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UN official urges sustained pressure on parties to Syria conflict to ensure aid access

30 September 2014
Middle East Some 11 million people urgently need assistance in Syria, and more than 4.7 million of them are in areas which aid agencies can only reach by bringing relief supplies across ... 2165, authorizing cross-border and cross-line access for the UN and its partners to deliver humanitarian aid in Syria without the consent of the State. According to OCHA, 14 additional cross-border aid convoys authorized by the ... Ban Ki-moon noted that despite the valiant efforts of humanitarian workers delivering aid at great personal risk, Syria remains the world's largest and most pressing humanitarian crisis, with regional and global implications. “Needs, ...
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Victims of ISIL brutality 'waiting on us to act', Syrian leader tells UN Assembly

29 September 2014
... on more than one occasion and on more than one international platform about the grave danger of the terrorism striking Syria,” said Walid Al-Moualem, who is also Syria's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, recalling that his country had long stressed that terrorism and ... do not recognize borders. Telling the Assembly that ISIL is “unrivalled in funding and brutality”, he said that in Syria and Iraq, the group is enslaving women, raping them and selling them in slave markets; it is cutting heads and ...
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Bahrain minister focuses UN Assembly address on terrorism, illegal occupation

29 September 2014
... a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda” as well as urgent crises ranging from the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and South Sudan. Bahrain minister focuses UN Assembly address on terrorism, illegal occupation ...
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Amid regional crises, UN chief urges continued international support for Lebanon

26 September 2014
... the country received “far less assistance than it needs.” “As long as the region is aflame and the war in Syria continues, the rights and safety of refugees in Lebanon must be respected in accordance with international ... on Lebanon will remain immense and the burden it is bearing must be shared,” Mr. Ban continued. As the conflict in Syria enters its fourth year, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) has registered over 950,000 ...
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Crimes in Syria, Iraq cannot be accepted by any religion, Lebanon’s leader tells UN

26 September 2014
... Tammam Salam, said that his country finds itself in the middle of a turbulent region and that the events unfolding in Syria and Iraq represent human crimes which “cannot be understood nor accepted by any mind or religion.” “These ... world to have a Christian president, which demonstrates the country’s exceptional pattern of coexistence. The war in Syria, nearing on four years, has driven to Lebanon nearly one and a half million displaced Syrians, a number equivalent ... territorial waters, oil and gas resources. Israel must be held accountable for war crimes committed in Gaza. Crimes in Syria, Iraq cannot be accepted by any religion, Lebanon’s leader tells UN ...
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Syria, Iraq among crises driving some 330,000 to seek refugee status – UN agency

26 September 2014
... the same period a year earlier, and slightly higher than in the second half of last year (328,100 claims). Overall, Syria was the main country of origin of people seeking asylum with a more than two-fold increase (48,400 claims compared ... its annual Global Trends report. Reports on asylum in industrialized countries are normally published twice annually. Syria, Iraq among crises driving some 330,000 to seek refugee status – UN agency ...
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Kuwait tells UN Assembly Arab States should have permanent Security Council seat

25 September 2014
... the demographic nature of Jerusalem by its Judaization.” He also deplored exacerbation of the cycle of violence in Syria that has “claimed the lives of more than 190,000 people, caused 3 million people to become refugees, and displaced ... a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda” as well as urgent crises ranging from the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and South Sudan. Kuwait tells UN Assembly Arab States should have permanent Security Council seat ...
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At UN Assembly, Iran calls for united front against ‘false’ Muslims killing in name of Islam

25 September 2014
... he said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), whose beheading of hostages in Syria and massacres and persecution of Christians, Yazidis and other Muslims in Iraq have dominated much of the debate at ...
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Despite ongoing crisis, UN hails ‘significant progress’ in helping Syria’s children

24 September 2014
... UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake underscored the importance of assisting the war children, adding that Syria’s youths were the pillars of the country’s future. “Helping the children of Syria is investing in the future of Syria, as today’s children are tomorrow’s doctors, teachers, lawyers and leaders,” Mr. Lake declared. A UNICEF ...
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Mid-east, Gulf leaders strive for international response to terrorism in Syria

24 September 2014
... for the international community to work hard to put an end to the bloodshed and the systematic destruction of Syria by a regime that has put its people between a rock and a hard place to choose between accepting its presence at the ... quipped. In his address, King Abdullah II of Jordan stressed that a political solution must be found to the conflict in Syria which has spurred 1.4 million people to cross into Jordan’s borders, making his country the third largest host of ... response has not kept pace with the real needs,” the King said, urging a concerted effort to get aid flowing into Syria and neighbouring host communities. Both leaders also highlighted the plight of their Palestinian neighbours, ...
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