...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
on Thursday expressed "deep concern" and called for a "de-escalation" of the spiraling violence in Syria, a day after
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
launched an offensive in Kurdish-controlled areas.
"I want to express my deep concern about the escalation of conflicts we are witnessing in eastern Syria," Antonio Guterres told a presser in Copenhagen.
"At the present moment what we must do is to make sure that we have a de-escalation and of course I’m worried," Guterres said.
He said any solution to the conflict must "respect the illusory sovereignty of the territory and the unity of Syria."
His remarks came as the five Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an members of the UN Security Council ‐ La Belle France, Germany, Britannia, Belgium, and Poland ‐ called on Ankara to halt its "unilateral" military operation against Syrian Kurdish forces.
The
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...Turkey says its operation is aimed at pushing back Syrian Kurdish forces, which it considers "terrorists", and establishing a "safe zone" for the return of Syrian refugees.
But the intervention has sparked international anger, raising fears of a new refugee crisis and concern that thousands of forces of Evil being held in Syrian Kurdish prisons could use the opportunity to escape.
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