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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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“These Governments must also withdraw their monsters from Al-Hol Camp, which is run by the American occupation forces and their affiliated separatist militias, and avoid making this issue the subject of barter or suspicious deals aimed at trying to legitimize or recognize those militias involved in smuggling some ISIS terrorists or children to neighbouring countries, as happened a few days ago when more than 25 children were suffocated and poisoned after consuming excessive doses of sleeping drugs during preparations to smuggle them out of Al-Hol camp in water tanks and boxes.”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“Of course, these numbers have been manipulated and reduced to cover up the practices of the Governments of the four countries. The statistics of the Syrian Government show much higher numbers. My delegation reaffirms that the success of any political solution to the crisis that would restore security and stability to the entirety of the Syrian Arab Republic and improve the humanitarian situation requires that terrorism be combatted and that the concerned Governments repatriate their cannibalistic nationals from Idlib, which is controlled by the Al-Nusra Front and its affiliated multi-labelled and multifaceted entities.”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“In the reports of the Secretary-General and the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities, the United Nations has confirmed the existence of tens of thousands of terrorist fighters who came to my country from more than 100 Member States. The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague indicated years ago that there were some 4,300 European terrorists fighting in Syria and Iraq, including 2,838 terrorists from France, Britain, Belgium and Germany — in other words, more than 700 terrorists for each of the four countries that I mentioned, all of which are currently members of the Security Council and NATO.”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“For example, in recent years we have seen an effort by but not limited to the United Kingdom to revoke the nationality of British terrorists operating in my country if they should even dare think of going back to the United Kingdom. The same thing has happened in other countries. The Belgian Government — which shares with Germany the so-called humanitarian penholdership and claims to be concerned about the humanitarian situation in my country — refused to take back the Belgian wives of ISIS fighters S/2020/936 and was content with expressing its readiness to receive children exclusively under the age of 10, despite the decisions issued by the Belgian judiciary demanding that children not be separated from their mothers.”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“Consequently, Western countries that have been consistently flooding some poor and developing countries with their nuclear and non-nuclear waste to protect their local environment from pollution are bent on flooding certain countries with their human waste of terrorists, extremists, mercenaries and murderers after they have used them to target certain countries, including my own. What confirms the relevance of what we say is the fact that some Western Governments still refuse to repatriate their terrorists, together with their families and children. They are also taking illegal and illegitimate measures to evade their responsibility for and duties towards their nationals, including by repatriating, prosecuting or rehabilitating them.”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“My delegation reiterates its condemnation and categorical rejection of the selective approach adopted by the Governments of some Member States regarding the issue of confronting the threat posed by terrorism to international peace and security. These very same Governments consider terrorism to be a legitimate tool in which to invest as long as it does not target their countries, and describe the terrorists as the “moderate armed Syrian opposition”, “non-State armed groups”, “revolutionaries”, “jihadists” or “freedom fighters” who do not pose any threat to the peace and security of any country or region of the whole world, provided that they never think of returning to their countries of origin to continue spreading democracy and human rights there.”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“These countries have also persisted in their unethical attempts to evade their relevant responsibilities, to our great dissatisfaction. It is well known to everyone that my country, Syria, has been targeted in recent years by a brutal terrorist war in which the Governments of known countries have recruited foreign terrorist fighters, provided them with various forms of support and facilitated their infiltration into my country, mainly across our common borders with Turkey, in order to destabilize Syria’s security and stability; undermine its sovereignty, territorial unity and integrity, and its role in the region; and pave the way for the perpetration of acts of aggression and occupation under the delusional pretext of fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS).”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“A few days ago, on 31 August (see S/2020/870), the Security Council voted on a draft resolution on combating terrorism (S/2020/852). The draft resolution was supposed to contribute to addressing one of the weaknesses and to close an important gap in this field by calling on Member States of our international Organization to repatriate, prosecute or rehabilitate their nationals — “terrorists without borders”, or what some like to call “foreign terrorist fighters” — and by ridding the countries in which these terrorists are active of their evils and crimes. Unfortunately, the negotiation process on the draft resolution confirmed that some European countries represented in the Council have adhered to their selfish and irresponsible position of refusing to repatriate and hold accountable their hardened terrorist nationals.”
2020-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/936 (2020) · source
“Finally, in response to what the United States representative has stated about the situation in Al-Hol camp, we stress the responsibility of the American Administration, its terrorist militias and some European Governments for the current situation in the camp. That is in view of the American occupation of that area and the refusal of some European Governments to repatriate their thousands of semi-human trash who were sent illegally to my country as terrorists without borders and their families. We have demanded this over and over. Separatist militias of the Syrian Democratic Forces, which are proxies of the American occupation, are trying to take advantage of the issue of inhabitants of Al-Hol camp to feign some sort of recognition, then concluding suspicious cheap deals and using them as political media blackmail.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“It calls on Washington to weaponize wheat to starve civilians in Syria in order to reduce food supplies and pressure the Syrian Government and Russia to make political concessions that serve United States interests in the region. This twisted logic of using wheat as a weapon to punish civilians is akin to Erdoğan’s use of water as a weapon to punish civilians. Some of the Governments of Council Member States have slaughtered international humanitarian law in their policies towards my country just as they slaughtered its biological father — international law — before it. Nothing remains before the Council, except the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, which a number of Member States still uphold and defend. The question here is, does the Council want the provisions of our Charter to fail this test too?”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“All of those crimes aim to suffocate Syrian citizens and deprive them of their basic requirements of food, medicine, gas and electricity, obstructing the reconstruction process, preventing the return of the displaced and exerting greater pressure on the Syrian Government to make political concessions, especially since that terrorist bombing coincided with the commencement of the third round of the Constitutional Committee in Geneva. I would like to draw the Council’s attention to a study published a few days ago by the Center for a New American Security, funded by the United States Government. This study is authored by Nicholas Heras, a researcher at the Center who has also worked with the Pentagon.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“That terrorist attack, perpetrated by the terrorist groups supported by the American troops in the Al-Tanf occupied area, is merely a link in the chain of economic terrorism that has become the dominant title of the current phase. This economic terrorism is practiced by some Governments of the States Members of the Organization vis-à-vis my country by imposing unilateral coercive measures, including the so-called Caesar Act, and through the crimes that those Governments commit directly or through their tools of separatist militias and terrorist organizations to plunder oil, gas, antiquities, wheat and agricultural crops and destroy civilian facilities and infrastructure.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“Drinking water has been provided to our people there to the extent possible, but the needs exceed all expectations and capabilities owing to the Turkish and American occupation of the northern and eastern areas of Syria. Syria warns of the continuation or recurrence of this disaster and demands that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the European Union countries and leaders wake up from their irresponsible slumber and show respect for the moral and legal foundations on which this international Organization is based. In continuation of the policies of some Governments hostile to my country, on 24 August terrorist organizations blew up the gas pipeline feeding the Syrian electric power stations, causing a general blackout all over Syria.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“Today Erdoğan is committing these crimes in joint complicity to implement the Western project based on targeting and destroying civil and service structures and the institutions of the Syrian State. If the Council thinks that our words do not show the reality on the ground, we challenge it to prove the opposite and take steps to hold the countries that are occupying parts of my country accountable for their crimes against Syria and the region in general. The Syrian State and Syrian humanitarian organizations have honourably assumed their responsibilities in the face of the Turkish regime’s crime of cutting off drinking water to the residents of Hasakah.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“None of my Western colleagues in the Council at the time, nor at any other time — I do not have the time to enumerate them now — uttered a single word about the American air force targeting humanitarian workers. Two days ago, the so-called international coalition acknowledged its responsibility for killing 1,377 civilians during its hostilities, considering them as collateral damage. Of course, the numbers exceed this number exponentially, but the matter will pass unnoticed so long as Germany and Belgium are the two entrusted humanitarian co-penholders in the Council. Therefore, international law has become like the gentle lamb whose care is entrusted to a herd of wolves.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“That disrespect has been demonstrated on an ongoing basis, as no voices were raised when attacks by the American occupation forces caused severe damage to the Euphrates and Baath dams, energy and water plants and to the famous suspension bridge in Deir ez-Zor, in addition to other civilian facilities. Nor were their voices raised when, on 27 March 2017, the illegitimate coalition air force targeted a vehicle carrying a team of technicians supervising the Euphrates dam and volunteers from the Syrian Red Crescent as they were trying to reach the dam to repair the damage caused by the United States bombing and prevent its collapse. That sinful attack led to the death of Firas Al-Hussein, a Syrian citizen who was a humanitarian volunteer in the Syrian Red Crescent, while the rest of the team were injured.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“Lowcock is biased and incapable of taking professional, objective and credible positions, why did the so-called humanitarian co-penholders in the Council not take action to hold meetings and adopt at least one presidential statement condemning Erdoğan’s targeting of the Allouk civilian water station and his use of water as a weapon to punish civilians? These self-proclaimed co-penholders and those behind them are clearly loyal to NATO and its aggressive policies, which show zero respect for international law, the Charter of the United Nations and human rights.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“He also ignored the fact that this station is a civilian facility that provides necessary drinking water to more than 1 million Syrian civilians and that bombing it or cutting off its water supply is a barbaric act, a war crime and a crime against humanity under international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. That crime requires urgent action from the United Nations to put an end to this occupation and end the suffering of the people of Hasakah from water deprivation and thirst. I would have expected Mr. Lowcock to head a humanitarian demonstration in front of the Turkish Permanent Mission protesting the deprivation of the people of Hasakah city of drinking water. We have the right to ask: if Mr.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“Lowcock, who is supposed to represent the human face of the United Nations. Mr. Lowcock, instead of condemning the crimes of the Turkish occupation in his briefings, has previously, before this very Council, thanked the Turkish regime for its facilitation in sending a technical team to repair the Allouk station, ignoring the fact that the Turkish regime bombed the station and attacked its workers, expelling them, as it launched what was called a “peace spring operation”.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“That city has so far continued to suffer from thirst due to the extreme climate conditions and the health threats associated with the spread of the coronavirus disease pandemic. On behalf of the Government of my country, I have addressed many relevant official letters to the Council and to His Excellency the Secretary-General. Unfortunately, we have not seen from the Council any concrete steps to stop these prescribed atrocities and gross violations. While we express our thanks and gratitude to the Secretary-General for his prompt response and his good offices to end the suffering of our people in Hasakah and to ensure that drinking water is re-pumped to them urgently, we condemn the failure of the Turkish regime and its tools to respond as promptly as required, and we deplore the positions of Mr.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“Today, as has been the case for more than 20 days now, more than 1 million Syrian civilian in Hasakah city and its surrounding areas — in north-eastern Syria — are facing water deprivation and thirst as the Turkish regime continues to commit its crimes, using water as a weapon of war to punish the people of the city, including women, children and the elderly, because they refuse occupation and hold on to their country. With the blessing of the American Administration and its tools, the Turkish occupation forces and their proxies have cut off the pumping of drinking water from the Allouk station and the wells feeding it more than 16 times and for varying periods, the last of which extended for more than 20 days, which resulted in the suffering of our people in Hasakah.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“I will be focusing in my statement today on the areas that were termed in the deliberations of the Council as areas located in north-eastern Syria and which have been dubbed by the United States Administration as areas east of the Euphrates. The suffering of those areas has not been limited to the afflictions resulting from the criminal practices of the terrorist organization the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham, or to the results of the crimes of the illegal international coalition that wreaked havoc and devastation in the region and paved the way for the occupation and looting of Syria’s resources, including oil, gas, antiquities and agricultural crops. Rather, the suffering of the Syrian people in those areas was exacerbated in quantity and quality as a result of the crimes of the American and Turkish occupation.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“Over the past years, the Governments of some States members of the Security Council have dealt with the humanitarian situation in my country with blatant selectivity. That selectivity has manifested itself, and continues to be manifested, in their politicized focus on certain areas to protect the remnants of the terrorist organizations that control them. That selectivity is also aimed at preventing the Syrian Arab Army and its allies from liberating them from terrorism. At the same time, those Governments deliberately overlooked the catastrophic humanitarian conditions experienced by Syrians in other areas occupied by the American and Turkish forces and the crimes committed by their tools of proxy separatist militias and terrorist organizations.”
2020-08-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/866 (2020) · source
“These measures prevent the Syrians from meeting their basic need for food, medicine and medical equipment, especially in the light of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and its dire impacts. They also represent a crime of deliberate killing of the people of the countries affected by those sanctions. A final friendly word for the Special Envoy Mr. Pederson. I heard him describe in his statement the American occupation forces as “the International Coalition forces”. Naturally, the defunct international law, the martyred Charter of the United Nations, the Envoy himself, the Security Council and I — all of us — know that the presence of American forces in my country is illegitimate and a mere occupation. Therefore, I call upon my friend Mr. Pederson to reconsider the use of that term.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“Therefore, it is not strange that the American representative would start her statement speaking about Iran as if the subject of today’s meeting were the predicament of the American Administration after its withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The Syrian Arab Republic again reiterates its demand that the Secretary- General and the Security Council take urgent action in response to the complaint submitted on 31 May, condemning the acts of aggression, occupation and external interference in the internal affairs of Syria, as well as the disastrous effects of unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United State Administration and the European Union, despite the pleas of the Secretary-General, the Special Envoy and many others.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“Yes, we say over and over again that the solution is political and exclusively Syrian-owned without any foreign interference — a solution whose parameters are set by Syrians themselves in order to protect their country from vultures lurking in it, not according to criteria set by the American Administration and Erdoğan, who attack Syria and occupy its precious territories. It seems from the statement of my colleague, the American Permanent Representative, that her Administration’s policy towards my country is based on settling scores with any country standing with my country against the conspiracy targeting Syria and those same countries.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“The national delegation continues its preparations to participate in the next round of meetings of the Constitutional Committee, which will be held in Geneva a few days later. We reaffirm that this process is and must always be Syrian-led and Syrian-owned, without any external interference, and that the foundations that have been agreed upon and the terms of reference that have been reached must be upheld and respected and not allowed to be manipulated to divert it from its assigned tasks and goals under any pretext.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“My country also affirms that the Turkish regime’s confiscation and annexation of swaths of Syrian lands and its construction of a so-called separation wall on them will not change the legal status of those lands or the fact that they belong to the Syrian Arab Republic, nor will it in any way affect the legal and sovereign rights of the Syrian Arab Republic or be a precursor to any future binary demarcation. The use by the Turkish regime of its NATO membership as a shield in order to antagonize the neighbouring countries and violate the sovereign rights of these countries increases the responsibility of this alliance for the absence of stability in the entire Mediterranean region and escalates tensions to unprecedented levels.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“This is all a result of the Security Council’s silence on the Turkish regime’s continued use of water as a weapon of war against civilians, by cutting drinking water off at Allouk station more than 15 times for periods ranging from two to ten days and by reducing its production capacity to its minimum levels. How long will the Security Council remain silent in the face of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Erdoğan? Do members have an answer? The Syrian Arab Republic reiterates that the presence of the Turkish military forces on Syrian territory is an act of aggression, occupation and a gross violation of the principles of international law, the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of friendly relations and good neighbourliness between adjacent countries.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“The Turkish Regime has launched acts of aggression and occupation, including the aggression against the city of Kessab and the so-called Operation Peace Spring and the Turkish military incursion into north and north-western Syria, looting the factories and property of the Syrians in Aleppo and its countryside, and burning or looting agricultural crops, and trading with ISIS and terrorist organizations in oil and looted antiquities, and others. At the time this session is being held, more than a million Syrians from Hasakah and its countryside live without drinking water in intense heat and fear of the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“These are the tip of the iceberg of the crimes perpetrated by the Erdoğan regime, which has never respected its pledges under the Astana agreements and the Sochi understandings and has committed every single prescribed crime, such as supporting terrorism, facilitating the infiltration of foreign terrorist fighters into Syria, supplying terrorist organizations with toxic chemicals to use against civilians and fabricating accusations against the Syrian Government.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“For its part, the Turkish regime continues its practices aimed at strengthening its occupation of parts of my country. The Turkish regime is trying to change the legal, demographic, economic and financial character of those occupied territories by the Turkification and displacement of inhabitants, plundering their real estate and property, imposing the use of Turkish currency, and naming squares and streets after Turkish and Ottoman figures. The Turkish regime even uses Ottoman names for the terrorist organizations and entities that it supervises, operates and invests in for its foreign wars in Libya and elsewhere. These terrorist groups with historic Ottoman names include the Sultan Murad Brigade, the Sultan Muhammad Al Fateh Brigade and the Nur al-Din al-Zanki movement and others.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“The shameful record of the United States of America against dozens of States Members of the Organization answers this question and reveals the lack of belief of American Administrations in the principles and purposes of this international Organization. My country, the Syrian Arab Republic, condemns these practices and any similar acts or suspicious deals that take place with proxy militias and terrorist entities or artificial bodies that do not have any legal capacity or status. Syria affirms that these practices are null and void and have no legal effect, as they constitute a shameless assault against the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic and the resources of its people. The late international law must be turning in its grave now, lamenting such behaviour.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“The recent period has also seen the American company Creative Associates International conclude a cooperation agreement with the so-called Civil Council in Deir ez-Zor, which operates under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces militias. These are the same militias that issued, a few days ago, the so-called protection and management of absentee property law, which is aimed at looting the property of Syrians who were displaced by the concerted efforts of ISIS and SDF to change the demographic composition of those areas. Is this agreement, sponsored by the American Administration and its occupying forces, consistent with the commitment to the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of my country?”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“It is well known to all that the United States Administration has allowed United States oil companies, whose work was supervised by former United States Vice President Dick Cheney, to extract Syrian oil from the occupied Syrian Golan in flagrant violation of relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions. In that regard, we ask: Does this express the respect of the United States — the host country of United Nations Headquarters and a permanent member of the Security Council, which is entrusted with contributing to the maintenance of international peace and security — for international law, the Charter of the United Nations and a political solution in Syria?”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“Just two days ago, two American military helicopters attacked a checkpoint of the Syrian Arab Army south-east of Qamishli, killing one soldier and wounding two others. We all remember the sinful attack by the American occupation forces on the sites of the Syrian Arab Army on Mount Tharda in Deir ez-Zor, on 17 September 2016, to enable the terrorist organization ISIS to control those sites. Furthermore, United States President Donald Trump previously announced, on 27 October 2019, that he “intends to conclude a deal with an American company to go to Syria and obtain its share of Syrian oil”. Trump reaffirmed his endeavour on 1 November 2019 by announcing his intention to keep Syrian oil because he “loves oil”.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“This hostile American behaviour towards Syria, which violates international law, the Charter of the United Nations and the Security Council’s resolutions, did not come as a surprise, as the United States Administration had facilitated the possession and trafficking of the terrorist organization Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) with looted Syrian oil and its smuggling to Turkey in cooperation with the terrorism- sponsoring Erdogan Regime. Furthermore, the United States Administration has continued, through its illegal alliance, to launch repeated attacks on the Syrian Arab Army forces to prevent them from liberating the areas occupied by the terrorist organization ISIS in north-eastern Syria.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“Recently, the United States company Crescent Delta Energy, with the sponsorship and support of the United States Administration, has entered into a contract with the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) separatist militia, an agent of the United States occupation forces in north-eastern Syria, with the aim of stealing Syrian oil and depriving the Syrian State and Syrian people of the basic revenues necessary to improve the humanitarian situation, provide for livelihood needs and reconstruction. Imagine an unknown company born out of nowhere, headed by former United States Ambassador to Denmark James Cain, a retired American Delta Force officer named James Reese, and an oil expert, all with the blessing of the American Administration, which has actually established this company.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“What steps have been taken by the Security Council to support the efforts of the Syrian State and its allies in combating terrorism, confronting the tens of thousands of terrorists without borders, also known in United Nations language as foreign terrorist fighters, and holding the Governments recruiting, funding and supporting them accountable? At a time when members of the Security Council pledged, at the outset of their resolutions relevant to the situation in my country, a strong commitment to respecting the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic, the United States occupation forces, in full view of the United Nations and the international community, took a new step to plunder Syria’s natural resources, including Syrian oil and gas.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“Every time we have submitted a complaint to the Security Council or informed it of facts about acts of support for terrorism, aggression, occupation, plunder and destruction of the resources of my country, the more Western pressure increased to deflect the efforts of the Council and prevent it from carrying out its role in upholding the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and ensuring respect for the content of its own resolutions relevant to the situation in Syria, foremost of which is ensuring full commitment to its sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity. That only raises numerous questions. What has the Security Council done to end the American occupation of parts of my country? What has it done to put an end to the Turkish occupation and the practices of the terrorism-sponsoring Erdoğan regime?”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“Since the Security Council endorsed the political process as a basis for resolving the crisis in my country, some Permanent Members of the Council have endeavoured to undermine that approach day after day, month after month and year after year to the extent that those same members have, unfortunately, started misusing the Council to practically support the terrorist war on Syria and to justify their occupation of its lands and their unbridled investment in terrorism.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“I congratulate you, Mr. President, and the friendly Republic of Indonesia on presiding over the Security Council for the current month. I also extend my deep condolences to my colleague, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, and his friendly country for the painful incident that occurred yesterday, causing the death of a major general and the injury of two soldiers of the Russian army by an explosive device planted by terrorists as their convoy was targeted after its return from a humanitarian mission in Syria’s Deir-ez-Zor governorate.”
2020-08-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/823 (2020) · source
“Representatives of those countries are now here in the Council after the triumph of their people and States over injustice, aggression and appalling apartheid.”
2020-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/743 (2020) · source
“In conclusion, the success of the political process facilitated by the United Nations with Syrian leadership and ownership requires that the Security Council fulfil its responsibilities and carry out its mandate to ensure full commitment to the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Syria, ending foreign occupation, combating terrorism and ensuring the immediate lifting of the coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people. Achieving this is the basis, essence and goal of any political process, and it is the compass and the goal from which we will not deviate, no matter how great the pressure is or how severe the challenges are. Other countries have faced aggressive wars similar to the one that my country is facing today.”
2020-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/743 (2020) · source
“We believe that the mission of the Special Envoy requires him and the Secretariat to speak out against the Turkish and American interference in Syrian internal affairs. They should also speak out against the coercive measures imposed by the United States and some European countries. Those measures hinder and contradict the task of the Special Envoy, since such economic unilateral measures inhumanely prevent the Syrian people from accessing food and medicine. Anyone claiming that those measures do not have impacts on children, women, the elderly and the rest of the Syrian people is a mere liar.”
2020-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/743 (2020) · source
“It seems that McKenzie is fond of the cowboy mentality that does not take into account any law and that conquered the Midwest in the hopes of domination and expansion at the expense of the lives of indigenous peoples.We listened closely to the statement delivered by Mr. Geir Pedersen, the Special Envoy, and his communication with the head of the Syrian national side on the upcoming meeting of the Constitutional Committee. We hope that all logistical preparations will be timely and fulfil the needs of the national delegation. We also hope that the United Nations will take the required health precautions to protect participants from the spread of COVID-19, in accordance with the rules set by the World Health Organization and the Syrian Ministry of Health.”
2020-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/743 (2020) · source
“We also have the right to ask: how do the Council’s resolutions explain the latest transgression of the Commander of the United States Central Command, Frank McKenzie, into Syrian territories? Such behaviour is considered to be a violation of Syrian sovereignty and an infiltration without permission from the Syrian Government into the north-eastern region of my country, in coordination with Syrian Democratic Forces militias, and into the occupied Tanf region, which is controlled by American forces and their terrorist tools such as the so-called Maghawir Al-Thawra terrorist group.”
2020-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/743 (2020) · source
“The Europeans must realize that Europe’s security is directly linked to the security of Syria. The historical links between Syria and Europe have left their marks on the European identity itself. The name ”Europe” is originally the name of the Syrian princess — the daughter of the king of Phoenicia — with whom the Greek god Zeus had fallen in love and subsequently kidnapped to Greece; hence, Europe has its Syrian name. Some colleagues might not know that the ancient name of the Syrian city Deir ez-Zor, which was ravaged by Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham terrorism and American airstrikes, was originally Dura-Europos; that name is well known to European intellectuals. I invite my colleagues to look at the 2-euro coin; they will find an engraving of the Syrian princess Auropa.”
2020-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/743 (2020) · source
“These crimes include the provision of various forms of support to terrorist organizations and proxy separatist militias, and the commission of acts of aggression and occupation, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including killings, destruction, the looting of antiquities, oil and gas, the recruitment of mercenaries, human trafficking, blackmail and the exploitation of the suffering of refugees, the burning of agricultural crops and the imposition of coercive unilateral economic measures on the Syrian people. Will the Europeans realize, before it is too late for them, that keeping silent about the behaviour of the Turkish regime against my country and many other countries threatens European peace and security themselves and undermines the stability of the Mediterranean and the entire region?”
2020-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/743 (2020) · source
“Maintaining international peace and security necessitates controlling the raging elephant that is stampeding all over the principles of international law and the provisions of the United Nations Charter, destroying everyone who stands in the way of its reckless steps. What is required today is to put an end to the disregard of international law by those Governments that are hostile towards my country and to other countries and to stop their practices, which are based on the law of the jungle and the law of force instead of the force of law. These are aggressive practices of which my country and other have had to bear the brunt. How long do we have to wait for the so-called international community to take action and put an end to the crimes of the Erdoğan regime and its operators in NATO?”
2020-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/743 (2020) · source