AlQa'dah 18, 1433, Oct 4, 2012, SPA -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that he is alarmed by escalating tensions on the Syrian-Turkish border and called for maximum restraint from all. "The secretary general is alarmed by escalating tensions along the Syrian-Turkish border," Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky said at a news briefing in New York. "The secretary general has repeatedly made clear his concern about the spillover of the Syrian crisis into neighboring countries, as occurred yesterday with Turkey." Nesirky said that the joint special representative for Syria of the United Nations and the League of Arab States, Lakhdar Brahimi, has been in communication with officials from Turkey and Syria "in order to encourage an easing of tensions." "The secretary general calls on all concerned to abandon the use of violence, exercise maximum restraint, and exert all efforts to move toward a political solution," Nesirky said.
