AT G20 SUMMIT, BAN, UN-ARAB LEAGUE ENVOY PUSH FOR POLITICAL SOLUTION TO SYRIAN CRISIS

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Date: 5 Sep 2013 15:00:00 -0400
Subject: AT G20 SUMMIT, BAN, UN-ARAB LEAGUE ENVOY PUSH FOR POLITICAL
SOLUTION TO SYRIAN CRISIS
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AT G20 SUMMIT, BAN, UN-ARAB LEAGUE ENVOY PUSH FOR POLITICAL SOLUTION
TO SYRIAN CRISISNew York, Sep 5 2013 3:00PMWith the world focused on
the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria, United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi reiterated to
leaders attending the St. Petersburg for the Group of 20 (G20) summit
the need to "push even harder" to for a political solution to end the
bloodshed in the war-torn Middle Eastern country.

Speaking to UNTV ahead of the start of the conference, Mr. Ban said
"the current situation caused by the allegation of chemical weapons
use and deteriorating humanitarian situation in Syria urgently
requires world leaders to focus their political will to address this
issue".

Mr. Brahimi, the Joint Special Representative of the UN and the League
of Arab States for Syrian, arrived in the Russian city earlier today
at Mr. Ban's request.

The UN chief said that he had
<"http://www.un.org/sg/offthecuff/index.asp?nid=2969">asked Mr.
Brahimi to join him in St. Petersburg to press for the early convening
of an international meeting on Syria to be held in Geneva with
participation of senior Russian, United States and UN officials.

Mr. Brahimi said that the Syrian crisis had reached such an "urgent"
stage that the Secretary-General thought it might be one of the
questions to be addressed either by the G20 itself or on the margins
of the summit.

"I'm sure it would be taken up in all the meetings the
Secretary-General is going to have," Mr. Brahimi told UNTV, adding
that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov might organize a special
meeting on Syria.

A UN spokesperson in New York today said the Secretary-General is
attending the opening sessions of the summit. At the working dinner,
Mr. Ban is expected to brief world leaders on developments in Syria.
In his remarks, the Secretary-General is expected to outline the work
of the UN chemical weapons investigation team and to explain why he
asked Mr. Brahimi to join him in St. Petersburg.

Meanwhile, the biomedical and environmental samples collected by the
by Swedish scientist Dr. Åke Sellström and his team at sites in Syria
where chemical weapons were allegedly used on 21 August, had been sent
to four laboratories in Europe.

Mr. Ban has called for the team to expedite the process, but to also
be given every opportunity to complete its task, noting that the UN
investigation is "uniquely placed to independently establish the facts
in an objective and impartial manner" and to conduct its work strictly
according to internationally recognized standards.

Ahead of the start of the Summit, Mr. Ban
<"http://www.un.org/sg/offthecuff/index.asp?nid=2968">met on its
sidelines with the President of the Republic of Korea, Park Geun-hye.
In addition to discussing developments in Syria, Mr. Ban and Ms. Park
discussed the Korean peninsula, in specific, ROK's proposed world
peace park in the Demilitarized Zone.

Mr. Ban also thanked Ms. Park for the country's $6 million
contribution to the UN World Health Organization (WHO) to assist
children in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

In a <"http://www.un.org/sg/offthecuff/index.asp?nid=2970">meeting
with the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Mr. Ban
commended Kazakhstan's long-standing constructive cooperation with the
UN and the role it plays internationally in the context of nuclear
non-proliferation and religious tolerance.

He and President Nazarbayev also discussed the situation in Syria, as
well as the important roles played by the Organization, as well as
Afghanistan and regional cooperation, on water management.

Also today, Mr. Ban discussed the situation of human rights in Russia
with Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin. Mr. Ban said he appreciated the
Ombudsman's honest and useful evaluation of human rights challenges in
the Russian Federation.

They discussed a number of the recommendations that arose from the
most recent Universal Periodic Review, notably relating to the role of
civil society, and the rights of people with disabilities and of the
lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

The Geneva-based Council's Universal Periodic Review subjects each
country's human rights record to a State-led peer review on the basis
of information submitted by the country concerned, UN entities, civil
society and other stakeholders.

The Secretary-General encouraged the Ombudsman, together with the
Russian authorities, to implement all recommendations.

Mr. Ban is at the G20 to also focus international attention on
long-term global challenges, including the achievement of the eight
anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
strengthening global economic recovery, and achieving a sustainable
future.

"Putting off those challenges until tomorrow will only make them even
more difficult and expensive to solve," Mr. Ban said yesterday
<"http://www.un.org/sg/statements/index.asp?nid=7056">remarks at St.
Petersburg State University.

The MDGs will be a focus at the high-level gathering of the General
Assembly later this month at the UN Headquarters in New York.

Mr. Ban is expected to speak about the MDGs and the post-2015
sustainable development tomorrow in remarks to the G20.Sep 5 2013
3:00PM
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