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Special UN missing persons chief says search efforts advancing in Syria but still no office in Damascus

UN missing persons chief says search efforts advancing in Syria but still no office in Damascus

  • Karla Quintana tells Arab News her institution lacks permission for a permanent presence in Syria a year into an intensifying search for hundreds of thousands of people
  • Estimates of the number of persons who went missing during more than 50 years of Assad regime rule vary widely, from 125,000 to as many as 300,000
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