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Bashar Ja’afari

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2020-04-23

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2021-01-12

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1. “Whereas the Secretary-General and senior staff of the Organization — including the Special Envoy to my country, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, the World Health Organization and more than 40 United Nations entities and international organizations — have launched calls for the lifting of unilateral coercive measures against the approximately 2 billion people of the countries affected by these illegitimate and illegal measures so as to enable them to respond to and treat the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States and its European Union allies have sought to scrub any proposals or initiatives and the nine relevant draft resolutions of any language demanding that existing imbalances be corrected and unilateral coercive measures eliminated.”

   2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/354 (2020) · source

2. “The efforts exerted by the international community to address this pandemic have encountered the same dilemma as the work of the United Nations in the field of humanitarian response in my country and other States, namely, politicization and the pursuit of political viewpoints and objectives by some at the expense of the principles of international law and humanitarianism.”

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3. “Naturally, we would have had no objection to that had we seen a reasonable degree of professionalism, objectivity and humanitarian concern in the reports and briefings of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and in the positions of the three permanent Western States on the Council and their allies. Recently, at the United Nations and beyond, we have witnessed a positive movement, on the one hand, and a feverish rush and competition, on the other, to formulate a coordinated collective response to the threat posed by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.”

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4. “Some States members of the Security Council continue to seek to use this platform as a tool for their foreign policy and for the defamation and usurping of my country’s Government under the pretext of pretentious care and lethal affection. These have been manifested in the large number of formal and informal, small and expansive, rhetorical and consultative meetings on the situation in my country on the political and humanitarian, as well as some chemical aspects. A few days ago, at the initiative of France, the Permanent Representatives of the five permanent members of the Security Council met with the Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs to discuss minor aspects related to the humanitarian situation in my country. Today, as on previous occasions, the Council is holding two meetings on Syria.”

   2020-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/354 (2020) · source

5. “This must be done in order to completely restore security and stability in the country and help it achieve what it hopes for most: a Syrian-owned and Syrian-led solution without any foreign interference.”

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6. “Terrorist groups have taken advantage of the period of calm following the adoption of the Moscow agreement together with the international concern that has arisen in relation to combating the coronavirus disease pandemic to reorganize their forces, principally with the support of the American and Turkish occupation forces. In mid-April, the leadership of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham/Jabhat Al-Nusra announced that it had reorganized its forces and formed three new brigades in preparation for upcoming confrontations in north-west Syria. This reaffirms the need for the Security Council to require certain States to commit to stopping their support for terrorism and to upholding the absolute priority of bolstering the efforts of the Syrian State to fight terrorism and eradicate this tumour from the Syrian body.”

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7. “My European colleagues in the Security Council know the magnitude of the threat this Turkish behaviour poses to the security of Europe and the world, but their alliance with Turkey through NATO has prompted them to impose the silence of the grave on the Security Council, thereby limiting its ability to fulfil its mandate. In this context, and in order to preserve the Council’s credibility and maintain international support for the Moscow agreement, the Turkish leadership, both political and military, must focus on implementing the agreement instead of shirking its responsibilities by failing to put it into effect.”

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8. “For years, the Turkish regime has recruited tens of thousands of terrorists from Central Asia and the Caucasus, including Turkmen, Uighurs and others, and brought them to my country. Yet many theoreticians in the Security Council and the Secretariat have somehow been blind to that fact, as there have been no references to this terrorist activity in any of their reports or briefings. The Turkish regime is now expanding its sponsorship of terrorism by recruiting Syrian and foreign terrorists to fight in Libya by offering tempting monthly salaries. Thousands of these terrorist recruits have been transported by Turkish aircraft to Libya undeterred and without accountability. The world’s media have been flooded with images of the hundreds of terrorists transported by Erdoğan to Libya and killed there.”

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9. “The presence of Turkish air- defence systems in the Syrian province of Idlib proves Turkey’s true aim: to sustain its occupation of the Syrian territories, given that the sole purpose of deploying air-defence systems on the occupied Syrian territories is undoubtedly to destroy such air targets as planes and helicopters, which clearly means that these systems’ missiles will not be used against the radical terrorist groups that are in fact allies of the Turkish regime. My delegation warns that if these Turkish air-defence systems fall into the hands of the terrorist organizations operating in Idlib — Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, Huras Al-Din and the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria — there will be grave and dangerous consequences.”

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10. “Accordingly, the representatives of countries participating in today’s meeting should now realize that many Turkish infantry units have entered occupied Syrian territories and that Turkish air-defence systems are even being deployed. Turkey has strengthened its military forces in Idlib with Hawk anti-aircraft missiles that were sent from the United States of America in clear violation of international law and the United Nations Charter.”

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11. “Not only has the Turkish regime violated its commitments under the Astana, Sochi and Moscow understandings and supported the armed terrorist groups affiliated with the many organizations it transferred to Idlib province, it has also shamelessly reinforced its illegitimate military presence on the territory of my country by allowing the daily access of convoys loaded with weapons and many other types of heavy equipment across the borders with a view to supporting the armed terrorist groups. But that was not all: the Turkish Defence Minister recently infiltrated the Syrian province of Idlib to hold meetings with leaders of some terrorist organizations operating there, with the aim of continuing Turkey’s investment in terrorism and in preparation for upcoming rounds of armed confrontation.”

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12. “We reiterate that we will not shy away from upholding the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Syria, no matter how intense the pressure or to what degree the plots against us are escalated. Furthermore, we will not give up on the liberation of our occupied territories, whether they be occupied by the United States, Turkey, Israel or their affiliated terrorist organizations. We also stress that any foreign military presence on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic without the explicit consent of the Syrian Government is an act of aggression and occupation and will be dealt with as such in accordance with our rights under international law.”

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13. “In these nine years, a wide range of weaponry has been deployed against my country, whether it be through large-scale information and media warfare, an investment in terrorism, the sponsorship of criminal Takfiri organizations, direct military interventions, bombing, aggression and occupation by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Israel — including the recent Israeli aggression two days ago, which killed three civilians and wounded four others — or through economic terrorism and collective punishment of the Syrian people by the imposition of unilateral coercive measures, all of which constitute a flagrant violation of international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, and a challenge to the mandate and resolutions of the Security Council as well as its ability to fulfil its responsibilities in maintaining international peace and security.”

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14. “However, eight years after the adoption of its first relevant resolution (resolution 2042 (2012)), the Security Council is still unable to enforce respect for this fundamental principle by some Member States despite the fact that no realistic or sustainable solution to the crisis can be envisaged without full implementation of this principle. Nine years have passed since the start of the so-called Syrian crisis, which is in fact a barbaric and terrorist war waged by the Governments of well-known States that have espoused the game of hegemony and sought to legalize interference in the affairs of my country and other countries of our region, the shedding of the blood of their people and the looting of their resources under false and fabricated pretexts.”

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15. “I would like to thank my colleague the Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic for presiding over the work of the Security Council this month. All Security Council resolutions pertaining to the situation in my country, Syria, have stressed an unavoidable conclusion, namely, the need for the full commitment by all States Members of the United Nations, both inside and outside the Security Council, to respect the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic.”

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16. “Syria reaffirms its support for the right of the Palestinian people to determine their own destiny and establish an independent State on all their national soil, with Jerusalem as its capital, while guaranteeing the right of return to refugees, in accordance with resolution 194 (III). My country reiterates its demand that Palestine be allowed to become a full-fledged Member of the United Nations.”

    2020-04-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/341 (2020) · source

17. “Mladenov, to be included in his monthly briefings to the Council. Such gross ignorance represents an ethical and political breach of the duties of his mandate, in contravention of the principles and rules of procedure applicable in the United Nations, thus rendering his mandate illegitimate. Finally, my Government stresses that the occupied Syrian Golan is part and parcel of the Syrian Arab Republic. It must be returned in conformity with the 4 June 1967 borders, as per international law. That is the main priority of Syrian policy and the compass that we will never divert from.”

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18. “The most recent instance in this respect was the looting of the property of Syrian citizens and their displacement in order to set up a project to generate power using wind turbines in an area of approximately 6,000 dunums in a number of locations surrounding the towns of Majdal Shams, Ayn Quniya, Baq’ata and Masada and to continue settlement activities, and forcing our people in the Golan to register the land that they inherited from their ancestors with the Israel Land Authority, under penalty of confiscation of the protesters’ lands. All that constitutes flagrant violations of international law and international humanitarian law, which some parties address with double standards and hypocrisy that exceeds all limits. Unfortunately, none of these issues attracted the attention of the Special Coordinator, Mr.”

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19. “These American practices in support of the Israeli aggression, occupation and settlement in the occupied Arab territories are not only a violation of international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, but they also represent deliberate political and security blackmail of our countries and the peoples of the region. The past period has witnessed systematic and dangerous Israeli practices through which the occupation authorities have sought to consolidate their control and impose their will on the occupied Syrian Golan, including, but not limited to: holding a meeting of the Israeli Government in the occupied Syrian Golan, seeking to organize illegal local elections there and concluding contracts and granting licences to usurp its natural resources.”

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20. “That has been seen over the past few months through unilateral and provocative actions such as the United States Administration considering occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, its declaration of what it referred to as recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan and its attempt to legitimize settlement activity. The Syrian Arab Republic, along with the overwhelming majority of Member States, strongly condemns those decisions and considers them unilateral conduct on the part of a party that lacks the legal, moral or political authority to determine the fate of the peoples of the world or of the territories that are part and parcel of the Syrian Arab Republic and occupied Palestine.”

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21. “Unfortunately, owing to the pressure of some permanent members of the Council, our Organization is still unable to find a just and comprehensive solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict or to implement its relevant resolutions, namely, resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 497 (1981), or to oblige Israel to end its occupation of the Arab territories. The inability of the United Nations has encouraged some to shirk their legal commitments and the agreed terms of reference, seek to twist the facts and entrench the occupation.”

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22. “Such acts of aggression would not have been committed had the Security Council not failed for decades to impose the implementation of its relevant resolutions regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict and had there not been unlimited support for that rogue entity from certain permanent members of the Security Council. Such behaviour has encouraged Israel to continue to repeatedly commit crimes, violations and State terrorism without even the most nominal accountability. This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations. The Palestinian question and ending the Israeli occupation of occupied Arab territories, including the occupied Syrian Golan, have been issues on the agenda of the largest number of meetings, resolutions and statements allocated to this topic.”

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23. “I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on presiding over the Security Council this month. I am pleased to participate in this meeting, as my country is a main party concerned with this item. The Israeli occupation forces, several days ago, once again committed a series of acts of aggression targeting the Syrian Arab Republic, using guided missiles that were fired over Lebanese territory, with the aim of enhancing the morale of the remaining proxy terrorist groups. That aggression is a blatant violation of international law, the Charter of the United Nations and related resolutions of the Security Council, as well as of the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement.”

    2020-04-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/341 (2020) · source