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Bashar Al-Ja’afari

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2021-01-26
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  1. “My country also stresses that any decisions, measures or deals that are inconsistent with the relevant United Nations resolutions or fail to safeguard the established rights of the Palestinians are not remotely viable and should be rejected in form and substance. My Government renews its call to grant the State of Palestine full membership in the United Nations.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  2. “Syria also reiterates that the Golan is an integral part of Syrian territory and that it will work to recover it by all means guaranteed by international law and practice, because its right to do so is eternal and cannot be extinguished by the passage of time. My country’s Government underlines its support for the right of the Palestinian people to determine their own destiny and establish an independent State on all their national soil, with Jerusalem as its capital, while guaranteeing the right of refugees to return to their homes, in accordance with resolution 194 (III) of 1948.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  3. “We hope that he will make the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan and the escalating Israeli practices against our people there a priority of his mandate and efforts. In conclusion, the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic reaffirms that, in order to ensure stability in the Middle East and preserve the credibility of the United Nations, measures must be taken to implement all international resolutions aimed at ending the Israeli occupation of Arab territories, including the Syrian Arab Golan, and compelling Israel to withdraw to the line of 4 June 1967, in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions, including in particular resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 497 (1981) and 2334 (2016).”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  4. “The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic repeatedly expressed its strong protests against the biased and non-objective approach taken by Nickolay Mladenov, the previous United Nations Special Coordinator for the Peace Process, in his periodic briefings to the Security Council. He insisted on ignoring the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan, the latest aggressive criminal practices being engaged in by the Israeli occupation authorities and the illegal decisions of the United States Administration. Allow me to take this opportunity to invite Mr. Wennesland, the new United Nations Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, to acknowledge the mistakes of his predecessor, correct his course and stick impartially, professionally and transparently to his mandate.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  5. “Nihal Suleiman Al-Maqt and enable her to return to her family and land in the village of Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan. I sent a similar letter to Mr. Tor Wennesland, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. We look forward to receiving their responses. In that regard, the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic reiterates its call on the Security Council to take urgent action to ensure the implementation of resolution 497 (1981) and compel the Israeli occupation entity to end its illegal settlement practices and repressive measures against our people in the occupied Syrian Golan and withdraw from the entire occupied Golan to the line of 4 June 1967.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  6. “Al-Maqt was forcibly transferred to a place that effectively constituted her prison inside occupied Palestine, away from her native occupied Syrian Golan, with the aim of separating her from her land and her family. The Israeli occupation authorities are also subjecting Ms. Al-Maqt to arbitrary and brutal practices aimed at pressuring her, breaking her will and subjugating her to the occupying Power. The same thing happened to her brother the released prisoner Sidqi Al-Maqt, the Syrian Mandela, whom the Israeli occupation authorities held in the bowels of their prisons for 30 years. On 12 January 2021, on behalf of my country’s Government, I wrote to His Excellency the Secretary-General of the United Nations to enlist his good offices to help free Ms.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  7. “Syria reiterates that it rejects the arbitrary and unjust ruling issued by the Israeli occupation forces on 10 June 2020 handing down a sentence of three years’ imprisonment to the patriotic activist Nihal Suleiman Al-Maqt, sister of the released prisoner Sidqi Al-Maqt, who is from the town of Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan. We note that the occupation forces recently demanded that Ms. Al-Maqt pay a sizable monetary fine. They also changed her prison sentence to include long daily hours of hard labour. The Israeli occupation authorities sent a patrol to arrest Ms. Al-Maqt and take her to the location where the hard labour was to be served. Last August, Ms.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  8. “The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic calls on the international community to pressure Israel, the occupying Power, to immediately and without delay reopen the Qunaytirah crossing, which is the artery that connects our people in the occupied Syrian Golan to their motherland and the lung through which they breathe. The Israeli occupation forces’ policy of arbitrary arrest and sham trials is an integral part of a catalogue of Israeli crimes and human rights violations against Syrian civilian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan stretching back over the more than five decades that Israel has occupied the Syrian Golan.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  9. “In that same vein, the occupation authorities recently set up facilities in the so-called “Trump Plateau” settlement, located on land belonging to the village of Qunaytirah in the occupied Syrian Golan. During December last year and the current month, preparations were made to move 20 Israeli settler families into the new settlement as part of a policy of settlement expansion coupled with erasing the identity of the Syrian Arab Golan. We would also be remiss not to mention the appropriation by the occupation authorities of our people’s land and property in the occupied Syrian Golan for giant wind turbines. Our people, who are suffering under the occupation, opposed that scheme through a large-scale popular movement that the occupying forces have met with unprecedented violence that has already resulted in a number of injuries and arrests.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  10. “At the same time, the Israeli occupation authorities continue to practice their escalating State terrorism. They have stepped up their systematic and gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the Syrian Golan, which has been occupied since 1967, with the aim of entrenching their control and imposing their will. Their crimes include settlement building, racial discrimination, arbitrary arrest, torture, displacement, demographic alteration, theft of the Golan’s natural resources and attempts to impose Israeli citizenship through threats and blackmail, including by pressuring Syrian students coming from their studies in Europe to spend their holidays in the occupied Syrian Golan to accept Israeli citizenship by threatening to prevent them from returning to Europe to complete their studies if they refuse.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  11. “The Israeli occupation authorities continue to intensify their attacks on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, in flagrant violation of resolution 350 (1974), on the Separation of Forces Agreement between the two sides. Recent days have seen an increase in the frequency of Israeli attacks on my country. The most recent occurred on Friday, 22 January 2021, when Israel perpetrated a fresh attack near the city of Hama, resulting in the deaths of a father, a mother and two children, injury to four other citizens of the same family and the destruction of a number of homes of innocent civilians. This criminal aggression is just one more in a string of over 50 Israeli attacks in less than a year that resulted in loss of life among a large number of civilians and destruction of property.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  12. “It approved provocative and illegal unilateral measures intended to alter the political and legal status quo in occupied Arab territories. However, those United States actions and decisions have been met with ringing condemnation from the Syrian Arab Republic and the overwhelming majority of Member States. Trump’s decisions on Jerusalem and the Golan are nothing more than unilateral acts coming from a party that has neither the status nor the political, legal or moral capacity to decide the fates of peoples or dispose of lands that are an integral part of the territories of the Syrian Arab Republic and occupied Palestine. The contempt of the Israeli occupation authorities for international law and internationally recognized resolutions has grown to an unprecedented pitch.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  13. “That is due to the protective umbrella provided to Israel by certain Western States that are permanent members of the Security Council, in particular the United States of America, which has shirked its obligations and responsibilities, which include upholding the Charter and maintaining international peace and security, and turned its membership into a platform for protecting and prolonging the Israeli occupation and shielding its representatives from any accountability or punishment for their war crimes, crimes against humanity and gross violations of human rights. That is not all. We saw an unprecedented bias on the part of the previous United States Administration towards the Israeli occupation and its various schemes.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  14. “That is a clear indication that the Security Council has failed to carry out its responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security by compelling Israel to respect its resolutions, comply with the will of the international community and end its occupation, which is the principal factor that perpetuates tension and conflicts in our region. For 54 years and counting, the Security Council has failed to call the Israeli occupation authorities to account for their hostile acts, violations of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, and systematic and repressive criminal practices against our people in occupied Arab territories.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source

  15. “Allow me once again to express our great pleasure at the assumption by our sister State Tunisia of the presidency of the Security Council and our great appreciation for your successful and distinguished management of the Council’s business for this month. I also congratulate Tor Wennesland on his appointment as United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and wish him success in this extremely sensitive and important task. Some 54 years have passed since Israel occupied Palestinian territory, the occupied Syrian Golan and the Shaba’a Farmlands in southern Lebanon. Despite horrendous suffering in the course of those long decades, the Israeli occupation and the threat it poses to peace and security in the Middle East and the world as a whole persist to this very day.”

    2021-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/91 (2021) · source