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Jaafari

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“Despite the lack of implementation of those resolutions and despite the many groups that are conspiring against us in Syria and continuing to provide misinformation and false allegations, we will continue to fight our war against terrorism in order to protect our people and to rid the world of that scourge. The terrorist war has been unleashed and is now hitting targets in Damascus and Baghdad and spreading to Abuja and Tunisia. It has reached Kuwait and Paris and Sydney and Boston. The Council is therefore called upon to wake up before it has regrets, at a time when regret will have no benefit. Finally, the Government of Syria is exerting its utmost effort to end the crisis in Syria via the peaceful means adopted by the Security Council and, naturally, approved by the Syrian Government and by all of those with good intentions.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“The Syrian army, by eliminating foreign terrorists in Syria, is protecting dozens of innocent people who could become potential victims of those terrorists when they return to their countries to carry out such activities there. The recent tragic events in Tunisia, France and Kuwait have proved us right. Those who seek to discredit that illuminating truth are partners in spreading the scourge of terrorism. However, Syria's steadfast Government, people and army have led the Security Council to adopt three important resolutions under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, on combating Daesh, the Al-Nusra Front and other terrorist organizations, as well as on combating the phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“Yet those Member States have not missed an opportunity to hold fabricated emergency meetings and side events in order to direct false allegations against the Syrian Government, which has so far signed six humanitarian response plans with the United Nations enabling it to provide humanitarian assistance to nearly 10.5 million Syrian citizens in April, May and June. Of course, the report did not mention the Syrian Government's cooperation. All of the assistance that was described in the report was indicated as being provided by United Nations agencies, disregarding the Syrian Government's efforts to provide protection to the agencies that are providing aid. In Syria, we are fighting terrorism on behalf of humanity as a whole.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“In order to prove the hypocrisy and double standards related to the efforts of those countries in dealing with those noble principles, it is enough to note that they not only hid the Saudi regime's support for terrorism in Syria, but they went even further by covering up the Saudi war crimes in Yemen. In fact, such actions have prevented the delivery of humanitarian aid, thus causing widespread famine in Yemen, especially in the holy month of Ramadan. The Saudi regime has prevented even aircraft operated by the Red Cross from delivering medical aid to Yemen. Despite all of that, we have not seen any of the Member States that have appointed themselves the promoters of human rights and the protectors of civilians in Syria say a word to condemn such Saudi practices.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“I would like to emphasize that the Syrian Government is ready to cooperate with all sincere stakeholders in the Security Council to improve the humanitarian situation in Syria, despite our awareness that some members of the Council have gone too far in their support for terrorism and have thus become part of the problem rather than part of the solution. Some of those members have used their support for human rights and the provision of protection and assistance to civilians as a tool to exert pressure in order to settle political scores with the Syrian Government.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“Prior to the aforementioned scandals, United Nations reports revealed the smuggling of weapons from Libya to Syria via Turkey and Lebanon. Prior to the current report, we forwarded to the Secretary- General and to the Council all of the documents and information proving the involvement of Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia in the smuggling of weapons and facilitating the entry of terrorists into my country, Syria. However, we have encountered and continue to encounter the flagrant denial of that by some members of the Council. Yet with each passing day, the correctness and credibility of our statements made since the beginning of the crisis, both within and outside the Council, have become increasingly clear, and now the crimes of terrorism have reached the countries of those that were denying its presence in Syria.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“However, they did provide weapons, instead of humanitarian assistance, through the border checkpoints that OCHA had insisted on in the light of resolution 2165 (2014). Judge Aziz Takci, one of the four Turkish judges arrested by the Erdogan regime after the scandal, has confirmed that more than 2,000 trucks loaded with missiles, rockets and bombs have been sent to Syria through Turkey. Also, the leader of the Turkish People's Democratic Party has confirmed that the massacre that took place in the town of Ayn al-Arab/Kobani last week, which claimed the lives of dozens of Syrians, was a result of the years of support by the Turkish Government to Daesh extremists. The Daesh terrorists travelled to Ayn al-Arab through Turkish territory.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“We must support the neighbouring countries of Syria, especially Jordan, and also provide financial support to the populations living close to the Syrian borders with Lebanon and Iraq in order to promote an environment conducive to the Syrian revolution". Before the leaking of the Saudi documents, the Turkish press revealed certain videos that proved the involvement of the Erdogan regime in smuggling weapons into Syria by way of convoys intended to contain medical aid. By the way, those convoys passed through the border checkpoints requested by OCHA at the time of the adoption of resolution 2165 (2014) on humanitarian access. At that time, we had requested guarantees on the communications and nationalities mechanism, but they were never provided by the Secretariat.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“It might be useful for some colleagues in the Council to familiarize themselves with the contents of the telegram sent by the Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon to his capital on 1 March 2012, during the first year ofthe crisis in Syria, while some delegations in the Council were maintaining that what was happening in Syria was a purely peaceful "spring" movement. Here I will quote an excerpt from the cable sent by the Saudi Ambassador: "We must continue to support the Syrian armed resistance by offering a high salary to each recruit defecting from the regular army and providing weapons equal to those possessed by the regime.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“They have ignored the indiscriminate mortar shells that fall daily on civilians in Damascus, Aleppo and other Syrian cities, killing thousands of innocent people. The Saudi documents newly leaked through WikiLeaks prove that Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been working since the first months of the crisis in Syria to militarize the situation by providing money, weapons and support to terrorist groups. They have successively referred to that as the "Arab spring", peaceful mobility and then moderate movement. WikiLeaks has also revealed that those three regimes in particular have formed a joint military committee for that purpose.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“The goal of those meetings has been to tarnish the image of the Syrian Government. However, they have deliberately neglected the role of the armed gangs that they brought into Syria to commit murder, slaughter, looting and ethnic and religious cleansing. They have ignored the massacres and murders committed by those gangs against civilians before each meeting of the Security Council on Syria. They have conducted interviews with takfiri and terrorist warlords, with gunmen, with those armed with machetes and swords, with those who eat human livers and hearts, and have given them legitimacy. They have presented them to the media as revolutionaries in order to cover up the slaughter, bloodshed, rape, captivity, bombings and beheadings.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“How can we improve the humanitarian situation in the country in the light of the fact that the American Central Intelligence Agency spends $1 billion annually, according to the Washington Post, on training terrorists in camps in Jordan, Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, as well in some European States, so as to form an army of 10,000 so-called moderate terrorists? That was not included in Mr. Ban's report and would never be included in his reports. The sponsors of terror try to link every heinous act on earth to the Syrian State; they have fabricated false witnesses; they have organized formal and informal conferences and meetings within and outside the United Nations. The last meeting of that type was the recent Arria Formula meeting, organized by France and Spain.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“There is no doubt that improving the humanitarian situation in Syria - in concrete and real terms - entails abandoning the wrong approach that I have just referred to. We cannot talk about ending the suffering and hardships of Syrians or about ending the humanitarian crisis in Syria against a backdrop of silence on Turkey and Jordan's continued use of their territories as bases and conduits for foreign terrorists and mercenaries. We cannot end the humanitarian crisis as long as the regimes in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other countries still prefer to support terrorism generously and call it a revolution instead of funding the humanitarian response plan - funding for which has not yet exceeded 25 per cent.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“To disagree with the Syrian Government is one thing, while to deny Syria's role in protecting its people and maintaining its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity - and to refuse to coordinate the fight against terrorism with Syria and provide it with humanitarian assistance - is another thing. To see the reality and deal with it as it is - in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the rules of international law - is one thing, while to be obsessed with targeting the Syrian Government with baseless allegations and to interfere in Syrian domestic affairs is something else. To deal with the catastrophic consequences of the humanitarian crisis in Syria is one thing, while to ignore the root causes of the crisis and to be preoccupied with marginal issues is something else entirely.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“The cards are now on the table, the veil has fallen, and the shedding of Syrian blood in the north and south of the country is coordinated through attacks organized in the operational military and intelligence headquarters in both Jordan and Turkey. That reality proves the lack of correctness and credibility in the approach adopted by some parties, since the beginning of the crisis, in dealing with the situation in Syria in general and with the humanitarian issue in particular. To settle political scores with the Syrian Government is one thing, while to adopt internationally unacceptable coercive measures against the Syrian people is something else.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): After the issuance of the Secretary-General's sixteenth report (S/2015/468) on the implementation of resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014) and 2191 (2014), on the humanitarian situation in Syria, there are still some Member States in the Organization that deal with that painful situation in isolation from the foreign interventionist, political, economic and military backdrop. Perhaps that situation reaches its utmost level of absurdity when those Member States present themselves as both the opponent and the judge at the same time. It is currently clear for everyone that many of those who lament the misery of the Syrian people are i in reality - the ones causing such misery.”
2015-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7476 (2015) · source
“New generations within and outside Syria will be raised against the backdrop of bloodshed and violence, which will only further the agendas of terrorist organizations and their backers and prolong the crisis, which may spread worldwide.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“As I mentioned earlier, the Syrian Government has spared no effort in cooperating with the Special Representative in the area of monitoring and reporting. However, we have not seen any effective or concrete actions to that end. What is required today is to put an end to the policies adopted by terrorism-sponsoring Goverments; some of these countries are members of the Council. It is also important to take measures to hold these Governments accountable and to implement the Security Council resolutions on combating terrorism, especially resolution 2199 (2015). It is also important to provide support for the Syrian Government, with a view to rehabilitating and reintegrating children into their communities. Otherwise, ammunition and fuel for this war will continue to flow into the country from outside Syria.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“These schools are used to stockpile weapons. The Special Representative ofthe Secretary-General is accusing the Syrian Government of targeting schools without really explaining the situation or indicating who is using them for terrorist purposes. The Syrian Government has spared no effort in fostering cooperation with the Special Representative's monitoring and reporting team; we have provided her Office with fully documented information on the hundreds of crimes and grave violations committed by these groups, in the hope that these acts will be immediately investigated. Some say that two thirds of the schools that were destroyed were destroyed by the Syrian Government, as if they had counted these schools one by one and thus reached this conclusion.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“The massacre was carried out because the villagers had refused to recruit their children into the Al-Nusra terrorist group. In this connection, our country supports adding the crime of the abduction of children as a form of grave Violation, identifying those responsible for such crimes and listing them in the annexes to the report of the Secretary- General. We must recall here that the crimes committed by Daesh and the Al-Nusra Group have their roots in the Middle Ages, with the Seljuks, the Ottomans and the Janissary army. Despite all of that, the Syrian Government is making every effort to protect its children from this terrorist extremist ideology. We have been successful in reopening 207 schools in the area of rural Hasakah, but more than 532 schools are still closed because they are controlled by Daesh operatives.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“They have targeted 4-year-old children. I do not believe that we have just been imagining the propaganda videos released by Daesh depicting children, some under 10 years old, collectively executing dozens of detainees held by that terrorist organization, either by shooting or beheading them. How have children come to commit these murderous massacres? Regrettably, terrorist groups have indoctrinated our children by teaching them their murderous ideologies, after abducting them from their loved ones and instructing them on how to commit such crimes, on the basis of takfiri and Wahhabi teachings. We have witnessed the horrendous and appalling massacre committed by Al-Nusra Front terrorist operatives against 40 Syrian civilians in the village of Qalb Al-Loza in rural Idlib last week. More than half of the victims were children.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“Despite what has been said, I think the general line of thinking behind this report is to ignore facts and only mention the numbers of the victims. It fails to mention the real causes behind the crisis and denies the role played by sponsor countries, especially their role in increasing the grave violations of the rights of our children, especially the recruitment of children by terrorist and extremist groups. Despite all those acts, our country has assumed its responsibility and provided protection for its citizens. I think we have to refute all the allegations against the Syrian Government, which is actually fighting terrorism, instead of accusing the countries that sponsor terrorism in the country. In Syria and the neighbouring refugee camps, the heinous ways used to recruit children are unprecedented.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“That leads us to one conclusion: the people who wrote these reports have become a tool in the hands of some influential countries in this international Organization with a view to tarnishing the image of the Syrian Government. The drafters of these reports will not accept any View that has not been endorsed by those influential countries. That accounts for the lack of any recommendation to add the Israeli armed forces to the lists in the annex of the report as the party responsible for the killing of thousands of Palestinians under occupation over the last six months. It also accounts for the failure by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General over the last years to even mention the suffering of the Syrian children in the occupied Syrian Golan.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“We have sent to the Office of the Special Representative a list of the names of the children killed by the terrorists and a list of the schools and hospitals that they targeted. We have sent her all the information that is relevant to her mandate and have provided her with hundreds, even thousands, of documents on actions committed by the terrorist armed groups against the children in Syria since the onset of the crisis. The latest of this correspondence was dated 30 March, and in it we provided Syria's detailed reply with regard to the allegations against the Government in Syria. That reply and the evidence we provided were not taken into consideration in this report. Not one of those actions we detailed were mentioned in the report. That is a source of concern for us and tarnishes the image of those who drafted the report.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“I would like to enlighten her cultural understanding and knowledge of the situation in Syria. We are discussing the third report on children and armed conflict issued by the Secretary-General based on the recommendations of his Special Representative Ms. Zerrougui. These reports should have taken into consideration the information received from all the parties concerned - particularly all Governments, including the Syrian Government - with regard to the situation of the children in our country. Regretably, however, what we have witnessed over the past years, despite our close cooperation with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and her Office, is a dubious disregard by that Office of much correspondence and documented governmental evidence refuting the allegations included in this report and the preceding reports.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“Those groups have spared no residential area, school or hospital from their acts. That has resulted in the death and injury of hundreds of civilians, the majority of whom are women and children. That was the subject of two letters that I sent to the President of the Security Council and the Secretary- General on 16 June, hoping that the information contained in those letters would be taken seriously by the leaders of this international Organization and not be omitted from their future reports. We have had to deal with this problem in the past, and we are still facing the same problem in the report of the Secretary-General under discussion today (S/2015/409). Just yesterday 7,000 mortar shells and rockets fell on the city of Aleppo. That figure could be useful to the representative of Luxembourg, who just had the floor.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“The second piece of news is directly related to the topic under discussion. According to the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, the Turkish regime has backed down from transporting 1 million detonators to terrorist groups in Syria Via Jordan. I wanted to bring those two pieces of news to the Council's attention. At the time when the Government of Syria is receiving the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, in Damascus, in keeping with its serious commitment to eliminating terrorism and to finding a Syrian political solution to the crisis in Syria, the terrorist armed groups, which some would like to call "moderate", have pounded the cities of Aleppo and Damascus and the rural areas with all kinds of missiles, shells and mortars, and have set off booby-trapped cars over the past two days.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to wish you, Mr. President, a blessed Ramadan. Allow me to congratulate my dear friend His Excellency Dato Sri Anifah Aman, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and his friendly country, Malaysia, on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month and for holding this important meeting. I would like to start with two pieces of news before I read out my statement. The first is that Daesh herds of Israeli settlers attacked and set fire to the Church of Loaves and Fishes on Lake Tiberias, in Upper Galilee, Palestine. That church was so named because Jesus Christ multiplied the fishes there. Today, the Daesh herds of Israeli settlers have burned it down and on its walls wrote malicious graffiti offensive to humankind and to religions.”
2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source
“She is a representative of the Secretariat and this international Organization. This oversteps her mandate and the functions of Secretariat staff members. She is not Syrian and she has no post in Syria that allows her to speak on behalf of the Syrian people.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“As of 27 May, that is to say as of yesterday, even though the Syrian Government has granted permission forjoint United Nations agency convoys to transport humanitarian assistance to difficult-to-reach or unstable areas, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has been able to provide only 30 per cent of what has been authorized. The Syrian Government is, moreover, now considering requests for permission to be granted for more joint convoys. Let me say onne final word. I hope this was a problem of interpretation, but while she was addressing the Council, I heard the Under-Secretary-General say "on behalf of the Syrian people". This is what the interpreter said. On behalf of my Government, I cannot allow the Under-Secretary-General to address the Council saying that she is speaking on behalf of the Syrian people.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“Only 17 per cent of the funding required for the 2015 Strategic Response Plan has been raised. This proves, once again, that certain countries, including, first and foremost, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and certain Western countries, only want to use the humanitarian crisis in Syria as a way to traffic commodities, as a means of political extortion and to further their own interventionist agendas. The Syrian Government has cooperated with the United Nations to facilitate the provision of humanitarian assistance to all civilians. On 9 April, it agreed to most of the requests made by the United Nations and other international organizations to ensure the provision of aid to certain unstable areas.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“I should also like to draw attention to the fact that the report fails to mention that the Turkish Government has allowed thousands of trucks to enter Syria illegally through checkpoints used by United Nations convoys bringing in humanitarian aid, and has used them to transport terrorists, weapons and dangerous materials to armed terrorist groups in Syria. That has endangered the United Nations convoys themselves - as we warned Ms. Amos when she asked the Security Council to adopt resolutions 2165 (2014). Furthermore, the unilateral economic measures imposed on the Syrian people are yet another cause of their humanitarian suffering. Those unjust and illegal measures must therefore be lifted and the funding gap for humanitarian activities in Syria addressed.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“How can reports by the Secretary- General make allegations against the Government of a State Member of the United Nations without basing them on reliable sources and without reading, taking note of or referring to the reports, letters, evidence and statements submitted by the Syrian Government during the past four years? This is a very serious precedent that will undermine what remains of the credibility of the Secretariat in its handling of humanitarian issues in Syria, unless it takes the credible and rapid action required to avoid such a situation.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“The report uses the term "reportedly" 15 times when allegations were made against the Syrian Government, but no information is provided regarding the source of those reports or their credibility. Even worse, the report goes further than that and makes allegations against the Syrian Government, including that it uses so-called barrel bombs, without even once using the term "reportedly", as if that matter was a proven fact. That is exactly what happened with regard to crimes in which terrorists, aided by Turkey, used chemical substances in Khan Al-Assel and other localities, and when chlorine gas and sarin gas were used in other areas.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“And after all that, there are still people who speak of a moderate armed opposition. Tomorrow we shall observe some people saying that the Security Council must remove the Al-Nusra Front from the lists of terrorist entities. I wager before all of you that this will happen soon. Once again, the latest report (S/2015/368) of the Secretary- General on the implementation of resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014) and 2191 (2014) contains many omissions and serious errors. Today we sent two identical letters to the President of the Security Council and to the Secretary-General in that regard. However, I shall only mention here that all the allegations contained in the report against the Syrian Government are based on undisclosed sources.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“Was it not the Al-Nusra Front that stormed Idlib and Jisr Al-Shughur recently, and the town of Ariha today, using the name Jaish Al-Fatah? Of course, before it was the Jaish Al-Fatah it was known as the Al-Shamiya Front. And before that, it was known as the Syrian Front, the Syrian Revolutionaries, the Hazam Movement, and so on as in a Hollywood series in which we see one episode after another. Did not the Qatari Al-Jazeera television channel yesterday invite Al-Julani, the commander of the terrorist Al-Nusra Front, so that he could inform us that there is now sharia law in Syria, and so that Qatar, in turn, could inform us in that interview that the terrorist Al-Nusra Front is a form of moderate terrorism that can be "laundered" just as mafia gangs launder dirty money?”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“It is no longer possible to continue misleading, defrauding and hiding behind the slogan of a moderate armed opposition in order to justify supporting terrorism. How can Chechen, Australian, British, French, Moroccan and Libyan citizens be part of a moderate Syrian opposition? It is very simple. Things have become crystal clear. There is no lawful terrorism and sinful terrorism - no halal and haram - just as there is no moderate and extremist terrorism. There are terrorist movements on the ground committing atrocious crimes with the support or acquiescence of some influential countries within and outside the Council. There is ISIS, the Al-Nusra Front and other terrorist groups that are allied with those two organizations and cooperate and work with them. Was it not ISIS that stormed Palmyra?”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“How can we speak of a political solution when, as we heard only a few days ago, the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs states that his country has an agreement with the United States to provide air support to terrorist groups in Syria? How can they claim to be rejecting a military solution when they are providing support to terrorists and opening training camps for them in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan, in the name of a moderate Syrian armed opposition? However, the real question we have for those States and for their representatives in this Chamber is this: Where is that moderate armed opposition on the map of Syria? Is it in Palmyra, in Idlib, in Jisr Al-Shughur or Derizor? Or maybe in Qalamoun, on our border with Lebanon? And what is the fate of the weapons and funds supplied to that moderate armed opposition?”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“In paragraph 33 of its recent report on foreign terrorist fighters (S/2015/358), the Monitoring Team, the Council's own experts, confirmed that the primary movement routes of foreign terrorists into Syria and Iraq ran through Turkey and, to a lesser degree, Jordan and Lebanon. Many Council member States often affirm, both inside and outside the Council - as do the Secretary- General and the senior staff of the Secretariat - that the only possible solution to the crisis in Syria is a political rather than a military one. However, it is obvious that this is simply a slogan for political and media consumption.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“However, Western countries threatened Iraq by saying that if Syrian artifacts were mentioned the draft resolution would not be adopted - as if Iraqi heritage were different from Syrian heritage, or ISIS in Syria were different from ISIS in Iraq, and as if those benefiting were two separate parties with no affiliation with each other. That general problem is also confirmed by the fact that ISIS continues to obtain weapons and attract new recruits to its ranks. The percentage of foreign fighters in ISIS increased to 70 per cent after the adoption of resolution 2178 (2014). That was also the testimony of the Security Council's Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, established pursuant to resolution 1526 (2004).”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“That would put an end to the alliance between Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia that supports, finances and arms the terrorist groups and which is supported politically and in the media by its paymasters and foreign sponsors. But the problem is that some influential States are not serious about fighting terrorism, especially terrorism as it is practised by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and organizations affiliated with it. That is used by some countries to exert pressure to prevent any coordination between Syria and Iraq in fighting ISIS. That policy was made manifest this morning when the General Assembly adopted resolution 69/281, on saving Iraqi artifacts. Syria was a sponsor of that resolution.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“That has resulted in the killing or displacement of a large number of innocent Syrians and robbed them of their livelihoods and dignity. It confirms once again that the humanitarian crisis, including the issues of internal displacement and refugees, has occurred only in areas entered by armed terrorist organizations. It is therefore crucial that the Security Council's resolutions on fighting terrorism be implemented, particularly resolutions 2170 (2014), 2178 (2014) and 2199 (2015), along with resolution 1624 (2005), which prohibits incitement to terrorism, and that they be implemented in full cooperation and coordination with the Syrian Government.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“The people's suffering cannot be completely alleviated simply by providing some humanitarian aid in one region or another, although we are fully aware of the importance of providing such assistance and of alleviating the suffering in the areas concerned. Recent developments have proved us right, since despite the fact that six humanitarian response plans were adopted in cooperation with the Syrian Government, taken all together they have still been unable to end the humanitarian crisis. In fact, we have seen new humanitarian crises develop in some previously safe areas in the wake of the incursions by some terrorist groups, such as we have seen in Palmyra, Idlib, Jisr Al-Shughur and today in the city of Ariha, in Idlib.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this important meeting on the humanitarian situation in my country. We have repeatedly stated in this Chamber and beyond that the humanitarian crisis in Syria cannot end if we do not deal with the root of the problem, which is the spread of foreign-backed terrorism. That has to accompany a Syrian-Syrian dialogue under Syrian leadership, without foreign intervention. That is the substance of the Geneva communique (S/2012/522, annex), Kofi Annan's six-point plan and what we achieved at the Geneva II talks, as well as the first and second Moscow conferences. It is the only serious path to ending what is called the crisis in Syria and to improving the humanitarian situation in a tangible, genuine and sustainable manner.”
2015-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7452 (2015) · source
“Those terrorist attacks have caused the deaths of 33 journalists and media personnel working with Syrian media institutions, and scores of others have been attacked, injured, kidnapped and held in detention by armed terrorist groups that certain powerful members of the Security Council pride themselves on training, openly, in Turkey, Jordan and other countries.”
2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450Resumption1 (2015) · source
“Numerous global television channels and Internet websites openly promote terrorism, attract and recruit foreign terrorist fighters and bring them to Syria from all parts of the globe, in deliberate violation of relevant Security Council resolutions and other international counter- terrorism instruments. While this is happening, a suspicious paralysis has beset the Security Council and its subcommittees, coinciding with attempts to silence the Syrian media by targeting their institutions through terrorist acts of sabotage, and by abducting and assassinating its personnel.”
2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450Resumption1 (2015) · source
“On behalf of my Government, 1 have addressed official letters to the Secretary-General and successive Presidents of the Security Council reaffirming that we seek to guarantee the safety and security ofjournalists wishing to work in Syria. We ask them to abide by official regulations, to stay out of danger and not to put themselves in situations where the Syrian authorities would be unable to guarantee their safety. For the fifth consecutive year, an unprecedented media campaign continues to incite terrorism and violence, sow divisions and concoct lies concerning the events taking place in my country, in flagrant violation of resolution 1624 (2005) and media ethics, or what is left of such ethics if they even exist.”
2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450Resumption1 (2015) · source
“The Syrian Government has made great efforts, in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, to free the abducted journalists and evacuate the wounded and the remains from the areas where armed terrorist groups are found and repatriate them. Nevertheless, some journalists unfortunately continue to illegally infiltrate Syrian territory through our borders with neighbouring countries, sometimes with the help of armed groups or with the assistance of the authorities of neighbouring States, which leads some of them to face grave danger. Others are arrested and then released and allowed to leave Syria.”
2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450Resumption1 (2015) · source
“The Syrian Government still welcomes and receives journalists who wish to enter Syria, but it requires that they do so in a legal manner and through the official border crossing points in order to be able to work freely. The Syrian Government attaches great importance to the safety and security ofjournalists and asks them not to enter Syria illegally, which would put them in harm's way. It also requests that journalists avoid the places where terrorists groups, especially Daesh and the Al-Nusra Front, are present. It is unfortunate that some foreign journalists have become victims of terrorism, having faced aggression, abductions, detentions and murder, just like their Syrian counterparts.”
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“From the very first weeks of what is called a crisis, it enacted a new law on media in a reform effort that aims at enhancing the freedom and transparency of the work of the media. In cooperation with the former Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on the Syrian crisis, Mr. Kofi Annan, the Syrian Government committed to implementing his six-point peace plan, including point 5, relating to the access and work of journalists. This Syrian commitment was reflected in the delivery of authorizations to enter and work in the country to hundreds of Arab and non-Arab foreign journalists. That was confirmed at the time by Mr. Annan, when his Office said that it had verified journalists' access to Syria and that the requests he received then were only requests to extend the periods of visits.”
2015-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7450Resumption1 (2015) · source