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Jaafari

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“Why have they failed to open such humanitarian corridors in Europe and the United States for terrorists to escape? The United States representative said, "we must learn from the lessons of the past". I would like to tell him: I hope that the United States can do that. I hope that the United States could learn from their mistakes in Viet Nam, Cambodia, Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Africa. I hope that he would recall and apologize for what they did to innocent Iraqis - the 408 civilians they killed on 13 February 1991 in the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. My Government reaffirms that it will continue to cooperate with the United Nations and its specialized agencies to implement the monthly humanitarian response plan.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“Days later they repeat those same mistakes. Honestly, one now needs to decipher the actual strategy of the United States-led coalition based on a code based of repeated mistakes. Those offences appear to be governed by a systematic, intentional policy, as was the case when their aeroplanes targeted the positions of the Syrian Army in Deir ez-Zor. That attack actually exposed dozens of civilians to the ISIL threat. They even had the audacity to request that safe humanitarian corridors be opened for the terrorists to maintain their dignity. Did the United States, Britain and France open safe humanitarian corridors to protect the "moderate" terrorists of Al-Qaida in Afghanistan, or for those who committed the massacres at Charlie Heba'o or the Bataclan Theatre - or in Nice, California, Boston, Chicago, New York or London?”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“However, the facts on the ground have proved that, since the establishment of the so-called coalition, ISIL has expanded and gained more ground, because that coalition has not been seriously combating terrorism - to the contrary. The coalition air forces have been responsible for killing hundreds of Syrian military personnel and civilians, destroying infrastructure and economic installations and providing air drops with weapons and military supplies to terrorist organizations to spread still more chaos and wreak havoc in my country. However, according to the coalition, all that was simply a mistake. Therefore, the coalition air forces have killed civilians, destroyed infrastructure, aided and armed terrorists and then justified those crimes by calling them simply mistakes that need to be forgiven.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“I would also like to point out that the founder of these malicious White Helmets is in fact James Le Mesurier, an intelligence officer from Britain. As the United States-based Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity recently reported, the Pentagon paid $540 million to the British public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which typically renders services to Chile and Saudi Arabia, to develop an aggressive propaganda campaign against the Syrian Government. The firm fabricates YouTube videos, photos, video clips and so on. The United States of America formed an international coalition under the pretext of fighting ISIL and other terrorist organizations, including organizations for which they have, since 2003, provided fertile ground for them to spread.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“In implementing such destructive policies, these countries have relied on a misleading political media campaign to convince global public opinion that they are fighting terrorism and that the terrorists that they fund, support, harbour and transfer into Syria from more than 100 States are either "moderate" opposition or "first responders". Recently, the term "White Helmets" has been used to refer to them, and they have even been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. I have with me pictures that show these "moderate" members of the opposition - the White Helmets - with one of them firing an rocket-propelled grenad at aeroplanes. By the way, he is a physician. We have dozens of similar pictures, if any Council members would like to take a look.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“The most recent incident involves the Suqour Jabal al-Zawiya Brigade, which, supported by the United States, has announced its allegiance to the Fateh al-Sham Army - the new name of the terrorist group Al-Nusra Front. I would like here to mention 1,800 electronic messages that were deleted from the inbox of the former United States Secretary of State. Those messages included details on consignments of weapons that were transferred to armed terrorist groups in Syria from Libya through Turkey, by decision of the American Administration.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“Forty-four of them took weapons provided by the United States and, as soon as they reached Syrian terrority, joined the terrorist Al-Nusra Front. That leaves five, and we have no idea where they are now. The United States, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have provided arms and money to the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade in the southern region of Syria and the occupied Golan Heights. This Brigade has announced its allegiance to ISIL. Those countries have insisted that Harakat Nur al-Din al-Zanki was moderate, despite it being a terrorist organization supported by Turkey and its claiming of responsibility for its crimes in Aleppo. They have in fact now officially joined the Al-Nusra Front. Therefore, all of those "moderate" armed groups are now affiliated with ISIL.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“When they block draft resolutions, they simply call for an end to the Israeli occupation of our lands and justice for the Palestinian people. It is self-evident that the support programmes provided to "moderate armed groups" by the United States, as well as by some regional and Arab countries following the paymasters of the region, continue to reach the hands of ISIL and the Al-Nusra Front. These groups, along with their affiliates, are terrorist groups. The Syrian people have rights, and these countries are claiming that they seek to achieve their interests. They should consider the logic and the mechanisms that govern their approach towards Syria. The United States has estbalished a programme to train fighters that it has pre-determined as moderate: according to officials, the United States has spent $500 million to train 49 fighters.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“In response to remarks by some colleagues who talked about targeting hospitals, the fact is that in eastern Aleppo terrorists have turned the largest and most important eye hospital in the Middle East into a base for their military operations. I would like to remind members that, since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, the Security Council has held 75 official formal meetings, 97 consultations and 8 Arria Formula meetings. It has also adopted 17 resolutions, in addition to releasing a number of presidential and press statements, on the situation in Syria. However, those efforts have not prevented the world terrorist diaspora from destroying my country, Syria. I would like to remind the Council that the United States has used its veto 77 times, Britain 33 times and France 19 times. The representatives of those countries have no shame.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“They have sponsored draft resolutions, presidential statements and press statements in the Council with one purpose, namely, to deceive the public into believing that they are seeking to resolve the crisis in my country. Meanwhile, they have launched media, diplomatic and political campaigns to falsely promote certain ideas, including that the situation taking place in Syria is a confrontation between the so-called moderate armed opposition and Government forces, which they accuse of committing war crimes. They completely disregard the fact that their policies have jeopardized the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Syria due to their continued support for the armed terrorist groups that have used civilians as human shields.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“We had hoped that, instead of submitting a draft resolution to impose a no-fly zone in our own air space, France and its allies would have imposed a moratorium on the support provided by their Governments to terrorism, which they then export to Syria. We had hoped that the Government of France would be able to answer the question that the Syrian people continue to ask, that is, whether the money from the Total oil deal, the Qatari gas deal and the Saudi Arabia arms deals were worth the Syrian blood spilled? For more than six years, the United States, France and Britain have persistently called for one meeting after another.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“It seems that whenever the Syrian Army and its allies gain ground against the terrorist groups - namely, the Al-Nusra Front - well- known members of the Council rush to rescue them from their inevitable defeat by convening meetings or putting forth draft resolutions that completely disregard the suffering of the Syrian people. They seek only to rescue the terrorists, whether in Aleppo or in other cities and regions of Syria. We had hoped that this unprecedented and tireless effort by France to push for the adoption of its resolution - similarly with the draft resolution by Russia - would have been geared towards finding a political solution to the crisis in Syria, led by Syrians without any foreign intervention or preconditions.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“Elements and provisions of the French draft resolution prove yet again that they have malicious intentions towards my country. From the very beginning, successive French Governments have sought to undermine the Syrian State in its totality, not simply targeting a particular Government. The draft resolution clearly calls for an end to the operations conducted by the Syrian Army and its allies to defend the Syrian people and combat terrorism, on behalf of all the members of the Security Council, from the Al-Nusra Front, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and affiliated terrorist groups.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“Such policies were purely European barbaric policies. As for the carnage in Syria today, it has been caused by mercenary foreign terrorists whoe were born in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and Belgium. These are terrorists who are manipulated by the intelligence agencies of Western States, the fatwas on jihad, financing from Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Turkish sponsorship for all these acts of aggression. Before I proceed with my statement, I would like to remind the French Minister of what his predecessor once said: (spoke in French) "The Frenchjihadists are doing a goodjob in Syria". (spoke in Arabic) This is the policy ofFrance, as expressed by the Foreign Minister of France at the time, Laurent Fabius, in 2012.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“It was under the illusion that fuelling the Syrian crisis would create a golden opportunity for it to revive its former colonial power, which will not return. Today, the Foreign Minister of France attempted to be the Syrian people's guardian when he spoke about what was good for them and what he, in his capacity as Foreign Minister, should do to help them - as though he were still dreaming that he represented a colonial Power that could hijack the right to speak on behalf of the Syrian people in the Council. However, French politicians should be ashamed of what they have done to Libya and to the Libyan people. And when turning our attention to the Guernica and Srebrenica massacres, we see that such massacres were the result of European competitive barbaric policies to which we, nor anyone else, bears any relation.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“Clearly, differentiating between extremist terrorists and the moderate armed groups is a difficult process, akin to trying to separate enriched uranium from unenriched uranium, if there were such a thing as unenriched uranium. I have not bothered to reflect on the French draft resolution, as it was crystal clear that it had its own objectives - clear not just to me, but to the Syrian people too. It makes me recall the one-hundredth anniversary of the infamous Sykes-Picot Agreement, a colonial agreement between France and Britain that brought continuous suffering to our people, created divides in our society and looted our wealth and resources. We think that the French draft resolution reflects the nostalgia France feels for its dark colonial past.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“Several Member States voted positively for the French draft resolution (S/20l6/846), but they opposed releasing even a press statement condemning that attack. We are also sorry that the Council failed to adopt the draft resolution (S/20l6/847) submitted with a view to achieving peace and expediting the political process in Syria by differentiating between the so-called armed opposition forces and the terrorist Al-Nusra Front. Blocking the Russian draft resolution serves to reaffirm, for the hundredth time, the lack of political will on the part of those who oposed it. They have no real political will to combat terrorism and no genuine will to reach an inter-Syrian resolution to the crisis.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“President, on presiding over the work of the Council this month - at a time when the whole world, and our region in particular, are experiencing major, serious challenges. Such difficult challenges come as a result of the erroneous policies of some States, including permanent members of the Security Council. They are seeking to implement their own interventionist policies, which contravene the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. However, your experience and wisdom, Sir, serve to provide leadership for the work of the Council at this critical time. Allow me to take this opportunity to condemn the cowardly act of terrorism perpetrated by the Al-Nusra Front against the Russian Embassy in Damascus a few days ago.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Clearly, the truth unnerves the representatives of colonial Powers in the Chamber. We have seem them leave when they hear the truth being spoken. By such actions, they prove that they have malicious colonial intentions against my country and the people of Syria. Similarly, they demonstrate that their diplomacy is a diplomacy of chaos, coercion and the use of force, and it is not based on the principles of dialogue and peaceful conflict resolution. To those colleagues who walked out of the Chamber while we were still in session (see S/PV.7777), I would like to thank them because they gave me the status of permanent member instead of them. I would like to congratulate you, Mr.”
2016-10-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7785 (2016) · source
“However, we would like to negotiate with those who believe in Syria and in the future of Syria and the dialogue among Syrians without their being used in the service of external agendas. I reiterate that the Syrian Government is prepared to return to Geneva and to resume the dialogue, but not with the deaf or the mute or the blind. We want to resume the dialogue with Syrian nationals like us who believe in our country and do not serve an external agenda and spend their days in five-star hotels and get paid by Governments who use them in cheap tricks. The meeting rose at 1.40 pm.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“On the other hand, the Syrian Government has been repeatedly to Geneva and will return there to engage in an intra-Syrian dialogue - not a Syrian terrorist dialogue - without outside interference and without any impositions. Therefore, we need the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria to gather all the opposition groups in one delegation, which would come to negotiate with the delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic. We are not prepared to negotiate with terrorists, or with hundreds of genetically modified armed terrorist groups. We are a Government that is prepared to negotiate with one united delegation of the national opposition that truly desires an intra-Syrian settlement without outside interference. We do not consider all members of the opposition terrorists, as was suggested by the statement of the Special Envoy.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I wish to make a simple clarification and to comment about what the Special Envoy has just said. At the Vienna II conference, held to prepare for Geneva, Jordan was charged with determining who was a terrorist and who was not, and Saudi Arabia was charged with determining who was in the opposition and who was not, so that we could take those two definitions to Geneva with us. Neither Jordan nor Saudi Arabia established such definitions, and the problem was again referred to the Geneva conference. We then found out that terrorists had been invited to the Geneva conference. Afterwards, they were excluded because everyone found out that they were terrorists.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“I would like to conclude by saying that the Syrian Air Force has air-dropped assistance to the residents of Deir ez-Zor, the city that fell victim to the terrorism of ISIL in the wake of the bombing by the United States Air Force of the Syrian army bases that protected it.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“In that regard, I must emphasize that any political solution can be successful only if it provides the necessary support and circumstances that will enable it to be implemented through efforts to combat terrorism and to continue national reconciliation, which has already succeeded in many areas. Finally, everyone must realize that the real war against terrorism has not yet begun. The victory of the Syrian Government and its allies over terrorism is inevitable. That victory will be part of the Security Council's resolutions on combating terrorism and in the maintenance of international peace and security.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“The politicization of the humanitarian crisis, aimed at achieving ends that have nothing to do with humanity or the interests of the Syrian people, will lead only to a prolongation ofthe crisis and ofthe plight of Syrian people, as well as a proliferation of terrorism that threatens international peace and security. Our commitment to fighting terrorism goes hand in hand with our commitment to reaching a political solution through intra-Syrian talks through which the Syrians shall decide the future of their country without any foreign intervention. Solutions imposed from outside are totally rejected by the Syrian people. With regard to solutions imposed from abroad, they are completely and categorically rejected by the Syrian Government.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“That terrorist group, whose name demonstrates that it is an agent of the Turkish regime, exposed the political media campaigns and claims aimed at portraying it as a moderate opposition group when it announced that it was operating under the authority of the terrorist organization the Al-Nusra Front. My country will remain committed to its national constitutional duty to combat terrorism in all its forms. It is now incumbent on certain members of the Council and other members of the international community to end their exploitation of the Syrian people's suffering, which they have created themselves through their military, political and financial support for armed terrorist groups.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“All such groups are only one side of the same coin - terrorism - which has had a boomerang effect, through attacks, terrorist activities and the propagation of extremist ideologies in those members' capitals, owing to their flawed policies and practices, which they continue to advocate against my country to this day. Would any representative in this Chamber dare to justify the support given by some for four years in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weaponry to Nur al-Din al-Zanki, the terrorists who beheaded that Palestinian child, an event that the Security Council has lamented today?”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“That avoidance of responsibility has aborted all the progress achieved over five years towards ending the war of terror imposed on our country, and clearly demonstrates a lack of political will on the part of those who sponsor terrorism to stop the bloodshed - as if the objective were to neutralize the Syrian forces fighting terrorism, especially the Syrian Air Force, instead of finding a solution to the arms. With the terrorist war now entering its sixth year, is it not time for certain members of the Council to stop deceiving themselves and public opinion by insisting on protecting and supporting what they refer to at times as the moderate opposition, at others as the moderate armed opposition and at still others as non-State armed groups?”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“It is truly deplorable that certain members of the Council, in addition to the most senior United Nations officials, including the Secretary-General, continue to call on the Syrian Government and its allies to adhere to the cessation of hostilities - despite all kinds of evidence on the ground proving that since the beginning, those countries have been backing armed terrorist groups, which have never wanted and will never want this endeavour to succeed. That was made abundantly clear by the violations of the agreement by the armed terrorist groups and the so-called international coalition. Worse still, the United States shirked the responsibility for its main obligation, namely, to differentiate between the Al-Nusra Front and those groups that it insists on classifying as moderate armed opposition groups.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“In a premeditated attempt to sabotage and bury the agreement before it began, the military aircraft of the so-called international coalition led by the United States bombarded the positions of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces fighting Da'esh in the area of Mount Thardeh in Deir ez-Zor. The terrorists seized a humanitarian assistance convoy in the Aleppo suburbs and set fire to it. As usual, this was accompanied by a fabricated media and political campaign that accused the Syrian Army and its allies of committing the crime. That was not the first time that these groups have committed such horrific crimes.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“Accordingly, we welcomed the United States-Russia agreement on fighting the two terrorist groups Da'esh and the Al-Nusra Front and their allies - distinguishing between the terrorist Al-Nusra Front and the so-called genetically modified moderate armed opposition groups - and ceasing hostilities for one week. While we were committed to the agreement, those who employ terrorist groups in Syria told them to reject it. More than 20 armed terrorist groups immediately rejected it, including the Ahrar Al-Sham, Nur al-Din al-Zanki and the Al-Nusra Front. That rejection was accompanied by targeting the Syrian Army on the Castello Road and at various other positions. They violated the agreement 300 times before it expired, leading to the martyrdom of 200 civilians and 157 military personnel, as well as to hundreds of seriously injured victims.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“They are the ones who killed more than 200 civilians in the town of Manbij, bombed a school for the deaf in Raqqa and targeted the Syrian army in Deir ez- Zor, in support of Da'esh, and who for the past several years have been providing all kinds of support for the tens of thousands of terrorists who have been brought to Syria from more than 100 countries, according to the Council's own reports. My Government has a keener interest than anyone else in putting an end to the bloodshed in Syria and to the prolonged suffering of the Syrian people.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“They are the Victims of their terrorism, and the aim of the photographs is to blackmail the Council and world opinion. Those toxic chemical materials are located in a garbage dump outside the city of Suraqeb, north of Aleppo. The toxic material is 20 kilometres from Idlib, buried 12 metres underground in a depot containing six barrels of it. On 6 September, the warehouse housing yellow phosphorous material was visited by two female United States experts, who then left for Turkey. This is a proof to the Security Council, like other tens of letters we have conveyed to this organ in connection with terrorist activities in my country. Those who commit war crimes in Syria are well- known.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“And this is while ignoring incontrovertible evidence that armed terrorist groups, including the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have used chemical weapons dozens oftimes against military personnel and civilians and that ISIL has seized a chlorine gas factory situated 40 miles from Aleppo. I have just received information to the effect that terrorists disguised as Syrian military personnel are plotting to use toxic chemicals, including yellow phosphorus, against Syrian civilians. The aim of the operation of these terrorists, dressed in Syrian military fatigues, is to fake photographs and videos that suggest that these crimes were committed by the Syrian military. That is exactly what they are now doing with pictures of the little boy named Omran and other victims.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“In that respect, my Government denounces the fabricated accusations levelled by certain members of the Council and the most senior United Nations officials against the Syrian Army and its allies through alleging that they use internationally prohibited weapons or that they deliberately target civilians. Such false accusations by the most senior Secretariat officials will ensure that this international Organization will meet the same fate as the League of Nations. Such irresponsible behaviour will bring it down. It is indeed bewildering that the Secretary-General and his senior aides should make such false accusations based on fabricated testimony given by terrorists.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“We know that there are 2 million inhabitants of Aleppo, 1.75 million of whom are living under the authority of the State in areas controlled by the State, while 275,000 are hostages living under duress in eastern Aleppo, which is controlled by the Al-Nusra Front and its allies. In that context, my country condemns the use of internationally prohibited weapons. We stress that all military operations conducted by the Syrian Army and its allies on Syrian territory abide by the Charter of the United Nations and international laws, and are consistent with the Council's resolutions on combating terrorism.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“The Syrian Army and its allies began the military operation two days ago, specifically after the end of the so-called seven-day halt to military operations, in the wake of the failure of the so-called truce. They made every effort to protect civilians, advising them to stay away from the armed terrorist groups in neighbourhoods of eastern Aleppo. The Army made every effort to give civilians a safe exit and to provide them with housing and the basic necessities of life, including for those who had been deceived into taking up arms against the State. By contrast, the armed terrorist groups continued to prevent civilians from leaving eastern Aleppo, with the intention of using them as human shields.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“At that time, that rebel group, together with the Al-Nusra Front, was in control of the Handarat Palestinian refugee camp in Aleppo. We believe that the call for this urgent meeting is a message from the countries that called it to the Al-Nusra Front and the other terrorist groups, namely, that their support and political cover will continue unhindered, and that the weapon of terrorism as a means of political pressure on the Syrian Government and its allies is still viable. It is the constitutional responsibility of the Syrian Government to protect our citizens from the acts of armed terrorist groups that have inflicted suffering on our people in Aleppo, a responsibility similar to that of other Council members.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“Even if Spain were to give away the Basque region - or France Corsica or Great Britain Scotland or the United States California or Texas - the Syrian Government would never relinquish one inch of its territory, as laid down in its Constitution and in international law. Once again, the Council is meeting today at the request of a number of members who are attempting to rescue the armed terrorist groups that they falsely classify them as the moderate armed opposition. They do that whenever indications point to the possibility that these groups, under attack from the Syrian Arab Army and their allies, face defeat. They overlooked the crime committed by the Nur al-Din al-Zanki rebel group when they beheaded Abdullah Issa, a Palestinian child, before the eyes of the world.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“Thirteen times, the same three permanent members that called for this urgent meeting have aborted a presidential statement that would have condemned terrorist car bombs and suicide bombers as well as erroneous strikes by their own forces. Thirteen times, those countries aborted the adoption of a mere presidential statement condemning a terrorist act in Syria. They have also foiled the efforts of our friends in the Council to adopt resolutions condemning terrorism. But when a lone French terrorist named Mohammed Merah wreaked havoc in the French city of Toulouse, he was killed by 300 bullets at the hands of elite French forces. And good riddance. But no one in Syria or elsewhere ever called that French terrorist a member of a moderate armed opposition group. Nor do we refer to terrorists that way in the United States or other places.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“I reassure them that the Syrian Government will recapture the entire city of Aleppo. If the countries' of the permanent members of the Security Council each have one capital, we have two capitals, Damascus and Aleppo. If Shakespeare or the pioneers of the Theatre of the Absurd, Jean Genet, Adamov, Kafka, Kierkegaard and Georges Shehadeh, were to come to life again, they would have written better tragedies and better plays than they did in their time. They would never have even heard the kind of lies that were told to King Lear. Some of them are mourning the deaths ofthe very persons whom they killed with their own hands. They weep crocodile tears.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): A colleague of the three States that called to convene this meeting - namely, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom - mentioned that my country, Syria, is broken and moribund. I would like to reassure him that my country has never been broken and will never be broken. His words are tantamount to the dream of Satan to ascend to Paradise. These are mere mixed dreams that cannot be interpreted and they are meaningless. They are not worthy of a permanent member of the Security Council. As for the three permanent members together, they sounded as if they were reinventing the wheel when they said that the Syrian Government was trying to recapture Aleppo. What a great discovery! As if Aleppo were a town in Djibouti or Afghanistan - or in Brazil, for that matter.”
2016-09-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7777 (2016) · source
“Can we allow hundreds of armed groups and tens of thousands of terrorists to continue their terrorist attacks against my Government, my army and Syria's infrastructure, as they have done for over five and a half years? Can they continue without external support? That is a legitimate question, and I believe it should be acknowledged. We should not be misled into believing that the situation in Syria is a civil war.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“No committee, meeting or conference organized to resolve the crisis can succeed while some international parties seek, willingly or unwillingly, to exclude or marginalize the Syrian Government, cast doubt on its cooperation with the United Nations or undermine the success it has achieved in promoting and upholding national reconciliation based on the voluntary disarmament of foreign fighters and accompanied by the normalization of their status, the issuance of pardons and their departure to other areas. That, in turn, will allow normal life to resume to in the areas they vacate and State institutions to restore the services they once provided. I have a final question.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“My country is ready to resume intra-Syrian dialogue without preconditions and according to the decisions and foundations that launched this dialogue in order to reach a political solution decided by Syrians and Syrians alone, without foreign intervention or interference, so that Syrians can decide their future and their options through their own leaders in a manner that would ensure Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Syria will not become another Libya or Iraq - we will never allow it. In that regard, we reaffirm that the success of any political process in Syria will require engagement, cooperation and full coordination with the Syrian Government as the main partner in any related domain.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“I also wish to draw attention to the illegitimate Turkish military operations within Syrian territory, launched under the pretext of combatting Islamic State ofIraq and Syria (ISIS) without prior coordination with the Syrian Government and the Russian operations command, which is a crime of aggression according to the Charter of the United Nations and the Council's provisional rules of procedure. It is a violation of Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity. That is in line with remarks made by Turkish officials indicating that their Government wanted to deliver humanitarian assistance to the city of Aleppo without coordination with the Syrian Government or the United Nations.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“My country, Syria, has warned of the attempts of certain regional parties to torpedo the American- Russian agreement ever since it was announced and before it entered into force. I want to draw attention to the heinous Israeli attacks on Syrian territory in recent weeks, which intensified once the American- Russian agreement to combat the Al-Nusra Front and other terrorist organizations, such as the Al-Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, was announced. The Department of Peacekeeping Operations remains suspiciously silent although we have sent many letters to the Council about the Israeli violations and the treatment of terrorists in Israeli hospitals.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“We note that 200 civilians were killed near that very city in a joint air raid carried out by the international coalition. The latest wave of false accusations levelled at my Government included the allegation that we targeted a humanitarian convoy outside of Aleppo. Such accusations are part of a filthy propaganda war that was launched by well-known parties to exploit the suffering of the Syrian people for the sole purposes of scoring cheap points in the press, employing political blackmail and upholding their agendas with no regard for the heavy toll paid by the Syrian people whenever those same parties reject any solution that is not in line with their agendas. thereby prolonging the crisis.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“It appears that the American side does not learn from its mistakes. Since the establishment of the so-called international coalition, American forces made several mistakes. It mistakenly bombed an elementary school for the visually impaired in the city of Raqqah and it mistakenly air-dropped assistance over Ayn Al-Arab city that included weapons and rockets that fell into the hands of ISIS terrorists. It mistakenly killed Syrian civilians near the city of Raqqah, while claiming to target a weapons factory for ISIS. The gravest mistake was subsequently committed by a French and American forces when ajoint air raid resulted in the death of over 200 civilians near Aleppo in the town of Manbij. One Council member deplored the situation in Aleppo just a few minutes ago.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“Kerry to accuse both the Syrian and the Russian Governments. My question is, can one individual in a crowded area that is inhabited by thousands of people, can he, on his own, notice airplanes, while others, thousands who live in this area, did not see these air strikes? The issue of eye witnesses is a laughable one, especially when we are reminded that those who accuse the Syrian Government of using chemical weapons relied on a single eye witness account who saw orange smoke. That is what we were told by the Syrian opposition. No one was there - neither the Turkish army, nor the American army nor the terrorists who stole Syrian helicopters from where they were parked at the airport. To refresh the memory of Council members, I want to recall the mistakes by American officials.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source