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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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“It also persists in its attempt at the Turkification of those areas. In that regard, Erdogan’s forces are identical to Israel’s in their occupation of my country’s territories. The Turkish and Israeli occupations are complementary and harmonious in serving their American operator. Furthermore, the responsibility to maintain international peace and security is not in line with the resolve of the three Western permanent members of the Security Council to not eliminate the terrorist organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), as they mobilize its remnants in Iraq and Syria whenever their interests so require.”
2020-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/551 (2020) · source
“That responsibility is also inconsistent with ignoring the American-Turkish occupation of parts of my country, shamelessly sponsoring terrorism and separatist militias there and holding meetings between representatives of those two countries’ Governments and terrorist organizations on our territory, as recently demonstrated by the infiltration of the Turkish Ministers of Defence and the Interior into the Syrian territory of Idlib governorate. They have taken advantage of the calm that has prevailed since the Moscow agreement to reinforce the presence of the Turkish occupation forces and their affiliated terrorist groups operating in that area. Moreover, the Turkish regime is currently seeking to replace the Syrian national currency with the Turkish currency in the areas it occupies.”
2020-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/551 (2020) · source
“Such an irresponsible statement reaffirms that the Administration views the region through Israeli eyes as the demands that Jeffrey is talking about are renewed, old Israeli demands aimed at shaping the region in a way that achieves its hegemonic agenda. Fourthly, the responsibility to maintain international peace and security, with which the three Western permanent members of the Council in particular are supposed to be entrusted, is not in line with the way these same countries and other Western Governments, as well as their tools, turn a blind eye to the practices of their North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally Turkey, whose crimes in Syria, Libya and other countries they fully endorse and defend.”
2020-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/551 (2020) · source
“Secondly, the United States Administration and the European Union have flouted all international demands to put an end to the unilateral coercive economic measures imposed on the Syrian people, including the calls of the Secretary-General and his Special Envoy to Syria. Moreover, they have renewed and intensified the effects of those measures, in parallel with the entry into force of the United States so-called Caesar Act. All of the above shows the disregard of the American Administration and the European Union for all the achievements of humankind in the field of international law and is an attempt to impose American and European law on the world. Thirdly, James Jeffrey’s recent statement represents an explicit recognition by the United States Administration of its direct responsibility for the suffering of Syrians.”
2020-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/551 (2020) · source
“First, the policies of blockade and the imposition of unilateral coercive economic measures have been, and continue to be, an integral part of the West’s blind and prejudiced policies and the other side of terrorism that has reaped the lives of Syrians and destroyed their achievements. Harming the Syrian people by targeting their national currency, medicine and livelihoods and obstructing the ability of State institutions to meet the people’s basic needs and continue to provide public services negates any Western claims of humanitarian concern. The latest example of the attempts to harm the Syrian people is manifested in the burning of humanitarian food shipments by some Lebanese parties. Those shipments have been regularly provided by the World Food Programme to Syrians in need through Lebanese territory.”
2020-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/551 (2020) · source
“These practices are blatant attempts at destructive intervention in the political process facilitated by the United Nations through the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, with the aim of diverting the process from a path based on the inter-Syrian national dialogue, Syrian-owned and -led, to a form of imposition of those countries’ will and dictates on the United Nations at the expense of Syria’s sovereignty and resources and the well-being and security of its people. In the light of the statements we just heard, I find myself obligated to clarify a few points.”
2020-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/551 (2020) · source
“Furthermore, they have deliberately intervened militarily in my country through unilateral and tripartite acts of aggression, the occupation of parts of Syrian territory, murder, destruction, displacement and demographic change, the looting of natural and historical resources and riches, including oil, gas, antiquities and agricultural crops, burning and destroying what they cannot steal, and the imposition of further unilateral coercive economic measures on the Syrian people. These practices and gross violations of the principles of international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations highlight a contradiction in those Governments’ vision of multilateral international action and a return to the perspective of the League of Nations, which legitimized aggression and occupation, thus dooming itself to failure.”
2020-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/551 (2020) · source
“Are these not the symptoms of political schizophrenia? On 31 May, my country, Syria, submitted a formal complaint to the Secretary- General and to the President of the Security Council against the Governments of some of Member States, at the forefront of which are the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Turkey. Over the past nine years, the Governments of those countries have supported, financed and armed multinational terrorist organizations, groups with multiple loyalties and labels and separatist proxy militias.”
2020-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/551 (2020) · source
“When the United States openly steals 200,000 oil barrels from the Syrian oil fields on a daily basis and also steals 400,000 tons of cotton and sets fire to thousands of hectares of wheat fields, when it steals 5 million heads of livestock, bragging about dividing Syria and deliberately weakening the value of the Syrian pound, when it imposes economic coercive measures aimed at suffocating the Syrian people, when it occupies parts of the Syrian territories and protects its Turkish partner, who occupies other territories, and when my colleague the Permanent Representative of the United States then talks about the Administration’s concern about the deteriorating living conditions of Syrian citizens, attributing that deterioration to what she calls “the regime”, then the legitimate question becomes: Does that not indicate an acute illness?”
2020-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/551 (2020) · source
“In addition, the politicization of humanitarian action must end, and hostile Governments should refrain from enacting policies that impose coercive measures, preconditions and obstacles on humanitarian and developmental assistance. It is unfortunate to see that some Council members prefer starting fires to putting them out, notwithstanding their duties as members of the Security Council. It is crystal clear that Council members are not performing their duties in a realistic and transparent manner; indeed, they are part of the problem, not the solution. They are therefore unable to play a positive role in meetings of the Council designed to help the Syrian people. When they use the term “regime” instead of “Government”, they are showing their real intentions.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“That is a common practice that we and our partners in humanitarian work have previously seen in a number of areas, including the eastern and southern regions, with the aim of justifying the expansion of cross-border activities and facilitating the smuggling of arms, equipment and supplies to terrorist organizations. Accordingly, my country reaffirms its rejection of cross-border activities and again demands the closure of the OCHA office in Gaziantep, which has become an instrument for anti-Syria Governments and armed terrorist groups, a mouthpiece of lies and a platform to mislead the Security Council and world public opinion. My country emphasizes that improving the humanitarian situation will require the full cooperation of, and coordination with, the Syrian Government.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“It has also attacked its offices, looted their contents and attacked its workers, just as Israel — the occupying Power — has done since its occupation of the Syrian Golan in 1967. In that way, the Israeli occupation and the Turkish occupation are similar in their violations of the decisions of the founding conference of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. What is worse is that the Turkish regime has pitted its affiliated terrorist groups against the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and urged them to prevent humanitarian access from within Syrian territories as a pretext for extending cross-border activities.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“Today the Turkish regime is again violating its obligations under international law and the agreements governing international waters and rivers by constructing the Ilisu Dam along the Tigris River and starting to fill the dam’s artificial lake, which will deprive millions of Syrians and Iraqis of water from the Tigris for years. Furthermore, the United States occupation forces have prevented the Syrian Arab Red Crescent from working in north-east Syria and have sought to replace it with illegal organizations that are not recognized by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Moreover, the Turkish regime also attempted to bring the Turkish Red Crescent to work in the areas it occupies in the north and north-west of Syria and prevent the Syrian Arab Red Crescent from working there as well.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“The Turkish regime also continues to use water as a weapon against Syrian civilians in the city of Al-Hasakah and its surrounding communities by cutting off water from the Allouk station, thereby depriving 1 million Syrians of drinking water, which is a documented war crime and crime against humanity. The Council must meet urgently to put an end to such crimes and hold the war criminals in the Turkish regime accountable, instead of covering up the crimes and holding numerous supposedly urgent meetings on fabricated and artificial issues.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“Moreover, terrorists of the Turkish- backed Turkistan Islamic Party destroyed the Zayzoun power plant tower in the Idlib countryside, which alone is worth about $44 million, after having jointly looted, with Turkish technicians, the plant’s equipment, estimated at $660 million. They then transported the equipment into Turkish territory through crossings — controlled by the terrorist organizations and their Turkish sponsors, and claimed by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) as humanitarian crossings. That is compounded by the crimes committed by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, the latest of which is drilling to extract metal pipes, copper cables and landline wires to be sold in the Turkish market.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“In the light of the sponsorship and investment in terrorist organizations, the Al-Nusra Front and its partner terrorist groups have reorganized their forces in their areas of presence in north-west Syria to launch further terrorist attacks, as we witnessed a few days ago when Huras Al-Din and the Turkistan Islamic Party — or “moderate terrorists”, as some like to describe them — reorganized themselves and launched an attack on one of the Syrian army military points in the village of Tanjara, adjacent to the Al-Ghab region in the north-west. That attack led to a number of martyrs and wounded many others.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“Such behaviour has been met with absolute silence in the Council, as some of its permanent members are seeking to transform the Council into a platform for NATO and an umbrella for the defence of their allies within it, all while turning a blind eye to their violations of international law and the purposes and principles of the United Nations.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“The Turkish occupation forces in north-west Syria, along with the American occupation forces in the north-east and in the Al-Tanf area, where Rukban camp is located, continue to support terrorist organizations and their proxy separatist militias. That fact has been confirmed through the confessions of a number of terrorists belonging to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Shams who were recently been captured by the Syrian Arab Army, and who confirmed that they had been trained by the terrorist Maghawir Al-Thawra group, under the supervision of American occupation forces in Al-Tanf.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“My Government reaffirms its position regarding Brussels conferences and stresses that they are nothing but propaganda aimed at the implementation of the agendas of the hostile countries that organize and sponsor such conferences in a flagrant politicization of humanitarian work and the imposition of their preconditions and deep-rooted obstinacy. My Government reiterates that it does not recognize any Syria-related initiatives or meetings without the participation of, and full coordination with, its Government. My Government also renews its demand that the United Nations not participate in such conferences, so as to maintain its impartial role and ensure its respect of humanitarian work parameters, under resolution 46/182.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“In that context, my delegation reiterates its demand that the Council immediately insist that the Secretary-General submit to it a comprehensive report on the disastrous impact of the unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people within the next 30 days. That is an essential part of our understanding of the humanitarian concerns at play and the impartial, objective and professional role of the United Nations in humanitarian work, international cooperation in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of the principle of leaving no one behind and other important principles that form the parameters of work of the United Nations.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“As a matter of fact, this is nothing but a desperate attempt by the Western Governments that impose coercive measures on my country to humanize their vicious behaviour and the economic terrorism and collective punishment practiced by them against the Syrians living in areas under Government control. We assure the Council that, due to the imposition of a wide package of restrictions and preconditions on supplies, the prospect of European and American humanitarian and medical supplies reaching Syria is nil. Nevertheless, we will not be deceived by allegations made by those countries, and we will not give in to their dictates in any way.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“I once again highlight the hollow humanitarian pretences presented by some Western Governments that recently even refused to allow Syrian airplanes to repatriate Syrian nationals stranded in European countries. The clarifications recently issued by the European Commission about coercive measures demonstrate, once again, what we have always said — that these measures only harm people. We therefore stress the fact that those Governments do not intend to lift these measures, which lack any acceptable moral, economic or political basis. The unilateral sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States cannot be justified, because they are illegal, attempt to circumvent the legitimacy of the Security Council and seek to undermine the sovereignty of the Syrian State.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“The stance of the United States Administration manifests a new step in its hostile policies towards my country and refutes the humanitarian claims presented by the representatives of the Administration and its allies, whether inside or outside the United Nations. Over the past years, I have repeatedly briefed the Council on the catastrophic impact of the coercive measures on the daily lives of 24 million Syrians and how those measures hinder State institutions and the health, economic and service sectors in Syria from effectively fulfilling their duties. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the magnitude of the workload and challenges created by those measures.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“Over the past two months, they have deliberately spared no effort to thwart all initiatives and draft resolutions demanding an end to the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the health and service sectors in affected countries while they are fighting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. That is not all. The United States Administration announced an extension of the unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people — in wanton disregard of international law, the United Nations Charter and the relevant resolutions — despite all appeals to do away with those measures.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“Geir Pedersen, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and representatives of the World Health Organization. All these senior officials, together with 40 international and United Nations bodies, have demanded an end to the measures imposed on around 2 billion people in affected countries. Nevertheless, the United States Administration and its allies have continued to violate international law, the Charter of the United Nations and human rights instruments.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“My country, Syria, both in its national capacity and in cooperation with several other States Members of the United Nations, has sent a number of official letters and appeals to both the Secretary-General and successive Presidents of the Security Council demanding to put an end to the economic, commercial, financial and health terrorism inflicted by unilateral coercive measures imposed by some Member States on the Syrian people and other friendly peoples. Our calls were positively received by the Secretary-General and several senior officials of the Organization, including Mr.”
2020-05-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/427 (2020) · source
“Furthermore, only yesterday the American air force dropped hot air balloons on farms in Al-Shaddadah town, south of Al-Hasakah, which led to the burning of more than 200 hectares of farms planted with wheat.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“In conclusion, it is very unfortunate that I have not heard any comments from the Special Envoy or some Council members about condemning the cutting off of water by the Turkish regime in Al-Hasakah city for the third time this month. It is also very unfortunate that I have not heard any comment from the Special Envoy or some Council members with regard to how the hooligans of the Turkish regime affiliated with the Huras Al-Din terrorist group blew up the electricity station in Zeyzoun, located in the Idlib countryside, after they looted its equipment and transported it to the Turkish territories in order to be sold as scrap. It is very unfortunate that I have not heard any comments from the Special Envoy or some Council members about how the American occupation is stealing Syrian gas and oil around the clock.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“That explains the frantic attempt to invade States in the region and to try to change legitimate Governments by force and impose new facts on the ground in order to undermine the possibility of establishing a Palestinian State, sustaining the Israeli occupation of the occupied Syrian Golan and achieving the illusion of the so- called “deal of the century” promoted by the American Administration. The tyranny of power and investment in terrorism will not lead us to drink from the river of madness. We have been, and continue to be, a safety valve for stability and moderation in the region, and our strong attachment to our sovereignty and independence reflects our true understanding of the victory over nazism and fascism in the Second World War.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“Such a commitment requires an end to the illegal foreign military presence, acts of aggression, support for terrorism and unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people, as well as a cessation of the efforts of States hostile to Syria to impose their visions, intransigence and conditions on the Syrian people. My country is a victim of unprecedented and prescribed terrorism sponsored by States members of the Council and beyond in order to obtain political concessions commensurate with its interventionist agendas in the internal affairs of States of the region.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“Any presence of foreign military forces on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic without the explicit consent of the Syrian Government is an act of aggression and occupation, and it will be dealt with as such in accordance with our national Constitution and our rights under international law. The success of any political process requires the provision of appropriate conditions, notably respect for the first paragraph of the Council’s resolutions, which affirms the strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“As usual, under pressure from its three Western permanent members, the Security Council has remained silent in the face of such actions, which threaten regional and international peace and security, seeking to render the Council a platform for NATO. That risks undermining the foundations of the multilateral international order and bringing it back to the pre-Second World War era. There are currently six NATO member States in the Security Council. With Turkey at this meeting, the number becomes seven, which is about half the Council members. In that context, my delegation reiterates that we will not give up our legitimate right to defend our homeland and its resources, combat terrorism and liberate our occupied territories, whether occupied by the United States, Turkey, Israel or their affiliated terrorist organizations.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“On the other hand, the American occupation forces have begun to establish a new military base in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor governorate, in north-eastern Syria, with the aim of tightening their control over Syrian oil fields and continuing to plunder the resources of the Syrian people. The period since the Special Envoy’s previous briefing (see S/2020/353) has also witnessed military attacks carried out by the Israeli occupying forces from over the occupied Syrian Golan and the airspace of neighbouring countries. These acts of aggression, comprising flagrant violations of international law and the provisions of the Charter, are the tip of the iceberg of aggressive practices aimed at prolonging the crisis in my country, obstructing settlement efforts and supporting terrorist organizations and proxy separatist militias.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“Furthermore, the cutting off of water from the Allouk station, which is controlled by the Turkish occupying forces and their affiliated terrorist groups, and the denial of drinking water to the more than 1 million citizens of Al-Hasakah and its vicinity are a war crime and a crime against humanity. We are saddened by the fact that those who claim to stand up for the right of Syrians to regain their security and daily livelihood, be they Western countries, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs or the specialized agencies of the United Nations, have not said a word to condemn these inhumane practices.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“Likewise, the terrorists of the Turkish-backed Turkestan Islamic Party destroyed the tower of the Zeyzoun power plant, in the Idlib countryside, after they had looted the equipment of the station, in cooperation with Turkish technicians, and transported it into Turkish territory through the crossings that some in the United Nations promote as so-called humanitarian. In addition to that, the Turkish regime violated the Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union by installing a number of cellular communications stations inside Syrian territory and providing Internet coverage and cellular communications, particularly to terrorist organizations, in northern Syria through a Turkish Internet service provider called HATNet and a Turkish telecommunications company called e-LUX.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“The latest such crime was when the terrorist groups affiliated with Huras Al-Din and the Turkestan Islamic Party — as it is clear that these terrorist organizations do not even have Arabic names, but rather names associated with the Ottoman era and their Turkish operator — attacked one of the military points in the village of Tanjara, near Al-Ghab region in the north-west, and targeted it with a barrage of mortar shells and machine-gun fire, which led to a number of martyrs and wounded soldiers.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“That regime persists in providing multifaceted support and sponsorship to its affiliated terrorist groups operating in different parts of northern Syria. Those terrorist groups have taken advantage of the period of calm following the Moscow agreement and the global preoccupation with efforts to confront the coronavirus disease pandemic to reorganize their forces and increase their armaments in preparation for committing more terrorist crimes.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“Whoever has the audacity to do that will not find it difficult to distort the facts about Syria’s struggle and that of its people, army and leadership against terrorism. For its part, my country, Syria, still believes in the purposes and principles of the United Nations, to which it was a signatory in San Francisco, alongside the other founding Member States. Today, and every day, Syria is committed to maintaining its sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, as emphasized in the relevant Council resolutions. The Turkish regime continues to violate its obligations under international law, the Adana agreement and the Sochi, Astana and Moscow understandings, as well as Security Council resolutions, especially those related to combating terrorism.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“However, those very same Governments have systematically violated the basic principles of international law and the provisions of the Charter and sought to undermine the choices of the peoples of Member States through acts of military invasion, armed aggression, investment in terrorism and economic and financial coercion. These practices are a consecration of the law of power and the law of the jungle rather, than the power of law and the power of justice. Moreover, we express our concern, condemnation and disapproval of the distortion of facts about the Second World War voiced by two permanent members of the Security Council, which deny the more than 27 million martyrs whom the Soviet Union and its successor, the Russian Federation, lost in the war against nazism.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“Today, 75 years after the collapse of the ideologies of extremist regimes that set a precedent for the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham, Al-Qaida and the Al-Nusra Front in our region — regimes that were based on acts of aggression, hegemonic ambitions, discriminatory practices and hatred — we are witnessing the systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations by the Governments of some Western States, which were supposed to have experienced the two World Wars and realized their impacts, and were therefore entrusted with the maintenance of international peace and security.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“A few days ago, the Security Council virtually celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the victory over nazism and fascism in the Second World War. The victors, including us, pledged to make concerted efforts to maintain international peace and security and to spare humankind from the ravages of war, which twice brought about scourges that were more horrifying than the black plague that invaded Europe and the world in medieval times. That led to the birth of the United Nations, whose Charter enshrines the international legal framework and fundamental principles of the structure of international relations, manifested in respect for the sovereignty and sovereign equality of Member States and refraining from interfering in their internal affairs and from threatening or using force.”
2020-05-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/420 (2020) · source
“This virus has many names, including Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, Huras Addin, Sultan Murad, Kataeb Al-Zunki and Maghawir Al-Thawra, and many more. That is the virus that we have been facing for nine years.”
2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/354 (2020) · source
“Finally, the reports say nothing about how the Turkish occupation forces destroyed the village of Al-Sharkrak after displacing its people, nor do they mention how the Turkish regime and the American occupation loot the wealth, resources, oil and antiquities of the Syrian people. All 66 OCHA reports are biased and lack credibility. They are flagrantly selective and overpoliticize the humanitarian situation. Therefore, they are worthless and a waste of the time, effort and resources of the United Nations. Finally, we in Syria are not only facing COVID-19; we are also facing a more dangerous virus: terrorism. Some countries have insisted on ignoring it for too long and have manipulated the facts, falsely calling terrorists “moderate armed opposition groups” or “non-State armed elements”.”
2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/354 (2020) · source
“The Secretariat’s reports do not mention how the Turkish regime blackmails Europe using the suffering of refugees, nor do they say anything about the fact that the Turkish Red Crescent and the terrorist groups it supports strive to prevent the Syrian Red Crescent from working in north-western Syria, while American occupation forces and their proxy terrorist militias prevent it from working in north-eastern Syria and deprive Syrians in the Government-controlled environs of Raqqa of electricity. Again, the Secretariat does not report on how the American occupation forces and its affiliated terrorist group Maghawir Al-Thawra resist ending the suffering of displaced people in Rukban and dismantling that infamous camp. The reports do not mention how the European countries concerned refuse to repatriate their foreign-terrorist nationals.”
2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/354 (2020) · source
“My delegation stresses the ineffectiveness of those reports, which do not dare to clearly and truly address the practices of countries sponsoring terrorism. The reports do not mention the Turkish occupation’s violations of international law or its numerous crimes against civilians. They say nothing about how the international coalition destroyed Raqqa city, killed thousands of its people, burying them under the rubble, and committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/354 (2020) · source
“The depriving of the Syrian people and State institutions of such essential equipment, the continuation of the financial, economic and commercial embargo imposed on the Syrian State and the freezing of its foreign assets negate any humanitarian allegations claimed by some States members of the Council. In that context, I reiterate our gratitude to Russia and China for standing with Syria in these difficult times. A few days ago, my country sent the Council an official letter (S/2020/333) regarding its position on the sixty-sixth report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014), 2191 (2014), 2258 (2015), 2332 (2016), 2393 (2017), 2401 (2018), 2449 (2018) and 2504 (2020) (S/2020/327).”
2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/354 (2020) · source
“My delegation reiterates the demand to immediately and unconditionally put an end to the unilateral coercive measures that are used by some Member States as a weapon in their sinful war against my country. These measures, among many others, are depriving Syrians of their basic livelihood requirements and preventing medical and health-care institutions from obtaining testing, diagnosis, prevention and treatment kits for this pandemic, as well as ventilators, intensive-care beds, ambulances, laboratory and quarantine-centre equipment and personal protection equipment for health-care workers. In addition, they are unable to obtain medicines for tumours or carry out procedures using medical devices such as MRIs, CT scanners, radiography, ultrasound or endoscopy machines, monitors or oxygen concentrators.”
2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/354 (2020) · source
“Why have neither France, Germany nor Belgium taken the initiative to call for a Security Council meeting to discuss the impact of coercive measures on Syrians? Why have they not requested that the Secretary-General issue an objective and professional report to the Security Council within 30 days on the impacts of the coercive measures on Syrian State institutions and the daily life of Syrians? It seems that the humanitarian pen held by Germany and Belgium writes only what some of their NATO allies force them to, and that the OCHA pen, which has written 66 reports and hundreds of briefings so far, does not dare to write what angers its operators.”
2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/354 (2020) · source
“To date, we have not seen any sincere response from the Governments that have imposed these measures, and the United States Administration has only issued what it called a fact sheet, which contains only allegations having nothing to do with the truth and aimed only at covering up flagrant violations of international law, the Charter of the United Nations and human rights instruments. What humanitarian situation are we talking about today? Would putting an end to the suffering caused by the coercive measures imposed on 2 billion people not be a humanitarian matter? Is lifting the coercive measures imposed against 24 million Syrians less important than the Al-Yarubiyah border crossing, which was made a vital issue by some members of this Council and the hostile Gaziantep OCHA Office?”
2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/354 (2020) · source
“Such selfish and exclusionary conduct undermines any humanitarian concerns their respective Governments have claimed. My country, Syria, in cooperation with friendly countries affected by unilateral coercive measures, has sent numerous letters and appeals to the Secretary-General, the Presidents of the Security Council, the President of the General Assembly and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to demand the lifting of these inhumane measures, which constitute economic terrorism and a stain on those who impose them. Moreover, our demands have been accompanied by petitions signed by millions around the world to reject these measures.”
2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/354 (2020) · source