Staffan de Mistura, UN special envoy to Syria: “Al Salam aleekom (Greetings). My message today is meant to reach every single man, woman, child of Syria, inside Syria and outside, in the refugee camps or wherever you are. You know in the next few days we are planning to launch what we call the Intra-Syrian talks, negotiations, in order to have progress in the context of reaching, finally, stability and peace and dignity back in Syria. You deserve it. Five years of this conflict have been too much. The horror is in front of everyone’s eyes. You must know also that we count on you to raise your voice to say Khalas (enough), it is enough, to say to everyone who is actually coming from Syria and from abroad to this conference that there are expectations on them to make sure that their vision, their capacity of compromise in discussion for reaching a peaceful solution in Syria is now and they need to produce that. You have seen enough conferences, two of them already taken place. This one cannot fail. We’ve heard your voices, we heard when you been telling us so many times wherever we met you, you Syrian people, you women, men and children of Syria saying: ‘enough, khalas, kefaya (enough), enough killing, murdering, torturing, prisons. Enough buildings being destroyed, enough bombing my city where I am, and I do not who is bombing me, I just see bombs coming down, rockets, anything. Enough my brother, my sister being humiliated and becoming a refugee and trying to take a boat and drowning in the Mediterranean when I love my country. Enough when you see your children say I want to go to school and I cannot go to school because you are not allowing me to go because it is too dangerous.’ All this, we have heard it. Now we need to hear your voice to everyone who is coming to this conference, and saying this conference must be an opportunity not to be missed. We are going not to disappoint you from the UN point of view. You know we will never abandon the Syrian people but we need now you to feel that this time is the right one, we will do all what we can. God willing, Al sallam aleekom.”