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  1. Opening remarks at press encounter on the Report of the Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic: Report on the incident of 21 August 2013 in the Ghouta area of Damascus

    ... to Investigate Allegations of the use of Chemical Weapons in Syria has concluded that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale ... weapons never re-emerge as an instrument of warfare. Syria’s accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention and its belated ...

  2. Oral report to the General Assembly on the Implementation of Resolution 66/253 adopted on 16 February 2012

    ... regularly informed. We have all watched the events in Syria this week with growing alarm. We have seen heavy artillery shelling ... Ms. Valerie Amos, has not been able to travel to Syria despite repeated assurances. I once again urge the authorities to allow ...

  3. Remarks to General Assembly informal interactive dialogue on "The Responsibility to Protect: State Responsibility and Prevention"

    ... our efforts to protect people from them. The crisis in Syria is a case in point. While there have been significant efforts by the ... the wide range of protection measures that are being used in Syria, both in response to the atrocities that have taken place and to prevent ...

  4. Opening remarks to the press at news conference

    ... face tremendous troubles and turmoil. The calamity in Syria is without doubt our main immediate test. The humanitarian situation ... January. The political environment remains polarized in Syria and in the region. The Security Council must find the unity the people ...

  5. Remarks at General Assembly High-Level Forum on Culture of Peace

    ... suffering and dying from violence and atrocity crimes. Syria is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis today. I have condemned the ... may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. In Syria, Iraq and beyond, we are doing everything possible to save lives. We ...

  6. Remarks to the Security Council

    ... in the recent confrontations between Iran and Israel in Syria.   Mr. President, Syria indeed today represents the most serious threat to international peace ...

  7. Remarks to Security Council High-Level Summit on Foreign Terrorist Fighters

    ... is a consequence -- not a cause -- of the conflict in Syria. A long period of upheaval and, until recently, unresponsive ... in Iraq – coupled with outrageous human rights abuses in Syria -- have created a hothouse of horrors. There can be no genuine ...

  8. Remarks to the 6th Istanbul Mediation Conference

    ... tools to reduce and end conflict.   As the tragedy in Syria grinds on for an eighth year, with civilians paying the hightest price, ... I welcome recent efforts to end the fighting in northeast Syria through dialogue. I remain very concerned about the situation in Idlib, ...

  9. Secretary-General's remarks at the Seton Hall University commencement 

    ... division on a scale not seen in decades — from Yemen to Syria, from Ethiopia to the Sahel and beyond. And, of course, the war in ...

  10. Opening remarks at press encounter

    ... I was focused on the tragic and intolerable situation in Syria. I met in London with Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan. He is working ... [Operations], Mr. Hervé Ladsous, recently travelled to Syria, where he called on the Government to halt its use of heavy weapons and ...