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UN strives to work with new Syrian government to determine the fate of the missing
The agreement aims to create detailed registries and forensic networks to investigate up to 300,000 missing persons, assisting families and affected countries, UN officials said.
- On Wednesday, Assistant Secretary-General Karla Quintana said it is essential to work with the Syrian Commission on Missing Persons, adding the question is how cooperation will work in practice.
- After the overthrow and delayed entry into Syria, Mohammed Reda Jalkhi, head of the Syrian Commission on Missing Persons, said estimates range from 120,000 to 300,000 missing individuals.
- The U.N. institution has opened several lines of inquiry and developed data analysis capabilities while building a forensic network and a registry with detailed information on the missing.
- She is returning to Damascus next week to sign a memorandum of cooperation, urging speed because "we don’t want the families or the mothers of the missing to start dying before us being able to find an answer," Quintana said.
- The U.N. institution has been meeting Syrian families and representatives from the United States, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon and Poland while investigating forcible disappearances, missing children in orphanages, and Islamic State group disappearances.
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UN aims to work with new Syrian govt to find fate of the missing
The head of a UN body established to determine what happened to potentially hundreds of thousands of people missing in Syria said Wednesday it was essential to find a way to work together with a new Syrian commission. Assistant Secretary-General Karla Quintana said the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria, established in 2023, was only able to enter the country in January, a month after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, who…
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UN strives to work with new Syrian government to determine the fate of the missing
The head of a U.N. body established to determine what happened to potentially hundreds of thousands of people missing in Syria says it's essential to find a way to work together with a new Syrian commission.
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