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Jeffrey

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2018-09-18
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2019-11-22
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  1. “I especially want to emphasize our work with the Russian Federation, including Secretary of State Pompeo's trip to Sochi to meet with President Putin in May. We believe that there is a way forward, as long as we maintain a policy focused on the political process, putting pressure on the regime and on those who support it, and ultimately the achievement of a national ceasefire with a View to reaching a compromise solution that will finally put an end to this terrible war, which from the use of chemical weapons to the millions ofrefugees destabilizing entire areas, and from the rise of various terrorist groups to the mass slaughter of civilians, has been such a disgrace for the world.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  2. “We believe that position is consistent with that of many of our European and Middle Eastern partners, and we will work closely with them to ensure that this pressure is sustained. Any efforts to provide reconstruction assistance at this moment is premature, and here we appreciate the importance of the United Nations assistance in adhering to its principles and parameters in support of a political solution. That is our third area of emphasis. However, our fourth priority in support of a viable political solution is based on trying to find compromises and alternatives to a military solution, something that the regime, at any rate, still believes to be possible. My Government in particular has worked with many of those around this table.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  3. “In the past year three of our partners have been struck by those weapon systems. In particular we support Israel's right to defend itself and to act in self-defence when it needs to. Our second priority is the achievement of a nationwide ceasefire. Our third is maintaining unrelenting diplomatic and economic pressure on Damascus by the international community to push forward on our other goals, because we believe that we will not get them without that pressure. In that regard, the United States maintains its position that no reconstruction assistance can be provided to Damascus in the areas that it controls until a credible and irreversible political process is in place, in line with resolution 2254 (2015), and until we are sure that it is well under way.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  4. “Four of the five outside armies concerned, as well as the Syrian army and several major non-State actors, are all manoeuvring, sometimes shooting at each other in a very confined and dangerous area. Meanwhile, in Idlib in the north-west we have seen a new increase in violence. As Ms. Al Hallak reminded us, yesterday we saw a terrible incident of a long-range strategic missile fired - deliberately, in our view - into an area for internally displaced persons next to a maternity hospital, killing and wounding scores of people. Finally, there was an increase in violence last week involving three of the other major State military forces in the air over Syria. Blame should be placed in that regard on the Iranian Government for continuing to move long-range weapon systems into Syria in order to continue its dangerous actions through its proxies.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  5. “Pursuant to a decision by the Security Council, we now have two platforms that are officially recognized by the international community for dealing with Syria and the problems related to the Syrian conflict - the regime in Damascus and a congress of members of all political Views in Geneva. We have no doubt that that balance, particularly the part of it based on the work that can be done in Geneva, can open the door to a much better future ifthe Council supports it fully. That is therefore our first prescription for finding a solution to this terrible crisis. The second, also pursuant to resolution 2254 (2015), is a ceasefire. We should think about what we have seen since the Council last met to talk about Syria (see S/PV.8645). We have seen major new outbreaks of fighting with the Turkish incursion into the north-east.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  6. “Ms.AlHallak's presentation was a very commendable and moving depiction of the problems that this terrible conflict has wrought on Syrian civilians, particularly women. We thank her very much once again. We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen for his remarks and even more so for the pivotal role he played in last month's launching of the Constitutional Committee. We congratulate him personally, as well as the Secretary-General and the United Nations generally, on that signal achievement. But while we must not mistake one individual step, however important, for the peace that we are pursuing, we must still consider the significance of what has happened in Geneva.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  7. “I would like to remind speakers of our standard of a five-minute time limit for statements. I now give the floor to the representative of Turkey.”

    2018-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8355 (2018) · source

  8. “We understand that Russia, back at the beginning, told us that it was fully on board and promised that the committee would fully support the United Nations Geneva process. As Mr. De Mistura said, it is urgent to move forward now. The United Nations should therefore set a date for the first meeting of the committee and move forward with creating such a new constitution. We should hear back from the United Nations on its progress by 31 October. I urge other Security Council partners to support such an approach. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I shall now give the floor to those Council members who wish to make statements.”

    2018-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8355 (2018) · source

  9. “Again, the only way forward is a genuine and inclusive political solution. Last week, I and others met with Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura to determine how we advance the Geneva political process. That has to be our focus. We need talks that stick to the road map for a new constitution and elections in line with resolution 2254 (2015). The United States is fully committed to that effort, which is why I am here today to support Ambassador Haley and her team here in New York. In our view, Special Envoy De Mistura should therefore immediately move forward as he has laid out, with the convening of a constitutional committee in keeping with his mandate. We have been discussing such a committee since January.”

    2018-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8355 (2018) · source

  10. “Iran cannot dictate the future for the Syrian people. If Russia is interested in bringing peace to Syria, it should make sure that Iran and its militias leave Syria once and for all. The risk of a broader conflict will leave with them. Iran is responsible for creating the Syria we see today: a broken and violent country. The Syrian people know full well who did this to them. No one will forget. We must prevent the people of Syria from facing yet another catastrophe at the hands of the Al-Assad regime, and the only way forward is a lasting ceasefire, as called for in resolution 2254 (2015). Yesterday, as we just heard, Russia and Turkey agreed to stabilize the situation in Idlib. We call on all parties to commit to a lasting ceasefire and to take immediate steps to advance the Geneva peace process further.”

    2018-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8355 (2018) · source

  11. “That is why they ask for the three Rs: recognition of the regime, reconstruction money and pushing Syria's neighbours to send refugees home before it is safe to do so, trying to sweep the past seven years of violence under the rug. Let us be serious. Al-Assad and the henchmen who unleashed these atrocities will never be welcome in the world of civilized nations. They will get no help to rebuild, certainly not from us. I cannot imagine that any other Government would want to explain to its people why it would send aid to the barbaric Al-Assad regime. There will not be stability in Syria as long as Iran and its proxy forces remain. Those groups are responsible for some of the most egregious violence in this war. They have directed the regime's starve-and- surrender campaign. They are now on Israel's doorstep. That is unacceptable.”

    2018-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8355 (2018) · source

  12. “There is nowhere to take shelter." It is for Hiba, for the 3 million civilians struggling alongside her in Idlib and for all her fellow citizens across Syria and in the diaspora that we need to see not just another stop-gap arrangement but a lasting ceasefire that paves the way for a credible political solution in line with resolution 2254 (2015) and the Geneva process. As President Trump has stated, Bashar Al-Assad of Syria must not recklessly attack Idlib. There is no military solution to this conflict. Russia wants the world to believe that after a military campaign everything will go back to the way it used to be.”

    2018-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8355 (2018) · source

  13. “For 3 million Syrians, Idlib is their last hope for refugee from the Al-Assad regime's reign of terror, as we just heard from the Under-Secretary-General. Those people know Al-Assad's brutality all too well. That is because many of them, 1.4 million of them to be exact, already fled their homes before. One of those people is a 24-year-old woman named Hiba. Hiba and her family left the town of eastern Ghouta in March. At that time, the Secretary-General described the assault on eastern Ghouta as "hell on Earth". Hiba and her family were forced to flee to Idlib, hoping to find a place where they would not have to fear for their lives. But now Hiba is on the front line once again. As she told a reporter, "We saw enough bombing in eastern Ghouta. I cried so much when I heard the warplanes again.”

    2018-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8355 (2018) · source

  14. “I thank Mr. Lowcock for his briefing. I shall now make a statement in my national capacity as the Secretary of State's Special Representative for Syria Engagement, and at the invitation of Ambassador Haley. I thank her for her leadership to support the people of Syria and her invitation to be present here today. I thank Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura and Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for their briefings. Before I continue, I would like to express sorrow to our Security Council partner Russia for the tragic loss of life when the Russian plane was downed yesterday. The unfortunate incident reminds us of the need to find a permanent, peaceful and political resolution to the conflict, in line with resolution 2254 (2015).”

    2018-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8355 (2018) · source

  15. “I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2018/845, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014), 2191 (2014), 2258 (2015), 2332 (2016), 2393 (2017) and 2401 (2018) . I now give the floor to Mr. De Mistura.”

    2018-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8355 (2018) · source

  16. “In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Syrian Arab Republic and Turkey to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: Mr. Staffan de Mistura, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. The Security Councilwill now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda.”

    2018-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8355 (2018) · source