YouSaid · the spoken record

Jaafari

lines on the record: 2,603
first: 2006-07-21
most recent: 2019-11-22
sittings or episodes: 185
sources: un-security-council

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“The group was established by British intelligence and recently received $6.7 million from the United States to enable it to distort facts about the Syrian Government, blackmail it along with its allies and end their war on terrorism for the entire world. I am affirming once again that the Syrian Government has not used toxic chemical weapons. It has no chemical weapons. They were destroyed on an American ship in the Mediterranean Sea. The Council knows that, and so does the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“The United States is providing them with rations, weapons, ammunition, fuel and support from 22 American bases outside of Syria. It provides the terrorist Da'esh organization with the facilities necessaryto carry out its attacks against the Syrian Arab Army. Even worse, those Governments have politicized the issue ofproviding humanitarian assistance in Syria. They attempt to control the work of the United Nations by falsifying information, fabricating evidence and manipulating the reports on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, which are based exclusively on false information from the White Helmets, one of the deceptive branches of the terrorist Al-Nusra Front.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“Those same Governments have focused their efforts on recruiting young people throughout the world, brainwashing them into becoming foreign terrorist fighters, and sending them to Syria and Iraq. Governments and intelligence agencies in Arab countries and the region have facilitated travel for thousands of those extremists through their territories, in particular Turkey. Meanwhile, other States have turned a blind eye to terrorists travelling to Syria. Those thousands of terrorist fighters therefore now represent an international crisis whereby their countries of origin fear their return. Nevertheless, the United States continues to train terrorists and armed fighters in 19 areas it occupies in the heart of Syria, including the Al-Tanf area and the Rukban camp on the border shared by Syria, Jordan and Iraq.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“Any attempt to fabricate regional and national crises to save Israel and deprive Arab countries, including Palestine, of their rights, and any proposed deal characterized by theft violates the relevant international resolutions and will only lead to more crises, the pursuit of conflicts and the escalation of threats to international and regional peace and security. For the past eight years, Syria has suffered from one of the most bitter crises that the world has known in decades. It is a violent terrorist war that certain Governments have supported, financed and fuelled. They have earmarked millions of dollars to militarize the Syrian crisis. Those Governments have established and funded armed terrorist groups that have adopted extremist religious slogans that are totally foreign to Syrian society.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“My country, Syria, believes that any serious and balanced approach to the underlying causes of the crises in the Middle East - the cradle of civilization, as all colleagues have said before me - must be based first and foremost on acknowledging that the main cause continues to be the Israeli occupation of Arab lands, including the Syrian Golan, rather than the propaganda disseminated by some claiming that the cause of the crises is the result of ethnic and religious conflicts. The international community has not been able to end the Israeli occupation of occupied Arab lands or ensure the establishment ofa Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“In addition, those Powers impose economic, commercial and financial sanctions against many peoples throughout the world, which is a flagrant violation of the provisions of the Charter, while using the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a pretext to claim that no one must be left behind. In that regard, we must not forget that one of those Powers withdrew from UNESCO, the Human Rights Council and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. Who knows - perhaps Power may also withdraw tomorrow from this international Organization.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“Those Powers support the continued Israeli occupation of Arab lands, claiming that it is based on a historical right even though that is a falsification of history. They support terrorism by claiming that it is a moderate bloody revolution and a rainbow spring. At the same time, those Powers deny the right of peoples to resist occupation and aggression, and say that those people's right to defend themselves is a form of terrorism. They align themselves with the most powerful Wahhabi dictatorships, which are the underlying cause of international terrorism in the world together with the Israeli Zionism. Such alliances are characterized by strategic partnerships.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“Those countries - some of which are permanent members of the Security Council - monopolize and steal the riches of others, fabricate crises and wars and control them indirectly and directly to serve their own interests and agendas, which represent a fundamental threat to international peace and security. Consequently, those Powers are currently defying the collective will of the international community, while rejecting the multilateral system, and stop at nothing to serve their own interests, including by distorting the Charter of the United Nations and manipulating the provisions of international law to justify their policies. Those Powers carry out direct acts of military aggression and occupy other countries' territories by force, characterizing their acts of aggression and occupation as wars against terrorism.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“My country's delegation has considered the concept note (S/2018/524, annex) for this meeting, and we highly appreciate the principled policy adopted by the friendly Russian Federation and other significant States Members of this international Organization, based on seeking basic solutions to crises and conflicts according to international law and the Charter of the United Nations. Such crises, which have ravaged the globe for decades, are the result of the Government policies of certain countries with major military, economic and financial power that believe that they can use the work of the international Organization to serve their own interests and determine the destinies of the peoples of the world.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to express my country's gratitude to the Russian Federation for its outstanding presidency of the Security Council this month. My country's delegation commends the convening of this important meeting presided over by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. We also congratulate your friendly country, Mr. President, on hosting and organizing the FIFA World Cup with distinction.”
2018-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8293 (2018) · source
“We underscore that Syria has a sovereign right to 4 June 1967 border in the occupied Syrian Golan. It is a non-negotiable right. Our occupied territories and our usurped rights should be returned in full to us, the rightful holders. Israeli settlers must leave our occupied territory in Golan sooner or later. My country calls on the Security Council to take immediate measures against Israel, the occupying Power, to put an end to its acts of aggressions and violations, and to put an end to the occupation of Arab territories, including the occupied Syrian Golan. It must withdraw to 4 June 1967 borders, in accordance with resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 497 (1981), and the establishment of the Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“For example, Sidqi Al-Maqt, the Mandela of Syria, was detained and imprisoned for merely documenting Israel's cooperation in the Syrian Golan with Da'esh and the Al-Nusra Front gangs in the disengagement area in Golan. Where is their rejection of stealing Golan natural resources, including gas, oil and water? Where is their rejection of the New Jersey-based company Genie Energy? That company, which is owned by a number of former United States officials, is digging for oil in the occupied Syrian Golan in violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention. Where is their condemnation of the repeated aggression by Israel against my country, Syria, in support of terrorist groups? The latest was on 9 April. Of course, none of that has been reported to the Special Coordinator for the Peace Process.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“Deviating from his mandate scores of times makes him incapable of assuming the responsibilities he has been assigned to handle. Some countries have been attempting today to impose subjects that are not under discussion, in order to distract the Security Council from the practices of the Israeli occupation. They have not said a single word about putting an end to the Israeli occupation of the Arab territories and the occupied Syrian Golan. It is as if the restoration of the Golan is not the right of the Syrian people, and as if the Golan were not an occupied Syrian territory. Why do those delegations not speak about fighting terrorism, about human rights law and International humanitarian law when it comes to detaining Syrian people and putting them in Israeli jails in an arbitrary manner?”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“The Syrian Arab Republic has maintained its principled position supporting the Palestinian people's right to self-determination, to establish an independent State on their entire national territory, with Jerusalem as its capital, and to ensure the right of refugees to return to their homes according to General Assembly resolution 194 (III), of 1948. My delegation would like to strongly condemn the deliberate disregard by the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process of a main part of his mandate. Once again, he did not touch on the situation of the occupied Syrian Golan, or the continuing Israeli practices and violations there, even though those practices fall within the item under discussion today. They are an integral part of his mandate as Special Coordinator for the Peace Process.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“Those countries, in particular the United States of America, have provided protection and immunity from accountability for Israel's continued violations of hundreds of resolutions calling on Israel to end its occupation of Arab territories and to withdraw to the 4 June 1967 border. That encourages Israel to commit the most heinous of crimes and terrorist acts, the most recent of which was the killing of scores of people and injuring thousands of Palestinian civilians who were protesting peacefully during last weeks on the annual Palestinian Land Day, stressing the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their lands.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): The occupation by Israel of Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese territories, the displacement of peoples, the confiscation ofland and settling strangers on it based on the conviction of a takfiri Zionist belief constitute terrorism beyond description. Worse than that, double standards have become characteristic of some Member States in the Security Council that claim to defend human rights, international law and the principles set out in the Charter of the United Nations. They call for hysterical meetings almost daily, on matters based on false intelligence information that they make up while pretending to forget the clear fact that Israel has been occupying Palestine, the Golan and parts of Lebanon for more than five decades.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“They only unite in order to violate the provisions of the Charter, invade countries, interfere in their internal affairs, try to change their Governments by force, launch one aggression after the other and destroy peoples and their civilizations. The meeting rose at 6.40pm.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“The situation needs the Security Council to carry out its mandate under the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations by standing against the American, Turkish and Israeli occupation of parts of my country, Syria, and standing against countries supporting terrorists groups. The Security Council also must stand against countries imposing coercive measures against the Syrian people, so that millions of Syrian people are not made refugees and internally displaced persons, as some colleagues have said. The Council must not bend to the will of the Governments of the United States, Britain and France. This is a United Nations Organization. Do not turn it into an organization that is not united.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“The United States is responsible for the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the camp. We stress that the main reason for this American position is that they are using the camp to train Da'esh terrorist and other terrorist groups so that they can be used in other battles against Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and other countries in the region and the world. In conclusion, I am talking here about the elephant that I mentioned at the beginning of my statement. The political situation in Syria is clear and does not need draft resolutions, mechanisms or semi-daily meetings under different agenda items.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“The United States, France and Britain culminated their support to armed terrorist fighters through the tripartite aggression on 14 April, with the participation of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel, as an act of revenge against the Syrian Arab Army following the defeat of the terrorist proxies of those Governments in eastern Ghoutta. When we talk about the catastrophic humanitarian situation caused by this illegitimate coalition in the city of Raqqa, we must talk about the situation in the Al-Rukban camp. I underscore that the Syrian Government approved the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the camp in cooperation with International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. However, the United States forces present in the camp prevented the delivery of that assistance and put impossible conditions for its delivery.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“The coalition has not only launched an aggression against the Syrian Arab Army, but it also gave support and protection to residuals of Da'esh forces by providing safe passage to its elements from Raqqa and deir ez- Zor, most of them foreign terrorist fighters. They gave them instructions to attack the forces of the Syrian Arab Army and their allies in deir ez-Zor. That is how the United States forces saved the remaining Da'esh terrorists from certain death at the hands of the Syrian Arab Army so that they could wreak havoc along the border between Syria and Iraq.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“The illegitimate coalition never meant to combat terrorism, but to place obstacles in the way ofthe Syrian Arab Army and its allies as they sought to combat Da'esh, the terrorist organization - for instance, the air strikes launched by coalition war planes against the Syrian Arab Army in the Al-Tharda Mountain in deir ez-Zor on 17 September 2016. Members will recall what happened back then, as follows. The coalition - United States - war planes were trying to provide safe passage to Da'esh terrorists between Syria and Iraq. Furthermore, on 8 February 2018, United States war planes targeted Popular Forces on the eastern bank ofthe Euphrates River. Those forces were fighting against armed Da'esh terrorists. The war planes killed dozens of these reserve Popular Forces.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“I would also like to remind the Council, for example, ofthe massacres against civilians in the towns of Al-Mayadin and Al-Bukamal in mid-May 2017; in Al-Sour, Al-Dablan, Al-Mayadin city, and Thibyan village in rural deir ez-Zor, towards the end of June 2017; in Tel Al-Shayer on 19 June 2017; in Al-Zayanat village on 4 July 2017; in Al-Kashkash village on 12 July 2017; in southern rural Al-Sahaka; in Al-Shaf'a village and Thahrat Alouni on 25 February 2018; and in Al-Bahra village on 20 February 2018.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“The coalition never meant to combat terrorism, but rather to undermine the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of my country and to weaken the Syrian Arab Army and its allies in the fight against terrorist groups. The coalition's real achievement was to kill thousands of innocent civilians with the worst and most destructive weapons, including incendiary weapons. They have destroyed Syrian infrastructure, including dams, bridges, hospitals, schools, development facilities and institutions of the Syrian people, as well as their economic resources necessary for reconstruction, notably oil and gas wells, facilities and workers.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“Secondly: "The city, whose residents were estimated at about 300,000 people before the crisis, is now home to around 7,000 people at the end of the offensive by the coalition." They managed to help 4,000 Da'esh terrorists leave the city, but that also led to an exodus of 300,000 of the city's population. Thirdly: "There is a complete lack of public services: no water, no electricity, no cell phone coverage and no basic services. Fourthly: "Hospitals and clinics were destroyed. Currently there is no hospital in the city, except for Doctors Without Borders." What happened in the city of Raqqa is one example of the crimes of the so-called coalition led by the United States against Da'esh.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“I will only share with the Council the outcome of the United Nations assessment mission to Raqqa, submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates in Damascus and contained in an official note from the United Nations Resident Coordinator on 4 April: "Raqqa is facing a dire situation that requires a complete rebuilding and restructuring of public services and administration from the ground up." That is a quotation from the United Nations, and not from Doctors Without Borders - or Clowns Without Borders. Allow me to mention some of the conclusions of the mission. First: "The mission witnessed the extensive destruction of the city. Every building was either partially or completely destroyed." It does not say 70 per cent or 80 per cent. The city is completely destroyed.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“Despite the threat of force and the ongoing support for terrorism and armed groups under any pretext, the world's peoples have grown tired of the fact that influential countries continue to ignore the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations. They have grown tired of the fact that those countries completely disregard the principles of international law with impunity. My delegation thanks the Russian Federation delegation for requesting this meeting to discuss the situation in Raqqa - that martyred city that was completely destroyed by United States forces and their alleged coalition under the pretext of combating terrorism. I will not discuss the Syrian Arab Republic's assessment of the catastrophic conditions in the city.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“Yesterday, its members listened to statements from witnesses about the alleged incident. As the Mission began its work, all these lies and rumours surfaced. They are false conclusions to distort the Fact-finding Mission's outcome and ensure that people forget about the aggression. Today's meeting is being held on my country's Independence Day commemorating our expulsion of the French colonial Power from Syria on this date in 1946. Unfortunately, some countries, including France and those that launched the cowardly attack on my country on 14 March, have failed to understand that the people's desire for liberty and independence is a reality, and that the days of hegemony are long past. Attempts to return to that time will not succeed regardless of the size of military fleets or the number of aeroplanes and the nice and new smart bombs.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“I shall now voluntarily provide such a briefing for her so that she will not have to wait 24 hours. I have informed the Council before that the Syrian Government has taken all measures necessary to facilitate the arrival of the Fact-finding Mission to Syria. Today, the United Nations security team entered Douma at 3 pm. Damascus time - 8 am. New York time - in order to assess the security situation on the ground. If the United Nations security team decides that the situation is safe in Douma, then the Fact-finding Mission will begin its work in Douma tomorrow. The decision to send the Fact-finding Mission to Douma was solely that of the United Nations and the OPCW. The Syrian Government has done all it could to facilitate the work of the Mission. Furthermore, the Mission began its work upon its arrival in Damascus.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“Doctors Without Borders can be compared to smugglers without borders, criminals without borders, opposition without borders, foreign agents without borders, aggressors without borders and terrorists without borders. It would please our French and other colleague for the intervention in the internal affairs of Syria to be without borders forever. I have listened to the false allegations, lies and deceitful statements propagated by certain delegations regarding the visit to Douma of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Fact-finding Mission in the Syrian Arab Republic. I will share with the Council the following information. Of course, I am providing that information to please my colleague the British Ambassador because she requested a briefing within 24 hours.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“Not once did he call for condemnation of this week's aggression directed against my country. That is also something that I will hold against him. Not once did he mention anything concerning the terrorism prevalent in Syria, sponsored by the countries that I just mentioned, and the oil-producing countries of our region. And that is another point that I will hold against him. As for my French colleague, he referred to a great deal of information that seems to have received from Doctors Without Borders, an organization similar to the White Helmets, which was invented by British intelligence service. Doctors Without Borders is also a French invention. Apparently, that organization is present in Raqqa. It is there without the approval of the Syrian Government. Just like Da'esh, it entered Syria without the Government's approval.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“I believe that it would have been better for the forces of her country to call on Da'esh to surrender its maps, revelaing the location of tens of thousands of mines, instead of boasting that they had eliminated 3,000 mines from the city after expelling Da'esh from it a year and a half ago. They said they had been able to destroy 3,000 mines. Allow me to address the fact that my colleague the Deputy Ambassador of Sweden referred to the Syrian Government 16 times in his statement. He called on the Syrian Government 16 times to various ends. However, not once did he call for an end to the American occupation of part of our territories. I will hold that against him. Not once did he call for an end to the Turkish and Israeli occupation of our territories. That is also something that I will hold against him.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“It is as though they are carrying a microscope and trying to find a speck of dust anywhere, while disregarding the elephant that should be the focus of this and other previous meetings The elephant, of course, is the aggression initiated by permanent members of the Council against my country, the occupation of a third of my country's territory by the three countries that launched the attack, and another occupation that I will mention later. We truly need Diogenes in the Chamber. My colleague the Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States boasted that her country's forces were able to destroy 3,000 mines in Raqqa. Her country's forces, which continue to occupy Raqqa, helped 4,000 Da'esh terrorists relocate from Raqqa first to Deir Al-Zour and then to Al-Shaddadah in the north.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): It is said that the Greek philosopher Diogenes used to walk around the city carrying a lantern in daytime. His followers asked him why he carried a lantern in broad daylight. His response always was: "I carry a lantern in daylight because it is very difficult to see the truth in daytime." That quotation from Diogenes reminds me of some of our colleagues in the Chamber.”
2018-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8236 (2018) · source
“The Ambassador of Kuwait will also recall that my country could have played a different role at the time and could have negatively impacted the peace, safety and security of Kuwait, but we chose not to do so. We acted pursuant to a national principled position that was not subject to negotiation or discussion. The meeting rose at 1.50 pm.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“We are working in accordance with the United Nations agenda to end the British occupation of the Malvinas. As for my colleague the Ambassador of Kuwait, I remind him 4 although he and his Government are well aware of it 4 that when my country participated in the liberation of Kuwait, we did not justify our principled position to the people of Kuwait. Our position was a principled one. We did not need draft resolutions, meetings or any tripartite aggression. We did not look into the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations or undermine our national obligations to our brothers in Kuwait, nor did we join any bloc that was hostile to Kuwait. We fulfilled our national duty towards our brothers in Kuwait.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“Some colleagues who voted against the Russian draft resolution (S/2018/355) claim to support a political settlement. We tell them now, after their shameful vote against the draft resolution, that those who voted against it are no longer partners of the Syrian Government in any political process. The British Ambassador explained things about the Malvinas Islands. That testimony reveals the facts about the imperialistic policies of Britain. I am actually the Rapporteur of the Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24) and I work under the agenda of the United Nations and the Secretary-General. My task and that of my colleagues in the C-24 is to end colonialism throught the world. The Malvinas are on the list of territories that do not enjoy self-governance.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“That is the true scene, and not the allegations and the film prepared by the terrorist organization known as the White Helmets established by British intelligence. We need to focus on the main scene here. Some would claim that they are fighting Da'esh in Syria and Iraq. However they have given air cover to Da'esh. Whenever the Syrian Arab Army makes advances against Da'esh, United States, British and French war planes bombard our military sites. Why? To prevent our decisive victory against that entity. However, they failed and we were able to achieve victory against Da'esh with our brothers in Iraq in three years and not in thirty, as former President Obama predicted. We understand that the capitals of the three countries that launched the aggression against my country are frustrated.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I apologize for requesting the floor once again. The scene that we have just witnessed is quite sad. There are those in the Council who prefer to overlook an enormous elephant that we have spoken of before. The elephant is the direct American military occupation of one-third of my country's territory - a direct American military occupation of one-third of the Syrian Arab Republic territory. However, there are those who speak of minor details which they believe to be pivotal. No, the political scene is far more dangerous than that. We are a State whose sovereignty has been facing a direct military violation by a permanent member of the Council.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“We did not need international legitimacy or any legal argument to conduct military interventions in the past." I am just imagining the discussion that might have taken place among them yesterday. "This military action is necessary for us and for our allies in order to distract public attention in our countries from the scandals involving our own political elite and ensure that the corrupt system in some Gulf States pays the price of such aggression. Most important is how to protect the terrorism that we have sponsored in Syria for years."”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“The Syrian Arab Republic is asking the international community, if it exists - we have heard a new definition of the international community today - and the Security Council to firmly condemn this aggression, which will exacerbate the tensions in the region and which is a threat to international peace and security throughout the world. I call upon those who are committed to international legitimacy to imagine with me the meeting in which the United States National Security Council decided to carry out this attack. I cannot help wondering what was said. "We have no legal basis for attacking Syria. We have no proof that a toxic chemical weapons attack took place in Douma, but let us set that aside.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“Those countries have revealed their belief in the law of the jungle and the law of the most powerful even as they are permanent members of the Security Council, an organ entrusted with maintaining international peace and security and with stopping any aggression, in accordance with the principles and purposes of the Charter. The Syrian Arab Republic is disgusted by the scandalous position of the rulers in Sheikhdom of Qatar, who supported this Western colonial tripartite aggression by allowing planes to take off from the American A1 Udeid air base in Qatar. It is not surprising that the little boys of the Sheikhdom of Qatar took that position. They have supported terrorist gangs, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and others, in a variety of ways in order to destabilize Arab countries, including Syria.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“They were also unable to respond to a journalist who asked the Secretary of Defense, "You said yesterday that you had no proof that the Syrian Government was responsible for the attack in Douma. What happened in the past few hours? What made you change your mind?" His answer was that he received confirmation from intelligence services. The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms this tripartite attack, which once again shows undeniably that those three countries pay no heed to international legitimacy, even though they repeatedly say they do.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“While these three Governments were launching their evil aggression against my country, Syria, and while my country's air defence system was countering the attacks with a great deal of bravery - one hundred missiles were destroyed and did not reach their target - the American Secretary of Defense and the Army Chief of Staff were before the American and international press in an outrageous surrealist scenario. They were not actually able to answer objective questions. Millions of television viewers must have pitied those two men because they were like dunces, repeating phrases without any meaning, and were unable to respond to the legitimate questions of a journalist about their attempts to target chemical weapons facilities and the danger that posed to civilians if the alleged chemical weapons were to spread. They did not respond.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“They are compulsive liars. They are hypocrites. They are attempting to ensure the failure of any action of the Organization that does not serve their interests. Ever since the Organization was established, they have tried to undermine the efforts of international investigative bodies. They have tried to exploit them. I need only mention Iraq, Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, and Africa. The aggressors exhausted the Council agendas for decades with their attempts to divert its attention from its role in the maintenance of international peace and security. They used the Council to pursue their aggressive policy of interference and colonialism. Yesterday, in the press of the United States and of the West, the main theme was lying in the context of a campaign that was claiming success, but they know it was a lie.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“This morning's attack was not just an attack on Syria, as my dear friend, the representative of Bolivia said; rather, it was an attack against the Charter, the Council, international law and 193 members of this Organization. The attempt by Washington, DC, London and Paris to ensure the failure of the United Nations working groups and fact-finding missions is systematic. While those three States boast of their support for these bodies, behind the closed doors of the Organization they pressure and blackmail them not to carry out the mandates for which they were established. We recall what took place with the investigative missions in Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia and Africa. No investigative mission can be successful if it is subjected to political blackmailing. It cannot succeed. Of the three aggressors, I say they are liars.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“The Council knows that this aggression took place just as a fact-finding team from the OPCW was supposed to arrive in Syria at the request of the Syrian Government to examine the allegations of a chemical attack in Douma. Obviously, the main message that these aggressors are sending to the Council and to the world is that they are not actually interested in the Council's mandate and that they do not want a transparent and independent investigation. They are trying to undermine the work ofthe investigative mission and anticipating the results. They are trying to put pressure on that mission to conceal their lies and fabrications, just as happened six years ago, in 2013, when Mr. Sellstrom went to Khan Al-Assal from Damascus, as I have explained in a previous statement to the Council.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“I would like to draw the attention of those who align themselves with the Charter of the United Nations and international legitimacy to the fact that this evil aggression sends another message from those three aggressors to the terrorist groups that they can continue using chemical weapons in the future and committing their terrorist crimes, not against Syrian civilians only but in other countries. There is no doubt about that. In 146 letters we have drawn the Council's attention to the plans of the terrorist groups to use chemical weapons in Syria. There are 146 letters that have been sent to the Council and the Secretariat. Today, some Council members are suddenly reinventing the wheel.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“Indeed, in a race against time, the armed terrorist groups did receive instructions from those aggressors to fabricate this Charade of the use of chemical weapons in Douma. They found false witnesses and manipulated the alleged crime scene as they did before, which served as the pretext for this scandalous aggression. This can only be explained by the fact that the original aggressors - the United States of America, Britain and France - decided to interfere directly in order to avenge the defeat of their proxies in Ghouta. In fact, those who fabricated the Charade of the chemical attack in Ghouta were arrested and admitted on television that it was a fabricated attack. We have a video of that ifthe presidency wishes to see it.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source
“Syrian air defences were able to intercept a number of rockets launched by the tripartite aggression, while some of them reached the Barzah Centre in - not outside 4 the capital Damascus. The Centre in that location that includes laboratories and classrooms. Fortunately, the damage was only material. Some of those modern, charming and smart rockets were intercepted, while others targeted a military site near Homs, wounding three civilians. The Governments of these three States prepared for this evil attack by issuing aggressive statements through their senior officials, saying that their only excuse for preventing the advance of the Syrian Arab Army against armed groups was these allegations of the use of chemical weapons.”
2018-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8233 (2018) · source