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Jaafari

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“Regrettably, well-known States and parties have hampered all such initiatives by instructing the armed terrorist groups to reject any initiative, target civilians inside their schools and homes in western Aleppo, entrench themselves in civilian neighbourhoods in eastern Aleppo, use civilians as human shields and kill any civilian trying to reach the safe exit points, as was the case on 17 November when 17 civilians were executed for protesting the practices of terrorist groups in eastern Aleppo. That fact demonstrates that these armed terrorist groups are a tool for a heinous blackmail by certain States to achieve a tawdry political agenda at the expense of the suffering of the Syrian people and their blood.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“The truce declared by the Syrian Government and its allies provides for safe passage to be given to any armed persons seeking to leave the area, normalize their situation or take their personal weapons to another place of their choice; for the evacuation and medical care for the wounded, in order to restore normal life to the eastern part of Aleppo - and I am talking about the eastern side of Aleppo, not the east side of Manhattan, California, Glasgow or Marseille; the eastern part of Aleppo, a Syrian city - and for the resumption of the State institutions' tasks to to provide services and meet the needs of citizens who wish to remain in eastern Aleppo.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“Those attacks by terrorist armed groups coincided with another truce, the third of its kind since 9 September, which was declared by the Syrian Government and its allies in the city of Aleppo in order to save the lives of innocent citizens and end their suffering. I repeat that this is the third truce since 9 September, which goes completely counter to what the American Ambassador said to the effect that an eye witness told her that the Russian and Syrian air forces bombed eastern Aleppo 180 times on Saturday. Imagine such ridiculous talk coming from the representative of a super-Power and a permanent member of the Security Council .”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“In addition to striking those two schools, the terrorists from Jabhat Al-Nusra, the Nur al-Din al-Zenki Movement, which is supported by Turkish intelligence services, and other terrorist groups classified as moderate armed groups by Washington, Paris and London, who pay their mercenaries and provide them with funding and weapons, part of which came from Ukraine, Bulgaria and Croatia, also opened fire on the law school and the Mogambo and Al-Midan neighbourhoods, killing two individuals and wounding 33 others. Furthermore, missiles launched by terrorist groups against Al-Ma'damia and Saif Al-Doula neighbourhoods in western Aleppo killed two people and wounded seven citizens.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“Five years ago, I spoke to the Council (see S/PV.6627) and stated that armed terrorist groups had killed the son of the Mufti in Syria, the Public Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic, whose name is Saria Hassoun. That school was named after the martyr Saria Hassoun, son of Syria's Mufti, who was killed by terrorists five years ago. Today, they are attacking the school named after him.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“Yesterday, 20 November, groups that certain parties and States like to call non-State armed opposition groups perpetrated a new, horrific and premeditated massacre when their terrorists stationed in the Bustan Al-Qasr neighbourhood of eastern Aleppo launched a number of missiles against the Al-Furqan and Saria Hassoun schools in the Al-Furqan community of western Aleppo, killing 10 children between the ages of 7 and 12 and wounding 59 others, including a female teacher whose leg had to be amputated. These are pictures of the school that was bombed in Aleppo by the so-called moderate armed groups - the genetically modified armed groups. Obviously, some people do not care about such photographs and will not speak about them. Incidentally, as I mentioned, one of the schools that was attacked is named Saria Hassoun.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“Let me repeat again that no one in the world is more eager than us, the Government and the people of Syria, to preserve the lives of Syrian citizens, whether in Aleppo, Dara'a, Damascus, Raqqa or any other place where civilians suffer because of the practices of armed terrorist groups that use them as humans shields, besiege them in their towns and villages, prevent them from leaving those areas and obstruct their access to humanitarian assistance or sell them such assistance at prices they cannot afford. Let me repeat yet again that, in the light of this bitter fact, any Government, including the Syrian Government, has the moral and legal obligation to save their citizens from becoming hostages to terrorists.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“In that regard, I repeat once again that we reject the fact that the crisis in my country, Syria, is being addressed without serious consideration for its root causes. Those causes are the emergence and spread of armed terrorist groups, the recruitment of tens of thousands of foreign terrorist fighters supported by well-known States, and their deployment in neighbourhoods, villages, towns and cities where they use civilians as human shields. Let me repeat again that certain States that today use the suffering of the Syrian people as a cheap tool to implement their political agenda, by claiming to be concerned for their security and well-being, are the main reason for this suffering, either through their direct support to armed terrorist groups or their imposition of unilateral coercive measures, which affect Syrian citizens directly.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“The statements made by the representatives of some States and the briefing given by the Under-Secretary- General for humanitarian affairs met our expectations for the thirty-third time with their same negative, erroneous approach of distorting facts and making light of the suffering of the Syrian people. It reveals the politicization of the humanitarian situation in order to demonize the Syrian Government with a view to creating a terrorist entity - a terrorist statelet - in my country, Syria. That is the plan - to create a terrorist statelet in Syria. It is a fact - a terrorist entity that obtains support from the Western sponsors of terrorism. It is further proof that those States and actors have no will or desire to end the suffering of our people and continue to deny the root causes of the crisis in Syria.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“There are 300,000 people in Deir Ez-Zor receiving food and medical assistance, air-dropped by helicopters, simply because the United States air force struck the Syrian Arab army sites in Deir ez-Zor. Does the representative of the United States recall the theatrics at the meeting that immediately followed that attack, and the claims that a mistake had been made? Two days later, every civilian bridge on the Euphrates was also struck. Is this fighting Da'esh? Is it the goal of the United States air force to target Syrian infrastructure? There were 200 victims when Manbij was struck by the French air force, and the same number after it was struck by the United Kingdom air force. What is all this absurdity.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“Why do we all, without exception, support the fight being waged by the Iraqi Government and the popular mobilization forces against Da'esh terrorism in Mosul? We do so because it is a valid right. The Iraqi Government is fighting terrorism. We are combating the very same terrorism in Syria. Terrorism in Aleppo is the same kind of terrorism carried out in Mosul, so why then are we being condemned while the very same people who criticize us support those who are fighting the same terrorism in Mosul? Da'esh is there and the same Da'esh is here, in my country. Why does that double standard exist? Let us not forget that United States air raid against the Syrian Arab Army sites in Deir ez-Zor, allowing that city to be besieged by ISIL.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“They have brought terrorists to us from all over the world - Australians, Canadians, French, Belgians, Spaniards, Chinese, Russians. The entire garbage pail ofthe world's terrorism has been heaped on us. Yet some are still wondering what is occurring in Syria? who is killing whom? Why does humanitarian assistance not reach eastern Aleppo? Who is hampering humanitarian assistance to eastern Aleppo? As if such questions need a key to be answered after five years of criminal acts being perpetrated against my country. The kind of terrorism we suffer is the same that prevails everywhere - in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, the Niger, Chad and Nigeria. It is the same terrorism; its roots are the same.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“Yet some in the Council still do not know which Godand which religion, and who is the takfiri who brought us Saudi and Qatari Wahhabi's Fatwas to shed blood in my country, as if it is a piece of information not known to some, and as ifwhat the takfiris are doing is occurring in Somalia and not in Syria. To my dear friend the Ambassador of Uruguay, I say * the terrorists are the takfiris. The takfiri terrorists are influenced by the Saudi Wahhabi way of thinking. In other words, a takfiri is anyone who considers you infidel and deserve being killed because you do not share his extremist views. That is the meaning oftakfiri. The actions of Da'esh and Al-Nusra are based on the same Wahabi doctrine that prevails in Saudi Arabia. They have exported that terrorism to us.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“Not once was the word terrorism used, as if there were no terrorism whatsoever in my country, Syria, and it is all a mere Tom and Jerry cartoon in the minds of some. I respect the comments made by my colleague, the Ambassador of Uruguay. He quite rightly wondered about which god and what values compel a terrorist to kill civilians. It is a valid question. However, the reply can be found in the hundreds of letters that we have sent to the Council over a five-year period, stating who is doing what on Syrian territories. There are hundreds of letters in which we have explained the presence of terrorists on the ground. Many resolutions have been adopted, in particular resolution 2178 (2014) on foreign armed mercenaries.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“At any rate, if some Governments are concerned about the terrorists in eastern Aleppo, why do they not issue them with passports or visas and take them in? If the representative of the United States believes that the arrival of 8,000 armed terrorists from eastern Aleppo in the United States will help the Syrian people, then take them, especially given the fact that most of them are not Syrian. In a special report from the Counter- Terrorism Committee, the Council stated that there are approximately 80,000 foreign terrorists in Syria, who came to my country from around 100 States Members of the United Nations. That was stated by the Council. That seems to have fallen on deaf ears, in the case ofthe Ambassadors of the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Not once did Mr. O'Brien refer to terrorism in his briefing.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“Then she mendaciously Al-Nusra Front falsely claimed that leaflets were dropped by the Syrian air force, urging civilians in eastern Aleppo to leave or they would be killed. That is what was stated by the representative of the United States. Such talk simply amounts to lies upon lies and, frankly, they are shameful. The Syrian air force did drop leaflets in eastern Aleppo, calling on civilians to distance themselves from armed terrorist groups in the eatern part of the city and to leave eastern Aleppo. The Syrian Government opened six humanitarian corridors for civilians and two for the fighters who wish to leave eastern Aleppo. However, the terrorists, of course, did not leave and did not allow the civilians to leave because they use them as human shields.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“Those are today's developments, which have resulted from the actions of United States war planes. Naturally, I will not respond to the statements made by certain colleagues. I would like, however, to respond to the statement delivered by the representative of the United States to the effect that she was allegedly told by an eye witness among the terrorists sponsored by the United States in eastern Aleppo that Syrian and Russian war planes conducted 180 air raids on Saturday alone. Being a seasoned and expert diplomat, she naively believed the eye witness, who is putatively a terrorist from J abhat Al-Nusra, which her own Government has qualified as a terrorist group in the Council. What kind of hypocrisy is that? What sort of lies are we hearing in these unnecessary meetings on the humanitarian situation in my country?”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“They are on-the-ground witnesses who can effectively inform the Security Council with far more accurate information than the United Nations bureaucrats in New York can muster. Allow me first to share a piece of information with my colleagues with regard to a fresh massacre committed by war planes of the so-called international coalition led by the United States against Syrian civilians. More than 10 civilians lost their lives in a raid conducted by those United States aeroplanes against the village of Al-Salhiya in rural northern Al-Raqqa. Other war planes of the same coalition targeted a cotton mill in the same village, resulting in the martyrdom of three workers and an entire family, composed of six civilians, that had been displaced from another area.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in French): I join my colleague, the representative of the Russian Federation, in what he has just stated in such a dignified matter with regard to behaviour by certain Council members towards me. Having said that, since the three musketeers, the advocates of a system aimed at sowing moral confusion, have left the Chamber and are thereby no longer in a position to undermine and poison our important discussion on my country, Syria, I can now deliver my statement in peace. (spoke in Arabic) At the outset, I welcome Ms. Hoff, who joins us from Damascus, the world's oldest capital. I bid welcome to the United Nations personnel in my country.”
2016-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7817 (2016) · source
“The same applies to Britain and elsewhere. I say to those before me: enough hypocrisy. My country's people are the ones paying the price. This theatrical farce must end. All members of the Council must fulfil their responsibility to maintain international peace and security, rather than settle scores between one another to the detriment of our people in Syria.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“Why reject the Russian- Syrian proposal to open the same corridors to allow the same terrorists to leave eastern Aleppo? It is as if the States supporting these terrorist groups were saying that the terrorists in Syria are angels, while the same terrorists in other places are devils. I would have liked to ask the United States representative why her Government did not open a humanitarian corridor for the terrorist who attacked the night club in Florida. Why was he not supplied with food and medicine so that he could continue his terrorist activities, for humanitarian purposes known to Mr. O'Brien? Why were the terrorists who attacked the Bataclan theatre in Paris not supplied by the French Government with food and humanitarian aid and offered a humanitarian corridor to leave Paris for humanitarian reasons as well, known to Mr. O'Biren?”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“To conclude, the battle for the liberation of Mosul and all territories in Iraq is the battle of the Syrian Government and its army, too. It is an absolute right of the Iraqi Government to liberate Mosul from terrorism, just as it is the right ofthe Syrian Government to liberate Aleppo from that same terrorism. Iraq and Syria are fighting the same terrorism in Mosul and in Aleppo. The resemblance between the two ongoing military operations in Aleppo and those in Mosul is significant. Why is there support for the military operation in Iraq, while the military operation in Aleppo faces obstruction? Why are humanitarian corridors being opened in order to push Da'esh terrorists out of Mosul towards the Syrian town of Raqqa? And why are those groups leaving Mosul for Raqqa being bombed by the so-called coalition bombers?”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“My Government affirms that the political track must go hand in hand with the counter-terrorism track, which will continue unabated until all terrorist armed groups active in Syria have been eliminated. In that context, my Government reiterates the importance of the mission of the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General. How can some of the delegations in this Chamber, representing countries that sponsor terrorism, claim to be fighting terrorism while parroting misleading lies about ongoing military operations carried out by the Syrian Army in Syria and the Russian ally? How can they fight terrorism if they depend on terrorists as sources of information? Is there a relationship between those Governments and the terrorists?”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“All of Syria, including Aleppo and the eastern, western, northern and southern areas, suffer from Wahabi terrorism, supported by the regimes of well-known Governments - Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and Israel foremost among them. It also suffers from the attacks of the allies of these States as part of the so-called international coalition, and from the American unilateral and arbitrary sanctions. My country's Government reiterates its firm position that the only solution to the crisis is political solution based on an inter-Syrian dialogue, under Syrian leadership, without foreign intervention and without preconditions, be they American, British, French or other.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“They are the ones who cut off the water supply and who loot food and medicine supplies intended for civilians in Aleppo. They are also responsible, along with the air strikes by the so-called international coalition, for the destruction of the power station in the Suleiman Al-Halabi neighbourhood and elsewhere, as well as other electricity and desalination plants. Therefore, it is the terrorists and the international coalition who are cutting off water and electricity supplies to the residents of Aleppo. My Government rejects the selective approach of these States concerning the situation in eastern Aleppo and other specific areas in Syria.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“However, the terrorist groups that were using the population as human shields undermined that operation. Eight corridors were opened, six for humanitarian exit and two for the armed groups' exit, contrary to what has been said by the American and British representatives. Sixthly, the representatives who left the Chamber, shirking their responsibilities to maintain international peace and security, avoided identifying the persons responsible for the suffering of the population of Aleppo due to the lack of water, medicine, food and electricity, in particular given the fact that the terrorists cut off the water and power supplies to the city. The water plant is controlled by the terrorists in Aleppo. Everyone should pay attention to this detail.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“Fifthly, the representatives who have left the Chamber, shirking their responsibilities to maintain international peace and security, have ignored the agreement reached in the context of the coordinated Syrian-Russian effort for the cessation of hostilities in eastern Aleppo, unilaterally for humanitarian reasons, including the evacuation of the wounded, sick and elderly from eastern Aleppo and the facilitation of access to a team from the United Nations entities working in Damascus, led by the United Nations Resident Coordinator and the International Red Cross and the Arab Syrian Red Crescent, in order to follow up the evacuation operation and set up six humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to exit, and two checkpoints for armed militants, who were invited to normalize their situation so as to be granted amnesty or to leave the city.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“These States disregarded the fact that armed terrorist groups are responsible for undermining and violating the agreement by rejecting it in the first place. Immediately after the signing of the agreement, 27 terrorist factions declared that they would not honour it - this did not reach the ears of Mr. O'Brien - and were targeting the humanitarian convoy in Oram Al-Kubra. These States also ignore the fact that the main reason for the collapse of the agreement was the failure of the United States to commit to separating the so-called moderate opposition from the terrorist organizations and its targeting ofa military site of the Syrian army in Deir ez-Zor on 17 September. The incident of 17 September allowed the Da'esh terrorists to consolidate their control over 300,000 civilians in Deir ez-Zor.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“It is deplorable that these States continue to call these terrorists the "moderate arned opposition", in a stark provocation to the provisions of the international law. Fourthly, the representatives who have left the Chamber, shirking their responsibilities to maintain international peace and security, ignored the reason why the United States-Russia agreement on Aleppo of 9 September did not stand. The Syrian Arab Republic Government committed to the cessation of hostilities, which was exploited by terrorist armed groups to regroup and summon fighters and military equipment from the States that generously shed crocodile tears over the suffering of our people in Aleppo in order to confront the Syrian Government.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“This is an image of one of the rockets that have been dropped on a Church in western Aleppo; we have thousands of images for anyone who wants to see more. Thirdly, the representatives who exited the Chamber, shirking their responsibilities to maintain international peace and security, have also ignored the fact that terrorists in eastern Aleppo are using civilians as human shields, as do Da'esh terrorists against the innocent residents of Mosul in Iraq. The terrorists in Mosul are the same as those in eastern Aleppo. They continue to shower the neighbourhoods of western Aleppo with dozens ofbombs on a daily basis, claiming thousands of martyrs and wounded, and are met with a dubious international silence, especially from the States whose representatives have left the Chamber.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“What happened in this martyr city is to be blamed on the acts committed by terrorist armed groups and foreign terrorist combatants brought from all over the world - from New Zealand to Canada - into Syria through Turkish territories, facilitated by the Erdogan regime and with funding from the Saudi and Qatari regimes. As for the Governments of the United States, France, Britain and other States, they ensured them a supply of lethal weapons of all kinds. I bring with me images of the new weapons, including American-made rockets that have been sent to the moderate opposition in eastern Aleppo. These moderate terrorists, who have been genetically modified, are preparing to attack western Aleppo.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“The same goes for Qatar, which uses its oil funds to supply terrorists with all sorts of lethal weapons, and Israel, which is forming an alliance with Jabhat al-Nusra in the occupied Syrian Golan area. None of this has bothered Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Ladsous, Mr. Feltman or the Secretary-General. None of these violations of international law have angered anyone at all. It is just business as usual. Secondly, the representatives who have just exited the Chamber, shirking their responsibilities, have ignored the main reason for the painful deterioration of the situation in Syria in general, and in Aleppo in particular, and how Aleppo has been turned from the economic capital of Syria, whose residents enjoyed a decent standard of living with all services, into a city whose residents suffer in terms of security, health, education and livelihood.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“First, the representatives of these States ignored the geopolitical landscape of the region, which reflects the violation of the most basic norms of international law by certain States, such as Turkey, which dreams of restoring its Ottoman glory - which faded and will not return -and repeatedly violates the sovereignty of Syria and Iraq. Another example is Saudi Arabia, which supports terrorism in the region and throughout the world in the name of a religion that is innocent of such claims, including by issuing Wahabi jihadi fatwas legitimizing the bloodshed of Libyans, Yemenis and others. Similarly, the United States, Britain and France have invaded and destroyed Libya, and before that the United States and Britain invaded and destroyed Iraq and killed millions of its people.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“We will not allow for a repetition of the sad old scenario in which we used to talk about eastern Beirut and western Beirut. There is one Aleppo and there is one Syria. No one who plots against our country and our territories will achieve anything with us. The blockade is imposed on all of Syria, notjust on eastern Aleppo or on Aleppo per se. An unjust blockade is imposed on the entirety of my nation. We have reiterated this thousands of times and shall say it again and again, whether anyone understands or not, and whether anyone refuses to understand or not. Some States that feigned tears today over Aleppo in a theatrical fashion, as they have done before over the towns of Darayya and the neighbourhood of Al-Waer and other areas, have deliberately ignored the following facts.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“I was compelled to request the floor after I listened to the misguided statements made by a number of Security Council members and the representative of the Secretariat, seeking as usual to distort the strenuous efforts of the Syrian Government to provide necessary services and support to those in need, and to vilify the efforts of my country's Government against organized terrorism being supported by the same States that deny my Government's constitutional and legal rights under international law to defend its people against terrorism represented by the organizations of Da'esh and Jabhat al-Nusra and associated terrorist, who are relics of ignorant times and Wahabi in nature. As a Government, we will not allow any discussion about something called western Aleppo and eastern Aleppo.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I shall delay beginning my statement so that certain hypocrites can exit the Chamber. The exit of the representatives of certain States who have shed crocodile tears over the humanitarian situation in Aleppo reveals their hypocrisy and mendacity. They have put on this theatrical show on several occasions, but their behaviour confirms our suspicions of their complete lack of objectivity in their national policies towards my country.”
2016-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7795 (2016) · source
“We are still waiting for the Security Council to take immediate measures against Israel to force it to put an end to its aggression and its violations and to force it to withdraw from the entire Syrian Golan to the line of4 June 1967, in accordance with resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 497 (1981).”
2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source
“The Israeli occupation forces have sought recently to spread their influence in the Yarmouk and Raqqa valleys near the Dera'a region, adjacent to the occupied Syrian Golan and the Syrian-Jordanian borders, in collusion with the Al-Nusra Front and all related groups. They are attempting to force the inhabitants to leave the area by depriving them of their basic daily needs and confiscating their homes if they are away for more than two days, and preventing them from returning to these homes. The Syrian Arab army does all it can to prevent Israel and those terrorists who collude with it from implementing their aggressive design. In scores of letters we have reported documented information on those Israeli aggressions and violations.”
2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source
“We note that Israeli support to terrorists not only is a flagrant violation of the disengagement agreement, the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and international law, but also exposes the lives of United Nations workers to great danger and undermines their mission, as has already happened several times with regard to those terrorist groups that have kidnapped UNDOF peacekeepers or fired at them and targeted their positions. We have reported all those details to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), including the collusion by Qatari intelligence in the kidnapping of UNDOF peacekeepers of the Philippine regiment. We have requested an investigation, but we are still waiting for Godot - that is, for DPKO 4 to come and conduct the investigation.”
2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source
“It has provided armed terrorist groups - including the Al-Nusra Front, which is registered on the Security Council's list of terrorist entities - with all sorts of assistance and support along the ceasefire line in the occupied Syrian Golan. It has continued to communicate with those terrorist groups across the ceasefire line, facilitating their movement from south to north. It has supported them logistically and medically, in public and on Israeli TV screens, by transferring the injured terrorists across the ceasefire line to treat them in Israeli hospitals at the expense of the Qatari regime, then returning them to Syria to pursue their terrorist activities, as documented by all United Nations reports. Nonetheless, they were not noted by Mr. Mladenov.”
2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source
“I note that the chairman of the municipality of the Katzrin settlement in the occupied Syrian Golan recently announced the construction of 4,000 new housing units, indicating that the expansion falls on the fortieth anniversary of the beginning of the Israeli settlement in Katzrin, which was built on the remains of the razed Syrian villages of Qisrin, Al-Shoukif and Aldoura. Since the beginning ofthe events in Syria, Israel, the occupyingPower, has openedanewchapterofaggression and of violation of the Disengagement Agreement and of Security Council resolutions, particularly those relating to fighting terrorism.”
2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source
“The Israeli occupation Government has recently granted priority to settlements in the Golan in its budgetary disbursements. In its latest provocative meeting, held in April in the Golan 4 a meeting that did not attract the attention of anyone in the Secretariat or in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and was not noticed by Mr. Mladenov either - Israel provided new settlers with great incentives, such as tax exemptions and assistance in establishing agricultural projects, and endorsed the construction of thousands of housing units in the occupied Syrian Golan, just as it does in occupied Jerusalem and occupied Palestinian territories, in flagrant violation of United Nations resolutions.”
2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source
“I say the "privilege" of veto, not the "right" to veto, because I consider it a privilege, as stipulated in the Charter of the United Nations. Syrian inhabitants under Israeli occupation in the occupied Syrian Golan for more than half a century endure the worst policies of oppression, discrimination, racial discrimination, detention, torture and kangaroo courts; as well as the deprivation of their natural resources, their right to education based on a Syrian national curriculum, and their right to carry the identity cards of their own country, Syria, and to build their own national hospitals in their own territories and villages in the occupied Golan. The Israeli occupation force has also continued its settler expansionist policies with the aim of Judaizing the occupied Syrian Golan, in total disregard of international resolutions.”
2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source
“It has been around half a century of settlement campaigns, the expulsion of Palestinian inhabitants from their homes, the destruction of those homes, the confiscation oflands and properties - more than halfa century of total Israeli disregard of the United Nations resolutions on ending the Israeli occupation. Today the Council has heard the statement of the representative of Israel indicating that all of the United Nations resolutions will not help the Palestinians in the least. For more than half a century, certain influential members of the Council have blindly supported the continued Israeli policy of occupying Arab territories by using the privilege of veto more than 44 times since the inception of the United Nations against draft resolutions on the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source
“That is all in spite of the fact that those issues lie at the heart of this item and represent an important parcel of Mr. Mladenov's mandate as Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. Our meeting today coincides with the passage of almost 50 years of the Israeli occupation of Arab territories and the adoption of resolution 242 (1967), and of 70 years since the adoption of resolution 181 (II). In spite of the adoption by the United Nations of hundreds of resolutions over those long decades demanding that Israel end its occupation of Arab territories and end its crimes, successive Israeli Governments have rejected their implementation and have systematically committed documented crimes against international humanitarian law and human rights law that are tantamount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): We would like to express our strong denunciation of Mr. Nikolay Mladenov's insistence on ignoring the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan and refusing to explain the United Nations position on the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan in accordance with relevant United Nations resolutions, including resolution 497 (1981). That is not to mention his disregard 4 for perhaps the tenth time 4 of illegal Israeli practices that continue in the occupied Golan and the ongoing Israeli violations of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement by virtue of its cooperation as an occupying Power with the armed terrorist groups that have occupied positions of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force on the separation line.”
2016-10-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7792 (2016) · source
“We will continue to fight terrorism, and that continues on a parallel track with the commitment to reach a political solution through intra-Syrian dialogue wherein Syrians and no one else decides on the future of Syria, with no foreign intervention. In addition, I wish to call upon those who have shed crocodile tears for the Syrian people and to advise them to shed genuine tears for the 250 Yemenis killed today by Western air forces - with Western aeroplanes used by the Saudis.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“Terrorist groups, supported by the United States and its allies, continue to violate the agreement and are regrouping to launch new attacks, all ofwhich has led to the end the cessation of hostilities agreement and to the continuing deterioration of the situation in Aleppo after the terrorists killed 157 Syrian soldiers and 300 civilians in eastern Aleppo. In conclusion, the blood being spilled in our country is our blood. We are the victims of a terrorist war and its pain, anguish and torment. It is ours and no one else's. It is the height of hypocrisy and falsification of evidence that those sponsors of terrorism actually shed crocodile tears on this humanitarian crisis.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“We have initiated an investigation into the attack against the United Nations-SARC convoy in Oram Al-Kubra and will provide the Council with the results of the investigation when it is concluded. The fact that we are sitting in the Chamber today at this meeting to consider the situation in eastern Aleppo as some shed crocodile tears is a direct result of the United States shirking its agreement reached with the Russian Federation on 9 September. That agreement was supposed to differentiate between the moderate armed groups and the Al-Nusra Front. The Syrian Arab Government has been committed to the cessation of hostilities agreement and has taken action to implement its provisions and to deliver assistance in Aleppo. However, the fact is that the United States has not been honouring its obligations.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“We have approved the October response plan and wish to note that the failure to fully implement it is because of the practices of armed terrorist groups and their allies that continue to obstruct humanitarian access. Those groups continue to target convoys and humanitarian workers and to loot the assistance provisions. The most recent attack targeted the humanitarian assistance convoy headed to Oram Al-Kubra, in rural Aleppo, on 19 September, which led to the deaths of a number of Syrian citizens and volunteers of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC). They looted supplies and burned the trucks. The "moderate" armed groups have denied access to SARC staff to deliver assistance to a number of areas. Those are facts of which United Nations agency workers in Syria are well aware.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source