UN humanitarian agency representative calls on all Syrians to work to ensure national unity

Record ID: 1983627

  • Title: UN humanitarian agency representative calls on all Syrians to work to ensure national unity
  • Date: 15th March 2025
  • Summary: LATAKIA, SYRIA (MARCH 11, 2025) (REUTERS) (MUTE) DRONE FOOTAGE OF LATAKIA CITY ON SYRIAN COAST DAMASCUS, SYRIA (MARCH 14, 2025) (REUTERS) UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR SYRIA, ADAM ABDELMOULA, SPEAKING DURING INTERVIEW ABDELMOULA’S HANDS WHILE HE SPEAKS (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.N. HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR SYRIA, ADAM ABDELMOULA, SAYING: “So it is incumbent
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  • Keywords: Latakia Syria UN civilians crimes massacres
  • Location: DAMASCUS, LATAKIA, SYRIA
  • City: DAMASCUS, LATAKIA, SYRIA
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA001900214032025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Adam Abdelmoula, on Friday (March 14) called on all Syrians to ensure national unity and to hold those who committed crimes in Syria’s coastal regions accountable.
    "It is incumbent on everybody to work together to ensure national unity and that Syria is for all Syrians, and they have to collectively seek common ground, restore civil peace and work towards a peaceful transition that will lead to a stable, democratic, united and prosperous Syria,” Abdelmoula said during an interview with Reuters in his Damascus office.
    The only to prevent crimes from happening again is to hold those who committed crimes accountable, because “the only deterrence is accountability," added Abdelmoula.
    Several days of violent clashes in Syria's coastal region pitted loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country's new Islamist rulers. A war monitoring group said more than 1,000 people had been killed.
    Entire families including women and children were killed in Tartus and Latakia - where members of Assad's minority Alawite sect lived - as part of a series of sectarian killings by rival groups, the U.N human rights office said on Tuesday (March 11).
    (Production: Karam al-Masri, Firas Makdesi, Kinda Makieh)
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