Clarification from the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria

18 Dec 2020

Clarification from the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria


The Office of the Special Envoy wishes to clarify that, in the briefing to the Security Council of 16 December 2020, an honest technical oversight in a translation led the briefing to describe some Middle Third members as putting forward points during the recent Constitutional Committee session related to “restorative justice”. They did not use that term in their written and oral statements. And the particular statement that the briefing referred to in fact only mentioned “restitutive justice” in the context of housing, land and property rights.