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Jaafari

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“They also failed to cut off the funding of terrorist organizations, even though they know very well the origin and destination of every dollar that reaches ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front. The only success they were able to achieve was to fabricate false accusations, made-up incidents, politicized reports and edited videos about the suffering of Syrians to demonize the Syrian Government and its allies. It is quite astonishing that the United States Secretary of State would use the testimony ofa so-called eye witness who noticed planes over the humanitarian convoy that was attacked yesterday in northern Syria. The testimony of that eye witness, who is a member of the so-called moderate armed opposition, the Syrian opposition, was sufficient to establish that the air bombing of this humanitarian convoy occurred and for Mr.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“American reconnaissance aircraft, surveillance satellites and intelligence services failed to distinguish between ISIS and those fighting ISIS. The so-called international coalition failed to do so. It is no stranger to such failure. For years the coalition failed to detect thousands of foreign fighters that came to Syria and Iraq from around the world, an issue that was dealt with, thankfully, by a speaker in the Council today. They failed to detect convoys of armed vehicles and thousands of ISIS terrorists who travelled from Iraq to Palmyra in a long journey of over 200 kilometres across the Syrian desert. They failed to detect thousands of lorries that steal and smuggle Syrian oil to Turkey in order to fund the attacks of ISIS.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“That is to say, we wanted to determine those that are terrorist groups, those that are not and those that can be considered to be opposition groups. However, it appears that 10 months were not enough for some to solve this puzzling mystery. It appears that some suffered from an early bout of Alzheimer's disease while trying to solve this mystery. Along the same lines, Damascus expected Washington to fulfil its commitments in this regard by putting an end to the policies and practices of certain well-known countries that sponsor and support terrorism politically, logistically, financially and ideologically through the media. We expected an end to the influx of terrorists, weapons and funding from countries neighbouring Syria through the borders and the use of terrorism as a tool for political blackmail.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“The aggression, which lasted for an entire 50 minutes of air raids and was preceded by reconnaissance flights by drones over two days, paved the way for ISIS terrorists to enter the military site of the Syrian army that was targeted deliberately before the Syrian army was able to recapture it again. To add insult to injury, our soldiers and the wounded were victims of another air strike by drones while they were evacuating their positions in Tharda after it was targeted. Before that deliberate and unacceptable aggression, my country had been focusing on the issue of disassociating terrorist groups, in line with the statement of the International Syria Support Group issued at a meeting in Vienna on 14 November 2015.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“That shock was the unjustified, brutal aggression that was launched by American, British and Australian and Danish fighter jets against Syrian Arab Army targets. The units of our army are combating the ISIS terrorist organization in the mountainous area of Tharda, in the vicinity of Deir ez-Zor airport. Those units had been defending tens of thousands of Syrian civilians besieged by ISIS in Deir ez-Zor city. That gruesome attack resulted in numerous casualties among the officers and soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army - 83 martyrs and over 100 wounded.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“The American military aggression on eastern Syria, the Turkish military aggression on northern Syria and the Israeli military aggression on southern Syria mean, without a shadow of a doubt, that the proxy war has become a real war and a true aggression on my country. My country welcomed the Russian-American statements on 9 September after both parties agreed to combat the terrorist organizations, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the Al-Nusra Front, regardless of their their names. That agreement was concluded with the knowledge and consent of the Syrian Government. However, the international community, represented by the Council, received a horrific shock before which it stood helpless, unable to issue a condemnation or express outrage at the very least.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“When the United States Administration decided to intervene unilaterally in my country through air raids, American officials came to us to say that Washington would commit not to use American warplanes to target the Syrian Army or vital infrastructure. Rather, only the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) would be targeted. I received the personal assurances on that point from the Permanent Representative of the United States, who spoke on behalf of her Government. It was a message conveyed by her Government. Two years after the establishment of the coalition and the beginning of the air raids, American officials have forgotten their promises and their commitments. American jets are bombing Syrian Army facilities and vital infrastructure and American soldiers are now present in Syrian territories.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“This is mainly due to the fact that the United States disavowed the agreement it had concluded with the Russian Federation in Geneva on 9 September. It is also due to the unwillingness to force the armed groups supported by the so-called international coalition to abide by the aforementioned Geneva agreement. One must point out that the term "international", used to describe this coalition, does not convey the reality. That is to say, the coalition was formed outside the realm of international legitimacy, without a Security Council resolution and without coordination with the stakeholder, namely, the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic. This coalition is reminiscent of other destructive coalitions to which many speakers today have referred, coalitions that have brought nothing but disaster to such countries as Iraq, Libya and Yemen.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): First and foremost, I wish to inform the Security Council that, as we meet here today to discuss the situation in my country, thousands of Syrians, honest Americans and persons from other countries are demonstrating on 47th Street, outside the Conference Building, calling on members ofthe Council to stop their bombing of and interference in Syria as well as their support for terrorist groups. Similar demonstrations are also taking place in other American cities, including in the State of California. This important meeting about my country, Syria, is being held at a critical time, as we are witnessing serious disruptions that run contrary to the promising signs of the past week.”
2016-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7774 (2016) · source
“That means that those two delegations, which represent permanent members of the Security Council, do not know what they are talking about at all, because the mandate of the Joint Investigative Mechanism does not include recent incidents. It limits its work to the nine cases identified by the earlier fact-finding mission. It is not right for a representative on the Security Council to speak of an issue of which he is totally ignorant, particularly if he represents a permanent member.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“The Government of my country now calls upon the Security Council and its various subsidiary bodies to assume their responsibility to ensure that terrorists groups that are active in Syria do not get hold of chemical weapons and to hold responsible those countries that are supporting terrorism. That would contribute effectively to efforts aimed at maintaining international peace and security and would ensure the implementation of the mandate of the 1540 Committee. In conclusion, I would like to point out that the two colleagues representing the United States of America and the United Kingdom mentioned that the Joint Investigative Mechanism would consider or review the various cases where chemical weapons were recently used.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“There has also been an attempt to obstruct the Russian- Chinese draft resolution submitted to the Council that aims at taking early measures to prevent non-State actors from acquiring and using chemical weapons. My Government reiterates once again its total commitment to the international instruments and the procedures now under way to promote cooperation, exchange information and coordinate in order to face the threat ofterrorists and non-State actors gaining access to weapons of mass obstruction. The Government of Syria has done so in a continuous way. We have submitted five national reports to the 1540 Committee on the implementation of that resolution.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“Despite all that has been revealed with regard to these attempts, which include the trafficking of sarin gas through Turkey into Syria, there have been detailed reports that concern the involvement of certain States that are behind the attacks that have targeted Khan Al-Asal, near Aleppo, and the area near Damascus on 21 August 2013. The Security Council has taken no steps, because powerful countries prevented the team led by Mr. Ake Sellstrom from fulfilling its role and assuming its responsibilities to deal with the terrorism to which Syria is exposed. The countries I am referring to - which support terrorism have set out red, green and yellow lines - have not played their due role and assumed their responsibilities, but have assigned responsibility to countries that in fact support terrorism.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“I am talking about Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which facilitate terrorist groups in obtaining chemical weapons. We submitted this information to the Security Council and the 1540 Committee. As of 8 December 2012 through 8 August 2016, we have provided detailed information that some of the Al-Qaida groups have tried and tested chemical weapons in a laboratory in a town in Turkey to use against civil targets in Syria. We have seen efforts by terrorists to smuggle a substantial amount of sarin gas through Turkey and into Syria. The gas went to Turkey from Libya via a commercial jetliner. That began in 2013, and they tried to accuse the Syrian Government of that. We also have voice recordings and videos related to that, which confirm the fact that terrorist groups have obtained chemicals and have used them in many areas of Syria.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“I provided them with information on terrorist groups linked to or affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS). They have produced 45 chemical weapons, including the use of chlorine and mustard gas. They used them in Mosul in Iraq and in Raqqah governorate in Syria, under the supervision of a member of ISIS, namely, Abdel Rahman Al-Nawi. Some of those rockets went to Deir ez-Zor governorate. The Syrian Arab Republic has transmitted through dozens of official letters, communicated to the Secretary-General and to the various Presidents of the Security Council and the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), information as to certain Governments that are supporting terrorism in my country.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“According to statements made by Robert Malley, an assistant to the American President and White House coordinator for Middle East, the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic has informed the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons of the incident in Al-Awamid and requested a fact-finding mission to be sent to verify the allegations about the use of chemical weapons in Syria and to undertake an immediate investigation into the incident. Given Syria's concern and its determination to reveal the truth behind the use of chemical weapons by terrorist groups, I was also called upon by my country, Syria, to inform the Office of the Secretary- General and the chairmanship of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“For a more recent example, on 2 August, armed terrorist groups targeted Al-Awamid square, in the Old town of Aleppo, with toxic-gas missiles, which caused six deaths among civilians, and 20 others suffocated. Some members of the Security Council are absolutely determined to identify the terrorist groups that launch chemical weapons while at the same time referring to them as the "moderate opposition", their having been thus classified by their intelligence services. Those countries are providing that terrorist "opposition" and mercenary groups with weapons, financing, cover and logistical support, which is exacerbating the crisis at great cost.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“Serious violations of resolution 1540 (2004) are unfortunately a reality in Syria, where criminal terrorist groups have on many occasions used chemical weapons against civilians and the military. They have been supported by Arab and regional countries, as well as by the intelligence services of important countries in the region and in the Organization, even including some members of the Security Council. As an unfortunate example of the use of chemical weapons by terrorist groups active in Syria, I would like to highlight the fact that, on 13 June, terrorist groups in the vicinity of Haush Al-Fara launched a chemical weapon against a number of Syrian soldiers.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“National, regional and international efforts have succeeded in ensuring some positive outcomes. Despite all that, however, there remain serious shortcomings and gaps that are being exploited by terrorist groups to obtain weapons of mass destruction and to use them to achieve their criminal goals. Furthermore, we also see States Members of the Organization providing terrorist groups with chemical weapons or their raw materials. We also see some countries claiming to do one thing while in fact doing something quite different on the ground. They close their eyes to serious violations that represent a grave threat to international peace and security. Their effects go beyond one particular State or particular geographical boundaries.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, allow me to thank the President for convening this important meeting. I would also like to welcome the presence of the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs at today's meeting. The initiative to organize this meeting on the implementation ofresolution 1540 (2004) is particularly important for my country. Twelve years ago, the Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1540 (2004) because it was convinced of the importance and the need to enhance efforts aimed at putting an end to the emerging threat of the possible acquisition by terrorist groups and non-State actors of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), raw materials for their manufacture and their means of delivery.”
2016-08-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7758 (2016) · source
“How long will we continue to perjure ourselves, to be witnesses to the destruction of States Members oflhis international Organization based on lies, absurd ranting and absolute political ignorance?”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Today public opinion in France, the United States and the United Kingdom knows that their Governments' policies towards my country are wrong. I have just cited a work by an Australian author. His country is 14,000 kilometres from mine, but he understands the truth of what is happening in Syria, which is why he wrote a book describing what is taking place there: terrorist aggression without precedent in the annals of international relations. How far will we go in destroying Member countries of the Organization, sovereign States? Korea was invaded on the basis ofa lic. Viet Nam was invaded on the basis of a lie. Then Iraq was invaded on the basis ofa lie. And then Libya.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“We will never forget the colonial era, when France occupied my country following the sinister Sykes- Picot Agreement. However, the fact that the French representative says that I have not touched upon the humanitarian situation is means that he did not listen to a word of my intervention. Any diplomat in this international Organization who listened to what I said today would realize that I spoke about the humanitarian situation in my country and of the obstacles to the resolution of the crisis, both political and humanitarian. That is why I deeply regret that a representative of a permanent member of the Security Council spoke in a way unrelated to the topic at hand, as though he were politically illiterate. The games and terrorism that happened in my country are over. The masks have come off.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I had not planned to take the floor again. But the intervention just made by my colleague the representative of France compels me to request the floor once more. What he describes as absurd and heresy is a perfect description of the policies of successive French Administrations towards my country, including that of Sarkozy near the end of his mandate and the term of Francois Hollande. Members will note that I will not use terminology such as "the French regime" here in my statement because I am a maven diplomat and I know that those words are not fit for use in the Chamber. That is why I say "the French Government" and "the French Foreign Minister", and not "the French regime" or "the Minister of the French regime". France has been hostile to my country for decades.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Sellstrom was on his way to Aleppo to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Khan Al-Assal. The use of chemical weapons in the Damascus area was meant to prevent Mr. Sellstrom from going to Aleppo to investigate because, at that time, the former Prime Minister knew who had used chemical weapons in Khan Al-Assal in Aleppo. He wanted to prevent Mr. Sellstrom from reaching Khan Al-Assal by any means. Therefore, they used chemical weapons in Damascus with the involvement of French intelligence services and the former French Prime Minister. There are so many scandals that I could expose to the Security Council. But rather than take up more of the Council's time, I will stop at this point.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“He stated that Le Monde journalists got their news about Syria from the book Alice in Wonderland. He addressed the editorial board of the newspaper by writing to the journalists as his colleagues -journalists who are part of the tradition of Le Monde dating to historic times, people such as Hubert Beuve-Mery, Andre Fontaine and Andre Laurent. He wrote that they needed to wake up and that something was amiss in their newspaper. French journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot wrote an important book to which I alluded in one of my previous statements, entitled Les Chemins de Damas In their book, those two known French writers uncovered the fact that Laurent Fabius, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of France, was responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria in August 2013, when Mr.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Far fewer Western people opposed the war on Syria than opposed the invasion of Iraq, because they were deceived about its true nature." (spoke in Arabic) The Government of my country reiterates its firm position that the only solution to the crisis in Syria is a political one within a dialogue among Syrians, under Syrian leadership and without any external interference or preconditions. My country reiterates that the political path runs parallel to the path of fighting terrorism, which will continue until all active and deployed armed-terrorist groups in Syria are eliminated. In conclusion, I would like only to recall that the well-known French journalist Richard Labe'viere recently wrote an opinion piece in which he criticized Le Monde's fabricated coverage of events in Syria.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“The book was published in Australia, not Damascus. (spoke in English) "Although every war makes ample use of lies and deception, the dirty war on Syria has relied on a level of mass disinformation not seen in living memory. The British-Australian journalist Philip Knightley pointed out that war propaganda typically involves 'a depressingly predictable pattern' of demonizing the enemy leader, then demonizing the enemy people through atrocity stories, real or imagined. "In Syria the big Powers have sought to hide their hand, using proxy armies while demonizing the Syrian Government and army, accusing them of constant atrocities and then pretending to rescue the Syrian people from their own Government.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Regrettably, the Secretariat has created a historic precedent within the United Nations by justifying the egregious terrorist crime perpetrated by Nour al-Din al-Zenki, which decapitated a Palestinian child in Aleppo. The report attempts to convey legitimacy on that group by mentioning that it had issued a communique comdemning the act and stating that those responsible for it had been detained and handed over to an investigation committee. It is as if the report is saying that the practices of such terrorist groups, through their recruitment and killing of children, is allowed and its leaders are bound by international law and human rights law, having become party to the International Criminal Court. Please allow me to quote from a recent book by the Australian writer Tim Anderson, entitled title The Dirty War on Syria.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Any report issued by the United Nations is expected to be based on neutral and reliable sources, not on what are known to be "open" sources or centres of opposition located outside of the country and run and financed by foreign intelligence entities that have taken a hostile position vis-a-vis the Syrian Government in an attempt to distort its image internationally and level false accusations against it without any tangible proof. Those reports, deliberately or not, also cover up actions carried out by armed terrorist groups by continuing to call them - as I have mentioned - "armed opposition", at times, and, at other times, referring to them as 'non-State armed groups", among other names.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“As a matter of fact, that has enabled hundreds of families to leave the eastern neighbourhoods of Aleppo, to whom the Syrian Government has provided temporary housing and basic needs. Regrettably, other families were not able to leave because they were prevented from doing so by armed terrorist groups. Those groups have intentionally used families as human shields and have booby-trapped access to the safe corridors. They have also used snipers to target them, as other terrorist groups have done, in cities such as Raqqa, Mambij, Al-Bab and Deir ez-Zor. My Government questions the continued and deliberate distortion of facts and the use of unreliable sources in the reports of the Secretariat on the humanitarian situation in Syria.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Against that backdrop, before taking any military action, the President of the Republic issued decree No.15 on 28 July 2016 to the effect that general amnesty would be granted to all those who bore or owned arms for any reason, or were fugitives or in hiding. On 26 July, the General Command of the Army and the armed forces sent several messages to civilians and armed actors in the eastern neighbourhoods of Aleppo, calling on them to join the national reconciliation and expel the foreign mercenaries. It established safe humanitarian corridors and temporary housing for them, particularly for those who want safe egress so as to protect their lives and provide for their needs. The Government also called upon the armed actors to lay down their weapons and resolve their issues.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Civilians do not flee to areas controlled by the terrorists, but to areas controlled by the State, which provides 75 per cent of all the humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people - it is not the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The efforts of the Syrian Government in Aleppo today, with the support of its friends and allies, is a constitutional duty to protect civilians from the actions ofarmed terrorist groups that have violated the cessation of hostilities from the first day. Groups allied with the Al-Nusra Front, which was not originally involved in the cessation of hostilities, have daily rained hundreds ofrockets and mortars down on Aleppo, some weighing more than a ton, causing the deaths of hundreds of men, women and children and the destruction of infrastructure and public and private property.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“What did escape the terrible destruction was plundered, dismantled and transferred to Turkey - an instance of overt theft unprecedented in history. We have provided the Council with numerous documents to prove those despicable acts by the gangs supported by the Turkish intelligence services. Aleppo having been destroyed - over which some shed crocodile tears today - was once home to 4 million civilians. Today there are only neighbourhoods in which armed terrorist groups are active. A mere 250,000 people remain in the city. After the terrorist forces began to target the inhabitants, 1.75 million fled Aleppo to seek refuge in areas under the control of Syrian Government institutions in various cities, where they found protection and assistance.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Aleppo remained safe and stable for more than a year and a half following the beginning of the so-called crisis in Syria - until the Governments of Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia prompted armed terrorist groups to attack the city, wreak havoc on people and property and use the population as human shields. Destruction has reigned. They have obliterated cultural, religious and historic property. They burned Souk Al-Medina i the city's ancient marketplace, the oldest in the world. They targeted the Umayyad Mosque, one of the oldest in the Islamic world. They destroyed the Carlton Hotel and tried to wreck the city's citadel as well. Those are all "achievements" by the opposition to the Syrian regime - the regime, not the Government and not the State.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“I would mention Abou Omar Al-Shisheni, Abou Al-Meqdad Al-Turki, Abou Moussab Al-Saudi, Abou Souhaib Al-Libi, Abou John Al-Britani, Abou Mohammed Al-Tunsi, Abou Hourrairah Al-Ameriki, Abou Mouath Al-Turkistani, Abou Hassah Al-Misri, Abou Abdelrahman Al-Canadi, Abou Abdallah Al-Urduni, Abou Talha Al-Kuwaiti, Abou Murrah Al-Fransi, Abou Aoud Al-Belgiki and Abou Walid Al-Walid Al-Australi. I would also mention the religious mufti of the Al-Nusra Front, Abdulaha Mohassini, who is Saudi. Those are the faces of the "moderate armed opposition" in Syria.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Those States did not stop at supporting the terrorism against Syria, they complemented it with despicable economic terrorism via unilateral coercive measures that have exacerbated the suffering of Syrians, forcing them to flee their homes for better lives. Allow me to briefly refer to the "moderate opposition" in order to tell the Council of some elements of such "moderate" opposition - genetically altered in the laboratories of the intelligence agencies of certain well-known countries.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Still others have instructed the scholars of strife to issue Wahabi edicts to legitimize branding othes as infidels the killing of civilians, the plunder of their property and the defiling of their women and desecration oftheir holy places. Still others have dedicated their media and political forums to legitimizing those groups by sometimes calling them the "moderate opposition", and at other times "armed moderate opposition"; whereas now they are termed "non- State armed groups", as referred to by Mr. O'Brien in his briefing. Most recently, they have been called the "vetted Syrian opposition". Perhaps that nomenclature will soon change to "groups of armed angels".”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Others have recruited those mercenary terrorists - either by using money or promising them paradise and heavenly maidens for theirjihad - who abuse women in the most shameful way, for the first time ever in history under the banner of "fornication jihad". Other countries have smuggled thousands of tons of every sort of weapon to terrorists, set up training centres for them, recruited children for them and taught them how to carry out the most horrible terrorist operations. Yet others have opened up their coffers to them, their oil and gas resources, providing billions of dollars in order to finance the terrorist war against Syria.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“The cost of the destruction as a result of those attacks by the international alliance in terms of just oil and gas facilities amounts to at least $2 billion. In fact, an attack in Aleppo against the sole electrical plant - which cost the Syrian people â‚¬1.3 billion - resulted in its total destruction, by the American doves of peace in a single air strike. As a matter of fact, the party foremost responsible for the suffering of Syrian civilians are the Governments that have falsely claimed - from the very beginning of the war against Syria-to be friends ofthe Syrian people. Some have opened their borders to tens of thousands of mercenary terrorists from all over the world.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“That "friendship" with the Syrian people resulted innovative means of murder, from decapitation to the eating of human parts, the slaughter of archeologists, various forms of destruction, displacement, the plunder of factories, crops, grain silos, oil and gas facilities, monuments and other infrastructure, as well as the siege of the Syrian people. We would like to take this opportunity to thank those who brought us this fatal friendship, which will never be forgotten by the Syrian people. Following that, the so-called international alliance was formed on the pretext of fighting terrorism - without United Nations approval or that of the Syrian Government. It began to target innocent civilians and infrastructure in Syria, including roads, bridges, refineries, schools and hospitals.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“We sent them to our schools and treated them in our health-care centres, until some of them returned to their homes, while others remained in Syria. They were Iraqi refugees, our brothers and sisters from Iraq, who left their country and took asylum in Syria because of the Anglo-American invasion of that country, as members well know. That situation changed dramatically when Arab, regional and international States met in Tunisia on 24 February 2012 under the so-called "friends of the Syrian people".”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Before I answer that question, I would like to read Council members the text of Article 2, paragraph 4, of the Charter of the United Nations: "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations." Five-and-a-half years ago, Syria was one of the world's safest and most stable countries. It was self-sufficient in terms of basic needs, such as food, medication, health and education. Syria was one of the foremost hosts of refugees, for whom we did not build camps or tents and whose pain and suffering we did not exploit. We did not use their tears and suffering in those so-called international pledging conferences. We hosted them in our homes.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“No one in the world cares for the lives of those Syrians or feels their pain more than us, the people and the Government of Syria. No one but us is paying the heavy toll for this terrorist war that has been imposed against my country. The question that should be raised is, Why are those civilians being targeted? Who is killing them? And why, in fact, is there a humanitarian crisis in Syria?”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“On 26 July 2016, the French Air force, a partner in the so- called international alliance, bombed greater Tokhar, a village in the Khaled area, causing the deaths of more than 180 civilians, many of whom were women and children. The self-proclaimed international alliance did not request any approval from the Syrian Government to conduct air operations; nor did the Syrian Government invite it to come to our country - on the contrary. That is a flagrant violation of the fundamental principles of this international organization. I will return to this issue later. The victims who fell in Khaled are Syrian civilians. The victims who fell in Damascus are Syrian civilians as well. And the victims who fell in Idlib and Dar'a, Raqqah, Deir ez-Zor and other cities and towns are also Syrian civilians.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Also before going into the substance of my statement, I would like to recall certain incidents that may refresh the memory of some members of the Council in order that they can distinguish between what is true and what is not. On 30 April 2014, aerial forces of the so- called international alliance destroyed a centre for the deaf and mute in Raqqah, causing the deaths of dozens of children. On 7 July 2016, the same so- called international alliance inaugurated the so- called liberation operation Manbij, using heavy aerial bombardment targeting the inhabitants of the city and leading to the death or injury of hundreds of men, women and children, all civilians. On 12 July 2016, the fighters of the so-called international alliance bombed the town of As-Susa in Deir ez-Zor, causing the deaths of over 80 people, including women and children.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arabic Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Before I begin my statement, I would like to say to the members of the Security Council that we reject those who consider us responsible for the bombing of the Katarji neighbourhood in Khaled. The Russian Government has also rejected that accusation. Therefore, the perpetrator must be elsewhere. I would like to shed light on the fact that the tragedy in that neighbourhood is directly linked to what some colleagues mentioned with regard the little Syrian boy Omran, who came from Venus or from Mercury. That Syrian boy is just like all other Syrian children who dream - and like the scores of others who have suffered, directly or indirectly, from the conflict in Syria and the conspiracy against it.”
2016-08-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7757 (2016) · source
“Representatives are undoubtedly familiar with the political exploitation practiced by the Saudi delegation when they threatened the Secretary-General with using financial pressure and withholding financial assistance to United Nations specialized agencies. All those who have shed tears before you, Mr. President, today over the plight of the Syrian children play a major part in the killing of Syrian children, adults and civilians. Many who spoke about my country in their statements are actually primary partners in killing our population. They shed tears for Aleppo, Idlib and are partners in those crimes. Now they are farming the flames of action against Syria from the borders of Jordan. This is a crime par excellence.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Furthermore, the Israeli curriculum is imposed on Syrian children in the occupied Golan; they are being exploited economically, which affects their growth and overall health. In addition, 50 children in the occupied Syrian Golan have fallen victim to the more than 2 million mines planted by the Israeli occupation forces. Again, Ms. Zerrougui failed to hear this story. Nor can we ignore the moral scandal represented by the failure of the Secretary-General to include the facts in Ms. Zerrougui's report with regard to the crimes committed by Saudi Arabia against the children of Yemen. Over 953 children were killed and over 1,168 children were injured before the report was published.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Fourthly, the report totally ignores the suffering, anxiety and terror of Syrian children in the occupied Syrian Golan as a result of the occupation force's practices, such as the siege and torture of the Syrian population and its consequent ill effects on children. The Israeli occupation forces put an infant under house arrest in the occupied city of Majdal Shams. His father was a student at Damascus University, and his wife, from the Golan, gave birth to her child in Damascus. When both of them returned after the husband graduated from Damascus University, the Israeli occupation forces arrested the infant, who was only a year and three months old at the time, and put him under house arrest for two years. This story has not been heard by Ms. Zerrougui.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source