The Board of Inquiry into the incident involving a UN-Syrian Arab Red Crescent relief operation to Urum al-Kubra on 19 September submitted its report to the Deputy Secretary-General this afternoon.  

The Secretary-General will examine it very carefully over the next few days.  We owe it to the victims of the incident and to their courageous humanitarian colleagues who risk their lives every day to help those in need to clarify what happened.  Only by doing so will it be possible to learn the lessons from this incident and help prevent any repetition of it.