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Jaafari

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“Why is it that the Secretariat rewarded the Erdogan regime by holding the first World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul when the regime allows children to be recruited in refugee camps? How can we put an end to the crisis without addressing the violations of the relevant Security Council resolutions on combating terrorism, in particular resolution 2253 (2015), which deals with training for terrorism committed by Israel, Qatar and Saudi Arabia? This has clear consequences for the security and stability of the region. I would like to discuss the way that the issue of humanitarian access is manipulated. The report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/460) presents this inaccurately, and what he describes is very far from the reality and based on unreliable sources.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“How can the humanitarian situation improve when President Erdogan uses Turkish territory, including the United Nations corridors, as a transit area for tens of thousands of foreign terrorist fighters? Furthermore, the Turkish regime provides weapons to terrorists and uses humanitarian convoys as a cover. The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria appears not to know about any of this, despite the fact that I myself told him about it on several occasions. Furthermore, we have drawm the attention of members of the Security Council to this matter in detail in our official communications. The Erdogan regime imprisons customs officers, judges and reporters who describe the situation honestly.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“This has forced some sectors of the population to leave Syria out of a sense of insecurity and a lack of subsistence, but the Council ignores this dire humanitarian situation in Syria. How can we talk about putting an end to the suffering and tragedy of the Syrian people inside and outside the country and putting an end to the humanitarian crisis in Syria? How can we know that the humanitarian and political situation is uncertain? What can we do to implement some of our goals? Suffering should not be used by certain Governments as a tool for political and other types of blackmail, as President Erdogan did a couple of days ago when he threatened to change the refugee situation if Turkish nationals were not given a visa exemption for European countries.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“This is an attempt to burnish the image of that terrorist group, to use terrorist groups for political blackmail and to implement a particular agenda. This has become obvious in the statements made by the representatives of these States - including the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, as well as other countries - when they clearly threaten to maintain their support for terrorism in Syria unless the leadership is changed. The same States impose unilateral illegal economic sanctions on the Syrian people. That increases the suffering of the Syrian people and is a huge burden on the public and private sectors, which are trying to provide food stuffs, pharmaceuticals and ensure the people's basic needs are met.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“This situation becomes more glaring when these same States invite these groups to participate in the Geneva negotiations, as though there were such a thing as moderate terrorism and as though they would both allow and not allow terrorism. The same States enable the access of representatives of these entities into their countries and allow them access to the media. That was the case with the head of Jabhat Al-Nusra, who was received by the Qatari channel Al-Jazeera on several occasions, and with the representative of foreign relations of Ahrar Al-Sham, who was in the United States on a British passport in January. There was an article about that in the Washington Post, on 18 July 2015, and in the Telegraph.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“That became obvious when some refused to label Jaysh Al-Islam a terrorist organization in the Security Council, despite the request made by the Russian Federation. Those bodies work in an alliance was with Jabhat Al-Nusra, which is a terrorist organization, and commit terrorist acts every day. Jaysh Al-Islam targets civilians in their shelters in Damascus and Aleppo and other cities. They perpetrate terrorist acts. Recently such acts were carried out together with Da'esh in Jabla and Tartus in Syria, as was just mentioned. This, as I said, resulted in hundreds of innocent lives lost. Those same States refused yesterday the request of the Syrian Government to call Jaish-e-Mohammad a terrorist organization.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“Some Council members claim to be concerned by the humanitarian situation and the protection of human rights in Syria. These States hold meetings, make statements and issue communiques right, left and centre, as though they were doves of peace and only worried about the prosperity, stability and peace of the Syrian people. That is how they present themselves. However, the reality is very different because anyone who wants to know can just look at the behaviour of these States and see that they play a critical role in the suffering of the Syrian people and the tragedy that has befallen them, as well as in the way it is being treated, as recalled in the statements on the protection of civilians in Syria, Iraq and Libya. Some States protect the terrorist entities, including within the Security Council.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“What happened with the propaganda being put out in the countries of the Gulf and elsewhere that talks about the refugee camps as if they were five-star hotels? Why does the Under-Secretary-General not know about the Saudi cleric Abdullah Al-Muhaysini, who recruits children and acts as a mufti for the terrorist group Ahrar Al-Sham, which is expanding in northern Aleppo and Idlib? Those are facts that we have to consider. What he said about Jableh and Tartus, which were shelled during a suicide attack by a terrorist, is an incomplete description, to put it mildly. He knows perfectly well that Da'esh and Ahrar Al-Sham claimed responsibility for the terrorist acts there, and the perpetrators' identity is therefore very well known to him.”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I was expecting the Under-Secretary-General to begin his statement by offering his condolences to the Government and the people of Syria for the hundreds of innocent civilian victims in Jableh and Tartus who perished a few days ago. The Council denounced that action and express its condolences in a press statement a couple of days ago. Like the Council, I was surprised to hear what the Under-Secretary-General said about his visit to Turkey and what he saw there - surprising things, as he put it, in Syrian refugee camps in Turkey. He saw children who had no food to eat. What I would like to ask him, and the Council, is what happened to the billions pledged at various conferences in Kuwait and elsewhere for the host countries Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon?”
2016-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7701 (2016) · source
“It is unfortunate and shameful for Europe to conclude an agreement with the Erdogan regime, which is supporting terrorism in a way that allows Erdogan to blackmail Europe, to take advantage of the situation of refugees and internally displaced persons and to profit from their suffering. That is the result of the practices of Erdogan, thanks to which his citizens have received visa-free travel to Europe, a base achievement.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“My delegation stresses the need to end Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan and other occupied Arab territories and to put an end to the practices of the occupation forces that support terrorism and led to the expulsion of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force from the separation zone in the occupied Syrian Golan and to their replacement by terrorist elements from the Al-Nusra Front and the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade . In conclusion, my delegation stresses that terrorists must not be rewarded. Their sponsors must not be rewarded for their criminal acts.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“In that regard, we cannot turn a blind eye to the important role taken by the Governments of States sponsoring terrorism. The Saudi and Qatari regimes are abusing Arabs and Muslims through the dissemination of Wahabi extremist thoughts and their erroneous thinking that distorts Islam. Together with the Turkish regime, they are providing all kinds of support to takfiri terrorism that crosses borders and crosses continents - the very terrorism that my country is confronting. The honourable achievements of the Syrian Army, with the support of our friends in the battle against terrorism, including the liberation of the historic city of Palmyra and its liberation from Da'esh, the return of art and music to its old amphitheatre - those are the victories of civilization and light over terrorist ideology.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“Those who manufactured Da'esh, the Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaida, the Al-Fatah Army, the Army of Islam, the Al-Ahrar Al-Sham, the Jund Al-Aqsa, the Liwa Al-Sultan Murad, the Turkestan Liberation Party, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, the Salvation Front and dozens of Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist organizations; those who provide weapons, money, training, fatwas, political and media protection and describe them with such terms as "political violence" and "jihadism" in order to hide their true terrorist nature * they comprise the very party that has been holding up the flag ofterrorism and should be the common enemy of all mankind. Confronting the poisonous ideologies of terrorist organizations and their supporters and financiers is no less important than confronting the use of biological or chemical weapons by terrorist organizations.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“At the same time, the coalition is turning a blind eye to the Da'esh trade in petroleum and archaeological treasures with Turkey and their export through Turkish territory to Israel and European countries. The mask has now fallen from the faces ofthe States that are sponsoring takfiri terrorism in my country, the region and Africa. The efforts of those murderous Governments are doomed to fail. The series of lies and crocodile tears shed because of the suffering of the Syrian people - caused by the very Governments claiming to combat terrorism - have ended. Many WikiLeaks documents have disclosed the role of those Governments in targeting Syria following the invasion and destruction of Iraq.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“Some have created a State for terrorism called the Caliphate, with an official flag and with media sites. Words like "Islam" are used. It has two capitals, in both Syria and Iraq, and therefore an international coalition was set up to confront it. Today the scenario of constructive chaos is complete. The entire world is watching the theatrics of the so-called anti-Da'esh coalition. That scenario is not serious. It is not credible, particularly since, instead oftargeting Da'esh elements, the so-called international coalition is destroying the infrastructure of the Syrian State, of the Syrian people, under the pretext of combating terrorism.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“We continue to assert that terrorism is the gravest threat to the world today; it is the common enemy ofall mankind. Therefore the United Nations and the Security Council must take up their responsibilities to coordinate and promote international cooperation to combat terrorism. However, such cooperation must be very far removed from selectivity and double standards. It is unreasonable for persons to be deemed to be terrorists in France, Belgium, Spain, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia and Tunisia while elsewhere they are called jihadists, non-State armed groups or the moderate Syrian armed opposition, and showered with money, weapons, entry visas, intelligence and protection. Indeed, they are brought to Syrian borders and their entry into Syria is guaranteed.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“It has set up fact-finding mechanisms and has quite seriously been unable to take a single step to bring pressure to bear on the sponsors of terrorism; to stop the export of terrorists and mercenaries from abroad into Syria and Iraq; to control borders in order to halt the flows ofterrorists; to end the Qatari-financed treatment of injured terrorists in Israeli and Turkish hospitals; or to prohibit broadcasts by television stations from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and London inciting people to sectarian terrorism that utterly violates all the relevant Security Council resolutions. My delegation has repeatedly stressed its full support for any sincere effort to confront the threat posed by terrorism and its poisonous ideologies and to uphold the values of peace, dialogue and respect for religious, ideological and cultural diversity.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“Enough misinformation, enough intervention in our internal affairs under pretexts that have been proven to be false in Syria, Iraq, Libya and many other States. Since the start of what some like to call the Syrian crisis, the Security Council has held hundreds of meetings and adopted dozens of resolutions and statements.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“Some five years have elapsed since the assassination began in Syria of the principles of international law, the Charter of the United Nations and good-neighbourly relations around our territory. After exhausting every possible means of destroying Syria - its State, its people, its infrastructure - including terrorism, media misinformation, recruiting foreign terrorist fighters and mercenaries from every corner of the globe, facilitating terrorist groups' use of chemicals, trafficking in the suffering and hopes of millions of refugees and internally displaced persons, creating opponents abroad who are in alliance with every thief around the world sponsoring terrorism and criminality - after all ofthat, we are justified in telling those involved in fuelling and lengthening the crisis to keep their hands off Syria.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the Arab Republic of Egypt's leadership of the Security Council for this month. I welcome the presence of Mr. Sameh Shokry Selim at today's important meeting. We are grateful to Egypt for convening it. Before I begin, I would like to express our sincere condolences to the Government and the people of Egypt for the victims of the heinous terrorist attack a few days ago. I would also like to convey our condolences to the Government and the people of Iraq for the hundreds of victims of the car bombs today in Baghdad. They are suffering from the very same terrorism that we are enduring in my country, and thus today's topic is therefore very timely.”
2016-05-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7690 (2016) · source
“This is the true face of the Al-Nusrah Front, even if some are trying to overlook the facts and have it be considered as an entity working to fight terrorism in Syria. The Al-Nusrah Front is in fact part of Ahrar Al-Sham, yet another terrorist organization. Created by the Turkish intelligence services, Ahrar Al-Sham works in the north of Syria near the border with Turkey. Finally, some started to violate resolution 2268 (2016) the moment it was adopted. They have also been saying things that have nothing to do with the contents of the resolution. Therefore, I call upon the representatives of those States that have spoken of my country in an inappropriate manner, in violation of the provisions of the resolution, to start abiding by the resolution in this very Chamber before abiding by it outside. The meeting rose at 5.40 p.m.”
2016-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7634 (2016) · source
“He is Abu Mohammad Al-Julani, the former deputy of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of Da'esh, who went his separate way and established the Al-Nusra Front in Syria. The Al-Nusra Front is in effect Al-Qaeda, and as its leader Al-Julani has sworn allegiance to Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the head of Al-Qaeda. Al-Nusra Front is thereby affiliated with Al-Qaeda. Al-Zawahiri appointed a Saudi mufti, Abdullah Al-Muhaysini, to be the mufti for the Al-Nusrah Front in Idlib, with the authority to address issues such issues as the eating of liver and the beheading of people. In other words, the head of an Al-Qaida affiliate has appointed a person who is on the list of designated individuals and entities sponsoring terrorism to be the religious authority in Idlib in Syria.”
2016-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7634 (2016) · source
“In her statement our colleague, the representative of the United States, said that there are no Al-Nusra Front forces in the town of Daraya, located in a suburb of Damascus. That is incorrect in essence and in practice. There are Al-Nusra Front elements in Daraya. I have circulated to members of the Council a list of the names of hundreds of terrorist fighters who were killed in Syria in 2015. Most are from Al-Nusra Front and Da'esh, and some were killed in Daraya. I recall that, as the experts of the Council's subsidiary committees are well aware, the real name of the Al-Nusra Front is Al-Qaeda in the Levant. We are talking about the Al-Qaeda organization. Who is the leader of Al-Nusra Front?”
2016-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7634 (2016) · source
“On the basis of the foregoing, the ball is again in the court of the other parties, which have yet to prove their good intentions and commitment to facilitating the political settlement of the crisis in Syria - without imposing preconditions on the Syrian people and without interfering in our domestic affairs - by ending their support and justifications for terrorism and abandonging all actions that could hinder political settlement. The Syrians are invited to work on strenthening national reconciliation and to make every effort to defeat terrorism and to rebuild a newSyria, united in its territory and people, and to protect its sovereignty and its national independent stability.”
2016-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7634 (2016) · source
“Today, I reiterate the readiness of the Government of Syria to participate actively in all sincere efforts to reach a political settlement in which Syrians and Syrians alone shall decide on their future and their choices through a Syrian-led dialogue among Syrians, without foreign intervention. That would safeguard Syria's sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity, pursuant to the second preambular paragraph of resolution 2268 (2016), just adopted.”
2016-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7634 (2016) · source
“In this regard, we stress once again the importance of controlling the borders, stopping the support provided by certain countries to armed groups and preventing those groups from strengthening their capacities or changing their locations, in order to avoid any eventuality that could undermine the agreement. The Government also reserves the right of its armed forces to respond to any breach of the agreement by those terrorist groups against Syrian citizens or the Syrian armed forces. The delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic participated in the recent Geneva talks in good faith and full earnest in order to reach a political settlement to the crisis in my country, Syria.”
2016-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7634 (2016) · source
“The Syrian Government has officially announced its acceptance ofthe cessation of hostilities on the basis of ongoing military counter- terrorism efforts against Da'esh, the Al-Nusra Front and its affiliates, and other terrorist organizations linked to Al-Qaeda, in accordance with the Russian-American joint declaration, which the Government of Syria considers to be an important step towards a political settlement. We reaffirm our readiness to contribute to the implementation of the cessation of hostilities. To ensure the successful and timely implementation of the cessation of hostilities, the Government of Syria continues to coordinate with the Russian side to identify the areas and armed groups to be included in the cessation of hostilities as long as it remains in effect.”
2016-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7634 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I thank you, Mr. President, for convening this important meeting. I also thank the Special Envoy ofthe Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Staffan De Mistura, for participating by video-teleconference from Geneva. Since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, the Syrian Government has spared no effort to reach a political settlement. It has repeatedly demonstrated its commitment and will pursue that approach on the basis of its desire to end the bloodshed of our Syrian people, restore security and stability and implement the will of the Syrian people.”
2016-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7634 (2016) · source
“The ball is in the court of the other parties who still support terrorism, a military escalation and external interference and undermine the achievement of a political solution by imposing unacceptable preconditions.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“We agreed to the cessation of hostilities agreement on the basis of the continuation of political efforts to combat the terrorism perpetrated by Da'esh, the Al-Nusra Front and other terrorist organizations, in accordance with the Russian and American announcement. We are cooperating with the Russian side to determine the groups and areas that will be covered by the cessation of hostilities agreement. In that regard, we underscore the need to establish control over the borders, in particular the Syrian/Turkish border, and to put an end to the support provided by some States to the terrorist organizations, which enables them to build their capacities, in order to avoid jeopardizing that agreement. We emphasize the right of our armed forces to deter any violation by those groups against our Syrian citizens or our armed forces.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“The problem there was that some States imposed the so-called Riyadh delegation as the sole negotiator with the single goal undermining those talks by means of direct instructions from those actors, in addition to considerable procedural gaps, in particular when it came to the representation of all elements of Syrian society outside and inside Syria. Those factors led to the failure of the most recent round of Geneva talks. We are now demonstrating our seriousness and willingness to curb the bloodshed, restore security and stability and implement the will of our people to preserve our territorial integrity.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“We care about their safety and security and do not want any harm to befall them, such as, for example, a suicide bomber exploding himself in front of a humanitarian convoy vehicle. Yet, we are now back in the Council and are hearing a different description about what is happening. Resolving the Syrian crisis requires two simultaneous approaches: first, combating terrorism and, secondly, a political approach. Based on that, the Syrian Government is committed to combating terrorism and is pressing ahead with a political approach. The delegation of Syria participated in the Geneva talks and demonstrated its seriousness and commitment to the talks, as witnessed by the Special Envoy himself.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“As a demonstration of this, the Syrian Government informed the United Nations on 16 February that it had agreed to allow the entry of humanitarian assistance convoys to Dayr ez-Zor, Kafraya, Fu'ah, Madaya, Madimayet, Zabadani and Kafr Batna. Those convoys are a continuation of other convoys that have already reached those regions and other areas and illustrate my Government's intention to facilitate the delivery of assistance to all people in need wherever they are in Syria. That was also emphasized by the Minister for Foreign affairs to Mr. De Mistura at his latest meeting with him in Damascus. The delay in providing consent and the so-called administrative bureaucracy mentioned by Mr. O'Brien is an indication of our eagerness to ensure the safety and security of humanitarian workers.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“The Syrian Government is eager to extend all types of humanitarian assistance to all Syrians affected by the crisis wherever they are in its territory. That is our duty and we are committed to it. Therefore, the Syrian Government is open to coordinating and cooperating with all States, United Nations entities, including the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and other international organizations working in Syria to carry out that process, without propaganda or attempts to demonize the Syrian Government. It is clear that our Government is doing its best to deliver assistance to its citizens wherever they are.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“How can the humanitarian crisis be brought to an end when the Erdogan regime brazenly uses the plight of refugees to blackmail European States to gain political and financial support? Regrettably, some States on the Security Council provide cover for the Erdogan regime. A few days ago those States refused a balanced draft resolution emphasizing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria and rejecting external interference in its affairs and in the outflow ofrefugees. Those are all universally agreed principles that nobody can deny. However, after the adoption of 15 Security Council resolutions on Syria, some are trying complicate matters. It is as if Syria were seeking another five years to prudently analyse what is happening in its territory.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“However, civilians inevitably go hungry. It has become clear that, in order to improve the humanitarian situation in Syria comprehensively and in a sustainable manner, the Government must abandon that misguided and failed approach. How can we put an end to the humanitarian crisis in Syria while the Erdogan regime remains silent about the military attacks against the Syrian territories, uses Turkish territory, including the crossings used by the United Nations to provide humanitarian assistance, as a passageway for the transit of thousands of foreign terrorist fighters, supplies and weapons, and even uses humanitarian assistance convoys to hide them? That regime imprisons customs officers, judges andjournalists who expose it.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“Those terrorist groups launch rocket attacks indiscriminately at civilian areas and carry out suicide bombings, as happened in Horns, Rif Dimashq and Hasakah. Other areas, such as Kafraya and Fu'ah, and, for the past three and a half years Dayr ez-Zor and Zahra, are besieged from the outside by terrorist groups, while others, such as in Madimayet, Madaya and Duma, are besieged internally by terrorists. The terrorists prevent the entry of humanitarian assistance or seize it for their own use or to resell it to civilians. We have not seen any images of so-called moderate terrorists starving. Have representatives ever seen in the media an image of a hungry terrorist in Syria? No, only the civilians are hungry. Terrorists are not hungry because they receive dollars and weapons. They come from all over the world and do not go hungry.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“Adding insult to injury is the fact that some States have imposed unilateral coercive measures on the Syrian people, thereby aggravating our suffering. In that regard, it is incomprehensible that some insist on denying the role of the Syrian Government, attempting to portray it as primarily responsible for the humanitarian crisis, as we heard just now in Mr. O'Brien's statement. The height of the paradoxical nature of this scenario is reached when some accuse the Syrian Government of besieging some areas with the aim of starving its own people. However, they are unable to stop the continued outflow of armed terrorists and the financial support provided to them in the regions that they claim are being besieged by our Government.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“Looking at the situation from a partial perspective, in isolation from the external, political, military and economic interference in Syria, we do not deny the depth ofthe humanitarian crisis, as the Council well knows. However, we reject any suggestion that it can be dealt with seriously without dealing with the origins of and reasons for the crisis, which are rooted in the spread of armed terrorist groups supported from outside and their proliferation in our villages and cities while using civilians as human shields. The Under-Secretary-General called such externally supported armed terrorist groups "non-State armed groups". We have witnessed no humanitarian crisis anywhere apart from the areas that those terrorist groups have entered.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“Every year it has held dozens of formal and informal meetings, now almost daily. However, in that time we have had no resolutions dealing with the disastrous humanitarian situations in Palestine, Libya, Yemen or Somalia, despite the fact that in one Security Council meeting Mr. O'Brien indicated that the humanitarian situation in Yemen was far worse than that in Syria: more than 80 per cent of the Yemeni people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. As a Government, we cannot deny that there is a humanitarian crisis in Syria. Millions of people are displaced, refugees or disadvantaged. However, we deplore the mistaken way that the crisis has been dealt with so far.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“It is regrettable that, despite the fact that about five years have passed since the crisis began in Syria, some Governments still insist on using the humanitarian situation as a justification in order to achieve their narrow political ends, as if the suffering of the Syrian people were a mere commodity to be used for trafficking and political blackmail by this or that Government. The extent of the hypocrisy and cheap political exploitation of human suffering may perhaps be made clear through the way in which those States treat the humanitarian situation in Syria by comparison to their treatment of such situations in other States. The Security Council has adopted 15 resolutions on the situation in Syria, four of which relate to the humanitarian situation in the country.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Mr. O'Brien has described a brutal situation in my country and I am in full agreement with his description. However, I differ with him in ascribing the manifestations and reasons for that brutality. Today I will therefore try to shed some light on the reality of that brutality, which is shedding my people's blood, destroying our infrastructure and bringing all kinds of terrorists to my country. As a matter of fact, this brutal situation has been contributed to by some States that sit on the Security Council.”
2016-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7631 (2016) · source
“However, the United Nations must fill in the gaps - the enormous gaps - and undertake its responsibilities towards its Member States, according to the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and in fulfilment of the aims of the founding fathers.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“Indeed, carelessness has reached unprecedented levels when Saudi Arabia is entrusted with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre, Qatar is the sponsor of the Dialogue among Civilizations, Turkey will host the World Humanitarian Summit and Jordan, before the end of its mandated term as a Council member, was a member of the "peace troika" with Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The Council President indicated in the concept note (S/2016/103, annex) that the United Nations remains the best possible option in confronting the conflicts and mammoth challenges that are facing humankind. We agree with that.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“Those efforts have been conducted in tandem with calls from the Saudi regime for a military intervention in my country, under the pretext of combating the terrorism carried out by Da'esh, an organization founded and sponsored by the Saudi regime itself. Despite everything I have just mentioned, the Council has remained helpless, silent and unable to put an end to the attacks and aggression, and unable to carry out its main role, namely, the maintenance of international peace and security. We are discussing tragic facts, and therefore feel great sorrow for the hundreds of Syrians killed each day while the United Nations remains helpless and unable to hold the perpetrators of international terrorism accountable. The situation has reached unprecedented levels.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“The regime has repeatedly used mercenaries and foreign terrorist fighters that it has introduced, in partnership with other countries, into my country. The forces of the Erdogan regime have used heavy artillery to bomb areas occupied by Syrian Kurds and Syrian Arab army sites inside Syrian territory. On top of that, dozens of vehicles carrying machine guns and armed terrorist mercenaries have been sent to the area of Syria around A'zaz, besides Turkey allowing extreme terrorist groups to transit through Turkey to Syria in support of the Al-Nusra Front or Da'esh inside Syria. In addition to that, the Turkish regime has given those terrorist gangs chemical weapons that they can use against Syrian civilians and Government forces - chemical attacks that have been used as a pretext for indicting the Syrian Government.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“In that regard, I have to wonder about the commitment those countries made, when they joined the United Nations, to peaceful coexistence as good neighbours with other nations. Where is their respect for the principles of international law concerning friendly relations, as laid down in General Assembly resolution 2625 (XXV) of 1970? How can we interpret the silence in the United Nations surrounding these Governments' systematic violations of resolutions on counter-terrorism such as resolution 2253 (2015), 2199 (2015), 2178 (2014), 2170 (2014), 1373 (2001) and 1269 (1999)? Over the past few days, the Turkish Government has continued its acts of aggression against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic. Turkey's armed forces intervened directly in support of the terrorism the country sponsors.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“All of this has occurred without any apology, awakening of conscience or change in these countries' disastrous and shameful policies, which have only resulted in more bloodshed and suffering. Matters have not stopped there. The Governments of States Members of the Organization have gathered mercenaries, takfiris and foreign terrorist fighters from all over the world. They have armed and funded these terrorist criminals and sent them to Syria and Iraq, wrongly terming them jihadis or moderate opposition. They have been sent to Syria in order to use our country as a base for their terrorist entities and in order to launch attacks from Syria on other countries around the world. Some have thought it wise to use the term "Islamic caliphate" as a title for Da'esh terrorists, in order to insinuate that Da'esh terrorism is a State effort.”
2016-02-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7621 (2016) · source
“The Governments of the States concerned fabricated and invented artificial entities that they promoted as an alternative to Syria's legitimate Government, and all of this was carried out in the context of lies aimed atjustifying the invasion of Syria, a State Member of the United Nations, in order to change its regime through the use of force. This was in addition to imposing unilateral coercive measures depriving the Syrian people of daily needs such as food, medicine and fuel, along with further inflaming the situation in order to create false humanitarian pretexts justifying military intervention - a situation that also recalls the experience of Libya with a situation that its entire people, indeed the whole world, is still suffering from.”
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“Since the earliest days of the crisis, members of the Organization have exploited the Security Council in order to interfere blatantly in Syria's internal affairs. That has further inflamed the violence and terrorism, has promoted false claims and lies, demonized the Syrian Government and aggravated the crisis, in addition to hindering efforts to arrive at a peaceful settlement. All of these are part of efforts to undermine Syria's stability, security and national sovereignty and attempting to change its regime by force.”
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