{"id":35683,"date":"2018-06-30T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T11:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=35683"},"modified":"2018-06-30T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T11:23:53","slug":"un-chief-antonio-guterres-again-calls-for-end-to-military-operations-in-south-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/un-chief-antonio-guterres-again-calls-for-end-to-military-operations-in-south-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief Antonio Guterres again calls for end to military operations in south Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a new call for \u201can immediate cessation\u201d to military operations in southwest Syria, where government forces are attacking rebel-held areas.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres is \u201cdeeply alarmed by the military offensive in southwestern Syria and its devastating toll on civilians,\u201d said a statement from his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe secretary-general recalls that the southwest area of Syria is part of a de-escalation agreement agreed between Jordan, Russia and the United States,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres \u201ccalls on all parties to respect their obligations under international humanitarian law and human rights law, protect civilians and facilitate safe, unimpeded and sustained humanitarian access.\u201d The UN chief had made a similar call earlier this month, after Russian-backed government forces began attacking opposition-held parts of Daraa province on June 19.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Syrians have fled since the beginning of the offensive, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group says that nearly 100 civilians have been killed.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a new call for \u201can immediate cessation\u201d to military operations in southwest Syria, where government forces are attacking rebel-held areas. Guterres is \u201cdeeply alarmed by the military offensive in southwestern Syria and its devastating toll on civilians,\u201d said a statement from his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Friday. \u201cThe secretary-general recalls [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35685,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683\/revisions\/35685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}