UN envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen warned the UN Security Council on Wednesday of " imminent escalation danger" in north-western Syria after recent statements by Turkey and Russia.
"I cannot report any progress to end the violence in the northwest or restart the political process ," he said at a monthly Security Council meeting on Syria. Despite intense discussions, "no agreement" has been reached between Moscow and Ankara and, "on the contrary" , recent statements "suggest an imminent danger of escalation," added the envoy.
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Despite intense discussions, "no agreement" has been reached between Moscow and Ankara and, "on the contrary" , recent statements "suggest an imminent danger of escalation," added the envoy.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday drew a harsh warning from Moscow after threatening to launch a military offensive in Syria soon against Bashar al-Assad regime forces in the northwestern Idleb region . Recalling that some 900,000 people had been displaced around Idleb, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mark Lowcock, said that " more than 500,000 of them are children ". "People are fleeing in excruciating conditions, " he said.
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Among the interventions by member countries of the Security Council, Germany appealed to the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to take action to end the conflict. The process known as Astana (bringing together Russia, Turkey, Iran) is finished, underlined Berlin, supported on this subject by London, while the United States provided its support in the current standoff to Turkey, member of the 'NATO and which assumes, recalled Washington, considerable weight in welcoming millions of Syrian refugees.
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