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Question: Mr. Pedersen: How would you describe the discussion? Another question: It was a long meeting, something good? Mr. Pedersen: We had an in-depth discussion as you can understand, it lasted for more than two hours. We…

Very good to see you and a good Friday afternoon. I hope your week has not been as hectic as mine has been. But anyway, good to see you. Let me do the following, let me sort of guide you through a little bit how the week…

Very good to see you all. Pleased that we can meet like this as Jenifer said. It is now close to two years since we had the first meeting of the Constitutional Committee. Then, as you will recall, 150 members met here in…

Mr. Pedersen: Thank you Jenifer, and as always good to see you. You heard my briefing, I started by quoting the High Commissioner for Human Rights and her announcement about the work that they have been doing, identifying…

Thank you so much, and always a pleasure being here in Moscow to be able to meet with you (Russian Foreign Minister Mr. Sergey Lavrov) and your team here. Let me also start by saying how much we appreciate the strong support…

Question: When are you going to announce the 6 th round of the Geneva talks [Constitutional Committee], and how maybe the cross-border access and any Russian and American agreement will help you in that. Mr. Pedersen: Let me…

Great to see you again. I have seen some of you virtually, but not in person now for 18 months, so it has been a long time. It is also the first time in 18 months that I actually sit down and have a discussion with the…

Let me start by thanking my friend the High Representative of the EU and Vice-President of the Commission, Mr. Borrell – Ministers, Excellencies, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, Earlier this month we all commemorated the…

As you know I just concluded my briefing to the Security Council, and this of course, is for all of us, a very special day – it is ten years since the beginning of the Syrian tragedy. And as I told the Council, the Syrian…

Thank you, Jenifer. As you may know, this was a briefing I gave in so-called close consultations after the decision by the Security Council itself. As always, I was heartened by the fact that all members of the Council gave…

Thank you so much Jenifer and good to see you all. And also good afternoon or good morning to all of those of you I cannot see. We have just concluded the fifth session of the drafting body of the Syrian Constitutional…

Let me start by thanking you all for joining us today, even though most of you are joining us virtually. And let me thank you all for cooperating with the COVID-19 restrictions that are in place. It goes without saying that…