Security Council Welcomes Brahimi Initiative for Syria Ceasefire
Gert Rosenthal, Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of October, delivers a Council press statement following a closed-door briefing to the Council by Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the UN and the League of Arab States for Syria. The Council welcomed the Joint Special Representative’s initiative for a ceasefire in Syria during the period of Eid al-Adha, and called upon all regional and international actors to use their influence to facilitate the implementation of the ceasefire.