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Bashar Ja’afari

lines on the record: 323
first: 2020-04-23
most recent: 2021-01-12
sittings or episodes: 22
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“In addition, the Erdoğan regime and its mercenaries have dismantled and stolen electricity poles in several villages in Hasakah governorate and transferred them to the warehouses of the Turkish occupiers in preparation for sale to Turkish brokers. Naturally, the countries of NATO, which support Erdoğan’s criminality, have reneged on their humanitarian slogans and claims and remained silent in the face of such crimes and theft. In the south of Syria, the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan continues, and the occupying authorities continue to systematically commit crimes against our people there.”
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“Moreover, the Turkish regime and its proxies have targeted Syria and the Syrian people, committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, acts of terrorism and murder in Syria, causing displacement and demographic change, looting, stealing and burning crops and cutting off drinking water.I should now like to dwell for a moment on the suffering being endured by 1 million Syrians in Hasakah, whom the Erdoğan regime is victimizing for the seventeenth time through its use of water as a weapon of war, having cut off the supply of water from the Allouk station for nearly 20 days. The plant has been out of service since 30 November 2020. The interruption in service has caused tremendous suffering, and we are thankful to the Secretary-General for having used his good offices nearly two months ago to ameliorate the situation.”
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“The United States also occupies the Tanf area and the Rukban camp, near the border between Syria, Jordan and Iraq, and American forces provide support for ISIL, the Revolutionary Commandos and other terrorist organizations in that area. Turkey occupies parts of north and north-west Syria, and the Turkish regime, which has delusions of reviving the Ottoman Empire, supports terrorism and recruits mercenaries and sells them in the marketplace of international war.”
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“Everyone remembers that, for years, some members of the Security Council made statements in which they denied that there was transnational terrorism in Syria. In fact, some went so far as to deny that the terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Leant (ISIL) was present in my country and used the term “moderate armed Syrian opposition” to refer to foreign terrorists. Today, nearly 10 years after the Council intervened and began discussing the situation in my country, the United States occupies parts of north-east Syria and is supporting terrorist entities, separatist militias and illegal administrative bodies.”
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“When the Council began to discuss the situation in my country nine years ago, we called upon members to uphold the principles of international law and the provisions of the Charter, respect the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of my country, support efforts to arrive at a solution based on intra-Syrian national dialogue and local reconciliation, implement rigorously and seriously the counter- terrorism instruments and establish an international coalition under the aegis of the United Nations to combat terrorism and support the efforts of the Syrian State and its allies in that regard. However, as everyone here knows, some members exhorted their political, economic and media proxies to promote their allegations, cover up their crimes, fabricate accusations and suppress our appeals and demands.”
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“Over the 10 years of the crisis and during the 14 years that I have served as the Permanent Representative of my country in New York, I have delivered nearly 1,000 statements before various United Nations bodies and at various United Nations meetings and events. In those statements, I tried to draw attention to violations of international law and the purposes and principles of the Charter that occurred around the world, as well as to efforts to enshrine the law of the jungle and put the law of power above the power of the law.”
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“Accordingly, the laboratories of their deep States concocted what has been called the “Arab Spring”, which they used destabilize Syria, erode its security, undermine its achievements in respect of culture and development and disparage the choices that it has made as a nation. The Governments of those States have supported terrorism, recruited, financed and armed transnational terrorists, launched unilateral and tripartite acts of aggression, formed illegal alliances outside the aegis of the United Nations, occupied territory, caused death, destruction and displacement, looted antiquities, oil, gas and agricultural crops and robbed the wealth of the Syrian State and the property of Syrians. The rest of the story is known to all.”
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“That is why my country, from the start of what has been labelled the Syrian crisis, has opposed the attempts by certain Western Governments and their proxies in our region to internationalize the crisis and resisted their desperate efforts to use S/2020/1257 the Security Council in order to turn the Syrian State into an enemy and defame it, and to create justifications for external intervention and aggression. Of course, everyone is aware that we have made determined efforts to resolve the crisis — and to do so without outside assistance. However, that did not satisfy the whims of the Governments of those States that are hostile to Syria.”
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“In addition, my country, Syria, has witnessed, over several decades, the failure of the Security Council to address many threats to international peace and security in our region and around the world, the most significant of which are the occupation by Israel of Arab territory in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, the Balkan wars, the partition of Yugoslavia, the Rwanda massacres, African affairs, the invasion of Iraq by the United States and the United Kingdom, the destruction of Libya by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and countless others threats.”
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“Syria is a founding member of the United Nations and was one of the 50 countries that signed the Charter of the United Nations at the San Francisco Conference. It has held a non- permanent seat in the Council four times, most recently in 2002 and 2003, and is fully aware of the true state of affairs.”
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“Perhaps the time has come to admit that Western policies have led to grave mistakes, not only in Syria but in our entire region. Those mistakes have directly resulted in much bloodshed, pain and frustration. Politics should be an empirical science that is subject to periodic assessment, not a series of absurd, quixotic adventures in which one tilts at windmills meeting after meeting. The great Russian writer Maxim Gorky said that, when work is pleasure, life is a joy. However, if work is an obligation, then it becomes slavery. We are not new to the Security Council. We know it well and are familiar with its working methods and dynamics. Moreover, we are neither delusional nor one of those who imagines that the Council is part of Plato’s Utopia.”
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“I would therefore like to address the role that the Council has played over the past several years and what it has done after certain Western and Arab Governments embroiled it in the situation in my country and dragged it into efforts to repeat catastrophic scenarios that have been played out in other countries under misleading titles and terminology, as well as the devastating effects that have been confirmed by events. As the end of the year approaches and the holidays are upon us, the Syrian State and people had been hoping that they would hear a more mature political and diplomatic discourse today from Western colleagues in the Council. For 10 years, the meetings of the Council on the political and humanitarian situations in my country, Syria, have been marked by the use of stilted language.”
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“My delegation would like once again to express its thanks and appreciation to you, Mr. President, for your successful and outstanding management of the work of the Security Council this month. This meeting will be the last for several non-permanent Security Council members, whose terms will end in a few days. In addition, this statement might be the last that I deliver with regard to the political and humanitarian situations before I take up my post as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates in my country.”
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“The German Foreign Office nonetheless decided to host him in Germany, ignoring the warnings about him. He was not found acceptable by any of the security agencies of either the United States or Jordan. In conclusion, my country’s Government once again calls on all States members of the OPCW to reject attempts to politicize what is by nature a technical organization. We also call on them to address the politicization and serious flaws that have crept into the work of the OPCW and are undermining its status and credibility.”
2020-12-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1202 (2020) · source
“The German magazine Der Spiegel has revealed that Khalid Al-Saleh, the leader of the so-called White Helmets terrorist group, and his family were deported from Jordan and sent to Germany, where they were received with open arms by the German Government. Two years ago, the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, during its review of the request made by the leader of that terrorist group, concluded that he remained committed to his radical and extremist beliefs and that he had links to terrorists. The terrorist materials and contacts with terrorist groups that were found in his telephone left no doubt in the minds of the German authorities that his arrival in Germany would be fraught with risk and could threaten German national security.”
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“Those actions reveal that the Netherlands and the West are pursuing blatantly hypocritical policies with regard to counter-terrorism and the protection of human rights. The Government of the Netherlands fears that those scandals will be uncovered. That is why it has made new claims and allegations about Syria and recently attempted to submit the aforementioned draft resolution, which is directed against my country in particular, to the General Assembly, with a view to covering up its involvement in and support for terrorism. It is also not surprising that Western countries, which continue to falsely claim that they care for the Syrian people, should continue to support and protect the terrorist organizations and groups that are responsible for inflicting suffering on the Syrian people and violating their rights.”
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“It should be noted that after Belgium, the Netherlands is the European country that accounts for the largest number of terrorists, estimated to be in the hundreds, fighting with terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq. Moreover, in February 2017, the intelligence agency of the Netherlands acknowledged that it was dealing with dozens of Dutch children who had travelled with or without their parents to areas in Syria and Iraq where the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant was present and had received military training from that extremist group. In September 2018, the Dutch broadcasting service NOS also confirmed that the Government of the Netherlands was supporting the Levant Front group, which it had designated as a terrorist organization, and had provided equipment and logistical assistance to that group between 2015 and 2018.”
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“In that connection, I would like to draw attention to the involvement of the Netherlands in the scandal related to supporting terrorist organizations in Syria that played out before the eyes of the international public. Mark Rutte, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, recently admitted that he had personally intervened to obstruct parliamentary investigations into his Government providing millions of dollars to some 22 terrorist groups, including the Levant Front, which even Dutch institutions have designated a terrorist group. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Stef Blok, previously called for the investigation to be halted, saying that it would lead to major problems, including the revelation of top-secret matters, and embarrass allies, which would necessarily be impacted by the investigation.”
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“As part of the role-swapping game that the United States is playing with certain Western countries, France has formally submitted to the OPCW Technical Secretariat a draft decision prepared by the United States that had already been distributed secretly by the United States to missions accredited to the OPCW in The Hague. Moreover, the Netherlands has submitted to the General Assembly a highly politicized draft resolution entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, directed at a specific State, my country, which figures in four of the nine paragraphs in the draft resolution.”
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“Despite the Syrian Government’s cooperation with the OPCW and its teams, certain Western countries continue to cast doubts on the declaration made by Syria and question Syria’s cooperation with the Technical Secretariat. In doing that, they are misrepresenting the cooperation of Syria with the Declaration Assessment Team and deliberately overlooking the progress made so far in order to perpetuate the issue. My Government regrets that certain members of the Security Council have not addressed this issue in an objective and professional manner or complied with the rules and principles set out in the Charter of the United Nations during the discussions that take place in the course of the monthly briefings on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013).”
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“We also hosted an OPCW team tasked with removing remote monitoring equipment, in accordance with the decision adopted by the Executive Council on 24 July 2014, which provides that such equipment must be removed five years after installation. From 8 to 14 November, the inspection team conducted a seventh round of inspections at the Scientific Studies and Research Centre. The Syrian National Committee provided all assistance to and cooperated fully with that team so as to enable it to complete its mission in full. During the final meeting, the head of the inspection team acknowledged that the team had been able to conduct all of the visits it had requested and thanked Syria for the cooperation and support it had provided during the visit.”
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“In that report, the Syrian National Committee for the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention reaffirmed its readiness to continue holding technical meetings and consultations with the Technical Secretariat in order to resolve all outstanding issues, as had been previously agreed. It also reaffirmed that Syria remains completely committed to cooperating with the Technical Secretariat through structured dialogue aimed at resolving all of those issues. Such dialogue has led to significant progress on many of those issues, which can now be closed. In the light of the ongoing cooperation between the Syrian Government and the OPCW, the Syrian Arab Republic hosted an OPCW inspection team that carried out a seventh round of inspections at the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Centre facilities in Barzah and Jamrayah.”
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“The Syrian Arab Republic reiterates that it has not used chemical weapons and that it remains committed to cooperating with the OPCW and its Technical Secretariat and the Declaration Assessment Team in order to resolve all outstanding issues and enable the matter to be closed once and for all as soon as possible, ensuring that it will no longer be part of a political game or used as fodder for media disinformation. On 15 November, Syria submitted to the OPCW Technical Secretariat its eighty-fourth monthly report on activities related to the destruction of chemical weapons and production facilities in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic for the period from 16 October to 15 November.”
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“In its documented reports, the Technical Secretariat has acknowledged that all Syrian chemical weapons and declared production facilities were destroyed. Ms. Sigrid Kaag, who is currently a Minister in the Government of the Netherlands, said in her briefing to the Council in June 2014 that Syria had fulfilled all of its obligations. At the time, she was the Special Coordinator of the OPCW-United Nations Joint Mission, a post she held in 2013 and 2014. Syria has fulfilled all of its commitments, while Western countries and the United States have broken their promises by using the OPCW as a tool to pursue their political agendas.”
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“Since acceding to the Convention in 2013, Syria has made every effort and strived with the utmost earnestness and diligence to implement all its treaty-based obligations in a credible and transparent manner, despite the strict timetables established by the OPCW and the extremely difficult conditions that Syria was dealing with at the time. Syria nevertheless did everything that was asked of it and cooperated fully with the OPCW’s Technical Secretariat and teams, to which the OPCW and its Director-General have attested. A few days ago, we cooperated with and provided all of the required assistance to the Declaration Assessment Team, which visited Syria recently, as well as to another team that departed Syria on 24 November.”
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“However, in relation to the Syrian chemical-weapon issue, it has been transformed from a technical organization with noble goals into a pawn in a geopolitical game controlled by the United States of America and its allies. Instead of being a faithful custodian of the Chemical Weapons Convention and ensuring that it is implemented without politicization or polarization, the OPCW has become a tool that is being used to pressure and target a State party to the Convention with a view to advancing hostile agendas directed against the Syrian State.”
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“I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, and your friendly country, South Africa, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. We are confident that you will be able to successfully manage the work of the Council. I would also like to thank you for convening this open meeting. I have listened attentively to the statements by my colleagues today. I would once again like to express our gratitude to those Member States that uphold international law and the Charter of the United Nations and that have condemned the use of chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction anytime, anywhere and in any circumstances. I would like to emphasize that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is a technical organization.”
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“Hamad then said that Qatar alone had spent $137 billion to undermine the stability of my country, Syria. Is this a caricature or are these facts to be taken into account in the Security Council? Is this a joke? Who will be held accountable for shedding the blood of hundreds of thousands of Syrians? Now the representative of the Turkish regime comes to lecture us with chastity and purity, even though his regime is known for what it does in Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Libya and the eastern Mediterranean. The closest people to the Turkish regime are today against it, including some Europeans.”
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“But these facts cannot be denied by the Turkish regime. Who served as patron of even this fragile, weak and unpatriotic opposition? It was the Turkish regime. Most of the opposition members are residents of Istanbul. I also recall a very important issue — the admission by former Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim on France 24, the BBC Arabic Service and the Qatari State Television that Washington has asked Qatar to lead the process of sponsoring terrorism in Syria. That was the United States mandate for Qatar. Washington asked Sheikh Hamad to go to Riyadh to coordinate with the Saudis on who should lead this operation against Syria. The former Saudi king at the time told Hamad, “With God’s blessing, let Qatar lead the process and we will support you from behind”. All of this occurred with Washington’s knowledge.”
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“The Turkish regime has been involved in the bloodshed of Syrians in various forms since the beginning of the crisis, including infiltrating the terrorists and encouraging them to use chemical weapons. We provided the Council with a special message concerning a Syrian terrorist named Haitham Al-Qassab, who transported two litres of sarin from Libya to Istanbul on a Turkish civilian plane. These two litres of sarin were then transported by the same terrorist to the Syrian border and brought into Syria. Obviously, those chemicals were used in the Syrian town of Khan Al- Asal in March 2013, resulting in the martyrdom of 23 Syrian soldiers and civilians. We informed the Council about all this, but unfortunately no one — neither the Council nor its counter-terrorism sub-committees — took any action.”
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“Of course, the movement of these thousands upon thousands of terrorists was financed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and the Turkish regime was in charge of transporting them to our common border, where they were trained and then brought into Syria. The first chemical gas test was conducted in the Turkish city of Gaziantep and publicly carried out by Jabhat Al-Nusra inside Turkish territory, and the link was posted on social media. That post contains audio of a person who conducted chemical gas experiments on rabbits, who can be heard saying: “We have succeeded in using chemical weapons on rabbits and we will transfer the use of the chemical to the Syrian interior.” This statement is proven and known.”
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“I recall some important milestones that the Turkish regime has gone through since the beginning of the Syrian crisis and its sponsorship of terrorism in my country. Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, Turkey’s border with my country has been open to tens of thousands of terrorists from around the world. All will recall that some of the foreign ministers of the permanent members of the Security Council have described these terrorists as jihadists. Some of those ministers and Heads of Governments and republics have even referred to the foreign terrorists who entered my country from Turkey as the “moderate Syrian opposition”.”
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“Here, my delegation reaffirms the Syrian ownership and leadership of the political process, facilitated by the United Nations. We stress that the success of the Committee’s work requires respect for its agreed rules of procedures and the rejection of any external interference in its work and any attempt by some Governments to impose artificial timetables. The Constitutional Committee is its own master, and the Syrian people alone have the exclusive right to make their own future. Second statement by the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations, Bashar Ja’afari I apologize for asking for the floor again. It is not my habit to follow-up on what my colleague the Turkish representative says, but his statement today is misleading to the members of the Council, to say the least.”
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“What about the implementation of resolution 2253 (2015), which was adopted just one day before the adoption of resolution 2254 (2015)? Resolution 2254 (2015) contains more than 2,650 words. It must be fully respected, instead of being selectively implemented by applying one paragraph and ignoring another. We either respect the resolution in its entirety or consider it not applicable. Preferences and predilections should be avoided in dealing with this resolution. We must start with the first paragraph, which affirms the Security Council’s strong commitment to the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic. This is the beginning of 2254 (2015). The fourth round of meetings of the Constitutional Committee will take place soon.”
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“The Turkish regime was not satisfied with that; rather, it stole large quantities of wheat, barley and other agricultural crops and smuggled them into Turkey, similar to what it did with the previously looted oil, antiquities, factories, machinery and property, and burned what it was unable to steal. Despite all of these undeniable facts, some come to lecture us about the implementation of resolution 2254 (2015). I invite them to start with the first sentence of the resolution, which affirms the strong commitment of the Security Council to the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic. Is the Security Council ready to demonstrate its will to implement it? Will the other stakeholders cooperate with the Secretary-General and his Special Envoy in the implementation of this commitment?”
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“To add insult to injury, the Turkish regime and its tools stole water pumps belonging to the wells of Asfar Najjar and Ayn Al-Kebrit, and Majra Al-Khabur, located in the city of Ras Al-Ayn, in Raqqa governorate, in northern Syria, which reflects the persistent commission by the Erdoğan regime of war crimes and crimes against humanity in my country while enjoying the impunity provided by its allies in NATO. Furthermore, mercenaries of the Turkish regime in the so-called Sultan Murad and Sultan Suleiman Shah terrorist factions carried out digging and excavation work in several archaeological areas in Afrin and the vicinity to steal antiquities and smuggle them into Turkey.”
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“Moreover, the American company Creative Associates International also concluded agreements with the so-called Civil Council in Deir ez- Zor. Is this how the host country of the United Nations defends the provisions of the Charter and the principles of international law? As the Council is aware, the Turkish regime and its terrorist organizations and mercenaries systematically use drinking water as a weapon against civilians by cutting off the water supply from the Allouk water station for about 1 million Syrians in the city of Hasakah and the vicinity.”
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“The crimes described are an extension of the crimes that ISIS has consistently committed to provide financial resources for its terrorist activities and to enhance the geographical scope of its alleged caliphate. The principal has replaced the agent, in a clear exchange of roles. Not only that, but the American occupation forces continued their efforts to grant a kind of legitimacy to terrorist organizations, their agent militias and the artificial entities associated with them. Recently an American delegation from the so-called Commission on International Religious Freedom illegally infiltrated the countryside in the Syrian governorate of Deir ez-Zor and the Al-Tabqa area, in Raqqa governorate. The delegation held meetings with representatives of those militias and their affiliated entities.”
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“In conjunction with their overt theft of Syrian oil and gas, which we have shared with the Council in many of our official statements and letters, the United States occupation forces recently excavated antiquities in Hasakah governorate, in north-east Syria, unearthing them in the presence of French and Israeli archaeologists. The American occupation forces also excavated an archaeological site in the Al-Malikiyah, Qamishli governorate, countryside, where they found 12 graves and historical monuments dating back to the Roman era. Those looted Syrian antiquities, which are priceless and date back thousands of years, are being smuggled through Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey in preparation for their transfer to other destinations.”
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“That visit also represents an encouragement for the Israeli occupying authorities to continue with their aggressions, the latest of which were the acts of aggression launched against my country on 18 November and last night. We assure the Council and Pompeo that his visit will not change the legal, political or geographical status of the Golan as an occupied territory and an integral part of Syria, and we will exert all efforts — using all means provided by international law — to restore it. On another note, the American occupation and its tools of separatist militias continue their practices aimed at plundering the resources of the Syrian State.”
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“We look forward to the Secretary-General and his Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs taking the necessary measures to ensure an apology and hold the perpetrators accountable for that violation. My country condemns in the strongest terms the visit of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the Israeli settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan and the West Bank on 19 November. That visit represents an expression of the current United States Administration’s keenness to affirm, until the very last moments of its tenure, its bias towards and absolute loyalty to Israel at the expense of the principles of international law, the provisions of the Charter, the relevant United Nations resolutions, including resolution 497 (1981), and the security and stability of our region.”
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“Cutts was accompanied by a number of so-called security men affiliated with the Hayat Tahrir Al-Shams/Jabhat Al-Nusra terrorist organization, which is on the Security Council’s list as the Syrian arm of Al-Qaida. Is this the practical application of the role of the United Nations as an effective partner of the Syrian Government in the humanitarian field? This condemnable behaviour represents a violation of my country’s sovereignty and of the existing cooperation between the Syrian Government and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; support for terrorism; and a violation of the Council’s resolutions related to combating terrorism and the principles of humanitarian action set out in General Assembly resolution 46/182.”
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“Unfortunately, the United Nations system ended up simply assigning its Resident Coordinator in Syria to attend as an observer instead of engaging in dialogue and discussions as an active partner, supporting efforts aimed at improving the humanitarian situation and the dignified, safe and voluntary return of displaced persons and refugees in accordance with international law. It is regrettable that, at a time when the United Nations was forced not to send its representatives to participate in the international conference on the return of Syrian displaced persons and refugees, a United Nations delegation, including Mark Cutts, who is known as the Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator, sneaked across our border with Turkey into Idlib governorate in north-west Syria without the consent of the Syrian Government.”
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“Furthermore, we would like to thank those Governments that boycotted the conference because, once again, they proved by their own actions the falsehood of what they claim regarding human concern and a constructive role at the international level. Those Governments also proved their desire to prolong the crisis and continue geopolitical machinations at the expense of the security and stability of my country and the well-being of its people. In that context also, my delegation regrets that the United Nations, the main humanitarian partner of the Syrian Government, yielded to the instructions of former employee of the United States State Department James Jeffrey and breached its mandate and the requirements of its cooperation with the Government of my country.”
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“They stressed the need for the Constitutional Committee to carry out its work in a consensual and constructive manner, without external interference or attempts to impose artificial timelines, in order to enable the Committee to achieve maximum support on the part of the Syrian people for the outcome of its work. They called on the international community to provide appropriate support to create an environment conducive to the return of displaced persons and their return to normal life. That is consistent with resolution 2254 (2015) and the mandate of the Special Envoy. In that context, my delegation would like to thank the Russian Federation and the Governments of the countries that genuinely participated in this conference, whether by attending personally or via video.”
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“That statement stressed the rejection of the coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people and demanded an end to the foreign occupation and its crimes, including the plundering of Syria’s wealth and resources, as well as the continued combating of terrorism and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Shams (ISIS) and Jabhat Al-Nusra terrorist organizations and affiliated individuals and entities. All these matters are consistent with the positions of the United Nations and the resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly related to these core issues. The participants also affirmed their adherence to a political solution under Syrian leadership and ownership, with the facilitation of the United Nations.”
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“It was also a step towards providing a suitable environment for that through cooperation with friendly countries and humanitarian partners to reconstruct what terrorism has destroyed and rehabilitate residential neighbourhoods and public facilities, primarily schools, health-care facilities, power plants and the economic, social, cultural and service infrastructure. These have been among the concerns expressed in this Chamber over the years, with demands made that they be addressed. The closing statement of the aforementioned conference expressed the participants’ firm adherence to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic.”
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“Simultaneously, we have also witnessed, from the United States Administration in particular and from other hostile Governments in general, more violations of international law, of the purpose and principles of the United Nations and of the relevant resolutions of the Council. This is what I will clarify in my statement today. The international conference on the return of Syrian displaced persons and refugees, held in Damascus on 11 and 12 November, represented a very significant step in the framework of the efforts of the Syrian State and its allies to ensure the safe, dignified and voluntary return of displaced persons and refugees to their areas of origin and places of residence.”
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“My delegation reiterates its thanks and appreciation, Madam President, for your successful stewardship of the Security Council’s work this month. I thank the Secretariat and the Permanent Representatives and members of the delegations that expressed their condolences on the passing away of Mr. Walid Al-Moallem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates. I also thank the dear colleagues who extended their warm congratulations on my appointment as Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates. Since the most recent meeting on the political and humanitarian situation in my country, held on 27 October (see S/2020/1049), we have witnessed a number of important positive developments.”
2020-11-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1147 (2020) · source
“Fortunately, history indicates that Germany was in a state of war with my country at the beginning of the Second World War, when it invaded my country alongside the French proxy Vichy regime forces. Syria declared war on Nazi Germany and participated with the allies in establishing the United Nations in 1945. History teaches us also that our two countries maintained good relations since Nazism was eliminated. However, in his statements, the German Permanent Representative persists in using overly hostile language towards my country, as if we were in a state of war. Contrary to the convictions and delusions of the Permanent Representative of Germany, we do not believe we are in a state of war against Germany.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source