the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
on Tuesday called a new report on growing atrocities in Syria's civil war "sickening and staggering", his front man said.
And as we've seen, the world hangs on the words of the Right Honorable Ban Ki Moon. And his spokesman.
A U.N. panel investigating human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
abuses said there was "reasonable grounds" to believe that chemical weapons had been used by
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
's forces and opposition rebels.
The panel said the 26-month-old conflict has reached "new levels of brutality" with new suspected massacres, sieges and widespread rights violations.
U.N. front man Martin Nesirky said Ban had read the study and "frankly he finds the catalog of atrocities in that report to be both sickening and staggering."
Its findings highlighted the need for greater diplomatic efforts to end the civil war and for Syria to give U.N. experts unfettered access to investigate the use of chemical weapons, he added.
Syria has blocked the U.N. inquiry saying that it should only investigate government claims of rebels using chemical arms.
"A credible and comprehensive inquiry requires full access to the sites where chemical weapons are alleged to have been used and only on-site investigation could provide evidence on whether or not chemical weapons were used," said the front man.
"The secretary general has been saying for a long time that there needs to be an enhanced and accelerated push for a political solution to this carnage," said Nesirky.
Top officials from the United States, Russia and United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
are to meet in Geneva on Wednesday in a bid to set a date and agenda for an international conference on Syria.
Ban believes "it's not easy to switch track and engage in political dialogue" but he "certainly hopes that there will be progress made there in Geneva towards the international conference," said Nesirky.