{"id":2597,"date":"2015-12-05T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2015-12-05T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T00:00:09","slug":"next-syria-talks-could-be-held-in-new-york-says-un-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/next-syria-talks-could-be-held-in-new-york-says-un-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Syria talks could be held in New York, says UN chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/thumbs_b_c_4e38cc24f9ffb13f6e2d15d8c10d46c4.jpg\" alt=\"thumbs_b_c_4e38cc24f9ffb13f6e2d15d8c10d46c4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2598\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New York &#8211; <strong>World powers &#8216;closely coordinating&#8217; to have next Vienna process meeting in New York, says Ban Ki-moon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>World powers attempting to hammer out a plan to end the Syria civil war may hold their next meeting in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s my understanding that member states are very closely coordinating to have a third Vienna process meeting here in New York. I&#8217;m looking forward to that,&#8221; Ban said during a news conference at UN headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>The first two rounds of talks were held in Vienna where ministers from nearly 20 nations agreed to establish a UN-backed cease-fire and begin peace talks by Jan. 1. <\/p>\n<p>Ban did not announce a date for the prospective meeting that is said to have been provisionally scheduled to take place later this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Vienna peace process has created new momentum,&#8221; Ban said. &#8220;We are working to launch an initiative in early January that would involve both intra-Syrian political talks and a nationwide cease-fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said much of the ongoing migrant and refugee crisis in Europe stems from the Syrian conflict, which has claimed more than 250,000 lives since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Closed doors and discrimination are worsening the plight of forcibly displaced people across the world,&#8221; Ban said, adding that he was concerned that recent terrorist attacks in Paris could stoke &#8220;misplaced suspicions about migrants and refugees, and widespread anti-Muslim discrimination and bigotry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world\u2019s response needs to be robust, and always within the rule of law and with respect for human rights. We cannot be ruled by fear,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 4 million Syrians are now refugees and at least almost million have been internally displaced, according to UN figures.<\/p>\n<p>Neighboring Turkey, which shares a 900-kilometer (560-mile) border with Syria, is now the largest refugee-hosting country in the world with more than 2 million Syrian refugees on its soil.\/AA\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York &#8211; World powers &#8216;closely coordinating&#8217; to have next Vienna process meeting in New York, says Ban Ki-moon. World powers attempting to hammer out a plan to end the Syria civil war may hold their next meeting in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday. &#8220;It&#8217;s my understanding that member states are very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[211,214,213,212],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-ban-ki-moon","tag-disqus","tag-syria","tag-un"],"views":672,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}