但我也要指出，我们几乎是在第2254（2015）号决议通过三周年之际开会的，这仍然是我们已经达成的最好的协议，也是我们所作出的最接近结束这场危机的努力。国际社会——不是联合国，而是国际社会——的一个巨大失败是，我们未能共同进一步推进这一进程。但最重要、也是非常明显的是，叙利亚政府在保护其人民方面的巨大失败使我们走到了这一步；叙利亚政府拒绝努力执行第2254（2015）号决议，这绝对是对叙利亚及其人民所造成的所有恐怖和可怕事件的核心所在。
But I would also like to say that we are meeting almost on the third anniversary of the adoption of resolution 2254 (2015), and it remains the best agreement we have made and the closest we have come to managing to work towards an end to this crisis. It is a huge failure of the international community — not of the United Nations, but of the international community — that collectively we have not been able to advance this more. But above all, and very obviously, it is a huge failure of the Syrian Government to protect its people that has led us to this point, and the Syrian Government’s refusal to work towards the implementation of resolution 2254 (2015) is at the absolute heart of all the horrors and all the awful things that have been inflicted on Syria and its people.