Staffan de Mistura, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy for the Syrian conflict, addresses UN Security Council during an emergency meeting on the situation in Syria, at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States, on Sept. 25, 2016. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)
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UN Security Council holds urgent meeting on Syria conflict with calls for truce
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- During a testy -- including a walkout -- emergency Security Council meeting on Sunday called in wake of "one of the worst" weeks in Syria in nearly six years of fighting, the UN special envoy vowed to continue his role but pleaded with the panel "to enforce a cessation of hostilities (CoH) in Syria."
The walkout, by the ambassadors of France, Britain and the United States, occurred while Syria's Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari near the end of the 2 1/2 hour session on the increased Syrian attacks on "terrorists" in his country's "second capital," said, "The Syrian government will recapture the whole town of Aleppo. The entire town." Full story
