UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is appealing to all parties in the Syria conflict to make the current negotiations successful, warning that the consequences of failure “are too frightening to contemplate.”
Marking the fifth anniversary of the Syrian uprising on Tuesday, Ban says President Bashar Assad’s government could have responded to the demands of protesters “with genuine dialogue and reform.”
He says other states in the region and elsewhere could have united to help stabilize Syria rather than use it as a battlefield.
Instead, Ban says, over 250,000 people have been killed, nearly half the population has been forced from their homes, and the world has been confronted “with an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.”
Ban says those responsible for using chemical weapons, siege and starvation as a tool of war, torture and indiscriminate bombing of civilians “must be held to account.” He again urges the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court.
— AP
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