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نسبي في سوريا عبر خطوط التماس التي لم تتغير إلى حد كبير. على الرغم من ذلك، فقد كنت أسلط الضوء على استم ارر الحوادث والمخاطر التي ُتلحقها بالمدنيين، وعلى هشاشة الوضع القائم.

We take note that today a presidential election is being held under the auspices of the current constitution. As indicated previously, this is not part of the political process called for in Security Council resolution 2254. The UN is not involved in this election and has no mandate to be involved

The Syrian Women’s Advisory Board are meeting in Geneva this week - for the first time in person for a year. I thank the Swiss authorities for enabling this. WAB members have been very active in providing me and my team with vital information from the ground and counsel on the political process.

The Syrian conflict has now raged for ten years – roughly the length of World War 1 and World War 2 combined. Ten years ago, peaceful popular demonstrations were violently suppressed.

As the Syrian people face the year 2021, a decade of conflict has seen them experience death, injury, displacement, destructions, detention, torture, terror, violations, indignities, instability, intervention, occupation, division, de-development and destitution on a massive scale.