United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stated in the press conference that UN thinks there is no military solution in Syria and the solution is political.
"And our commitment is in relation to the Geneva talks and to make sure that a political solution in line with the [Security Council] resolution 2254 (2015) is found and that a constitutional committee, as it was agreed, will be put in place in a way that will guarantee its impartiality and its contribution to a future political solution in Syria", United Nations Secretary-General added.
"That is our commitment. That is our objective. And the message I have for all Syrians is only a political solution can guarantee the future, the reconstruction, and a democratic and non?sectarian character of the State", Guterres said.
"Now, in relation to the recent events in the south, we were quite active and quite engaged in trying to avoid a bloodbath and in trying to create the conditions for those events to have the least possible impact in relation to the civilians", United Nations Secretary-General noted.
"I think that our action was useful in that regard, but, again, this is not the objective. The objective must be and remains entirely for us a political solution in line with resolution 2254 (2015)", Guterres concluded.
The crisis in Syria, which flared in March 2011, has so far claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and displaced nearly half of the Arab country’s population within or out of its borders.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has registered over 5.6 million Syrian refugees overseas, including 3.5 million in Turkey and others mainly in Lebanon, Jordan and Germany.
