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SC/10752

Security Council, Meeting on Situation in Syria, Shifts Focus to Plight of Externally, Internally Displaced Persons

Seeking to ease the humanitarian crisis affecting more than 2.5 million Syrians, including more than 200,000 refugees who had fled the violence to neighbouring countries, Security Council members insisted today that the body’s inability to have a decisive impact in ending the bloodshed in the beleaguered nation did not mean that progress could not be made on the humanitarian track.

SC/10750

Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee Deletes Two Individuals from Its Sanctions List

On 28 August 2012, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) approved the deletion (delisting) of the entries specified below from the Al-Qaida Sanctions List. The assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1989 (2011) therefore no longer apply to the following entries:
SC/10747

Two-State Solution Remains Best Available, Most Realistic Option for Peace in Middle East, Under-Secretary-General Tells Security Council

Despite the stagnation in the Middle East peace process, the two-State solution remained the “best available and most realistic option” and all Member States had a responsibility to consider their actions and language in light of that goal, Jeffrey Feltman, the new Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, told the Security Council today.