The U.N. special envoy for Syria is warning that recent grave events have escalated global tensions, drawing national, regional and international actors "into dangerous situations of potential or actual confrontation."
Staffan de Mistura told an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on a suspected poison gas attack in a rebel-held town near Syria's capital that for the first time in his four years of briefing members he was expressing concern about international peace and security.
He said recent developments "carry more than ever before the dangers" that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned about recently — different Mideast fault lines crossing each other and interconnecting, and conflicting interests of both global and regional powers.
De Mistura echoed Guterres' concern that these escalating tensions "can have absolutely devastating consequences that is difficult for us to even imagine."
"The council cannot allow a situation of uncontrollable escalation to develop in Syria on any front," he said. "Instead we must find unity and address the international peace and security."
AP
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