Announcing failure (News 2017, by Mark Henley) - Swiss Press Award

UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura addressing the international press in the pouring rain, to announce 'temporary pause' to the troubled Syrian peace talks in Geneva, aimed at ending the civil war. He had just left a meeting with opposition figures in the Hotel President Wilson. “The United Nations is not prepared to hold talks for the sake of talks. Such talks can only be meaningful if they also deliver immediate tangible benefits to the Syrian people,”