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Jaafari

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“Zerrougui's Office to determine the whereabouts of those children. We provided Ms. Zerrougui with electronic sites documenting cases of the recruitment of children by what is known as the Al-Nusra Front and the Saudi terrorist Abdullah Al-Muhaysini, and a tweet by the Saudi terrorist ideologue Mohammed Al-Arifi in which he addressed the moderate opposition. We also call on the Office of Ms. Zerrougui to provide us with the names of the five Syrian children who, according to the report, were recruited by Government forces into popular committees. So far we have not received any information in this regard. We reiterate the same question to Ms. Zerrougui's team: why did the authors of the report fail to refer to the forced economic measures imposed on the Syrian people, further tightening the noose that is suffocating children in Syria?”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Instead of receiving education in a classroom, such children work hard all day long in textile mills. More than 1 million Syrian children live in Turkey, and thousands of them, unable to read or write, work in sweatshops and factories. A few days ago, in the Rukban refugee camp in Jordan, two children died because of the difficult conditions there, including lack of health care and polluted water. The cause of death of one of them, who was 10 months old, was yellow fever, as a result of polluted water. Thirdly, we stress the demand that Ms. Zerrougui's team investigate the fate of the hundreds of children abducted by elements of the terrorist Army of Islam, Liwa' al-Tawhid units and the Free Syrian Army in the areas of Damascus, Aleppo and Latakia. We reiterate the appeal made to the Security Council and Ms.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“In this regard, we cannot but express our deep concern at the ongoing rape of children and the emergence of the phenomenon of the human slave trade in camps in Turkey and Lebanon. We are also deeply saddened at the new phenomenon of the trade in the human organs of these children, not to mention the rape and sexual harassment of Syrian children and women. The trade in organs in Turkish refugee camps such as the Nizip camp was reported by the Turkish mass media. The Turkish newspaper BirGiin published a story about the rape of 30 Syrian children ranging in age between 8 and 12. In addition, youth and children are recruited to join terrorist groups. On 5 June 2016, The New York Times published an article entitled "In Turkey, a Syrian child 'has to work to survive'".”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“The Military Operations Centre in Amman, which includes intelligence services representing the United States of America, France, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan, Israel and Saudi Arabia, has now mobilized some 7,000 to 9,000 fighters on our borders inside Jordan. They intend to launch this barbarous moderate opposition on our southern border with Jordan in order for it to commit crimes against our children, destroy our infrastructure and attack the Syrian army. If this were taking place in any other State, would the Council have called these demagogues "the moderate armed opposition", or would they have dealt with them as thugs? Secondly, the report fails to refer to the suffering of children in refugee camps in neighbouring countries, which is a critical issue.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“The conscience of the world has come to recognize how these Wahhabi regimes facilitated the murder of the innocent children killed in cold blood in the Al-Zara massacre, which was carried out by armed groups in a village in the rural area of Hama a few months ago, as well as other massacres perpetrated in Syria. These regimes had a contract with the Devil himself to implement a bloody programme that has killed innocent children in Syria and Iraq in front of schools and hospitals. These regimes were responsible for the drowning of the Syrian child Aylan on the Turkish coast of the Mediterranean, and for the deaths of hundreds of children following the aerial bombing by the international alliance led by the United States of America in the city of Manbij, in a rural area of Aleppo.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“The child was slaughtered in accordance with the Wahhabi ISIL sense of legitimacy that allowed them to commit this disgusting crime. But this crime is a genetically modified crime. The Nour Al-Din Al-Zenki group, a group of moderate thieves originating from Turkey that was described by the United States Ambassador at a previous meeting as consisting of"rebel fighters", as the Council will recall, is a terrorist group that follows the perverted Wahhabi intellectual way of thinking and receives financial and arms support from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Western Powers and the Erdogan regime; it is this group that committed this "moderate" criminal act.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“First, the report does not reveal, in its research and narrative, the main reason for the suffering of children and girls in my country, which is largely due to the systematic spread of the extremist Wahhabi Saudi ideology, consolidated by the House of Saud when, in the eighteenth century, it adopted the practices of the pervert Muhammad ibn Abd Al-Wahhab in killing, slaughtering and invading and in enslaving women. These perverted practices of Muhammad ibn Abd Al-Wahhab has have now reached the gates of Muscat and Karbala. The whole world was shocked by the video of the horrendous slaughter of a Palestinian child, Abdullah Issa, who sat wounded and dazed while surrounded by human beasts belonging to a genetically modified opposition group some people consider to be moderate.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): We have closely reviewed the fifteenth report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/3 60), which was prepared by Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. In that regard, we would like to acknowledge that, at long last and with some reluctance, Ms. Zerrougui has focused on a small number of facts related to the recruitment of children by the terrorists of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Al-Nusra Front and other terrorist groups that have killed, slaughtered and dismembered children in the Syrian Arab Republic for more than five years now. In order to set the record straight, we would like to make the following remarks.”
2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source
“We genuinely hope that, when the Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs wants to talk about events in Syria and says that there is shelling, he mentions the party striking. More than 100 people were killed or injured in Damascus alone. I will send the Council official letters including the names of the victims - scores ofthem, women and children - killed in Damascus, in restaurants and public parks. The same goes for Aleppo. We therefore ask: who are the perpetrators? Why was that not mentioned?”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“Secondly, I would also like to remind the Council that terrorists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria burned alive a family in a public square - father, mother and a 2-year-old child - because they wanted to escape Raqqa. No one mentioned what happened with this family or what occurred with the Wadi Barad water source, not even Mr. O'Brien. With regard to bombing Aleppo, there are airstrikes from east Aleppo and from west Aleppo. However, Mr. O'Brien did not say who was striking from those parts of the city. They are the terrorists we are fighting - the terrorists that the Western alliance claims to be fighting. They are the terrorists who cross over from Turkey, who are financed by the corrupt regimes of the Gulf - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to name them. Those are terrorists who are striking Aleppo from the east and the west.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syria) (spoke in Arabic): I apologize for asking for the floor again. I will not take too much time. I would just like to share with the members of the Security Council some information that has not been part of this meeting. First, I regret that no one mentioned the fact that terrorists in the Wadi Barada region - outside of Damascus near Madaya, which, as some members already know is under siege, or so it is said - have bombed the only source that provides drinking water to the city of Damascus. That means that the inhabitants of Damascus, 7 million civilians, have been deprived of drinking water because the moderate armed/genetically modified armed opposition blew up the main source of water for the city.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“The French Minister for Foreign Affairs at the time, Mr. Fabius, said, "The jihadists are active in Syria". He said, (spoke in French) "I cannot do anything to prevent French jihadists from going to Syria". (spoke in Arabic) That was said by a former Prime Minister. When French terrorism struck in Nice, at the Bataclan and against Charlie Hebdo, the French President took revenge by bombing the village of Manbij, killing 164 civilians. I could say a great deal more, but owing to time constraints I will end here.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“The United Nations also must cooperate with the Government of Syria and coordinate with it with it with regard to the various humanitarian issues rather than take issue with Syria and criticize it, which will not lead to any positive results. The United Nations and international organizations active in Syria could not have achieved what they did over the five years of this crisis in terms of providing humanitarian assistance to millions of Syrians on a monthly basis had it not been for the cooperation, facilities and protection provided by the Syrian Government. This is not a favour we are doing, as long as Syrian people in need benefit from such humanitarian assistance and there is respect for sovereignty. I would like to recall what was said on 12 December 2012 in Marrakesh, when an attempt was made to create an opposition.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“We are ready to pursue the inter-Syrian dialogue without any preconditions in the hope that the dialogue will lead to a comprehensive solution devised by the Syrian people themselves, without foreign interference and with the support of United Nations and the international community. I wish to reiterate that the Syrian Government fully supports its commitment and obligation to alleviate the humanitarian suffering of the Syrian people. We are prepared to take every step necessary at the national level to reach that goal. We will continue to cooperate with the United Nations by facilitating its mission, but that cooperation is notjust a one-way street.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“In this regard, the Government of my country has closely read the statement issued following the visit of the American Secretary of State to Moscow on 15 July. In that statement, both parties, Russia and the United States, asserted the need to combat the terrorism fomented by the Al-Nusra Front and Da'esh. The Syrian Arab Republic, which is at the forefront in terms of combating this global scourge, welcomed the statements and reiterates that we are committed to finding a political solution to the Syrian crisis that meets the aspirations of the Syrian people and ensures their support.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“Talk of combating terrorism and the lifting of unilateral coercive measures brings me to the second step needed to resolve the humanitarian crisis, that is, support for a political solution, because combating terrorism can only contribute to success in that respect. The solution should ensure that there is respect for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Syria, as affirmed by all relevant resolutions of the Security Council on Syria. This is in keeping with the provisions of the United Nations Charter and the principles of international law, so as to ensure that abuses and crimes that contravene these principles are not repeated, as was the case in Iraq, Libya and elsewhere.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“That reveals their total lack of sincerity in their fight against terrorism, which they use as a political weapon to pressure the Government of Syria, which has met its constitutional obligations with respect to protecting its citizens and combatting terrorism. Nevertheless, we cannot work alone. We need the Council's support, and we need it to understand the scope of the threat posed by the terrorism we are facing in Syria, in the region and throughout the world. This danger is beginning to affect Council members themselves, in their own countries. I am firmly convinced that the citizens of the countries that have been engulfed by this wave of terrorist acts can legitimately ask themselves about the reasons that are leading their countries' Governments to turn a blind eye to such acts.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“We can never know the names of the many thousands of women and children who have been taken hostage in the cities of Syria. We will never know their names, but they are the victims of horrendous crimes against humanity. We need no investigations, evidence or police dogs to identify those responsible for those acts. We know who they are. We cannot explain how some members of the Security Council that claim to protect human rights and the rule of law continue to prevent some of those groups from being included on the list of terrorist organizations. They know that if they were to do so they would be giving them the green light to continue to kill and decapitate.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“The practices of those terrorist groups do not differ one whit from those of similar terrorist groups, including Jaysh Al-Islam, Ahrar Al-Sham, Jaysh Muhammad Abu Ubaidah Al-Muhajir, Al-Liwa Al-Tawhid, the Badr Martyrs' Brigade, the Army of Mujahideen, the Islamic Front, the Jaysh Al-Fatah, the Turkistan Islamic Party, the Sultan Murad Brigade and others that are described by some, both within and outside the Security Council, as a "moderate opposition army". These entities are said to be a part of the moderate opposition, but their supporters have turned them into monsters and cannibals whose favourite pastime is to take selfies with their decapitated innocent victims, and who push people from the rooftops and burn their victims alive in Aleppo and the villages.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“The proof of what I am saying lies in the fact that, a few days ago, the Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki terrorist group decapitated a 12-year old Palestinian boy. In an horrific act, they cut off his head. That organization is said by certain States to belong to the moderate armed opposition. Those very same Governments have assisted such entities by providing media support since late 2011.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“I will not scroll through a lengthy list of names, as was done by the representative of the United States, because it would take me weeks to list all the victims of terrorist attacks in Syria. Let us instead name those who attacked Le Bataclan and the offices of Charlie Heba'o in France, or who perpetrated the attacks in San Bernardino, Munich and Bangladesh. Why not give the names of all the groups that have committed such terrorist acts? Why not call them the "armed opposition"? Why do we say that terrorism in Syria is carried out by the moderate opposition, instead calling their attacks "terrorist acts carried out by terrorists"? There is no legitimate, halal terrorism on one side and non-legitimate terrorism on the other. It is all terrorism, and it is our people who are suffering from it.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“French aircraft recently bombed the village of Al-Tukhan, killing 164 people whom Da'esh had taken hostage and was using as human shields. But when the leaders of Da'esh heard the French President claim that he would seek vengeance for the attack in Nice, they gave orders for the village to be evacuated. Thus, the Da'esh fighters left Al-Tukhan just before the French bombing. The French airforce went ahead and bombed the village anyway, claiming twice the number of victims as the Nice attack. The President of France had sought revenge for Nice by killing 164 civilians in that Syrian Village. Who used those villagers as human shields? It was Da'esh who killed civilians under the cloak of the mission of revenge launched by the French and United States airforces. We have submitted dozens of examples of similar acts through official channels.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other countries should end their support for the armed terrorist groups that, in certain villages of Syria, have committed atrocious acts against civilians whom they use as human shields. They must also stop legitimizing these armed terrorist groups in Syria by referring to them as the "moderate armed opposition" or as "non-State armed groups". All such epithets seek to convey neutrality, but they are incompatible with the provisions of the Security Council's own anti-terrorism resolutions. The mere fact of not calling terrorism by its name sends a false message to hundreds of terrorist groups that their terrorism is legitimate so long as it is undertaken in defiance of the Syrian Government and they continue to destroy infrastructure and to open the way to further human and material loss.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“A sustainable solution would therefore consist in combatting terrorism by implementing the resolutions of the Security Council itself, in coordination and full cooperation with the Syrian Government and free of the double standards and hypocrisy that have been demonstrated by certain parties in the fight against terrorism. Such a solution must also avoid making Syria a magnet that would attract more terrorists. The representative of the United States of America spoke earlier of the crimes perpetrated against a young Palestinian refugee by the Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki, a group of Turkish origin. She spoke of those who slit the throat of a child as "rebels" but she did not call them terrorists. The same holds true for other terrorist groups, including the Jaysh Al-Islam, the Jaysh Al-Fatah and others.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“That led to the entry of tens of thousands of genetically modified terrorists from all over the world, who came to be called the "moderate opposition" or "non-State armed groups". Those groups did what they did in Aleppo. In response to references made to Castello road, I would like to say that the Syrian Government has not closed that road. Instead, it is attempting to open and liberate it from the terrorists who use it to block the flow of humanitarian assistance into Aleppo and Idlib. The Government is also attempting to deny terrorists coming from Turkey entry via that road. Terrorism is the main cause of the Syrian crisis, first and foremost; furthermore, the unilateral coercive measures that have paralysed economic activity are another cause of the humanitarian crisis in my country.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“This is a crisis that has been imposed on - not created by - the Syrian people. Some members of this organ insistently and deliberately ignore the real cause of the humanitarian crisis in Syria and of the exacerbation of the crisis. They attempt to ignore the reasons that led a large number of Syrians to seek refuge in the areas of our country controlled by the Government and many others to do so abroad. The basic cause of this crisis is terrorism. As we informed members at the beginning of the crisis in this very Chamber, Aleppo had not experienced any terrorist activities in the first year and a half. We had called upon Council members to assist the Syrian Government in pressuring the Government of Turkey to close the borders in order to make it impossible for terrorists to reach Aleppo. But there was no response.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“The so- called coalition forces - led by the United States of America - will not put an end to the suffering by destroying grain silos, electrical facilities and power plants, costing the Syrian people money and effort that are difficult to repay; nor by making light of the relative geography of Syrian bloodshed; and nor by establishing dubious alliances to eliminate terrorism. Instead, it can be achieved by seriously combating terrorism, as is being done by the Syrian Government with the help of the Russian Federation, at the request of the Syrian Government itself, which has led to an improvement in the humanitarian situation in certain regions of Syria. The solution is clear to us all, including the entire Council and Mr. O'Brien. It means dealing with the root causes of the crisis that has been imposed on the Syrian people.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“Bringing about a sustainable end to the suffering of the Syrian people cannot be achieved by prolonging their suffering indefinitely, or by holding them hostage to political blackmail - as certain capitals are trying to do by putting the Syrian people between a rock and a hard place and forcing them to choose between ongoing terrorism or abandoning their country to chaos. We cannot improve the situation by issuing dozens of reports or by holding periodic meetings and sensationalist conferences - nor, in fact, by providing humanitarian assistance to one region over another. However important such humanitarian assistance may be, it must be provided equally to all regions.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“Nevertheless, we have not achieved the hoped-for improvement in the humanitarian situation in Syria. Syrians are therefore rightfully asking why their suffering has not been alleviated after almost five and a half years since the beginning of the international terrorist war waged against my country by several countries, including members of the Security Council. The Ambassador of Angola was quite right in asking why we do not hold regional and international parties accountable for the continued humanitarian crisis and the international terrorist war against my country. That is a vital question that must be asked.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syria) (spoke in Arabic): First of all, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this meeting. I would also like to thank you because, during this meeting, we have heard the views of the members of the Security Council. As an open meeting, this is truly an opportunity to listen to the views of different countries about the changing situation in my country, Syria. In that regard, I would like to share some comments on the subject we are dealing with today. The Security Council is meeting today to discuss the twenty-eighth report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/631) on the humanitarian situation in Syria. The Council has already adopted resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014), 2191 (2014) and 2258 (2015), on what has been referred to as the humanitarian crisis.”
2016-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7744 (2016) · source
“Those jihadis who were sent to Syria returned to France, violated its security and killed innocent French citizens owing to the lack of concern of the French Government and its sponsorship of terrorism early in the Syrian crisis. Some other European States regrettably did the same, and they had to pay for it later. That is exactly what my country, Syria, has suffered during the years of the crisis.”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“Some States used to refer to these types of terrorists as jihadis and moderate opposition members when they targeted my people in Syria. However, when those terrorists started acting up in European capitals they became terrorists. This is well known. Mr. Laurent Fabius said as much at the 2012 Morocco summit at which participants claimed to be establishing an opposition entity. The same statement was repeated by the Foreign Minister at the time, who is now the Prime Minister of France. They both said, in December 2012, that European terrorists who were sent to Syria from France were called "Frenchjihadis". They used the term "French jihadis".”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“I will not respond to some of the improper comments made by some speakers with regard to my country, Syria, in particular those made by the Permanent Representative of the United States and the observer of the European Union. Those comments seek to detract our attention from this agenda item, lure us into quixotic argument and tilt at windmills instead of working seriously to put an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the question of Palestine in a just and comprehensive manner. The observer of the European Union seems to have forgotten that the item under discussion is primarily dedicated to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian question. It is not focused on the situation in Syria, which was precipitated by some European States involved in Syrian bloodshed by exporting European takfiri terrorism to my country, Syria.”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“Israel provides support, including by treating their wounded in Israeli hospitals and covering their costs, which is also, according to reports by the Secretary-General on the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, in violation of the Disengagement Agreement of 1974. It has exposed the members of the Force to danger and provided increased freedom of movement for terrorist groups in the separation zone. Terrorist groups have been able to kidnap some peacekeepers from the Philippines and Fiji more than once. Therefore, I stress once again the need to address this grave situation with the seriousness and importance that it deserves.”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“Syria confirms that the stability of the region and the credibility of the Organization require the United Nations and the Security Council to adopt measures to implement international resolutions, in particular resolution 497 (1981), by forcing the Israeli occupation to commit to putting an end to its aggressive and hostile practices and to withdrawing from the occupied Syrian Golan to the line of4 June 1967. Israel is not satisfied with practicing all the hostile policies which I referred to. It has started dealing with terrorists, including Al-Qaida-affiliated groups in the zone of separation, such as Al-Nusra Front.”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“Some might not know that Israel has detained Al-Maqet yet again because he worked to document and show, with sounds and images, Israeli support for Al-Nusra, which is linked to Al-Qaida, and the so-called Al-Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, which is part of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. All of this, in addition to the meeting that was held by the Israeli Government in the Syrian Golan, was not enough to concern the Secretariat or the Department of Political Affairs, let alone the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority.”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“Planning is under way to bring in another 150 families; so there will be a total of 750 families to settle those farms. All of those Israeli measures represent a blatant violation of international law, the Geneva Conventions and resolution 497 (1981). Such practices must be brought to an end immediately. They leave us with no other option than to resist that occupation through all the legal means guaranteed by the Charter of the United Nations. Furthermore, Israel continues to arrest many of the Syrians under occupation, including the Syrian Mandela, Mr. Sedqi Al-Maqet, who has been detained by Israel for over 27 years, which is the same amount of time that Nelson Mandela spent in prison under apartheid.”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“The occupation authorities pursue their systematic violations of human rights, settler activities and policies of oppression against Syrian nationals. Israel steals the natural resources of the Golan, including oil and water. The American firm Afek Oil and Gas has begun to explore for oil in the occupied Syrian Golan, close to the so-called nature settlement. Moreover, the Israeli occupation authorities have confiscated thousands of dunums of land from the Golan to distribute among people who will be brought in to settle the confiscated lands with the purpose of establishing agricultural projects. Under this so- called farms project, the Israeli occupation forces have established 750 new farms in the occupied Syrian Golan. This year alone, 90 families have been brought in to settle those farms.”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“And here is yet another question that we have raised for more than 10 years: Is it not time for all effective, powerful forces to find a useful formula to implement the resolutions dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict? These are questions that we would like the Governments that claim to cherish the precedence of international law and the credibility of the United Nations to answer. I speak before the Council today as a party to the Middle East conflict, because parts of the Syrian territory are under Israeli occupation. In that context, Israel continues to ignore all relevant United Nations resolutions in regard to the Syrian Golan, particularly resolution 497 (1981), which declared Israel's decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Syrian Golan as null and void and lacking legal value.”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“We have the right to question the seriousness of certain powerful States that claim to seek a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian question that is comprehensive and compatible with the aforementioned United Nations resolutions. We would ask the following questions. When will the Palestinian people enjoy a life of dignity in their long hoped-for independent State? We have posed that question for the past 70 years, ever since the United Nations was established. When will our people in the occupied Syrian Golan be able to return to their homeland, Syria? When will the Israeli occupation of our lands in the Golan, which began in 1967, end? We have raised another question for the past 50 years: When will Israel withdraw from other occupied territories, in particular the Lebanese territories?”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“All of those resolutions consider the Israeli decision to annex Jerusalem null and void, illegal and illegitimate, and confirm the illegality of colonization, condemn Israeli violations of human rights law and humanitarian international law and call for the cessation of those violations. After the adoption of all those resolutions and nearly a half-century of occupation by Israel of Arab territories, we have the right to question the credibility of meetings such as today's, aimed at addressing the important Israeli-Palestinian dossier now that it has been transferred from the Security Council to the Middle East Quartet.”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, for presiding over the work of the Council during this month. Year after year, the General Assembly has adopted scores of resolutions on the Palestinian question. Our international Organization has adopted dozens of pivotal resolutions, such as General Assembly resolution 194 (III) on the right of return ofrefugees to their homeland, as well as Security Council resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 478 (1980). All of those resolutions reject the occupation in Palestine and confirm the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination and to establish their own State, the right to return and the right to sovereignty over its natural resources.”
2016-07-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7736 (2016) · source
“We want the work ofthe United Nations to reflect its Charter. We do not want a new Charter, casually rewritten according to new rules. We must defend the dignity and sovereignty of States, not the attacks that are constantly being made on that dignity and sovereignty, and we must aid their citizens.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“We are not levelling accusations; rather, we are calling the attention of Council members to problems related to humanitarian assistance. On several occasions, we have said that Turkey is using United Nations corridors to move weapons. Mr. O'Brien and his colleagues have not responded to that statement. A few days ago, it was revealed that the Erdogan regime was sending weapons along the corridors. He has imprisoned customs officers, journalists and judges. If that was an attack on the United Nations, it would mean that the information about Turkey was false, and that the statement made by the Ambassador of the United States proves that it did not occur. We are familiar with the cases of Libya and Iraq, and I do not want to add Africa to that. Everyone knows what is going in Africa.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I regret having to take the floor for a second time. I will be brief. I would like to say that I too presented irrefutable facts. We are perfectly open to hearing any explanation that might contradict what I have stated. We do not wish to harm the reputation of the United Nations, as we are one of its founding Member States. I am here as a representative of that Member State. We are proud of having been a founding Member State and have always tirelessly defended the United Nations. However, the Organization is not composed exclusively of angels; I wish to combat its demons. The representative of the United States remarked that I did not refer to the report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/460), but that is inaccurate. Everything I said was with respect to that report.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“However, we believe that in order to put a lasting end to the humanitarian crisis, we need to deal with the issue seriously, and to tackle terrorism that is supported from the outside and external interference in our internal affairs, and not through financial contributions pledged in various conferences as a matter of form - although those contributions have their own significance. The Syrian Government underscores the importance ofthe political dimension. We participated in the Geneva negotiations seriously. The problem was that some States had imposed the Riyadh delegation as the only interlocutor. That delegation came with preconditions, which were to ensure that the negotiations failed. Indeed, they withdrew on several occasions, following direct instructions from their sponsors.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“The United Nations and other international organizations have, in the five years of the crisis' existence, been able to get humanitarian assistance to millions of people thanks only to the cooperation of the Government of Syria. Lastly, we frequently talk of the danger of terrorism and the importance of fighting terrorism. That should not be interpreted to suggest that we do not understand the depth of the humanitarian crisis in some regions of Syria or that we do not understand the importance of improving the humanitarian situation in Syria. On the contrary, we do.”
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“If there are sometimes delays when it comes to authorizations and their implementation, that is a result of our concern for the safety and security of humanitarian workers, and the concern that humanitarian assistance reach those to whom it is destined. The Government of Syria remains committed to reducing the humanitarian suffering of our people. We are ready to implement any national measures needed in order to attain that objective. We continue to cooperate with the United Nations and to facilitate the work, but cooperation is not a one-way street. The United Nations also has to cooperate, coordinate and consult with the Syrian Government when it comes to humanitarian assistance, instead of criticizing it and calling it into question without result.”
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“When it comes to the reservations raised by some with regard to medical supplies, the Government of Syria agrees to allow medical assistance to be provided to all regions except for tools that can be used by terrorists. The Government of Syria stands ready to cooperate with the United Nations to address all convoy-related issues. As regards inter-agency convoy requests, I recall that the United Nations submitted 26 requests for inter-agency humanitarian assistance convoys for hot areas in May, within the framework of the May plan. The Syrian Government accepted 19 of those 26 requests. As I said, 19 were accepted, but as of 24 May -two days ago - the United Nations had sent only three convoys out of the 26 requested. The Government of Syria accepted 19 and the United Nations only sent three inter-agency humanitarian assistance convoys.”
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“Two days ago we sent two identical letters to the President of the Security Council and the Secretary-General with regard to this matter, but I will limit myself to simply underscoring the following points. The claim that the Syrian Government prevents the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Darayya is totally false. In fact, the Syrian Government allowed the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to enter Darayya on 17 May to provide humanitarian assistance. The representative of the ICRC informed the Foreign Ministry that it was not able to enter Darayya owing to logistical administrative and security reasons.”
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