Syrian people must not be failed again
- Syria has weighed on my mind for a long time: 15 years of trauma for its people and 15 years of failure in international engagement.
- I was directly involved in the latter – as a senior member of the United Nations’ Special Envoy’s Office, and later as head of UN OCHA – and so I cannot claim innocence before the Syrian people.
- In my time at the UN, I had to attend numerous meetings with senior officials of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, including the Syrian president himself.
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- Syria has weighed on my mind for a long time: 15 years of trauma for its people and 15 years of failure in international engagement.
- I was directly involved in the latter – as a senior member of the United Nations’ Special Envoy’s Office, and later as head of UN OCHA – and so I cannot claim innocence before the Syrian people.
- In my time at the UN, I had to attend numerous meetings with senior officials of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, including the Syrian president himself.
Sources: Al Jazeera