Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the third meeting of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People, delivered by Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in Paris on 6 July:
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Iqbal Singh Singha of India as the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).