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Russian FM said assessments of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights are inadmissible for a UN official

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said assessments of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights ZeidRa’ad Al Hussein on the situation in Syria, he made on March 14, raise a question of the conformity of his actions to his position. “We have to state that ZeidRa’ad Al Hussein’s speech at the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council was not the first in a row of his statements and public assessments inadmissible for a UN official and opposite to commitments and requirements of professional ethics stipulated in the organization’s Charter for staff of the UN Secretariat”,Zakharova said, TASS reported.

De Mistura condemns terrorist attacks in Damascus as plainly designed to spoil attempts to sustain political talks

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The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura has condemned Wednesday’s terrorist attacks in Damascus saying they are plainly designed to spoil attempts to sustain political talks. “The Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura condemns the terrorist attacks in Damascus which have claimed the lives of innocent civilians. These attacks are also plainly designed to spoil attempts to sustain political talks”, de Mistura’s office said in a statement on Wednesday.

Talks aimed at ending the war in Syria have started in Kazakhstan's capital without opposition

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Talks aimed at ending the war in Syria have started in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana without the opposition, leaving little hope for a breakthrough. Syrian opposition groups on March 13 said they would not attend the talks, accusing the Syrian government and its backer Russia of failing to adhere to a cease-fire brokered in December. Bashar al-Jaafari, the Syrian government envoy, said the absence of the opposition showed that Turkey was breaking its commitments. Ankara supports some Sunni Arab rebel factions seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Reacting to the opposition’s refusal to attend the talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the peace process was “hugely complex”.

Damascus calls on UN to oblige Turkey to withdraw its troops from Syrian territory.

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Syria’s Foreign Ministry has sent complaints to the UN Secretary-General and UN Security Council President over the Turkish army’s continuing “aggression” against the war-torn country, the SANA news agency reported Friday. In its letters, the ministry also demanded from the UN and the international community to oblige Turkey to withdraw its troops from Syrian territory.

IOM: 164,752 arrivals in 2016, 531 deaths

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164,752 migrants or refugees entered in Europe by sea in 2016: 149,534 in Greece (366 deaths in Eastern route), 15,218 in Italy (165 deaths in Central and Western Route). These are IOM numbers about the EU immigration from January to March 2016. A report which certifies a new migration route map.

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A new migration route map which means two different origins. Indeed, Sub-Saharian people usually prefer pass through Libya and Italy to reach Europe. While Syrians and Iraqis have definitely chosen the Greek route. As reported by Hellenic Coast Guard, “77,392 of the newly arrived migrants are from Syria, 38,116 from Afghanistan, 23,078 from Iraq, 5,085 from Pakistan and 4,369 from Iran.” And from January 2015 to March 2016 IOM calculated “1,003,184 arrivals to Greece by sea.”

And like Kelly Namia of the IOM Athens office said, “It should be emphasized that there was a significant decrease in daily arrivals in March 2016, when 24,727 have reached Greece. The majority of the newly arrived migrants have reached the island of Lesbos, which accounted for 58% of the overall arrivals. Another 23 % arrived in Chios, 6% in Samos and 6% in Leros.”

 

Arrivals by sea and deaths in the Mediterranean (http://www.iom.int/news/mediterranean-migrant-arrivals-2016-164752-deaths-531)

1 January – 29 March 2016

 Country of Arrival

Arrivals

Deaths
Italy 15,218 165 (Central and Western Med route)
Greece 149,534 366
(Eastern Med route)
Estimated Total 164,752 531

 

  Arrivals by sea to Italy 
January – March 2015/2016
(Source: Italian Ministry of Interior)

2015

2016

January

3,528

5,273

February

4,354

3,827

March

2,283

6,118 
(Estimate as of 29 March)

Total

10,165

15,218 
(Estimate as of 29 March)

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