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Bassam Sabbagh

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156

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2021-02-25

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2021-10-19

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13

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un-security-council

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1. “Moreover, they continue to detain more than 3,000 secondary school students and approximately 3,300 primary school students in areas under their control and to prevent the students from sitting their general examinations at official Syrian Ministry of Education examination centres.”

   2021-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/206 (2021) · source

2. “For several days now, the armed terrorist groups that control Idlib governorate have been preventing residents from heading to the Saraqib-Trunbah humanitarian crossing, which the Syrian Government had opened in order to make it easier for civilians to leave Idlib and to alleviate the human suffering they have been enduring as a result of the siege imposed on them by the terrorist groups I mentioned. Those groups fired several rounds of shells from their positions in the town of Nayrab towards the town of Saraqib in order to intimidate civilians and prevent them from heading to the humanitarian crossing.”

   2021-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/206 (2021) · source

3. “Any briefings delivered or reports submitted to the Council will remain inadequate and seriously flawed as long as they continue to ignore the following fundamental challenges. First, the crimes committed by terrorist organizations, foremost among them the terrorist organizations of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and the Levant Liberation Organization/Al-Nusra Front and associated entities, have been ignored, as has the manner in which they exploit humanitarian assistance — especially cross- border assistance — to finance their terrorist activities, their recruitment of new members and their use of civilians in their custody as human shields in areas under their control.”

   2021-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/206 (2021) · source

4. “The reality that will remain before us, however much some would try to obscure it, is that the United Nations and its various agencies would not have achieved any humanitarian achievements in Syria without the support and considerable facilitation efforts made by the Syrian Government. The second fact is that the extreme politicization of humanitarian issues in Syria has effectively increased the scale of human suffering. Reports submitted to the Council that do not meet United Nations standards have made it possible for certain Member States to use those reports as a tool to politicize humanitarian affairs and divert attention from the need to tackle, in a serious and objective manner, the factors that are causing the humanitarian situation in Syria to deteriorate.”

   2021-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/206 (2021) · source

5. “Lowcock’s briefing, which might be his last, would have dispelled our disappointment. In the years since the crisis began, the Syrian Government has cooperated earnestly and constructively with the United Nations, friendly countries and humanitarian partners, foremost among them the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as with the more than 50 foreign non-governmental organizations originally licensed to operate in Syria. That cooperation and the significant facilitation efforts made by the Syrian Government have contributed to tangible, undeniable gains in spite of the serious challenges imposed on it, chief among them the fight against terrorism, the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures and acts of aggression and occupation.”

   2021-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/206 (2021) · source

6. “At the outset, as this is the first meeting in which I take the floor in my capacity as the new Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic, let me say that I look forward to engaging in constructive and objective discussions on the issues related to Syria being considered by the Security Council, in particular, and the United Nations, in general. My delegation listened attentively to the briefing given by Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General, on the implementation of resolutions relating to the humanitarian situation. My delegation has also reviewed the seventy- first report (S/2021/160) prepared by the Secretariat on the subject. However, we were disappointed to find that many of the facts pertaining to the humanitarian situation in Syria continue to be systematically and deliberately ignored. We had hoped that Mr.”

   2021-02-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/206 (2021) · source