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“As the representative of Syria has referred to the mandate that France exercised in Syria on behalf of the League of Nations, I would recall that President Al-Assad's grandfather was part of a delegation that, in 1936, requested that France not grant Syria its independence. We can provide the text of the petition that was signed on that occasion. I will not add any more on that point, but since he did refer to French authors, I would advise him to meditate on Talleyrand, who said "what is excessive is insignificant". What the representative of Syria has said is truly excessive. I now give the floor to the representative of Turkey.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Nevertheless, there is no other path than abiding by international law. France remains true to its commitment to that path and asserts the necessity of the United Nations and the Security Council taking acting towards a settlement of the Syrian crisis. That is necessary now and it will be necessary when in the future Syria will have to be rebuilt as a free, peaceful and democratic country - the Syria for which a majority of Syrians are so bravely fighting today. We must rise to the level of those fighters' courage. I now resume my functions as President of the Security Council.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“To those who support the regime I say that if they continue to do so, they will doubtless lose in every respect. Mr. Al-Assad will fall. When that happens, in the eyes of Syrians, the Arab world and all global opinion, they will be guilty of being accessories to a longstanding crime. They should instead do everything possible to respond to the humanitarian tragedy, put an end to the violence and join us in working towards a timely political transition. In its presidency of the Council, as I said earlier, France sought this ministerial level meeting to help solve the humanitarian issues, to urge all parties to live up to their responsibilities and to send a message of support and solidarity to the suffering Syrian people from its friends. I hope that that message will be heard. We know that the Council is divided.”
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“To reach that goal, as the Council knows, France encourages the opposition to form a transitional Government to serve as Syria's legitimate representative. Such a Government - which is obviously not up to us to appoint it - should be broadly representative and guarantee the rights of all communities. We have also said that we would recognize that Government once it is formed. I would like to say to those who have especially close relations with the Al-Assad regime that, as everyone knows, the regime will fall. However, the longer that the conflict is allowed to fester, the longer the stalemate will persist and the longer the transition will take; and, in the end, the greater will be the risk of destabilization for the entire region owing to a conflict that would no longer be local, but regional and even international in character.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“The needs in such liberated zones are significant and include food, trash disposal and access to education and care. We believe that the international community, as represented here, is duty-bound to come to their assistance. This week, French President Francois Hollande announced our decision to provide direct assistance to the revolutionary committees that are organizing the liberated areas and to establish specific aid for these populations. Of course, we cannot be content with a purely humanitarian approach. For, as many speakers have underscored, the humanitarian and political issues are related, even if we indeed need a specifically humanitarian effort. On the political front, atransition needs to be quickly undertaken.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“I am referring in particular to numbers that speakers have already cited: the more than 1 million people - some say nearly 2 million - who have been displaced, or directly affected, and have found refuge in very precarious and often unbearable conditions in areas freed by the Free Syrian Army. Turkey has raised the possibility of establishing buffer zones for the displaced persons - an that idea needs to be studied. Concerning displaced people, France has decided to step up its support to the local solidarity networks operating on the ground and laying the groundwork for the Syria of tomorrow. We see that the courageous citizens of a growing number of villages, cities and regions have freed themselves from the yoke of the Al-Assad regime and have begun to organize.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“France initially earmarked just over â‚¬3 million for refugees and humanitarian assistance in Syria. As the situation has continued to worsen, I should like to announce that we have decided to increase our support by â‚¬5 million. We have also succeeded in having the European Union increase its humanitarian assistance. That will bring the overall total to â‚¬100 million to finance the response to the Syrian crisis. France will of course assume its share of that, namely, over â‚¬20 million. The refugee situationis challenging forneighbouring countries. It is serious. However, it should not lead us to overlook the dramatic plight of many Syrians in their own country.”
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“In Lebanon, as we all know, the needs are enormous and the seeds of discord are present. Lebanon must be protected from the risk ofa spillover ofthe Syrian crisis. In Iraq, as we have heard, the situation is challenging. Like a number of countries here, France is mobilizing efforts for the Syrian people and the States of the region. Beyond our support to non-governmental organizations, the ICRC and United Nations agencies such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, we have deployed a special surgical group to the Zaatari camp in Jordan. Our doctors and surgeons are also providing assistance to victims of the fighting and to refugees fleeing conflict zones. However, as every speaker has pointed out, more financial resources are needed.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“As many have said today, the international community must support the host countries, which are undertaking enormous efforts, as well as the humanitarian workers, United Nations agencies, local and international non-governmental organizations and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, in their difficulttasks. Clearly, neighbouring countries alone cannot assume the burden posed by the presence of Syrian refugees on their territories. Turkey, in solidarity with the Syrian population, is dealing with a significant influx of refugees. Jordan has issued an appeal, together with local United Nations agencies, to procure international assistance. In the light of the influx of refugees, the threat exists for a destabilization in the political and security situation.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Those doctors have already lost almost 100 of their colleagues, and they report that some 700 of them have been arrested, with no news of them to this day. They treat and operate on children, women and innocent civilians whose blood is flowing because the authorities have attacked them. And what reason do the authorities cite when they come to arrest them? They say they are arresting them because they have blood on their hands. Of course, it is the blood of the wounded who these doctors are in fact trying to save. Given the refugee situation, outside assistance is being organized, and our meeting today is aimed at stepping up that mobilization.”
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“Local and international non-governmental organizations - whom I join the Council in commending - the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and United Nations humanitarian agencies must have free access to all populations. I also call on the representative of Damascus to implement the humanitarian pause that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has for months called for to enable humanitarian workers to evacuate and treat the wounded, as well as to guarantee security for medical workers in order enable them to have access to all those who have been wounded, rather than arresting or even killing them. Earlier this week, I met with an international organization of Syrian doctors that was clandestinely and very courageously providing care to people on the ground.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Those crimes should not go unpunished. Many of us believe that the International Criminal Court should consider this matter so that those responsible can be tried. I would also remind the representative of Damascus here that access for humanitarian workers to the population must be guaranteed. To date, because of the growing insecurity as well as restrictions by the current authorities, humanitarian workers still do not have free access to those areas where civilian populations are in distress. Some of those organizations have even been forced to reduce their staffing levels. I therefore call on the representative of Damascus to comply with the agreement reached on 28 May with the United Nations to ensure the provision of humanitarian assistance.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Bashar Al-Bassad to murder his people in this way, or why the Security Council of the United Nations has to date been unable to ensure neither security nor unity. What can we do in the short term? The urgent need is, above all, humanitarian. The divisions in the Security Council should not prevent us from acting to provide relief with respect to the humanitarian tragedy in Syria. Allow me to turn, for a moment, to the Syrian authorities represented here to remind them of their obligations stemming from international law and international humanitarian law. The use of heavy artillery against one's own people constitutes a crime, as do extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances, torture and violence against medical personnel. It would appear that Mr. Al-Assad is perpetrating them all.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“We receive news of suffering and distress on a daily basis. An unacceptable humanitarian situation prevails in the Syrian Arab Republic, but it also exists in neighbouring countries. That is why I wanted them to be represented here. I saw it personally when I visited Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Those neighbouring countries, in addition to Iraq and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, whom I thank for being here, have come here to provide their direct testimony. No one will henceforth be able to claim that they did not know. There is emotion in my voice, as in others', and there is anger. I know that anger is shared by many people worldwide who cannot understand why we allow Mr.”
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“Brahimi and trying to put an end to the stalemate and divisiveness that to date have impeded international action under a Security Council mandate. Bearing witness and responding is what we are doing - a moral obligation in the face of the raging violence. It is also a duty of solidarity vis-a-vis the suffering of Syrians and of the people hosting them. And it is a necessity with regard to security, given the risk of destabilization for the entire region. By bringing Council members together today we wanted to place each country represented here before its responsibilities. As speakers have mentioned, we are thousands of kilometers from towns that have just begun to enter our public discourse - Darayya, Aleppo, Homs, Dara'a and Damascus - martyred cities that are mourning their dead and wounded.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Given that situation, which is an affront to the human conscience, France's conviction is that we need to do our utmost and try everything possible to put an end to the violence and, from the humanitarian perspective, bring relief to the civilian population. That is the point of today's meeting. Many are already acting to provide material support to the refugees, together with the United Nations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Europe and others. I specifically commend the efforts of Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Guterres. For its part, France is working on the humanitarian front while also working on the political front by providing support to the opposition. On the diplomatic front, we are providing support to Mr.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of France. There are already 25,000 dead, 250,000 wounded, more than 250,000 refugees and more than 1 million Syrians displaced within their own country - including more than 2 million people directly affected, often without food, electricity, medicine or water. In the courageous and magnificent country of Syria, the situation is increasingly intolerable. I regret to say that that is essentially because Mr. Bashar Al-Assad wants, against all odds, to retain power through barbaric repression and savage fighting. He is indiscriminately using heavy weapons, helicopter gunships and fighter jets against his population, even threatening to use his stockpiles of bacteriological and chemical weapons.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Under rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic and Turkey to participate in this meeting. Under rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Mr. Antenio Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to participate in this meeting. I wish to warmly welcome the Deputy Secretary- General, Mr. Guterres and the Ministers of Colombia, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Togo, Turkey and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I give the floor to Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source