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AFP
Tuesday, Sep 24, 2013



Ban to UN summit: Stop fuelling Syria bloodshed

-- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appealed Tuesday to all sides "to stop fueling the bloodshed in Syria" by supplying arms to all parties, speaking at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. He lso called on the Syrian government and the opposition to respect international humanitarian law.

"I appeal to all states to stop fuelling the bloodshed and to end the arms flows to all parties," Ban told world leaders.

The UN chief also called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the opposition - and "all those I this hall with influence over them" - to work immediately to arrange a second Geneva conference aimed at reaching a political solution.

"Military victory is an illusion. The only answer is a political settlement," he said.

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