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03 March 2018 – UN ‘will not give up’ on push for ceasefire, says Syria envoy

The United Nations mediator for the Syrian conflict on Thursday said the world body has not given up on the implementation of a recent Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire across the war-ravaged country.

“We cannot afford the luxury of giving up, so any type of feeling that the UN is frustrated –forget it, we are not frustrated, we are determined because this otherwise becomes the copycat of Aleppo, and we saw it already happening,” Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura told reporters in Geneva, referring to the situation in east Ghouta, where UN Secretary-General António Guterres said earlier some 400,000 people are living “in hell on earth.”