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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…

SdM: Good afternoon, I am here with Jan Egeland, so I will give the floor to Jan so that we have some questions related to its own area of attention, separately from the political ones. So I will more or less address now the…

Good afternoon, Today in Astana I think we have been able to witness an important promising positive step in the right direction in the process of de-escalation of the conflict. As you all know there is already a ceasefire…

I would like to address the issue that you are familiar with: the concerns that have been coming out based on some events that have taken place in Syria. I would like to say that the United Nations is very concerned at the…

Good afternoon. You have being obviously listening because this has been an open meeting, so you're not going to reframe or re-paraphrase what had been said by the different delegations. Let me summarise it with, or summarise…