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Joint stakeout by UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura and Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz [The statement below by the UN Special Envoy followed opening remarks by the Austrian Foreign Minister] Thank you…

SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good afternoon, everybody, and let me begin by thanking the Government of Austria again. They have very generously facilitated this latest meeting of the International Syria Support Group and they’ve…

SdeM: Good morning everybody. We have just terminated a long but intense and useful meeting from the Humanitarian taskforce, so I will leave the floor actually to my colleague and friend, Jan Egeland. The only thing I wanted…

The horrific fighting and bombardment in recent days, especially in and around Aleppo, is creating new areas with endless suffering and no access for humanitarians. So, the diplomats sitting in the ISSG are faced with the…

Thank you so much for organizing this opportunity. Merci beaucoup pour être tous ensemble dans le même message. The message is very clear. I was the other day in Geneva where I met John Kerry and the Minister of Foreign…

Remarks by the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura First of all I want to thank you, Mr. US Secretary, for having been so actively involved and coming all the way here to Geneva to address urgently an issue that…

SdeM - Good afternoon. I think I have said all what I needed to say yesterday night or early morning, but you will see it is obviously linked to the discussions we have had now at the special meeting we just ended. So I will…

SdM: Again, my apologies for the delay. Sit, if you want to sit instead of standing. No, please. I and the colleagues here will allow that. Please, please. Let me say a few words, and since you have been waiting for so long…

Good evening. Monday I think I told you that today I was going to make a pause in the moment and come out from the meetings and come here and talk to you about what we have come up with, in terms of taking stock and what are…

Staffan de Mistura (SdM): I was away yesterday for personal family reasons, so my apologies if I could not be with you yesterday. But we all have a family, too, and sometimes we do have a coincidence of urgent family issues…

Arabic Staffan de Mistura (SdM): Good evening, it has been an intense day so let me recap my points if I may. Let me make some comments and then it will take some questions because I think it is worth it having your questions…

Transcript of the stakeout by the Special Envoy for Syria after the meeting of the Humanitarian Access Task Force Arabic version SdeM: Let me raise some points that have been raised so far in these meetings. I cannot deny…