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16-20 November 2015

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Madam Ban meet with families of refugees at the Centre Tenda Di Abramo in Rome.

Tesreen Camp, Aleppo, Syria.

Members of Samaritan's Purse, a UNHCR partner on the island of Lesvos, install a drainage pipe at a sanitation facility.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives at the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey,on 15 November 2015.

Road traffic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Meeting in Vienna on November 14, 2015 as the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), the Arab League, China, Egypt, the EU, France, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and the United States to discuss how to accelerate an end to the Syrian conflict. The participants began with a moment of silence for the victims of the heinous terrorist attacks of November 13 in Paris and the recent attacks in Beirut, Iraq, Ankara, and Egypt. The members unanimously condemned in the strongest terms these brutal attacks against innocent civilians and stood with the people of France.

While members of an international support group for Syria engaged in “constructive dialogue” in Vienna on how to end the five-year conflict, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is encouraged by the stakeholders reconvening on 14 November to address the “grave situation” and bring about a political settlement to end the violence as soon as possible.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations Security Council have condemned the “despicable" terrorist attacks carried out on 13 November in various locations in and around Paris, and Mr. Ban has demanded the immediate release of the numerous individuals reportedly being held hostage in the Bataclan theatre.

Displaced children play at the M'poko IDPs camp in Bangui, Central African Republic.