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Thank you so much, Mr. President, Let me brief you today on the Constitutional Committee, the situation on the ground, and the search for a wider process towards a political solution that implements resolution 2254. As you…

Good afternoon, good to see you, I hope you are doing well. As Jenifer just said, we have concluded the fourth session of the drafting body of the Constitutional Committee. During the week, we have, or they have rather more…

Good morning, I’m sorry for not being able to connect with you live today, and that we are not together in Rome. As you may know, we just started with the 4 th Session of the Syrian Constitutional Committee today. Let me…

Thank you, Jenifer, and good to see you all. I understand we also now connected with friends in New York, so heartily welcome to you as well. I have just now concluded my meeting with the civil society group, the so-called…

Security Council Briefing on the Situation in Syria, Special Envoy Geir O. Pedersen Thank you, Mr. President, Today, I am briefing you from Beirut. As we mark this month twenty years since the passage of Security Council…

Security Council Briefing on Syria, Special Envoy Geir O. Pedersen Thank you Mr. President (Ambassador Abdou Abarry, Niger), I begin today’s briefing recalling – as I did last month -- the deep suffering of the Syrian people…

Thank you so much Jenifer and let me start by saying it is good to see you despite this late hour on Saturday. So, we just concluded the session, after what I call a challenging week, but I was extremely pleased, of course…

Thank you so much Jenifer and thanks to all of you for your understanding. Obviously, the safety for all of us here in the Palais has been our major concern and our top priority. That is why we took no chances and immediately…

Mr. Geir O. Pedersen: Thank you, as Jenifer said, for joining us this morning and for those of you online, thank you for also joining. As you know, it has taken us a little bit of time before we could actually tell you that…

Security Council Briefing on Syria, Special Envoy Geir O. Pedersen Thank you so much Mr. President As I brief you today, I remain acutely conscious of the deep suffering of the Syrian people, who in this decade experienced…

Security Council Briefing on the Situation in Syria by Special Envoy Geir O. Pedersen Mr. President, Minister, Thank you for the opportunity to brief you on Syria and my effort to facilitate the political process pursuant to…

High Representative of the EU and Vice-President of the Commission [Josep] Borrell, Ministers, Excellencies, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me thank the European Union for hosting virtually this fourth Brussels…