syrian talks. You’ve heard the UN Special Envoy almost every day since the beginning of these talks and tonight he intends to give you a wrap-up of where we are. A few…

JE: We are making further progress in getting access to the civilian population in Syria and we are concentrating, in the taskforce on humanitarian access, on the besieged areas but also equally important the so-called hard-to-reach areas. Importantly, last night we were able to reach – with an…

The Geneva International Discussions have just concluded their 35th round. During the meeting, the participants reached an important agreement on the resumption of the work of the Gali / Gal Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM). At the same time, they appreciated the intense work going…

SdeM: I am delighted to be able to be together with the EU High Representative, Federica Mogherini, who has been asked by me, and I am very grateful to you, for being here on a special day. Not only because it is an occasion for all of us at the UN to, through you, express our strong solidarity to…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i., United Nations Information Service in Geneva, and Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Mine Action Service, the World Food…

[In response to a question about the composition of the Syrian Women’s Advisory Board delegation, the Special Envoy said the following before delivering his own statement at the stakeout.] SdeM: I can tell you that they really represent various realities of the Syrian situation. One of them is a…