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New York, SANA – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the international organization’s long-term strategic objective in Syria remains a political solution based on the Geneva Communique of June, 2012.
Ki-moon warned in a Security Council session on “The Situation in the Middle East” on Tuesday that a purely military response to the vicious new threat posed by Daesh could ultimately contribute to the radicalization of other…armed groups and spark a cycle of renewed violence,” referring to the terrorist organization of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
He called upon all sides to work on “protecting civilians” in Ayn al-Arab city, on Syria’s northern border with Turkey, which is being attacked by ISIS terrorists.
The people of Ayn al-Arab city, northeast of Aleppo, have been confronting constants attempts by ISIS to take over the city for weeks, with the locals managing to regain control of some ISIS-seized areas.
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura stressed during a meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday the need for solving the crisis in Syria through political dialogue, excluding the possibility of any military solution.
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