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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
sources: un-security-council

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“In the interest of preserving the mandate and credibility of the United Nations, we also call on the High Representative for Disarmament, Izumi Nakamitsu, to act with professionalism, impartiality and objectivity and not to ignore the information we submit to her. My Government renews its support for the Russian Federation with regard to allegations made by Western countries on the Navalny case, and the Skripal case before that. In conclusion, it is unfortunate that the minimal rules of etiquette in diplomatic discourse are absent, especially in the approach of my colleague the Permanent Representative of Germany. We assumed that, after almost two years of serving as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, his performance would improve and his language would become more polished and refined.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“From 28 September to 1 October, the twenty-third round of consultations was held between the Syrian Government and the Declaration Assessment Team, which visited Damascus, and the Syrian Government provided it full access to all facilities to ensure the success of its mission. Despite all that information, some colleagues in the Council and Mrs. Nakamitsu are claiming that the Syrian Government is not cooperating with the OPCW or with the Declaration Assessment Team. Considering the positive action taken by my country, we call on all Member States of the OPCW to reject the politicization of the technical character of the organization and to address all serious defects in its work that could undermine its status and credibility.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“To that end, on 4 October, my Government sent an official letter to the Director General of the organization, which included responses to his inquiries regarding the implementation of the decision of the ninety-fourth session of the Executive Council, as concerns the incidents in Ltamenah. On 15 October, my country submitted its eighty-third monthly report to the Technical Secretariat on activities related to the destruction of chemical weapons and their production facilities. Last September, the tripartite cooperation agreement between the Syrian Government, the United Nations and the OPCW was extended for a period of six months, starting 30 September.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“That was again fully evident in the report of the Fact-Finding Mission in the Syrian Arab Republic with regard to the Aleppo incident that took place on 28 November 2018, in which terrorist organizations used chemical weapons that resulted in the injury of 125 civilians and military personnel. The Mission concluded that those facts were in question and advanced the bewildering claim that it was unable to determine whether chemicals were used in that attack, despite evidence to the contrary provided by the Syrian and Russian Governments. Would the Fact-Finding Mission have adopted the same position if it could have attributed responsibility to the Syrian Government instead? My country is committed to continuing to cooperate with the OPCW Technical Secretariat and the Declaration Assessment Team to resolve all outstanding issues.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“The United States of America, which claims to be keen on arms control and non-proliferation and has submitted to the Council a draft resolution against my country, is itself the only State party to the Chemical Weapons Convention that still possesses huge stockpiles of such weapons — ever since the Second World War — and refuses to destroy them. Furthermore, the United States, along with its allies, has sought to cover up the crimes of terrorist organizations and their use of chemical weapons and toxic gases against Syrian civilians and Syrian Arab Army forces.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“In addition, these States ignored the information provided by both the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Federation in support of the decision issued by the OPCW Executive Council at its ninety- fourth session, and imposed artificial dates and deadlines that do not match the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, leading up to the current United States Administration submitting an escalatory draft resolution in the Council aimed at promoting its agendas and imposing them by pressure and threat. That brings us back to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“Moreover, the same Member States established illegal mechanisms, approved in violation of the law and the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention, such as the so-called Investigation and Identification Team, and relied on the Team’s reports, which lacked all credibility and professionalism. One example is the fabricated report about Ltamenah incidents.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“Despite those assurances and the fact that representatives of the Western countries witnessed with their own eyes the destruction of the Syrian chemical- weapon stockpiles from the American ship M/V Cape Ray and several European ships, some Member States have maintained their hostile stance towards my country. Those Member States sought to escalate political pressure and, without any verification, launched unilateral and tripartite acts of aggression that, inter alia, completely destroyed civilian facilities such as the Barzah and Jamrayah facilities of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Centre, although the OPCW and its teams have repeatedly searched the Centre and confirmed that it was not used to carry out any illegal activities.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“That cooperation resulted in the disposal of the entire Syrian chemical stockpile and the destruction of the related production facilities. Ms. Sigrid Kaag, Special Coordinator of the joint mission of the OPCW in charge of eliminating chemical weapons in Syria, delivered that news to the Council in her briefing five years ago in June 2014, and it was confirmed by the documents issued by the OPCW Technical Secretariat, the latest of which is the eighty-fifth monthly report of the Director General (see S/2020/1056, annex), issued on 10 October.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“Furthermore, Syria continues to be committed to cooperating with the OPCW, its Technical Secretariat and its Declaration Assessment Team in order to settle all outstanding issues, permanently close this file as soon as possible and remove it from the circle of games and media misinformation. In that context, we kindly remind the Council that, despite the difficult security conditions that we went through years ago and the grave challenges posed by terrorist organizations and transnational terrorists and their operators, Syria was able to cooperate with the United Nations in New York and at the OPCW in The Hague in order to fulfil its commitments arising from its accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention in 2013.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“What of the lessons of history, the testimonies and reports of Hans Blix, Scott Ritter, David Kelly and José Bustani, and other documents that expose the manipulation of certain Governments in that regard to serve their agendas at the expense of international peace and security and the lives and well-being of the Syrian people? What about the facts and proof provided by former OPCW inspector Ian Henderson, Professor Theodore Postol and Mr. Aaron Maté during the Arria Formula meeting held on 27 September, thanks to a much- appreciated Russian initiative? I also remind the Council of the scandal when Western countries prevented Mr. José Bustani from speaking (see S/PV.8764). The Syrian Arab Republic once again reaffirms that it did not use chemical weapons. Syria no longer has chemical weapons.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“Those same Governments have been waging a campaign of misinformation and fabricating accusations against my country for years now, even as they provide the Israeli occupation military and technical support to strengthen its arsenal of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and defend Israel in international forums in order to perpetuate Israel’s violations of the relevant international agreements and instruments. Is the task of maintaining international peace and security as permanent and non-permanent members of the Council consistent with that schizophrenia, selectivity and double standards?”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“As a result of their direct involvement in the terrorist, political, economic and financial war on my country, the Governments of these countries are directly and undeniably responsible for the suffering of the Syrian people over the past nine years. Even when it comes to our discussion on arms control and the prevention of the spread of weapons of mass destruction, there is a deep gap and rupture in the positions of the Western countries that destroyed Iraq under the guise of pretexts that have been proven to be fallacies.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“The manner in which some Western Governments deal with matters related to the situation in my country, whether related to political, humanitarian or chemical issues, reminds me of the novel penned by the famous Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson entitled The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Those Governments are trying hard to assume the role of Dr. Jekyll, the good character, when they preach about noble values and principles and voice out resonant slogans. In reality, however, and in their dealings with other countries, they behave like Mr. Hyde, the evil character who does not hesitate to commit various crimes while relishing in the suffering of his victims.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“While we express our deep appreciation for the positions of members that adhere to the principles of international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and that share our condemnation of the use of chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction at any time, place and under any circumstances, our position — along with those members — simply focuses on the need to move away from politicizing these important issues and to preserve the technical nature, credibility and professionalism of the OPCW’s work. However, I am surprised by the surreal and absurd scene that the representatives of Western countries tirelessly repeat in their insistence on adhering to Goebbels principles of propaganda that they know well and persistently deny all facts, evidence and proof that confirm the erroneousness of their claims.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“The reports of the sixth round confirmed that there are no chemicals or any activities at the Barzah and Jamrayah facilities of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Centre that are prohibited under the Chemical Weapons Convention. I have attentively listened to the statements delivered by my colleagues during this meeting.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“That is in addition to the information contained in an official letter, dated 4 November 2020, sent by Syria’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates to the Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in response to his inquiries. Furthermore, Syria is currently hosting a delegation of experts and inspectors, who arrived on 3 November and will remain until 24 November. Syria cooperates fully with the OPCW and provides its experts with protection, security, safety and unrestricted access to all the places they wish to inspect. This is the seventh round of inspection.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“Let me congratulate you, Madam President, and your friendly country, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, on presiding over the work of the Security Council for the current month. We have full confidence in your successful stewardship of its work, and I thank you for holding this open meeting on the so-called chemical file. First, I would like to express our categorical rejection of what Mrs. Nakamitsu said about not receiving any response or new information from the Syrian Government prior to today’s briefing. That is completely false, as yesterday we sent her two emails that included the most important information and updates with regard to Syrian cooperation.”
2020-11-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1088 (2020) · source
“The last thing one can think of, after the victory over the crime of apartheid in South Africa, is offending the great patriotic leader Nelson Mandela by employing his moral integrity to serve an immoral and illegal issue, such as starving people and denying them food and medicine, development and reconstruction.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“The more I listen to my Western colleagues in these meetings, the more I become convinced that the amount of absurdity in their speeches, the amount of hypocrisy in their interpretations and the confusion in their countries’ wrong policies towards my country all deem it necessary to add the psychiatrist Freud to the list of briefers. Perhaps that could help us diagnose the state of schizophrenia in their language and the unreality in their political analysis. We have said it over and over, an opponent can never be a judge and an arsonist can never be a firefighter.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“In addition, some countries’ attempts to set unacceptable timetables will not serve the responsible work of the Committee, which relates to the present and future of Syria. We reiterate to those who do not want the work of the Committee to advance that the Committee is its own master and is the one that adopts the proposals that it arrives at through a discussion that reflects the will of the Syrians, and the Syrians alone, and we do not see an alternative to the deliberations of the Constitutional Committee in all its stages under Syrian leadership and ownership, because the Syrian people are the only ones concerned with determining the future of their country.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“The whole process from beginning to end must be exclusively Syrian-led and Syrian- owned. Syrians have the sole right to determine the future of their country. Two days ago, the Special Envoy, Mr. Geir Pederson, visited Damascus, where he held meetings with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, and the co-Chair of the national side in the work of the Constitutional Committee. While Mr. Pedersen spoke about his impressions of these meetings, I would like to emphasize that the Syrian side stresses the importance of the success of the Committee’s work, which requires respecting the rules of its procedures that have been agreed upon, including not allowing any external interference or pressure to impede its work.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“The Syrian Government has always engaged in the political process. We have participated openly in talks in Geneva, consultations in Moscow and meetings in Astana. We have upheld the outcomes of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Sochi, including the formation of a committee to discuss the constitution. We have had serious and constructive conversations with the Special Envoy for Syria in the lead-up to the formation and convening of the Constitutional Committee in Geneva. We hope that the Committee will succeed. Success, however, is possible only if there is no external interference whatsoever in its work by any party. Since the start, the Committee has been independent. It is up to the Committee to decide its methods of work and its recommendations.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“We look forward to the participation of countries that believe in and uphold international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations in this conference and their support for the efforts of the Syrian State and its allies to improve the humanitarian situation and livelihood and provide support to facilitate the dignified and safe return of Syrians to their homeland, villages and homes. My country renews its demand to end the illegal presence of the United States occupation forces in my country and to stop the support it provides to its terrorists, separatist militias and illegal artificial entities, and their prescribed theft of Syrian oil, gas, agricultural crops and related crimes aimed at depriving the Syrian State of its basic resources, thereby prolonging the suffering of Syrians and obstructing a political solution.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“The conference aims to follow up on the call made by my Government in 2017 for the return of Syrian refugees and displaced persons, and its request at that time that the international community and the United Nations support the return process, create the appropriate environment and provide basic services to the returnees — a call that the Governments of some countries sought to obstruct by placing a veto on reconstruction and imposing unfair politicized conditions on humanitarian and development work in my country.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“These measures aim to suffocate civilians and deprive them of food, medicine, basic medical equipment and fuel, and to prevent reconstruction and the return of the displaced, in great disregard of international law and the Charter of our Organization, and the calls made by the Secretary-General and senior officials of the United Nations and the Human Rights Council about the need to lift these measures, especially in the light of the challenges posed by the coronavirus disease pandemic and the need to respond to it. I would like to inform the Council of the Syrian Government’s decision to hold an international conference on refugees, in Damascus on 11 and 12 November, in which representatives of Member States and the United Nations and its specialized agencies will be able to participate either, in person or virtually.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“My delegation reiterates that the crimes of the Turkish occupation will not in any way change the legal reality of the lands it occupies and their being an integral part of the Syrian Arab Republic, and neither will they lead in any way to prejudice the legal and sovereign rights of the Syrian Arab Republic, or represent a precursor to any future bilateral demarcation of borders. The American Administration and its partners in the European Union continue the policies of economic terrorism and collective punishment of peoples through the unilateral coercive measures that they impose on my country.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“In addition to the aforementioned crimes of the Turkish regime, that regime has disavowed its obligations and commitments according to the outcomes of the Astana meetings and the Sochi understandings regarding Idlib region, and has built the so-called separation wall on parts of the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic and manipulated the sites of the stones marking our common temporary borders. Moreover, it tried to exploit the refugee issue to blackmail Europe and conclude transactional deals with it, in addition to transferring foreign terrorists and mercenaries, whom some call the “moderate armed opposition”, from Syria to Libya, while that regime is currently trying to rob the energy sources in the Mediterranean.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“Furthermore, this regime, along with its affiliated terrorist groups, have intentionally set fire to large areas of land cultivated with wheat, barley, olive trees and citrus fruits, depriving their owners of their only source of livelihood. We regret that the Security Council did not show solidarity, at least, with the Syrians who were affected by the arson attacks that recently occurred in large areas of several governorates in my country. Of course, Western States would have filled the corridors of the United Nations with cries and called for meetings to be held urgently if those fires had erupted in the areas controlled by the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham/Jabhat Al-Nusra or areas of the American or Turkish occupation.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“Erdoğan’s regime should be held accountable for recruiting, supporting, training and arming thousands of local and cross-border terrorists who were brought by this regime and its allies from more than 100 countries, according to the reports of the United Nations and the Council’s specialized committees, and providing them with political, military and media support. Erdoğan’s regime started integrating these terrorists into its forces, launching acts of aggression and occupying large parts of the north of my country, stealing and plundering the wealth and natural resources of the Syrian people, including antiquities, oil and gas, factories, machinery and agricultural crops. It is also instigating forced displacement and demographic change, imposing Turkification and using drinking water as a weapon against civilians.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“These are serious threats to international peace and security and could never have happened without the protection provided by the member States of NATO to their Turkish ally, which is similar to the patronage and immunity they granted to the Israeli occupation over the past seven decades. We have repeatedly called on the Council to hold the Erdoğan regime accountable for its violations of international law, the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, Security Council resolutions and its treaty obligations, and for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against my country, which began with the violation of the Adana Security Agreement, concluded between the two countries in 1998.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“Rather, Erdoğan saw himself as a new Ottoman sultan whose armies and mercenaries could invade neighbouring countries in the Middle East and Europe without any legal or moral deterrent, as if time stopped at the years preceding the era of the League of Nations, the Charter of the United Nations and the repertoire of 100 years of international legal treaties, instruments and moral values. Erdogan’s regime has expanded its military interventions, serious crimes and support for terrorism beyond the borders of my country to many countries in our region and its neighbourhood. This includes Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Somalia, Greece, Cyprus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and others, and may think of ways to come through the doors of Vienna again.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“We were speaking in good faith for the benefit of all humankind, yet Western States turned a deaf ear to our warnings. Today we can all see, unfortunately, the effects of those clumsy Western policies, where the monster turned against its creators. Erdoğan’s terrorism- sponsoring regime is no longer content with performing the tasks assigned to it, namely, promoting Islamist — not “Islamic”, as deceivers always claim — movements and sponsoring them in many countries in the region, and has limitlessly supported terrorist organizations and transnational terrorists who infiltrated into my country through our northern borders.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“These events also demonstrated once again what we have alerted to regarding the lack of wisdom among decision-makers in some Western capitals, including those of the three permanent Western Member States of the Council. In order to achieve their agendas, these decision-makers are ready to sell their souls to the devil and to personally supervise infamous investigation mechanisms and committees at the expense of the security and stability of my country and the blood and well-being of its people, and at the expense of the Charter, credibility and role of the United Nations. We have repeatedly drawn the Council’s attention to the danger of deploying terrorism, its entities and criminals, regardless of the masks it hides behind, and the need to not tolerate its sponsors and investors.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“My delegation would like to thank you, Madam President, for your successful stewardship of the work of the Security Council this month and for your country’s stances that are based on the principles of international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations. The events in the Middle East and the Mediterranean regions prove, day after day, the validity of what we have been confirming over the past nine years. We have repeatedly drawn the Council’s attention to the fact that some Member State Governments exert feverish efforts to destabilize the security and stability of our countries in order to serve their narrow selfish interests, as well as aggressive and intrusive agendas.”
2020-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1049 (2020) · source
“Lastly, 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, Security Council resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 497 (1981) and 2334 (2016).”
2020-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1055 (2020) · source
“It would be a serious mistake to think that the difficult situation in my country, Syria, will change the fact that the Golan is, always has been and will continue to be Syrian territory. We will keep up the struggle until it has been fully recovered up to the border of 4 June 1967. That right cannot be waived or bargained away, and it will never lapse.”
2020-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1055 (2020) · source
“Mladenov’s current approach in those briefings and his deliberate failure to mention the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan, developments related to the continuing aggressive and criminal practices of the Israeli occupation authorities, or recent decisions of the United States Administration that flagrantly violate international law, the Charter of the United Nations and the resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly on the Syrian Arab Golan and the other occupied Arab territories, particularly resolution 497 (1981), which was adopted unanimously and states that the decision of the occupation authorities to impose their jurisdiction on the Golan is null and void and has no legal effect whatsoever.”
2020-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1055 (2020) · source
“Those alarming developments have not been mentioned in any of the briefings given by the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov. The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic therefore once again expresses its strong objection to the continuation of Mr.”
2020-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1055 (2020) · source
“In recent years, the Israeli occupation authorities have also been supporting terrorists and have repeatedly attacked Syrian territory. My country has diligently informed the Security Council and the Secretariat of the occupation authorities’ repeated violations and acts of aggression in the Golan. For instance, the occupation authorities have forced the population of the occupied Syrian Golan to register their land in the Israeli real estate register. They have stolen land owned by the inhabitants of the occupied Syrian Golan in order to develop a wind farm to generate electricity. They have also endeavoured to Judaize the Golan, doubled the number of settlers and imposed artificial local councils.”
2020-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1055 (2020) · source
“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 country insists once again that Palestine must be allowed to become a full-fledged Member of the United Nations. One might well wonder for how long the Security Council will remain silent while Israel persists with its systematic and grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the Syrian Golan, which has been occupied since 1967. Such violations include settlement activities, racial discrimination, arbitrary S/2020/1055 detention, torture and the theft of the Golan’s natural resources.”
2020-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1055 (2020) · source
“The Syrian Arab Republic, along with the overwhelming majority of Member States, strongly condemns the decisions taken by America and its supporters and considers them to be a merely unilateral act performed by a party that has neither the standing nor the political, legal or moral capacity to decide the fate of the peoples of the world or to dispose of lands that are an integral part of the territories of the Syrian Arab Republic and occupied Palestine. Syria reiterates its support for the right of the Palestinian people to self- determination, the establishment of an independent State over all of its national territory, with Jerusalem as its capital, and the right of refugees to return to their homes in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III).”
2020-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1055 (2020) · source
“That history highlights the double standards espoused by successive American administrations. It also demonstrates their blind bias in favour of the occupation — a bias that has reached an unprecedented degree with the current American administration, which has taken provocative and illegal unilateral measures in an attempt to change the political and legal situation of the occupied Arab territories, firstly by declaring occupied Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, then by announcing its so-called recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan, which paved the way for attempts by the occupation authorities to annex parts of the West Bank.”
2020-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1055 (2020) · source
“Those of our people who have been compelled by the Zionist occupation forces to leave their land and sources of livelihood continue to look forward to the day when they will return to their land, homes and property. The Israeli occupation would not be able to keep defying the international community and the resolutions of the United Nations were it not backed by several Western Governments that have granted immunity to the Israeli occupation and its representatives and prevented their being held accountable or punished for war crimes, crimes against humanity or grave human rights violations. The United States has a history of using the veto to stymie any draft resolution aimed at putting a stop to the crimes and acts of aggression of the Israeli occupation.”
2020-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1055 (2020) · source
“The threat posed by the Israeli occupation to the security and stability of the Middle East region, and to international peace and security as a whole, bespeaks the decades-long failure of the Security Council to assume its responsibility by maintaining international peace and security and addressing the causes of tension and conflict in the region and beyond. Since 1967, Israel has occupied large and cherished swathes of the territory of Arab States in Palestine, Lebanon and my own country, the Syrian Arab Republic. The inhabitants of the occupied Syrian Golan continue to languish under the occupation, whose criminal, repressive practices show flagrant contempt for the Charter of the United Nations, the rules of international law and the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly.”
2020-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1055 (2020) · source
“When it comes to the United States Administration’s claims of support for a peaceful political solution to the crisis in my country that is facilitated by the United Nations, does such a hostile American position directed against the Head of a State Member of the Organization make any sense at all?”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“The Syrian Government also reaffirms that it continues to work to combat terrorism and restore all Syrian territories, thereby achieving security, stability and prosperity for the Syrian people. The Syrian Government also recalls the need to fully adhere to the terms of reference and rules of work of the Constitutional Committee, and that there should be no foreign interference in its work or attempts to impose artificial timetables or deadlines for its work. In conclusion, we all heard the American President, Donald Trump, confirm days ago that his Administration was planning to assassinate the President of the Syrian Arab Republic. This confirms the level to which that Administration’s reckless political thinking and behaviour have descended. Here, I pose a question to the Secretary-General and my colleagues in the Council.”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“They have also prepared the crime scene, kidnapped a number of children and prepared hostages and detainees to use in their crime, in order to lay charges against the Syrian Arab Army and provide a pretext to openly occupy the city of Idlib and its countryside and target all Syrian airports.The Syrian Government reiterates its commitment to a political solution that is Syrian-led and Syrian-owned, without any foreign interference, and facilitated by the United Nations, with the indisputable commitment and firm respect of all Member States inside and outside the Council to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic.”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“Such a draft resolution would oblige Member States to cooperate in eliminating the phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters and to ensure the commitment of the Governments of the countries concerned to repatriate their nationals, hold them accountable for their crimes and take deterrent measures against them in order to assume their share of the international effort to rid the whole world of the scourge of terrorism. I would like to draw the Council’s attention to the availability of information indicating that a number of terrorist members of the White Helmets and Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham terrorist organizations, under the supervision of some Turkish officers, are working to prepare for the commission of a new chemical crime in the coming days in the city of Ariha and the Basames area in north-western Syria.”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“I do not want to name the Western countries and others that have paid huge sums of money to the armed separatist militias in exchange to take back some of their children or terrorists, in addition to the political statements they have issued in favour of these militias. As we thank our colleague, the Permanent Representative of Indonesia, for his efforts during the negotiating process related to the draft resolution on repatriating, prosecuting and rehabilitating foreign terrorist fighters, my country demands that the efforts of the Security Council to adopt an alternative and firm draft resolution under the Chapter VII of the Charter be pursued.”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source