BACK FROM G20, BAN CONSIDERING PROPOSALS TO PROMPT POLITICAL SOLUTION TO SYRIA CRISIS

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Date: 9 Sep 2013 14:00:01 -0400
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SOLUTION TO SYRIA CRISIS
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BACK FROM G20, BAN CONSIDERING PROPOSALS TO PROMPT POLITICAL SOLUTION
TO SYRIA CRISISNew York, Sep 9 2013 2:00PMUnited Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that two-and-half years of
conflict in Syria have produced only "embarrassing paralysis" in the
Security Council and that he was considering proposals to the
15-member body in the search for a political solution.

In his first <"http://www.un.org/sg/offthecuff/index.asp?nid=2978">press
conference since returning to New York from the G20 Summit in St.
Petersburg, Mr. Ban said that should a UN weapons team confirm use of
chemical agents in the 21 August incident in Syria, it would be an
"abominable crime" and the international community "would certainly
have to do something about it."

"The Syrian people need peace," he declared.

"Should Dr. Sellström's report confirm the use of chemical weapons,
then this would surely be something around which the Security Council
could unite in response - and indeed something that should merit
universal condemnation," Mr. Ban told reporters.

The UN chief added that he is already considering "certain proposals
that I could make to the Security Council" when presenting the
investigation team's report.

Those include urging the Council to demand the immediate transfer of
Syria's chemical weapons and chemical precursor stocks to places
inside Syria where they can be safely stored and destroyed, Mr. Ban
said.

He also urged Damascus to become a party to the Organisation for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is the implementing body
of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

Syria is not a party CWC, but it is a party to the Geneva (Protocol)
of 1925 which prohibits the use of chemical and biological weapons,
according to the OPCW.

In response to a question about how quickly the UN can act, if Syria
agrees to a transfer of its alleged chemical weapons stock under
international control, Mr. Ban said he is sure that the international
community will take "very swift action" to make safely store and
destroy the chemical weapons stocks.

Meanwhile, the biomedical and environmental samples taken by the UN
chemical weapons inspection team have been undergoing analysis in
Europe since last week.

Mr. Ban has said he would promptly share the results of the analyses
with the 15-member Security Council and all 193 Member States.

Addressing journalists, the UN chief again reiterated the need to come
together for a so-called Geneva II conference, which would include
representatives of Syrian parties as well as senior United States,
Russian and UN officials, to find a political path out of the crisis
in the country.

A political solution "is the only viable option at this time", Mr. Ban
said, adding that he and Joint UN-Arab League Special Representative
Lakhdar Brahimi, who was also in St. Petersburg, have been working
very closely with Moscow and Washington to get all parties to the
table.

The UN chief noted that Syria dominated the G20 talks "in a way no
other political development has ever done."

In addition to those discussions at the summit and on the sidelines,
Mr. Ban said there was progress on growth, jobs, trade and investment.

Mr. Ban said he was "encouraged" by the response to this call for
concentrated actions to achieve the eight anti-poverty targets known
as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), define a global
development agenda beyond 2015, and addressing climate change.

He looks forward to building on the G20 discussions at the high-level
General Assembly debate later this month at the UN Headquarters in New
York.Sep 9 2013 2:00PM
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