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Jaafari

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“We as a Government take responsibility for this information, to the effect that there are officials of international and United Nations agencies working on the ground in Syria who prefer to distance themselves from the contents of the monthly reports of the Secretary-General with respect to the activities of their agencies in Syria. Those agencies have confirmed to us that they had not provided the reported information to OCHA. Those agencies have even rejected the inclusion of this information in the monthly reports in such a negative and fragmented way because it does not reflect the true nature of the coordination and effective cooperation with the Syrian Government on the delivery of humanitarian assistance. That is what we hear from United Nations representatives in Damascus.”
2017-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8015 (2017) · source
“However, United Nations officials with mandates in the humanitarian process, particularly in OCHA, have persistently refused to enter into a genuine humanitarian partnership with the Syrian Government. They have opted for the logic of anonymity, for demolishing the bridges of mutual cooperation and trust and for questioning its credibility as a humanitarian partner whose cooperation is inescapable in order to implement the humanitarian response plans. In that regard, with the permission of the Under- Secretary-General and Ms. Mueller, I would like to present documented information for the official record.”
2017-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8015 (2017) · source
“They are just a cover to channel humanitarian aid convoys to armed terrorist groups instead of reaching the Syrian people who need them, with a view to prolonging the crisis and boosting the morale of terrorists who use civilians as human shields. Ms. Mueller cast doubt even on the fact that terrorists are using civilians as human shields, when she said that terrorists had allegedly used civilians as human shields". "Allegedly". Can she really say these are allegations after all these scandals in Mosul, Aleppo, Homs, Palmyra and Raqqa. Ms. Mueller is still unconvinced that Da'esh used civilians as human shields. She has allegations. She received allegations. The Syrian Government spares no effort to assume its responsibilities to improve the living conditions of Syrian citizens without discrimination.”
2017-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8015 (2017) · source
“Mueller also said: "[W]e and the Syrian people look to the Security Council [to ensure] that civilians are protected". Who gave Ms. Mueller the right to speak on behalf of the Syrian people? How could she overstep her mandate and say that she and the Syrian people ask the Security Council to provide protection for civlians? How dare she say that before the Security Council? I am sure that, regrettably, the monthly reports have deliberately been diverted from their objective. These reports are misused. Instead of trying to help us to overcome the difficulties that prevent humanitarian aid from reaching those who need it, these reports are used to slander the Syrian Government and to apply pressure to the Syrian Government and its allies in the fight against terrorism.”
2017-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8015 (2017) · source
“She noted that she had provided humanitarian aid that reached millions of different people. Perhaps on the planet Venus, where there is no Government. She did not say that she had carried out these positive activities in cooperation with the Syrian Government. OCHA would not have been able to do that without the cooperation of the Syrian Government. However, she did not mention a word about any cooperation of the Syrian Government with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and other United Nations agencies. This what we mean when we say there has been lack of professionalism and maturity with regard to the United Nations reports on the humanitarian situation in Syria. We want a humanitarian partnership between our Government and the Office. OCHA cannot replace the Syrian Government. We will not allow that to happen . Ms.”
2017-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8015 (2017) · source
“These reports contradict the noble humanitarian objectives that are supposed to be achieved through a process that can succeed only with cooperation, coordination and humanitarian partnership that are free from any political consideration, between the Syrian Government, on the one hand, and the United Nations, on the other. I would like to refer to what Ms. Mueller said a while ago from Amman. In all her briefings, she has never mentioned the least form of cooperation with the Syrian Government. Not once has she mentioned any cooperation whatsoever with the Syrian Government. She mentioned aid that she had provided to 8 million people. In other words, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had helped 8 million people, but where did this happen? Did it happen on Mars or perhaps on Jupiter?”
2017-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8015 (2017) · source
“As representatives are aware, I was away for three months during which time I was deeply involved in the Astana and Geneva processes. I know very well who was impeding the agreements in Astana and Geneva. Today we are meeting to discuss the forty- first report. We have been engaging in this monthly exercise for three and a half years now. We continue to read reports that are clearly lacking in expertise and professionalism. We have also listened to malicious briefings, once from Amman and others from Beirut and Geneva, yet we have not heard no briefing from the United Nations representatives in Damascus.”
2017-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8015 (2017) · source
“Thirdly, the Governments of donor countries have reneged on the pledges about which they brag at international conferences from which the Syrian Government is completely excluded, even though it is the primary party concerned. This is why current humanitarian financing is only 21 per cent of what is needed. This is a major obstacle, yet it is completely ignored by the authors of the report. Fourthly, certain regional and international parties are continuously intervening in Syrian affairs in a negative way, with a view to achieving their destructive agendas, prolonging the Syrian crisis and obstructing efforts aimed at reaching a peaceful political resolution through a Syrian-led political process, without foreign intervention, which the United Nations has repeatedly endorsed. I know whereof I speak.”
2017-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8015 (2017) · source
“They are the ones who are impeding humanitarian convoys access, mining the roads used by convoys or failing to agree to monitor crossing points. Secondly, coercive unilateral economic measures are being imposed by the United States, the European Union and other States. These measures affect first and foremost the Syrian people and, as a result, have seriously impacted humanitarian conditions in Syria, including basic services, such as health care, water, electricity and education. The logistical difficulties are enormous and prevent us from implementing the humanitarian plans. For example, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has very few trucks and lacks fuel, not to mention the air strikes carried out by the United States targeting power stations, water stations and other infrastructure.”
2017-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8015 (2017) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): The Government of my country has read the forty-first monthly report of the Secretary-General (S/2017/623). We note that certain parts ofthe report are somewhat different from previous reports. Nonetheless, we regret that, yet again, the authors of the report have overlooked the real reasons for the deterioration of the living conditions of Syrian citizens. The report also ignores the real obstacles that are preventing humanitarian assistance from reaching those who need it. Foremost among them are the following. First is the extremely critical security situation as a result of the terrorism of Da'esh, the Al-Nusra Front and associated groups, entities and individuals. In addition, there has been infighting among these armed terrorist groups for a while now.”
2017-07-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8015 (2017) · source
“Such photographs were taken at the gates of the the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, whose forces are deployed throughout the Golan. That is why those two Syrians were arrested by Israel.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“We reiterate Syria's sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan, in line with the 4 June 1967 borders. That right is not debatable; it is an inalienable right on which there can be no compromise. Our occupied territory and usurped right must be restored and returned to their legitimate owners. Settlers must leave our territory in the Golan, sooner or later. Syrian authorities demand that pressure be exercised on Israel, the occupying Power, to immediately release the Syrian Sudqi Almaqt, who is referred to as Syria's Mandela, and Amal Abu Saleh. Both have been imprisoned in Israel simply for taking photographs that prove that the Israel, the occupying Power, cooperates with the Al-Nusra Front in the occupied Syrian Golan.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“It is the only party that possesses an arsenal ofnuclear, biological and chemical weapons and that is protected by permanent members of the Security Council that have even repeatedly rejected any initiative to create a nuclear-free-weapon zone in the Middle East. The world cannot ignore the fact that the entity was established on the basis of the Balfour Declaration, which has had a serious impact on the history of humankind by allowing, for the first time in history, the establishment of a racist entity that excludes others and is based on an extremist religious ideology, which makes it no different from Da'esh and even worse. This entity enjoys the support of permanent members of the Council that claim to seek peace and the realization of peoples' interest and rights, yet still support the worst occupation humankind has ever witnessed.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“When the representative of the Israeli occupation asks about root causes of terrorism and bloodshed in the Middle East, we offer facts and evidence to him and others who deliberately take exploit this forum to distort facts and distract us from addressing the real threats facing our region. An entity that occupies territories and makes people refugees cannot claim to be democratic or to adhere to human values. Its representatives cannot speak about chaos and weapons of mass destruction. The entity itself continues to distort history by pilfering territories, building settlements and carrying out massacres against the Arab peoples who live under its occupation.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“Israel attacked Syria on 17 March in Palmyra in support of the Da'esh terrorist group, which was present there at the time. Such events illustrate that Israel and terrorism are two sides of the same coin. When we state that Israel and terrorism are essentially two sides ofthe same coin, we are talking about a long history of Zionist terrorism, which is essentially based on a foundation of extremism and intolerance. Its goal is to kill others, displace them and violate their rights. It is based on a false myth of a religious State that is illusory and has not been accepted under any international laws and norms. It is a State that does not respect freedom, equality or justice.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“Moreover, it has encouraged Israel to lend all kinds of support to armed terrorist groups in the disengagement area in the occupied Syrian Golan, including to terrorists of the Al-Nusra Front, an entity that the Council considers to be a terrorist organization and that receives assistance from Israel in the occupied Syrian Golan. In addition, Israel facilitates travel by Al-Nusra Front terrorists across the demarcation line, treats them at Israeli hospitals and returns them to Syrian territory to resume their terrorist acts. The Qatari regime finances these malicious acts. Israel has not only supported this group, but has also launched several airstrikes, in flagrant violation of Syrian sovereignty and the Disengagement of Forces Agreement, in order to support such terrorist groups.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“My country stresses its intransigent position in support of the right of the Palestinian people to self- determination and to establish an independent State that encompasses its entire territory, with Jerusalem as its capital, as well as the right of return of Palestinian refugees, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 194 (III). The continued, dubious silence of the Security Council with regard to Israeli policies and practices has encouraged Israel to pursue its policy of occupation and colonization. It has also encouraged Israel to violate the Disengagement of Forces Agreement and Security Council resolutions pertaining to the Golan, especially those related to combating terrorism.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“Nonetheless, of particular concern and abhorrence is the fact that the representative ofthe Secretariat is again heading down that very path, pointedly overstepping the bounds of his mandate and deliberately neglecting to speak about the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan. The question of the Syrian Golan is at the very core of the agenda item and a key part of Mr. Mladenov's mandate as Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. We have pointed out to Mr. Mladenov on several occasions the seriousness of this approach to briefing the Security Council and his failure to address the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): For several years now, we have been warning the members of the Security Council about the seriousness of the destructive approach to modifying the content of and references to agenda item pertaining to the Middle East. That approach seeks to sway us from our main objectives and to remove the real content of the agenda item, which is the question ofthe occupation by Israel of Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese territories and its ongoing violations of the various Security Council resolutions calling for it to withdraw from the occupied Arab territories, in accordance with the 4 June 1967 borders.”
2017-04-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7929 (2017) · source
“In conclusion, my delegation thanks and expresses its appreciation to the Russian Federation and Bolivia for voting against the draft resolution today, as well as those delegations that abstained in the voting, in their conviction of the sinister objectives behind the draft resolution, the most basic principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, and their belief that such texts affect the credibility of international action and institutions and threaten international peace and security. The meeting rose at 4.30 pm.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“He concludes that these data seem more consistent with the possibility that the munitions were on the ground and notdropped from the air. What does my colleague, the representative of France, call the killing by French aircraft of 200 civilians in the village of Toukhan Al-Kubra in rule Aleppo, on 19 July 2016? And what does my colleague, the representative of the United States, call the killing by American aircraft of 237 civilians in the town of Al-Mansura, after they had fled Da'esh in the Raqqa region.My delegation stresses that it is continuing to implement all its commitments under the CWC and to wage our war on terror, which will not stop regardless of any political blackmail, media campaigns or shedding of innocent blood.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“I urge Council members to read the book entitled The REAL Benghazi Story: What the White House and Hillary Don't Want You to Know, by Aaron Klein, which details the coordination and mediation role undertaken by the late United States Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, in operations to export weapons and sarin from Libya to the States sponsors of terrorism in Syria, first and foremost Turkey. I also invite them to read a scientific report published by Theodore Postol, an American professor working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It evaluates the White House claims of the alleged events in Khan Shaykhun. He believes that the information on which United States officials based their allegations against the Syrian Government points merely to a crater in a road north of Khan Shaykhun.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“The third question is: Is anyone here aware that the British doctor of Pakistani decent, Shajul Islam, who was with the armed terrorist groups on the ground in Khan Shaykhun and was the main witness in all the provocative media campaigns against the Syrian Government, was imprisoned for 13 months in the Britain, charged with terrorist acts, including the kidnapping of British journalists in Syria? A terrorist criminal becomes an eye witness, and this fabricated media campaign is based on his testimony. Furthermore, how can anyone who pretends to seek the truth through international legitimacy assume the right to perpetrate an act of military aggression against a site that they claim to have been the origin of aircraft that flew off to strike Khan Shaykhun with chemical weapons?”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“I refer here specifically to a group called the White Helmets, which seems to have won an Oscar for Best Actor. We have repeatedly provided the Security Council with pictures, films and documented evidence that members of that organization work under the direction of the British intelligence services and are funded by the United States and Britain. That is the first question. The second question is: Has anyone read the report issued by the organization Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, exposing the duplicity of the so-called White Helmets?”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“The sponsors of today's draft resolution know full well that, since my country acceded to the CWC, the resolutions of the Security Council and the OPCW have been the sufficient and appropriate international legal framework in that regard. I call on the rest of the States members of the Security Council to use logical and rational trial, seek clear and genuine responses to the questions raised by this painful incident and by the reactions of the United States, Britain and France. Let us try to answer the following questions. Why did the videos and photographs of the Khan Shaykhun incident come only from organizations claiming to work in the humanitarian field, whereas they are directly linked to armed terrorist groups on the ground.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“I also warned him that the facts were falsified and that the evidence and accusations were fabricated against the Syrian Government, as on previous occasions. I related this information to Mr. De Mistura five days before the incident in Khan Shaykhun. As I said this morning, my country's Government has addressed more than 90 letters, the latest only one day ago, to the various relevant United Nations bodies, including documented information on the possession by terrorist organizations, led by Da'esh and Jabhat Al-Nusra, of toxic chemical materitals, including sarin, which they obtained from Libya through Turkish territory, with the full knowledge of the Turkish authorities.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“They might, for instance, clear out its archives and keep them in steel boxes that will not be opened for 60 years, just as they did with the archives of the inspection committees seeking weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. My country did not use atomic weapons against Hiroshima and Nagaski. My country did not use chemical and biological weapons against Viet Nam. My country did not use enriched uranium against Iraq. My country did not test atomic weapons against Algerians, alive, in the Algerian Sahara. On 31 March, in our talks in Geneva, I provided Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura with early and documented reports about the possession by armed terrorist groupss in rural Damascus, Idlib and Hama of toxic chemical materials to be used as weapons against civilians.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“Whoever reads today's draft resolution (S/2017/315) carefully will see that its true objective is not to uncover the truth but to absolutely Violate Syrian sovereignty and exploit any information that could have been collected through the draft resolution, had it been adopted, in order to help armed terrorist groups supported by the three States and their proxies in the region to target the personnel, sites and capacities of the Syrian Government and army, under the pretext of looking for the "chemical Godot", as was the case in Iraq. Ifthe sponsors oftoday's draft resolution do not see any benefit in the mechanisms available at the OPCW., why do they not introduce another draft resolution to end the work of the OPCW?”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“The three Western States on the Council have become used to incorporating similar language in previous draft resolutions, leading to their misues later on by those States to justify intervention in the internal affairs of other States and military aggression against them, as was the case in Libya and other countries.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“As for the town of Khan Shaykhun, regrettably I am forced to tell the Council that access to that town must be guaranteed by the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra and its associate terrorist organizations operating there, via the Governments of States that support, guide and direct that organization on the ground, foremost among which are France, Britain, the United States, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Israel. My country is the primary stakeholder in uncovering the truth. In principle, we support any action of the Security Council to attain such truth. However, we object to draft resolutions containing sly political language, prejudging the results of any investigation and leaning towards leading the investigation to indict the Syrian Government a priori, as did my colleagues the representatives of the Britain and France earlier here.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“As I told the Council this morning (see S/PV.7921), in the context of its ongoing transparent cooperation with the OPCW, my country sent a letter yesterday to the Director General of the organization, calling on him to send a neutral, fair and professional mission to Khan Shaykhun and the Shayrat air base to find out the truth of what occurred - comprehensively, transparently and fairly. My country, Syria, stresses its readiness to ensure the mission's safe access to Shayrat air base in order to ascertain whether sarin had been or is stockpiled there.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“On the basis of these firm principles, my country's Government acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), implemented all its commitments under the Convention, and has made an achievement unprecedented in the history of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) by ending the Syrian chemical weapons programme in record time and irreversibly, as certified by the statement of the OPCW-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism that was presented to the Security Council in June 2014.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): My country condemns and rejects in the strongest terms any use of chemical weapons and any other type of weapon of mass destruction as a crime against humanity that is to be reviled, immoral and unjustifiable in any circumstance. The target for such weapons is the Syrian people, who are still the primary victims of the crimes of armed terrorist groups that did not hesitate to use chemical weapons against them. Let me stress to the Security Council that my country is as eager as ever to uncover the real criminal responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7922 (2017) · source
“Therefore, submitting a draft resolution was a blatant misuse of the Security Council's mechanisms, and it reminds us of similar misuse of by Britain and America against Iraq 14 years ago exactly, on 9 April 2003. The meeting rose at 12.15 p.m.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“We will also spare no effort to support any genuine endeavour that seeks to reach a political solution that will allow Syrians themselves to decide their own future, whereby only the Syrians themselves determine their future and their options in a manner that would preserve the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria. To conclude, I was perplexed by the statement made by my colleague from France, according to which he and the other three States or P3 intended to submit today's draft resolution and to put it to vote in shameful diplomatic haste. Such a provocative step comes before a fair international investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“My country denounces attempts by the United States Administration, Britain and France to sabotage the efforts of the Special Envoy and to block the Geneva and Astana talks. We have engaged seriously, patiently and responsibly in these talks because our people hold us historically responsible for defending the country and staunching the bloodshed. The American aggression will not prevent the Syrian Government and its allies from pursuing counter-terrorism, actively engaging in the next rounds of Geneva and Astana talk, or discuss ing the agreed agenda and engaging seriously on all issues related to governance, the constitution, elections and counter-terrorism simultaneously.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“During the latest round of talks in Geneva, my country's Government submitted a number of papers to Special Envoy De Mistura, starting with a paper on general principles for a political solution in Syria with a view to finding a logical and normal common ground to start discussing all issues that are an essential part of the debate pertaining to the four baskets. We have also submitted other papers, including one on counter- terrorism. Over the nine days of talks, we discussed all agreed agenda items. Unfortunately, there was no serious partner actually committed to pursuing counter-terrorism and to finding a political solution, let alone the existence of a multitude of oppositions, and not a Syrian opposition.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“In the face of this falsification and manipulation to justify the military aggression, my country's Government has sent to you, Madam President, and to other members of the Council a letter referring to the call of the Syrian Government on the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague to send a technical mission to Khan Shaykhun and to Shayrat air base to uncover the truth about what happened. This means that we, the Syrian Government, want to know who used the chemical gas in my country. We should all say no to a war is being promoted by warmongers and the enemies of law as a normal option - business as usual as they sit comfortably in safety, enjoying their privileges, revenue and arrogance.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“I put this question to every person who still resorts to logic, reason and law law in this Council to explain this blind madness and brutal desire to burn my country and the region to the ground, as well as to move the international community into a new phase of war and conflict, in which there will be no victors but terrorism, the doctrine of extremism, hatred, and the logic of military might and the law of the jungle.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“That means controlling the borders with neighbouring States, particularly Turkey and Jordan, preventing the flow of terrorists, ending the hostilities, separating armed groups from Jabhat Al-Nusra and ISIL, and unifying counter-terrorism efforts. Those are the results of Astana; if they were implemented, the Syrian crisis could have ended within 24 hours. As the Geneva talks started to shape a political vision and a road map for a settlement in Syria, as my country is witnessing a diplomatic openness and visits by parliamentary missions, including Western delegations, which have been briefing the global public opinion about what is really happening in Syria and calling for support to the Syrian Government in its war against terrorism.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“Otherwise, how could a sane and reasonable person accept the lies, disinformation and accusations against Syria of using chemical weapons that Syria does not even possess? We do not have chemical weapons, as confirmed by the report of the Joint Investigative Mechanism of June 2014 to the Council, when Ms. Sigrid Kaag said on that date that Syria no longer had any chemical weapons. Even worse, those who destroyed the chemical weapons at the time were ships of the United States in the Mediterranean. This comes at a time when the Syrian army and its allies are achieving crushing victories against terrorism; national reconciliation is being concluded across Syrian towns and regions; and significant steps have been taken in the Astana talks, emphasizing, as Mr. De Mistura said, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“Today, the new United States administration, of which we were optimistic, claims that counter-terrorism is one of its priorities, and its allies could not find a pretext except to regress to the same red-line deception and fabricate the incident of chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun in order to launch an attack against Syria and sabotage the Astana and the Geneva talks, save the armed terrorist groups from their predicament and help other opposition groups shirk their obligations related to the political settlement and counter-terrorism. Why was that? It was because we had added another element to the talks in Geneva, the basket of counter- terrorism, something that the enemies of the political track in Syria did not like.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“At the time, President Obama only had to draw a red line, saying that any use of chemical weapons in Syria would not be tolerated. That red line was used to justify military aggression against Syria. However, he fortunately backtracked at the last minute when his European allies decided to jump ship, given mounting pressure from international public opinion that led them to reject any interference in Syria. Documents leaked by Wikileaks prove that the White House had given a green light to a chemical attack in eastern Ghouta, in the suburbs of Damascus, in order to put blame on the Syrian Government. It uses the chemical attack as an incentive for international military aggression against Syria.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“Roland Dumas, in June 2013. In that statement, he said that during a visit to London he was told of a conspiracy against Syria, whose goal was to destroy Syria and isolate its Government, given its anti-Israeli position. That was two years before the start of the crisis in Syria. Mr. Roland Dumas was made privy to a plot to destroy Syria two years before the crisis even started. I would also like to refer the Council to a report in Daily Mail from January, 2013. The report, which was withdrawn and deleted from online shortly after it was published, detailed emails between high-ranking officials in a British corporation , Britam Defence. The emails talked of a plot agreed upon by Washington, D.C., whereby Qatar, in cooperation with Turkey, would finance insurgents in Syria to use chemical weapons.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“The letters detail the possession by armed groups of chemical elements to be used against civilians and plans to put the blame on the Syrian Government with a view to demonizing the Government in the eyes of Council members and of world public opinion, thereby justifying interference in the internal affairs of Syria. Some of the letters have even detailed the smuggling of sarin gas from Libya through Turkey on a civilian airplane by using a criminal Syrian citizen of the name of Haithem Al-Qasar. Two liters of sarin gas were transported from Libya through Turkey to terrorist groups in Syria. We have given the Council the names, dates, incidents and events, as well as the itinerary of the aforementioned trip from Libya to Syria. I would like to refer the Council to a statement made by the former French Foreign Minister, Mr.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“The dangerous attack had been thought through for many months in the back rooms of intelligence agencies in Tel Aviv, Riyadh, Doha, Ankara, Amman, Washington, D.C., London and Paris. Those same capitals have, over the past years, sought to provide their terrorist agents inside Syria, notably Al-Nusra Front, with toxic chemicals for them to use, placing the blame on the Syrian Government. That was the case in Khan al-Assal on 19 March 2013, in eastern Ghouta on 21 August 2013, in Talmenes on 21 April 2014, and in Sarmin and Qamenas on 16 March, 2015. I will not go into detail on the more than 90 letters addressed to the Council since the beginning of the crisis.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“At the time, the United States Administration and its allies felt that the terrorist groups that had been armed, trained and financed by these countries had begun to lose ground because of the heavy blows dealt to them by the Syrian Army and its allies. They launched their premeditated and flagrant attack against Shayrat air base with the pretext of the use of chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun, a village primarily under the control of Al-Nusra Front. It did not stop there. That attack was preceded by political expediency when the United States decided to exploit the international mechanisms of the Security Council to submit provocative draft resolutions that would put the blame on the Syrian Government for the abhorrent use of chemical weapons and distance any suspicion from the real enemy - terrorists and their supporters.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“Since terrorist groups, including Al-Nusra Front, started their operations in the area of separation, Israel has provided all forms of support to those groups, including medical relief and care to injured terrorists at the expense of the Qatari regime, as members know. Israel has provided air cover by launching airstrikes against positions held by the Syrian Army every time the Syrian Army has been able to gain ground against these terrorist groups. Even worse, Israel has provided direct support to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant through airstrikes launched on 17 March against Syrian Army positions in Palmyra in order to support the operations of the Islamic State in that city. Similar theatrics took place on the morning of Friday, 7 April.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“Those crimes include the practices of the so-called international coalition. Recent incidents have proven that the coalition has only destroyed infrastructure, bombarded civilians and provided air cover to the Al-Nusra Front, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and other affiliated terrorist groups, as when it bombarded the Syrian Army position on Tharda Mountain, in Deir ez-Zor, on 17 September 2016. The direct military support and air cover to armed terrorist groups was not only provided by the so-called international coalition. Israel was the first to win the honour of supporting terrorism.”
2017-04-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7921 (2017) · source
“Despite this optimism, the United States Administration insisted on repeating the same bloody, theatrical play that it staged 14 years ago in thd Council against Iraq. It was a play entitled The Lie ofthe Iraqi Weapons ofMass Destruction. Once again, the United States Administration is taking the war on terrorism imposed on my country, Syria, to unprecedented and dangerous levels by switching from a proxy aggression through armed terrorist groups, who have been under its control for years, to a new, direct aggression through direct military action against Syria. The United States has been leading terrorism in Syria along with its allies and agents in the region. It has provided all forms of support to terrorist groups to commit the most heinous crimes against civilians and Syrian infrastructure.”
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