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Ja’afari

lines on the record: 139
first: 2020-01-09
most recent: 2020-10-05
sittings or episodes: 10
sources: un-security-council

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“They are afraid to hear from the first Director General of the OPCW here in the Council. They are afraid of having the truth unveiled and laid bare, and of having the erroneous information and manipulation of Security Council and OPCW mechanisms unveiled — all with a view to distorting the reputation of my country and that of the Russian Federation and preventing this chemical file, which has been open for over seven years, from being closed. The Security Council has organized 84 official meetings on this issue, not including unofficial meetings.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“It is their countries that have arsenals and stockpiles of weapons that could destroy the entire planet and the solar system. It is their countries that are imposing unilateral economic coercive measures against the Syrian people and other peoples. It is their countries that are hindering the reconstruction process for what terrorism caused in my country; they who invented Al-Qaida and Da’esh; they who exploiting Islamist — not Islamic — trends promoted by people who use religion as a commodity to implement confrontation agendas between cultures, civilizations and agendas. They have destroyed Iraq and Libya, and have propagated the culture of blockade, invasion, servitude, occupation and intimidation. Those who have committed all of these actions against humankind are not a model for us or for others.”
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“By way of conclusion, our colleagues from Western countries wish to replace Flaubert, Voltaire, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Goethe, Brecht, Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and all the wonderful authors of their countries — these eternal international jewels of literature — with a new kind of literature, that of lies. We heard fallacious, erroneous readings full of lies, which might be good for sentimental novels but are unbalanced. They are unbalanced because they are influenced by the coronavirus disease pandemic, which dominates our minds at the moment. I am not going to comment on what some Western colleagues have been saying, or on their false accusations against my country with regard to the use of chemical weapons. I simply note that it is their countries that have used nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.”
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“That once again reveals the double standards of the American Administration when it comes to chemical weapons, particularly since it is the only State party to the CWC that retains huge stockpiles of such weapons from the Second World War that it continues to refuse to destroy. To add to that hypocrisy, successive American Administrations and their NATO allies never talk about the chemical, nuclear and biological arsenals of Israel, which is left out of international conventions in that regard and is a threat to peace and security in our region and in the rest of the world.”
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“Moreover, between 28 September and 1 October, the twenty-third series of consultations was held between the Syrian Government and the Declaration Assessment Team, which recently visited Damascus and was able to fully implement its programme, thanks to the assistance offered by the Syrian Government. That Syrian cooperation has been met with an effort by Western countries to put in place illegitimate mechanisms adopted counter to the laws and provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention, such as the Identification and Investigation Team. Moreover, the American Administration has presented an escalatory draft resolution in the Security Council to spread lies and impose them through intimidation and pressure, which confirms some Western countries’ attempts to instrumentalize this platform for their own expansionist, aggressive agendas.”
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“We have also stated that we are committed to cooperating with the OPCW, the Technical Secretariat and the Declaration Assessment Team to resolve outstanding questions and close the file definitively and as soon as possible. That is why, on 16 September, my country presented its eighty-second monthly report to the Technical Secretariat on activities regarding the destruction of chemical weapons and their production facilities. We have even prolonged the tripartite agreement among the Syrian Government, the United Nations and the OPCW for another six months, starting on 30 September 2020.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“We call on all States members of the OPCW to speak out against the politicization of the organization’s mandate. We call on them to work to resolve that issue, which represents a major shortcoming that is jeopardizing its work and undermining its credibility and stance. We ask the Director General of the OPCW to resolve current violations and change direction, rather than bending to Western pressure and implementing the agendas of Governments that wish to keep open this so-called chemical dossier as a card to play against the Syrian Government and its allies. On a number of occasions, my country has affirmed that it has not used chemical weapons and will not use them.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“Will the Council allow the truth to be buried in the basement of the United Nations, in vaults that will be opened only 60 years from now, as with the documents relating to the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, the United Nations Special Commission and the Hans Blix and Scott Ritter reports on Iraq? That prevented two generations from knowing the truth about the British- American invasion of Iraq. Who knows, but perhaps some will replicate the assassination of British biological weapons expert David Kelly, a United Nations inspector in Iraq who died, allegedly by suicide, after having declared to the BBC that his Government had exaggerated its statements on Iraqi military resources and the threat posed by those biological weapons in order to convince the British people to unleash a war against Iraq.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“That leads us, as member States, to work to rectify its trajectory and return it to its mandated role. The activities of the OPCW in my country and several of its reports show that fictional miracles remain possible. Those miracles could be produced in OPCW laboratories in The Hague and in some Western intelligence centres. It is possible to use these miracles to target States Members of the United Nations. That was the case with Iraq. At the time, the American Administration exploited lies that it had propagated in the Council in order to invade Iraq and occupy it, destroy its institutions and plunder its wealth. Has the Council forgotten that? Is it going to allow similar lies to justify targeting my country and other countries as well as the destruction of those countries, just as some destroyed Libya?”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“It is regrettable that certain Western delegations, during the aforementioned meeting, used the most heinous and virulent language to attack respectable scientists who tried to help the Council find the truth. Some of those statements were far from courteous and civil, because they do not want the truth. Rather, they invest in terrorism, misinformation and aggression. It is equally regrettable that the OPCW, which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 for working to eradicate chemical weapons and helping the Syrian Government rid itself of its chemical stockpile, has become a tool to be used by a handful of Western countries to target specific countries, including mine. This greatly detracts from the OPCW’s credibility, professionalism and technical nature.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“That is a valid question in terms of form, but the response is a simple one: we have sent more than 200 letters, over a number of years now, to the Security Council since the very first use of chemical weapons against civilians, in Khan Al-Assal, near Aleppo, in March 2013. Since March 2013 — that is seven years now — we have sent the Council more than 200 letters replete with detailed information on the parties that are bringing chemical products into my country for use by terrorist groups in Idlib and elsewhere. Most of the parties that deliver those products are foreign intelligence agencies, including Western and French intelligence entities, that are working in my country, but it seems that some do not wish to see things as they are.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“Kaag came to the Council to present her final report and stated that Syria had abided by all of its commitments, leading to the full destruction of its chemical arsenal on board the American ship M/V Cape Ray and other ships. The OPCW stated that all 27 production facilities had been destroyed and that Syria had therefore upheld, in both letter and spirit, its commitments and no longer possessed any chemical weapons. That is the established fact upon which we should base ourselves, not the question posed by my colleague the Ambassador of France, who asked where the chemical weapons that are being used in Syria are coming from.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“Naturally —and as the well-known proverb says, “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink” — the representatives of certain Western Governments did not want to hear undeniable scientific truths, quite simply because they are relentlessly pursuing, in principle, their hostile positions and attempting to cover up the crimes committed by terrorist organizations and their use of chemical weapons and toxic gases against the civilian population. They also refuse to recognize the plain truth that was corroborated by Ms. Sigrid Kaag — who at the time was the Special Coordinator of the joint mission of the OPCW in charge of eliminating chemical weapons in Syria — in her briefing to the Council in June 2014. Ms.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“Those briefings and the reliable scientific and very important information they provided have proved the degree of politicization imposed by certain Western Governments in order to use the OPCW’s as a platform to fabricate accusations and then justify aggression, sometimes unilateral and sometimes trilateral, against Syria, and to finish what they were unable to achieve through their investment in terrorism and their unlimited, multifaceted support for that terrorism, and to try to suffocate the Syrian people through unilateral coercive measures.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“Henderson was the head of the team that participated in the investigation into the Douma incident and visited Syria in the context of the fact-finding mission’s visits several times. Those experts also included Mr. Theodore Postol, emeritus professor of science, technology and international security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Mr. Aaron Maté, an independent journalist and contributor to The Grayzone and to The Nation.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“I wish also to reiterate my country’s support for the Russian Federation regarding the Western allegations on the so-called Navalny affair and, earlier, the Skripal affair. Upon a welcome initiative of the Permanent Missions of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China, the Security Council, on 28 September, held an Arria Formula meeting on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013) and the role of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). That meeting was an extremely important opportunity to hear testimony and briefings by experts in related areas, including Mr. Ian Henderson, one of the most experienced OPCW inspectors who has been working for more than 12 years with that body. Mr.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“Mr. Ja’afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I wish to congratulate you and your friendly country, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council this month. We have full trust in your successful leadership of the work of the Council and in the positions of the Russian Federation based upon the principles of international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations. I thank you, Sir, for holding this open meeting on the so-called chemical issue. We agree with what you said a few days ago, indicating that we have nothing to hide and nothing to fear. Indeed, we have a great deal of information and truths on this issue. The public should have the opportunity to examine these truths, free of the biased and hostile views and lies that some Western countries and their media are spreading.”
2020-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8764 (2020) · source
“It has become apparent that the aim of this meeting is to target the Astana format and distort the concept of international law — nothing else. If there had been any commitment to international law, as my colleague the British representative has said, his country would have never invaded and destroyed Iraq. It would not have killed a million Iraqis, stolen Iraq’s national museum and resources, or destroyed its infrastructure. If there was an international law at that time to prevent the invasion of Iraq by the United States and Britain, we would not have reached this situation and Libya would not have faced what it is facing today.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“The Turkish regime seeks to impose Turkish practices and raise the Turkish flag on the Syrian areas that it occupies. It seeks to change the names of our streets to Turkish names, impose Turkish curricula in our schools and loot our wealth, resources and monuments. Is all that in accordance with international law or not? Have the Security Council’s approaches to combating terrorism and maintaining international peace and security, in accordance with the Charter, changed or do some want to replace the Charter with a new, non-consensual and controversial document? Is there a remnant of credibility in the Security Council that allows the Member States that have entrusted it with its powers to continue to rely on the Council?”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“My country is fighting terrorism on its own territories, not on the territory of another country. We are determined to use all legitimate tools to address the Turkish aggression in support of terrorism. We protect our people and defend the unity of Syria, our sovereignty and our independent national decisions. The Security Council must shoulder its responsibilities to put an end to the adventures of the Erdoğan regime, which threaten international and regional peace and security. As the Secretary-General has said, this is what the Charter and international law require. In conclusion, I ask the States that called for convening today’s meeting to answer the following questions. Does the presence of the Turkish forces on the territory of my country constitute a military aggression and a form of occupation or not?”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“He has transformed the Turkish army from a secular force into an arm of the Muslim brotherhood, fighting with terrorist takfiri groups in Syria and Libya, in violation of international law, the Charter, Security Council resolutions and the Sochi agreement. It is regrettable that some continue to commend the Turkish regime while ignoring its crimes, such as transforming humanitarian delivery mechanisms, as contained in resolution 2504 (2020) and previous resolutions, into corridors for bringing in thousands of troops and military equipment, including tens of thousands of foreign terrorist fighters and all sorts of arms and munitions, along with chemical weapons. My country is fighting terrorism on our territories. Idlib is in Syria; it is not in Turkey or on NATO territories. It is not in Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany or California.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“My country categorically rejects the Erdoğan criminal regime’s targeting of Syrian civilians as fuel in its unrestrained war against my country, and its use of civilians as a way to pressure the Governments of European countries — to blackmail them and drag NATO into its childish adventures — to expedite the accession of Turkey to the European Union or to allow Turkish citizens to enter European territories without visas. We call on European countries to honour their commitments under international law and human rights instruments. We call on them not to get involved in shameful deals or political bazaars with the rogue Turkish regime at the expense of the Syrian people. In the past few days, we have witnessed the fighting of the Turkish army whose leaders Erdoğan dismissed in 2016, claiming that they had orchestrated a coup.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“Turkish intelligence received them at Turkish airports and allowed them to infiltrate the shared borders between Turkey and my country. Turkish intelligence planned the crimes to be committed by those terrorists and provided them with military, political and media support. It then brought them together, integrated them into the Turkish forces and used them in its aggression in the north-east and the north-west of my country. It then transferred some of them to Libya and the Horn of Africa.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“No one objected to the proposal except for the Turkish delegation. Indeed, the Turkish delegation opposed the Mexican proposal. It is the Erdoğan regime that violated the Adana agreement, as well as its commitments under the Astana and Sochi agreements. It has disregarded good-neighbourliness and Security Council resolutions on counter-terrorism. I told the Council yesterday that the Erdoğan regime has even used water as a terrorist weapon (see S/PV.8734). It cut off water supplies from the city of Al-Hasakah, which is host to 600,000 civilians, who were deprived of water. This regime has for years been recruiting, supporting, training and arming thousands of terrorists, including foreign terrorist fighters from more than 100 countries, according to United Nations reports.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“After all these efforts in counter-terrorism, some are now demanding that the Syrian army should go back to the lines of 2018. My country condemns in the strongest terms the practices of the Turkish regime and its aggression against Syria in support of terrorism, entertaining the illusion of reviving the bygone Ottoman sultanate. We categorically reject the claims of the Turkish regime that its aggression against my country is a form of self- defence, a way of implementing the Adana agreement concluded between our two countries in 1998 or any other illusionary pretexts. Speaking of self-defence, members of the Council are aware that the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations ended its work two days ago. The Mexican delegation proposed a good idea, namely, not misusing or misinterpreting Article 51 of the Charter.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“I will now read out the following paragraph from page 3 of that report: “Idlib Province, in the north-west of the Syrian Arab Republic, remains dominated by groups affiliated with Al-Qaida but also plays host to relocated ISIL fighters and dependents. Parts of Iraq, especially the area of Anbar Province bordering the Syrian Arab Republic, also represent a permissive security environment for the movement of ISIL fighters.” They controlled the entire Idlib province. However, the Syrian Arab Army and its allies have succeeded in liberating large swathes of land, including more than 140 towns and villages, from the control of cannibals and the sponsors of international terrorism, who immerse themselves in the values and concepts of international humanitarian law which they learned from terrorist and extremist schools and academies.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“In furtherance of its constitutional and national duties, relevant Security Council resolutions on counter-terrorism, the Astana agreement and the Sochi agreement, the Syrian Arab Army and its allies launched a precise military operation to rid our people in Aleppo, Idlib and the surrounding areas of terrorist organizations and to restore State authority and the rule of law to areas controlled by the Al-Nusra Front. The latest report (S/2020/53), dated 20 January, a copy of which I have with me today, contains the twenty-fifth report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team presented in accordance with resolution 2368 (2017).”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“Two years after the Astana agreement and a year and a half after the Sochi agreement, the Turkish regime maintained observation posts on Syrian territory with the ostensible purpose of monitoring terrorist activities, preventing continued terrorist crimes and repelling attacks on the positions of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian forces. However, the Turkish regime turned those posts into operating rooms for supporting terrorist organizations. Proof of that is the fact that Turkish soldiers were killed far from those observation posts, as they were supporting terrorists. In her briefing today, the Under-Secretary-General confirmed what I have noted by saying that Turkish forces played a supporting role in terrorist operations against Syrian forces in Saraqib.”
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“The victims of those crimes, as I explained yesterday, are civilians, humanitarian workers and everyone who dares to reject the practices of the terrorist groups. In the north-west, there have been repeated demonstrations against the practices of Turkey-supported terrorist groups, including plundering, looting, killing, kidnapping, detentions, torture, rape, the imposition of taxes, the stealing of produce, the pillaging of archaeological items, human trafficking, and the looting and selling of humanitarian aid.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“That is the substance of a formal Council document on the Sochi agreement. Although we, our friends and other countries demanded that the Turkish regime honour the commitments to which I have just referred within the timeframe set in the Astana and Sochi agreements, the Erdoğan regime, which does not abide by international legitimacy, reneged on them. Along with its terrorist organizations, Erdoğan regime exploited the de-escalation agreements in order to bolster their presence and capabilities, especially in the Syrian areas adjacent to Turkey, and to impose a sustained terrorist reality at the cost of our people’s suffering in Idlib, Aleppo and rural areas of Hama and Latakia, where they have endured crimes committed by those terrorist organizations.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“On 17 September 2018, the Sochi agreement provided for the establishment of a demilitarized zone in Idlib province and parts of rural Aleppo and Hama, while the Turkish regime committed itself to withdrawing armed groups and terrorist organizations from that region, including the Al-Nusra Front and other associated groups, to disarming them by 15 October 2018 and to ensuring normal traffic on the M4 and M5 highways by the end of 2018. My Government welcomed that time-bound and temporary initiative. It was the result of intensive consultations between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Federation. We once again stressed that we would continue combating terrorism until we had liberated every inch of our territory, whether through military operations or local reconciliation.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“On 3 May 2017, the same day on which Astana agreement was concluded, my Government announced its support of the Russian initiative on the de-escalation zones in order to stop the bloodshed of the Syrian people and to ensure, to the extent possible, a return to normal life. The Government stressed that it would pursue its war against terrorism — namely Da’esh, the Al-Nusra Front and other associated terrorist groups.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“At the end of that meeting in Astana, the guarantors, including the Turkish regime, asserted their firm commitment to the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic and agreed, inter alia, to the following, as per an official Security Council document: take all measures to ensure a ceasefire on the part of all parties to continue fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant/Da’esh, the Al Nusra Front, Fath al-Sham and all other individuals, groups, proxies and entities associated with Al-Qaida or Da’esh, as designated by the Security Council, in and out of the de-escalation zones. The three guarantors, including the Turkish regime, had to take measures by 4 July 2017 to separate the armed opposition groups from the terrorist groups that I have just mentioned.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“Mr. Ja’afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I welcome the presence of the Secretary-General at this meeting and I thank him for his responsible introductory remarks. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs for her briefing. At the fourth round of meetings, hosted in the Kazakh capital on 3 and 4 May 2017, the Astana guarantors agreed, as my colleague the representative of Russia has said, on establishing de-escalation zones in my country for six months as a temporary measure.”
2020-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8738 (2020) · source
“That is why they want to distance themselves from the Astana framework. They have a terrorist project. They want to perpetuate terrorism by exerting political pressure on the Syrian Government. This is their project. The meeting rose at 12.40 p.m.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“That is why the Turkish regime does not want the Astana framework to be sustained and successful. The Astana framework compels it to combat terrorism in Idlib and to distinguish between terrorism and the so-called moderate opposition. The Syrian Government has no problem with the civilian opposition because we deal with it in Geneva. There is a Special Envoy, Geir Pedersen, and, before him, there were Mr. De Mistura and Mr. Brahimi. We have no problem with unarmed and non-terrorist civilian opposition. We must distinguish between the two. The Syrian Government has the right to combat the terrorism sponsored by Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, as I said, along with other countries. The Astana framework is what has led to the current situation of peace and safety in most Syrian territories.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“My country’s Government is the victim of an unprecedented terrorist project to target a legitimate Government by investing in terrorism. All present have seen what happened when some invested in terrorism in Iraq; when they did so in Libya; and when they did so in Africa, especially in the Horn of Africa, where Erdoğan’s regime sponsors terrorism. Wherever we look, we find the fingerprints of the Turkish regime on the sponsoring of terrorism in those regions. Of course, I could speak about this issue at length, but in the interests of time I shall not. We have seen clearly today that some ignore the importance of the Astana framework and say that it is no longer viable. This is not true. The Astana framework compels the Turkish regime to fight terrorism.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“I told the Council in my statement that the Turkish regime had cut off the water supply to Al-Hasakah province, where 600,000 civilians live. The representative of the Turkish regime has no right to speak on behalf of the Syrian people; only the Syrian Government can speak on their behalf. Neither he, nor his leader nor his President can speak on behalf of the Syrian people. We speak on behalf of the Syrian people. We are the representatives of the Syrian people in this international Organization. The Syrian Government has not been waging a war against its own people. We are in a legitimate war against terrorism and against the sponsors of terrorism: Turks, Qataris and Saudis. They are the proxies, but the original sponsors, in the West, are even more dangerous because they are initial sponsors of terrorism.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“Mr. Ja’afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): The Ottoman State started by invading Syria in 1516, as everyone knows. However, the Syrians, known for their patience, overthrew the Ottoman State in Syria in 1916, after 400 dark years of Ottoman occupation. Today, as members have seen, the Turkish representative threatened us once again, very arrogantly. He deems himself to be above the law. Our disagreement is not with the Turkish people. Our disagreement is with the Erdoğan party, which sponsors terrorism in my country. Our disagreement is with the sponsors of terrorism in Turkey, because that terrorism has destroyed our infrastructure and led to the killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“We also call for an end to the Israeli acts of aggression, which are conveniently used to alleviate pressure on terrorist groups and provide support to the Turkish aggression, thus unveiling the alliance and link between the Turkish regime and the Israeli occupation of my country.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“Why did Western countries, starting with the United States and followed by others, not negotiate ceasefires in the past with Bin Laden, Al-Zarqawi, Al-Baghdadi, Al-Julani and their terrorist entities? If the crux of the matter is a ceasefire with terrorist entities, then why did the United States and Western countries not negotiate ceasefires with Bin Laden, Al-Baghdadi, Al-Zarqawi, Al-Julani and others? My country reiterates its categorical rejection of any Turkish or other foreign illegal presence — United States, British and French — on Syrian territory. We call on the Turkish regime to curb its aggression and unbridled support of terrorism in Syria, Libya, the Horn of Africa and other regions.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“Imran Riza, United Nations Resident Coordinator for Syria, in which we informed him of our approval to transfer medical aid via land routes throughout the country, especially following the liberation of the highway between Damascus and Aleppo, as well as other international highways, from armed terrorist groups supported by the Erdoğan regime. The liberation of those highways is a milestone that serves to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid to the civilians in my country who need it. Anyone seeking to provide a different explanation, by calling for a ceasefire and negotiations with Da’esh and the Al-Nusra Front in Idlib, is either ignorant of the situation in Syria, directly supports terrorism or is responsible for the bloodshed of Syrians.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“I would like to inform the Council of the approval granted by my country to transport aid via contact lines to areas in need within Syria, provided that such aid is delivered exclusively to the Syrians who need it, so as to ensure that it will not end up in the hands of armed terrorists groups, illegitimate political organizations or proxy militias. Such aid should also be distributed under the supervision of the Syrian State, the Syrian Red Crescent and partners from relevant United Nations organizations. Yesterday, the Government of my country sent a letter to Mr.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“It means that aid delivery is viable in the north-east of the country from within the country’s borders, with complete cooperation and coordination with the Syrian Government, far removed from any attempt to antagonize and politicize humanitarian aid and without the need for the crossings mentioned in resolution 2504 (2020), which are earmarked by the Erdoğan regime to become crossings for his military machinery and aggressive troops in support of terrorism, amid total silence from the Security Council.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“That is reiterated in paragraph 22 of the sixty-fifth report of the Secretary- General on the implementation of humanitarian resolutions, which indicates that, together the Syrian Government and the United Nations deliver food aid to more than 3.5 million people every month in areas classified as being under the control of the Government in north-eastern Syria. What does that mean?”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“As my colleague the Ambassador of the Russian Federation said, the report provides alternatives, based on coordination with the Syrian Government, for the delivery of aid from Damascus to anywhere in the country. That is according to the report and not as mentioned by Ms. Mueller. My country’s delegation recalls that cooperation among the Syrian Government, the United Nations and its agencies, as well as our partners from 38 foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and 1,400 national societies, has enabled us, during the years of the so-called crisis, to continue to deliver humanitarian aid, social support, health care and basic services to millions of Syrians, including those who live in places classified by the United Nations as not under the control of the Syrian Government.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“Regrettably and notwithstanding all this, Ms. Mueller and Ms. Fore appear not to have heard about this information. They failed to inform Council members of it in their briefings today. In her briefing, Ms. Mueller mentioned the Al-Yarubiyah border crossing 11 times although, according to the relevant Security Council resolution, that crossing was closed. Nonetheless, she mentioned it 11 times. She then said that Tall Abyad crossing is the most viable and logical option. She attributed that to the Secretary- General’s report (S/2020/139). That is not true because the Secretary-General’s report does not say that the Tall Abyad crossing is the most logical option.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“On 22 February, my country’s Government sent an official letter to the WHO Regional Director, reporting its readiness to cooperate with Iraqi authorities to transfer that aid to Syria through the Bukamal border crossing or any other legal official crossing, including airports and the ports of Tartus and Latakia. On 25 February, my country’s Government also informed WHO of its approval of a one-time transfer of that aid through Erbil airport in Iraq to Al-Qamishli airport, in north-eastern Syria, provided that it would be distributed under the supervision of the Syrian Red Crescent and Syrian Government authorities and in partnership with the United Nations. Yesterday, we informed the Secretary- General, the President of the Security Council and the Member States of the Council of that approval.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“My country reiterates its call on United Nations entities to promptly provide humanitarian aid to those citizens instead of making statements and briefings that do not honestly reflect the reality on the ground and contribute only to giving cover to terrorist organizations and their sponsoring Governments. We have informed the Security Council of our disappointment in the reluctance of the World Health Organization (WHO) to import the medical consignment that is being held in Iraq, notwithstanding the authorization that was given to the WHO by the Syrian Government on 29 January, almost a month ago. The Syrian Government authorized the entry of that consignment through the Bukamal border crossing.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source
“Out of our eagerness to protect the security and safety of our citizens and after taking a number of initiatives, including the opening of a number of humanitarian crossings, the Syrian Government calls on the Syrian citizens who recently fled their regions and homes to return to the areas liberated from terrorism in north-western Syria. The Syrian Government stresses its commitment to guaranteeing the safety, security and protection of those citizens and ensuring all their required basic needs. My country’s delegation calls on the States that have leverage over the Turkish regime and the terrorist groups affiliated with it to compel them to allow our citizens to return to their homes, as well as the 1 million Syrians whom the Turkish aggression had displaced from Manbij, Afrin, Tal Rifaat, Jarabulus, Ain Arab and other places.”
2020-02-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8734 (2020) · source