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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday, September 17, he will press the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China to take joint action on the Syria crisis at a meeting next week. He made the announcement as UN envoys from the five permanent Security Council members failed to overcome divisions over a resolution on destroying Syria’s chemical weapons. The five major powers have been split over the Syria war ever since protests against President Bashar al-Assad started in March 2011. The UN leader said he would meet with the foreign ministers of the five key nations in New York next week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly summit. UN officials said the meeting would be on September 25. The UN recently released a report saying there was no doubt sarin gas was used in an attack that killed hundreds of civilians, including women and children in a suburb of Damascus.
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