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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon: “We cannot look the other way while the increasing sectarian violence spirals out of control, the humanitarian emergency escalates and the crisis spills over borders.  And indeed, the UN family is doing everything it can on the ground to help those fleeing from the violence.  Our observer Mission, while it was in Syria, sought to gather reliable, real-time information about events so that nobody can claim they did not know. But these efforts will not avert the worst if they are not accompanied by action by influential Governments to find a political solution.  The Council’s paralysis does the Syrian people harm.  It also damages its own credibility and weakens a concept that was adopted with such hope and expectations.”

Source: United Nations