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Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy: Good afternoon. As usual we will give you a very brief political update, not much has been happening as you know in the past week since the Special Envoy delivered his political update. The Special Envoy…

SdeM: Good morning. There has been a while we have not seen each other so I think it is a good time for also sharing the broader picture with you, I will then take obviously some questions, and then Jan will be focusing on…

Transcript of press conference at close of 7th round of intra-Syrian talks by UN Special Envoy for Syria NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS Transcript of press conference by the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, at the end…

SdM: Thank you for being here, since you are so many I will provide time for questions, it is only fair that this takes place. I will be making a little longer remarks than I am used to do because I would like to, and you…

Good evening, we will be relatively short but I think we, as the UN need to make some comments about this meeting in Astana. The first one, I think, on behalf of the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres and of everyone present…

Mr. President [Sacha Sergio Llorentty Solíz of Bolivia], Dear colleagues, 1. Let me start by giving a summary of what is our own analysis based on the latest developments and on some of the possible future steps ahead. As…

JE: Thank you very much, we just finished a meeting of the Humanitarian Task Force of International Syria Support Group. We laid out a number of very worrying trends in Syria and especially bad things that keep affecting the…

SdM: True, this is not the most important perhaps job in the world, but one of the most complicated at the moment. I was trying during, and I’m not revealing a secret, I was trying to convey to those who are participating to…

Mr. President [Amb. Elio Rosselli of Uruguay], Dear colleagues, 1. When I briefed you in April, we together saw two paths ahead: either international escalation and internal escalation and deeper intra-Syrian conflict; or…

SdM: Let me read to you some comments and then of course I will take some questions, so don’t be intimidated by the formality of my comments. Today we concluded a sixth round of the intra-Syrian talks. You must have seen and…

SdM: I have here with me Stephanie Koury, who is our director in the office we have in Damascus, and on my right side Ambassador Ramzi, who has just been back from a short mission to Damascus. This is basically a preparatory…

Transcript of press Conference of Deputy of UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy (Arabic and English) المؤتمر الصحفي لنائب المبعوث الخاص للأمم المتحدة رمزي عزالدين رمزي دمشق 13 أيار 2017 سؤال…