Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, said that the organization was responsible for a “collective failure” to halt more than two years of atrocious violence in Syria, the New York Times reports, “and he expressed hope that the crisis over that country’s chemical weapons stockpile would be a catalyst toward a diplomatic solution.”
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