{"id":14475,"date":"2014-01-24T14:38:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2014\/01\/20140124_siria_onu-2\/"},"modified":"2014-01-24T14:38:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:38:36","slug":"20140124_siria_onu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2014\/01\/20140124_siria_onu\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Bonino, \u201cceasefire a priority\u201d &#8211; UN-piloted 3\/2 \u201chumanitarian meeting\u201d in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The \u201cceasefire is a priority in Syria, because we are seeing a \u201cgigantic catastrophe\u201d in need of humanitarian access, said Minister Emma Bonino as she met with the journalists of the World Economic Forum. There are \u201cinaccessible areas, people starving to death\u201d, and the massive refugee exodus is making the situation in Jordan and Lebanon critical, she added, recalling that Rome would host the UN-piloted \u201chumanitarian meeting\u201d on 3 February.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Appeal for ceasefire<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The appeal was the central focus of the minister\u2019s speech at the International Geneva 2 Conference held Wednesday in Montreux. We are calling for \u201can immediate ceasefire\u201d to allow access by humanitarian aid to Syria, as a \u201cstart to the negotiations. If this conflict continues, it will cast shame on the whole world\u201d, Bonino added.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Bonino-Kerry meeting<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>How to get aid into Syria was also central to the Minister\u2019s lunch meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. \u201cThe images that have been circulating recently show unspeakable tragedies that cannot be described in words. But we do not need photos to realise how tragic this situation is\u201d, the minister underscored during a press conference in Montreux.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>A difficult journey<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>According to the minister, Geneva 2 \u201cis the start of a very difficult journey. The two delegations will repeat themselves, also in tone\u201d. The reconstruction of Syria will be \u201ca long-term commitment, but in the immediate present it is the Syrian government\u2019s responsibility to end the violence\u201d, the minister added.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cceasefire is a priority in Syria, because we are seeing a \u201cgigantic catastrophe\u201d in need of humanitarian access, said Minister Emma Bonino as she met with the journalists of the World Economic Forum. There are \u201cinaccessible areas, people starving to death\u201d, and the massive refugee exodus is making the situation in Jordan and Lebanon [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,6,76],"class_list":["post-14475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diritti-umani","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente","tag-ministri-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}