德米斯图拉先生（以法语发言）：主席先生，我祝贺你担任本月安理会主席重要职务。请允许我讲几句。我今天的发言较长，因为如你所知，这将是我在现职内的最后一次发言。（以英语发言）我感谢你让我有机会作为秘书长特别代表最后一次提供月度通报。我将书面分发我在安理会上发言的全文，并恳请安理会原谅我的长篇发言。这次发言比平常长，但不无原因。我担任秘书长叙利亚问题特使已有四年零四个月，时间长度几乎与第一次世界大战相同。叙利亚人民忍受冲突之苦已有七年半，时间超过第二次世界大战。这场冲突已经并继续是叙利亚人民的悲剧。这是一场肮脏、野蛮、可怕的战争，暴露了叙利亚国内、地区和世界的种种缺陷，违背叙利亚人民的意愿，破坏叙利亚统一、区域稳定及国际合作。所有努力，包括我本人和安理会或任何其他方面的努力，均未能彻底制止战争的逻辑占上风。但我们希望我们正在接近这一目标。尽管有过几次停火，有时确有希望，但结果往往是战场压倒和谈。局势变化不断。现在是更仔细探讨最终问题的时候了：是否能赢得和平？我们认为应该而且可以赢得。和平可否持续？我们认为可以而且应该持续。因此，需要一个名副其实的政治进程。安全理事会第2254（2015）号决议已经概述了政治进程的要素。安理会专门授权联合国召集各方，协调促进政治进程并最终确定有关方面的参与，充分尊重叙利亚的主权和叙利亚人民选择自己代表的能力，目的是使叙利亚人民能够以独立和民主的方式决定自己的未来，同时强调实行全国停火同样极其重要。经此授权，我认为我们已经取得了一些进展。
Mr. De Mistura (spoke in French): I congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of your important role this month. Please allow me to say a few words. My statement will be a bit long because, as you know, this will be the last statement I shall make under my current mandate. (spoke in English) I thank you for this opportunity to deliver my monthly briefing for the final time under this mandate. I am circulating the full written statement to the Council. I pray the Council will forgive me for the length of this statement. It is longer than usual, but there is a reason for that. I have served as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria for four years and four months — almost exactly the length of the First World War. The Syrian people have been enduring a conflict for seven and a half years — longer than the Second World War. This conflict has been and remains a tragedy for the Syrian people. It has been a dirty, brutal and horrific war. It has seen all the faultiness within Syria, the region and the world prevail over the will of the Syrian people, Syrian unity, regional stability and international cooperation. No effort — not mine nor that of the Council or of anyone else — has been able to completely stop the logic of war from prevailing. However, we hope that we are getting close to that point. In spite of several ceasefires and some moments of real hope, the battlefield has all too often prevailed over peace talks. There have been constant shifts. Now is the time to look even more closely at the ultimate question: Will peace be won? We believe that it should and it can. Will it be sustainable? We believe that it can and it should be. That is why a real political process is required. The Security Council outlined the elements for the political process in resolution 2254 (2015). The Council exclusively mandated the United Nations to convene the parties, facilitate the political process and finalize participation, with full respect for Syria’s sovereignty and the ability of the Syrian people to choose their own representatives, with the purpose of enabling the Syrian people to determine independently and democratically their own future — all while stressing the vital, parallel importance of a nationwide ceasefire.