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Al Arsan

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2019-03-28
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2020-01-13
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  1. “The Turkish regime occupies parts of north-eastern Syria through an aggressive military operation, which it has ironically codenamed Operation Peace Spring. The Turkish regime is first and foremost a sponsor of Jabhat Al-Nusra, which is classified as a terrorist entity by the Security Council. The Turkish regime supervises, finances and facilitates the operations of that terrorist organization, which controls Idlib and its environs. I advise my Turkish colleague not to speak about legitimacy, as the legitimacy of the Turkish regime as an extremist religious party does not derive from its people. It comes instead from implementing its own agendas that do not serve the policies and interests of Turkey. Turkish interests are derived from what Turkish officials used to refer to as “zero problems”.”

    2020-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699Resumption2 (2020) · source

  2. “The representative of the Turkish regime says that we are not his counterpart. I ask my dear colleague to believe that we are not looking to be a counterpart to a regime like his. The Turkish regime is an exceptional one; it has no equivalent in the entire world thanks to its irresponsible practices, which undermine international peace and security. Today, military forces of the Turkish regime arrived in Libya. What do Turkey and Libya have in common? What borders threaten the Turkish security? Why do we see the presence of forces of the Turkish regime in Libya? For some time now, the Turkish regime has been sending to Libya Syrian and foreign mercenaries who fight alongside the Turkish regime in Idlib.”

    2020-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699Resumption2 (2020) · source

  3. “Above all, we derive our legitimacy from the Syrian people, the blood of whom, I would recall, was spilled by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s regime when he sent tens of thousands of foreign terrorist fighters into our country. All who are present in the Chamber are aware, thanks to the reports of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the Security Council, that tens of thousands of foreign terrorist fighters came to Syria from 101 countries around the world. Of course, those foreign terrorist fighters did not reach Syria by parachute or spaceship; the majority of them infiltrated my country via the Turkish-Syrian border under the supervision of the Turkish regime and its intelligence services, which facilitated the entry of those foreign terrorist fighters to Syria. Those are not our words nor are they baseless.”

    2020-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699Resumption2 (2020) · source

  4. “Mr. Al Arsan (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I have asked for the floor in order to make a further statement in response to what was said earlier by the representative of the Turkish regime. The representative of the Turkish regime claims that it does not recognize the legitimacy of the Syrian Government. I can assure him, from the Chamber of the Council, which is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security and which is handling the situation in Syria, that we have never and will never seek recognition of our legitimacy from a criminal terrorist regime. We derive our legitimacy from the Charter of the United Nations; from the name of our country, the Syrian Arab Republic; and from our seat in this Chamber.”

    2020-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8699Resumption2 (2020) · source

  5. “I would ask everyone in the Chamber to look closely at the facts. Qatar has paid $75 million to the United Nations to combat terrorism, but openly admits to having spent $137 billion to destroy Syria. However, they differed on the prey. The meeting rose at 5.10 pm.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  6. “However, the Al-Nusra Front, in our opinion, is doing a goodjob and we will continue to support it." So, he is telling the United Nations and the Security Council that they are wrong - that the Al-Nusra Front is not a terrorist group and that Qatar will continue to support it. Then they come to the Security Council to talk about Qatar's efforts. We officially tell the representative of Qatar today that every dollar paid by Qatar to the United Nations to counter terrorism is in itself money-laundering. I repudiate those who spend $137 billion to destroy a country and its people, its civilization, its future and its aspirations, and then come to the United Nations and pay $75 million to justify their claim that they are partners in countering terrorism. This is money- laundering.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  7. “The former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah, explained the issue by saying after we liberated Aleppo in 2016, alongside the Russians and other allies, "even if the new United States President stops supporting rebel groups in Aleppo or Syria, we in Qatar will not stop. We will continue to support those groups because we believe they will be victorious and return to Aleppo." Another Minister for Foreign Affairs in Qatar, who later became the Minister of Defence, told Le Monde: "You ask us about the Al-Nusra Front. We in Qatar have a different approach from that of the United Nations. We are realistic. We believe that only Da'esh is a terrorist group.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  8. “Hamad bin Jassim said that they had reached an agreement with the Governments of other countries, which had asked them to be at the forefront of those efforts. I ask the Council to listen to the rationale behind the Government of Qatar. Hamad bin Jassim said that Syria was the prey. Speaking in the Gulf dialect, he said that Syria was the prey that managed to escape because we disagreed on things. That is the rationale behind the policies of the State of Qatar - laundering money and financing terrorism. I will tell the Council how they are laundering money and financing terrorism. The former Prime Minister says they spent $137 billion in Syria.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  9. “I am not here to fabricate stories or to launch politicized or false accusations, as the Qataris usually do against Syria to justify what they have done against the Syrian people. Why is the representative of the Government and the State of Qatar so sensitive? I ask him to not be so sensitive about formal statements. He will recall that one of the most prominent members of the ruling family of Qatar, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, willingly appeared on public TV station in Qatar and then on the BBC to say that they had spent $137 billion in Syria to bring about the fall of President Bashar Al-Assad. When asked how they had spent that money, he responded that they were not the only ones to pay.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  10. “They once paid $20 million to ensure the release of an Americanjournalist, who himself said on a television interview that the mediator called his family here in the United States. The mediator was an Arab national, who told the journalist not to worry, as the group - later revealed to be the Al-Nusra Front - would in the days to come receive $20 million from the State of Qatar as ransom for his release. That ransom was paid following two resolutions adopted by the Security Council to prevent the payment of ransoms. My colleague, the representative of Qatar knows very well what happened in Iraq, where more than half a billion dollars were paid for the release of individuals.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  11. “The State and Government of Qatar and the ruling family there are today the biggest exemplars of money- laundering and terrorist financing, if only the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) would study them in a balanced, objective and neutral way. As we stated this morning, the Security Council has adopted resolutions that specifically address the behaviour of the State and Government of Qatar, which was among the top countries - and perhaps the only country - to pay cash, in the form of millions of dollars, to Da'esh and the Al-Nusra Front in Iraq and in Syria. They paid those sums of money as ransom so that the terrorist groups would release foreign individuals they had captured. These are facts. My colleague the representative of the Government and State of Qatar should not bristle at hearing them.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  12. “Mr. Al Arsan (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): We did not wish to ask for the floor once again. However, the response delivered just now by the representative of the Government and State of Qatar compelled us to ask for the floor a second time. We say to our responding colleague, first, that we should be called representatives of the Syrian Arab Republic, which is a founding Member of the United Nations. Even though the representative of the Government and State of Qatar is ignorant of the established diplomatic norms at the United Nations, we will not stoop to his level. We will continue to respect the Security Council, the rules of procedure and the Charter and will continue to address him as the representative of the Government and State of Qatar.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  13. “Unfortunately, some Member States would rush to describe those Governments, including the Government of Qatar, as genuine partners of the United Nations in combating terrorism, for the sole reason that those Governments have donated a few million dollars to the United Nations under the pretext that it is countering terrorism. A former Prime Minister of one of those Governments, namely, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, of Qatar, has admitted that his country's Government spent $137 billion in financing, arming and training armed groups in Syria. In conclusion, given such practices, we remain concerned about the professional and balanced implementation of the provisions of Security Council resolutions on combating terrorism and financing it, as well as the seriousness and independence of the United Nations role in combating terrorism.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  14. “In its war against Da'esh, the Al-Nusra Front and other terrorist groups, the Syrian Arab Republic has lost tens of thousands of Syrian lives. The Syrian people have suffered immensely as a result of terrorism, in addition to huge economic losses that no country in the world can endure by itself. It is no exaggeration to say that Syria is the main partner of the international community in the global war against terrorism within the context of the United Nations. Despite that fact, my country has received no financial or technical support from the United Nations to combat terrorism. On the contrary, we are being subjected to an unprecedented economic blockade imposed by the Governments that either financed terrorism or ignored its financiers.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  15. “The problem lies with the absence of mechanisms for holding to account the Governments involved in financing terrorism, either directly or indirectly. One such example is the Government of Qatar, which has publicly violated resolutions 2133 (2014), 2161 (2014), 2253 (2015) and 2368 (2017) by providing more than $1 billion in cash - I repeat, in cash - to terrorist groups, such as Da'esh and the Al-Nusra Front, in Syria and Iraq, under the pretext of paying ransoms to release foreign abductees. However, no Member State has even lifted a finger to ensure the implementation of the relevant measures set out in Security Council resolutions condemning and prohibiting ransom payments to terrorists and armed terrorist groups.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  16. “However, we and other Member States are concerned about the inaction and inability of the United Nations, as well as the failure of the international community, to hold accountable certain Governments that are directly involved in financing and arming groups designated by the Security Council as terrorists. Those Governments have helped to create the phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters and have fuelled extremist ideology and violent extremism, leading to terrorism throughout the world. The United Nations does not lack the legal instruments necessary to combat the financing of terrorism, even though such instruments need to be developed and improved. Indeed, the Security Council has adopted clear and decisive resolutions on combating the financing of terrorism.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  17. “However, some members of the Task Force insisted on keeping Syria's name on the list of the ongoing process to improve global compliance with anti-money-laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, under the pretext that the Task Force was unable to visit Syria for security reasons. Today, my country, Syria, welcomes and expects an expert group of the Task Force to visit Damascus in the near future to oversee Syria's full implementation of the required reforms. My country's Government believes that addressing the various tools and mechanisms for financing terrorism is a decisive factor in eliminating terrorism once and for all.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  18. “My country, Syria, stresses that the mandate of the resolution adopted by the Council today focuses exclusively on preventing and combating the financing of individuals, groups, entities and institutions that are designated by the Council as terrorists. Based on that clear legal understanding, the Syrian Arab Republic categorically rejects the politicized assessment made by Mr. Marshall Billingslea, President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The Syrian Arab Republic implemented the action plan developed by the FATF and the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force to address any shortcomings in combating money-laundering and the financing of terrorism. That was recognized by FATF in June 2014. It declared that Syria had fulfilled the technical aspects of the plan.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source

  19. “Mr. Al Arsan (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): The Syrian Arab Republic welcomes the adoption of resolution 2462 (2019) and looks forward to a genuine international and collective commitment to its implementation. The credibility and the effectiveness of the United Nations in implementing such a resolution depend primarily on the implementation of previous Security Council resolutions related to preventing and combating the financing ofterrorism, and on preventing certain Governments and parties from exploiting such resolutions to exert political and economic pressure on other Member States.”

    2019-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8496 (2019) · source