Ban urges global community to help Syria end ‘cataclysmic conflict’

30 June 2015 – The international community should be ashamed that three years since the adoption of the Geneva Communiqué on Syria, the Middle Eastern country’s “cataclysmic conflict” continues unabated, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.

In a statement released by his spokesperson’s office this afternoon, the Secretary-General lamented the lack of movement by global actors towards resolving the four year-long civil war in which more than 200,000 Syrians have been killed and millions more displaced.

“The suffering of the Syrian people continues to plumb new depths,” Mr. Ban declared. “Civilians face a barrage of barrel bombs and other horrendous violations of human rights such as torture and prolonged detention of tens of thousands. There must be no impunity for such inhumanity.”

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the situation in Syria is increasingly gloomy as critical relief efforts stutter, impeded by the fighting, shifting frontlines and the rise of extremist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Jabhat Al-Nusra, and Jaysh Al-Islam.

To that point, the UN chief warned that the growing “patchwork” of Syrian and non-State actors had placed the country’s millenary history “under assault” and opened a wound in the volatile Middle East.

“Syria is on the brink of falling apart,” he added, “putting at even further risk what is already the most unstable region in the world.” - Read More at Ban urges global community 

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