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“Whoever is keen, in deed and not simply in words, to protect those segments of Syrian society must first and foremost deal with the root causes ofthe problem of the terrorism that has been targeting all Syrians for over four years now. That must be done through the serious implementation of all Council resolutions on combating terrorism, in particular resolutions 2170 (2014), 2178 (2014) and 2199 (2015). It is not possible for some States to continue to hold meetings and deliver statements about protecting certain segments of society in Syria, Egypt and other countries while they simultaneously support those who engage in terrorism. Those who continue to finance, arm and train the terrorists are their partners and are thus responsible for the suffering of the Syrian people.”
2015-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7419 (2015) · source
“The crisis has once again proven that there are no minorities in Syria, but rather national and socially coherent segments who oppose anyone who targets them. They refuse to be tampered with, whatever their names, their minority affiliation or the divisive denomination they belonged to prior to the formation of the modern State. Some try to distort the tolerant image of Islam through brutal terrorist organizations such as Daesh or seek to create imaginary fronts. The only purpose of such acts is to buttress Israel's objective of establishing a racially distinct State for the Jews on Palestinian land. Those ethnicities lived in peace for decades, even centuries, jointly facing their common enemies.”
2015-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7419 (2015) · source
“The main objective of the plot against Syria is to tear that fabric and divide the country into city states and entities that can then be devoured by the viruses of ethnic and sectarian affiliations. That fabric, with all the warp and woof of its national character, has thwarted all such designs against Syria, although the terrorists, who have no principles, spare no effort to undermine the country. This is terrorism of an unprecedented nature, which has emerged and thrives with the help of certain Member States, some of which are members of the Security Council. Those States are known by all. They take pride in publicly training, arming and financing the armed terrorist groups, be they Daesh, the Nusra Front, the Jihadis of the Free Army or the so-called armed moderate opposition.”
2015-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7419 (2015) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I will not comment on what has been said by the colleague who just took the floor; I will, however, comment on similar statements. Despite the fact that the crisis in my country has entered its fifth year, the minarets of mosques and bells of churches still call out for peace and love in the cradle of civilizations and religions that is Syria. The former director of the Louvre museum, Andre' Parrot, called Syria the homeland of civilized men. For thousands of years Syria has woven, on its pure soil, a diverse social fabric threaded through with love, mutual respect, brotherhood and coexistence in a manner unparalleled in human history.”
2015-03-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7419 (2015) · source
“In conclusion, I would like to say that the people under siege in Syria number not 440,000 but the 23 million citizens of Syria, who are suffering under the various coercive measures and sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States, among others.”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“We are willing to cooperate with the United Nations and facilitate its work, but such cooperation is not a one-way street. In return, the United Nations must commit to abiding by its guiding principles in providing humanitarian assistance. It must cooperate with the Syrian Government, coordinate its actions with the Government and consult with the Government regarding the various humanitarian situations, rather than attacking it with unconstructive criticism. The United Nations and various humanitarian organizations have succeeded in providing humanitarian assistance to more than 4 million Syrians every month inside Syria's territory, thanks to the Syrian Government's cooperation.”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“The fact is that those are areas that are under siege from inside by armed terrorist groups, and it is they who are preventing humanitarian assistance from getting access - or, if they allow it to enter, they steal the aid. The report did not discuss the negative consequences for the humanitarian situation in Syria resulting from the coordinated unilateral measures imposed on the Syrian people. Those negative consequences were acknowledged in the reports of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. I would like to stress that the Syrian Government is committed to meeting its responsibilities with regard to alleviating the humanitarian suffering of its people. We are willing to take every possible measure to achieve that.”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“Did the supervisor of those two staff members explain that paragraph sub-paragraph 35 (d) of the annex to General Assembly resolution 46/182 requires of United Nations staff working in humanitarian assistance that they obtain the consent, inter alia, of the host Government, in particular here the Syrian Government, the principal party with which they should be in touch in order to ensure their access to emergency areas. The drafters of the report persist in blaming the Syrian Government for laying siege to some areas and preventing humanitarian access to them. However, the report fails to explain how weapons and ammunition can continue to reach those regions or how come those weapons are used to launch indiscriminate rocket attacks and other terrorist attacks in safe areas.”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“But the question that should be asked here is what really is the mandate that the UNICEF personnel are working under in this case? The question I have for those who are quick to criticize the Syrian Government's decision is about the relationships that the UNICEF employee had to other groups in Aleppo. Why would he contact the armed groups without the knowledge of the Syrian Government? Is there any justification for the continued demands of another staff member wanting to know the location of the Syrian army or the kinds of weapons being used in Aleppo?”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“The question that must be posed here is how could the authors verify their authenticity of reports in areas controlled by ISIS unless the sources were the Chechen Abu-Usama, the Saudi Abu-Moussab, the Libyan Abu-Suhaib, the British Abu-John or the Jordanian Abu-Abdullah? I would like to rdaw the attention of Ms. Amos to the total destruction ofa school for deaf and dumb children in the city of Raqqa, as a result of one of those air raids by the so-called coalition. What adds insult to injury is that the report does not even attempt to discuss the loss of life and the destruction of Syria's infrastructure caused by the international coalition's raids. The report says that the Syrian Government declared three of its staff persona non grata.”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“Despite all of this, the Syrian Government was ready to facilitate the operation of the convoys whenever possible, provided that such assistance would not end up in the ends of terrorist groups, in addition to guaranteeing the safety and security of humanitarian workers. Thirdly, the report states that the Syrian Government is attacking the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in some cities and towns, which refutes some of the naive assertions made by some of my colleagues in the Council to the effect that the Syrian Government is not fighting ISIS. That is something we have heard many times in the Council. However, despite all of the foregoing, the report of the Secretary-General claims that such attacks led to the killing of civilians and the destruction of infrastructure.”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“The Ministry learned about this later on from then United Nations on 9 March, one month later. This is against standard procedures, whereby delivering assistance to hard-to-reach areas requires prior agreement between the United Nations and Syria. That requires a meeting of the joint Syrian- United Nations commission to discuss the details with regard to requests by the United Nations to provide assistance, in particular regarding then roads to be followed according to the security situation as well as assessing the number of beneficiaries and the distribution points so that we can guarantee the safe delivery of assistance material.”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“However, the report is Secretary- General failed to disclose the sources of those reports or their credibility and worthiness. Secondly, the report says that the United Nations sought access to 33 besieged or hard-to-reach areas. However, the United Nations was denied access to 31 areas and is still waiting authorization to access others. I would also like to say that, making such proposals in this poisonous manner is political and misleading, and that it fails to convey the full picture. The situation is as follows. In the second half of February, the field offices of the United Nations in Homs, Aleppo and Tartus sent those 33 requests to the governors of the areas directly without the Resident Coordinator's Office sending any such information to the main focal point in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“de Mistura, in accordance with the information he conveyed in his briefing to the Council last month, in the hope that such a proposal can contribute to improving the humanitarian situation in Syria. However, the terrorist groups and their driving force - which includes States - are the ones who refused to implement the proposal of Mr. de Mistura. Still some members of this Council refuse to address this negative aspect with the attention and follow-up that it deserves. The report of the Secretary-General before us (S/2015/l68) has many shortcomings and gross misrepresentations. I shall, by way of example, discuss some of them. We noticed that the report depended in many of the charges levelled at the Syrian Government on what it calls "reports".”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“I would like to draw the attention of Council members to the fact that the cost of international staff and their skyrocketing salaries usually comes at the expense of the beneficiaries - those who are benefiting from humanitarian assistance in Syria. We therefore call on the Secretary-General to submit a report on that topic. Secondly, a political solution should be supported through a Syrian-led intra-Syrian dialogue. As such, the Syrian Government continues to combat terrorism and, in parallel, is seeking to achieve a political solution. It openly and positively participated in the consultative meeting held in Moscow in January, and intends to participate in the second Moscow meeting, scheduled to be held within two weeks. The Government has also responded positively to the proposal made by Mr.”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“This is in addition to attempts to avoid shouldering responsibility, in particular in implementing Security Council resolutions on combating terrorism, including resolutions 2170 (2014), 2178 (2014) and 2199 (2015). Can we call the actions of some States, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, in spending billions of dollars in supporting and financing terrorism, which has been condemned by the Security Council, anything like concern over the humanitarian situation in Syria? Is it not the epitome of hypocrisy, while the 2015 Syria response plan did not receive even 9 per cent of the requested funding and the regional response plan for refugees received less than 6 per cent?”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“However, we differ with some States in as far as we believe that this suggestion should not be limited to words but that those words should be associated with serious and responsible action and that the matter should be discussed in a holistic manner. This has its own consequences, including the following. First, we should discuss the main reason for the emergence of the humanitarian crisis in Syria, which is primarily the widespread terrorist phenomenon being supported by outside forces. However, and regrettably, instead of that, some States are attempting to dissociate the phenomenon of terrorism from the humanitarian situation in Syria so as to prolong the crisis and the two issues as separate, with a view to blackmailing the Syrian Government under the pretext of repercussions.”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arabic Republic) (spoke in Arabic): The statements made by some Member States before the Council as well as elsewhere, as well as statements by the Secretary-General himself, continue to stress that there is there can be no humanitarian or military solution to the crisis in Syria. We agree with that suggestion in principal because the humanitarian suffering cannot be ended in full by providing some humanitarian assistance in one region or another. This is despite the fact that we fully understand the need for providing such humanitarian assistance and the important role that it has to play in alleviating suffering in the areas affected.”
2015-03-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7418 (2015) · source
“It is vital, therefore, to uproot organized terrorism, which prevails in a number of countries, such as in my own country, Syria, and in Iraq, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Mali, Colombia and others. The legitimate Governments of those countries, just as in my own country, are trying to uproot such terrorism, day after day. We must therefore all concentrate on this issue in an honest way instead of politicizing the debate and coming up with concept papers. We must also distinguish between the rights of legitimate Governments to combat terrorists who recruit children on the one hand, and the issue of children who are victims of non-State armed terrorist groups, on the other.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“What we now need to do is to put an end to the policies of the Governments that support terrorism with financial resources, weapons and training. We must take steps against those countries to implement the Council's resolutions against terrorism, including resolution 2199 (2015). And the Government of Syria must be given assistance to rehabilitate and reintegrate children into their communities. Otherwise, war materiel will continue to flood into Syria and there will be further bloodshed. The crisis will continue, producing future generations willing to kill or trained to kill under orders. In conclusion, the recruitment of children by non-State armed groups is an international issue that requires radical solutions.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“Furthermore, the Syrian Government adopted a decree to that effect on 6 May 2013. As an example, the Ministry for Social Affairs and Labour has identified a number of safe areas for children who have been liberated following their abduction and training by terrorist and Takfiri groups of all sorts. Those children with legal difficulties are sent to correctional facilities. Their cases are comprehensively evaluated by specialists, including in terms of their psychosocial state, so as to identify appropriate programmes and assistance to be provided to these children. Despite tireless efforts made by the Syrian Government to protect children from destructive Takfiri and Wahhabi ideology, we all know that we must uproot that phenomenon in order to deal with the problem.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“Terrorist attacks perpetrated by armed terrorist groups and by moderate opposition groups have increased in number and have targeted hospitals, infrastructures and schools, resulting in many victims, particularly among children. In 2015 alone, 85 children have been killed and 224 wounded. Those terrorist crimes have been the subject of many letters sent by the Syrian Government to the Secretary-General and to the President of the Security Council. The latest two are identical letters dated from 23 March 2015. Since the outset ofthe crisis, the Syrian Government, in line with its constitutional responsibilities to protect its own citizens, as is the case with all Member States, has taken measures to protect children, including some legal measures that prevent the recruitment of children into combat of any form.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“They grow into ignorent, bearded criminals who know nothing of civilization and the tenets of the Islamic religion. In the regions where they are present, these armed terrorist groups are depriving children education. Their education has been replaced by terrorist indoctrination. Similarly, those very groups have decreed that there is to be no education in certain areas of Syria until the State schoolbooks are modified in line with the groups' religious rulings. As documented in a January 2015 UNICEF report, the education of more than 670,000 potential Syrian schoolchildren in major cities has been disrupted. Furthermore, after being pillaged, schools and hospitals have become barracks and execution centres.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“We note that my country's delegation has on many occasions here in the Council Chamber vainly sought to draw the international community's attention to the phenomenon of the recruitment of Syrian children in those areas controlled by armed terrorist groups such as Daesh, the Islamic Front, the Army of Islam and other armed groups. Criminal brigades have been created and annointed with names such as Ashbal Al-Zarqawi. These young groups of children are part of the Al Nusra Front, and maybe the Council is unaware of what that group consists of. These brigades use children aged from 5 to 15 years; for them, childhood ends very early. They become adolescents who are trained to participate in fighting. Brainwashing takes place in the training camps, which prepares them to defend fatwas.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): During the four years of the Syrian crisis, terrorist organizations have striven to destroy the innocence of children and to create fertile ground for that tactic and for hatred. They have done that by educating terrorists - ifI can put it that way - in training camps in Syria and neighbouring countries. Various groups are involved in this, and they have become more deadly than in the past. Their recruitment targets children as young as the age of four years. Given the silence of some and the complicity of others, terrorism has been given license to spread across the globe, covering all four corners of the world.”
2015-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7414 (2015) · source
“We thank all those who are helping to alleviate the humanitarian suffering of our people with integrity and without hidden political agendas or manipulation of the grave situation.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“If the Security Council truly wishes to help Syrian refugees, it must first help them return to Syria, in cooperation with the Syrian Government, which has repeatedly reiterated its readiness to provide for all their basic needs, including shelter, until they can return to the homes they fled. In conclusion, I reiterate that the Syrian crisis can be resolved only through a peaceful, political settlement based on the relevant resolutions of the Security Council, international law and the Charter of the United Nations. The settlement should also be based on intra-Syrian dialogue, under exclusively Syrian leadership and free from all forms of foreign interference in our internal affairs.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“Guterres' presence here today to discuss the issue of Syrian refugees. I have already said that the crimes committed by the armed terrorist groups have forced Syrians to leave their homes in some regions and to become internally displaced persons or refugees in camps in neighbouring countries, where they are used to leverage political pressure and justify intervention and as pretexts for requests for financial assistance. Adding insult to injury, some of these camps are being used to train terrorists and recruit children who will later be sent to Syria, as confirmed in several international reports.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“Moreover, some have insisted on dispatching humanitarian assistance across the borders to implement a hidden agenda and achieve their goals through so-called humanitarian corridors, well aware that Turkey and Saudi Arabia are exploiting those resolutions by sending weapons and terrorists from Turkey or Jordan through the same corridors used by the United Nations. Thirdly, there is a serious funding shortfall. At a time when the Syrian Government is responsible for delivering the majority of the humanitarian assistance being distributed in Syria, the humanitarian plan was funded at only 48 per cent in 2014, whereas the funding for terrorist attacks in Syria was at 100 per cent or more, thanks to the generous contributions of Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. I take the opportunity offered by Mr.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“While assistance was provided within Syrian territory to some 3.4 million beneficiaries in January 2015 alone thanks to the efforts and collaboration of the Syrian Government and thousands of volunteers from the Red Crescent, we have witnessed the limited number ofbeneficiaries of assistance channelled across the borders, only 5 per cent of whom were reached. This proves that the measures adopted by the United Nations and implementing resolutions 2165 (2014) and 2191 (2014) were not effective.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“Given the shortfalls in the provision of humanitarian assistance, we need to undertake the following actions in order to avoid such shortfalls in future. We need first to reinforce the coordination and collaboration with the Syrian Government in order to guarantee access for humanitarian assistance for those who truly need it, by which I mean the civilians in the various Syrian regions without discrimination. We must make sure that humanitarian assistance does not fall into the hands of terrorist groups. We know that early this month ISIS seized assistance sent by the World Food Programme through Turkey. Furthermore, we have to make sure that the humanitarian assistance is provided from within Syrian territory.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“The Syrian army is fighting terrorism and protecting civilians in line with international law while taking great care to spare the lives of civilians living in the regions under terrorist threat. Our army is totally committed to the safety of those civilians, which has prevented us in many instances from uprooting those terrorists. Thirdly, we need to define the legal grounds on which humanitarian assistance is to be provided. Here we need to agree that it is necessary to work according to United Nations guidelines for the provision of humanitarian assistance in emergencies, as per General Assembly resolution 182/46, especially with respect to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States. Fourthly, let me turn to the mechanisms governing our methods of work.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“They have been calling them the "armed Syrian Opposition", ut we all know that the opposition in any given country cannot be anything other than a peaceful political opposition. As for the groups carrying weapons outside of State authority, recruiting thousands of foreign terrorist fighters and destroying, killing and wreaking havoc, these can only be called terrorist groups, according to the Security Council's own definition in this regard. I would like to mention that there are far more than 212,000 people being besieged in Syria. The correct figure is 23 million Syrians. Some 23 million Syrians are being besieged by countries supporting terrorism and imposing sanctions against the Syrian people. The second example concerns allegations that barrel bombs are being used and that seek to portray the Syrian Government as evil.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“The first example has to do with the allegations that the Syrian Government is besieging some regions and preventing access of humanitarian assistance to those regions. I would like to ask how it can be said that those areas are besieged while munitions are still finding their way to those regions from terrorist-supporting countries? Those weapons are then being used to launch indiscriminate missile attacks and undertake suicide bombings in Damascus, Aleppo, Horns, Dara'a and elsewhere, which had, as of 22 February, claimed the lives of 17,186 Syrian civilians, including 1,867 children. Some report authors have come up with a new denomination to describe the terrorist groups.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“Secondly, we need the immediate lifting of the unilateral compulsory measures that have been imposed against the Syrian people by some countries, including members of the Security Council, that claim to defend the Syrian people. I would like to note that the European Union, for instance, has imposed sanctions prohibiting the provision of fuel to civilian aircraft, as well as sanctions against the Ministers for Relief, Electricity and National Reconciliation. Thirdly, we must refrain from politicizing humanitarian issues in Syria, including in the reports submitted by the Secretariat. We have conveyed to the Council the comments of the Syrian Government on the report currently under discussion, but I would like to give just two examples of such politicization.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“We cannot speak about improving the humanitarian situation while weapons and training are still being provided to terrorists under the slogan of "moderate Opposition". The former American Ambassador to Syria recently recognized that this so-called moderate Opposition is collaborating with the Al-Nusra Front and defending it. Secondly, we must determine the goal we are seeking to achieve. Here we need to answer the following questions: Is the goal to improve the humanitarian situation in Syria or is it for some to exploit the suffering of the Syrian people as a means of pressuring the Syrian Government? If we agree that the objective is indeed to improve the humanitarian situation, we should do the following. First, we should deal with the terrorist phenomenon as I explained previously.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“We have to agree that any measure will fall short of alleviating the human suffering of the Syrians in need as long as the relevant Security Council resolutions are not implemented, especially resolutions 2170 (2014), 2178 (2014) and 2199 (2014), in collaboration and coordination with the Syrian Government. In other words, we have to put an end to the practices of the Turkish-Qatari-Israeli-Saudi terrorist alliance that is supporting, funding and arming ISIS, the Al-Nusra front, the Free Syrian Army and the other terrorist groups that are embracing the ideology and practices of Al-Qaida. This was reaffirmed recently by the American General Wesley Clark, the former Supreme Commander ofNATO, when he said that ISIS was the product of the funding of close friends and allies of the United States.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“If we follow the humanitarian crisis objectively, it can be seen that the crisis, including the refugee and displaced person crises, has arisen only in the areas controlled armed terrorist groups. The best example is what happened in the city of Aleppo, which maintained its stability and prosperity for more than a year and a half after the onset of the crisis, without any problems, until some countries decided to ask their terrorist groups, which are multinational and trans-border in nature, to enter that city and take civilians as human shields.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“We also need to define the standards that should govern our working mechanisms in order to duly contribute to alleviating the humanitarian suffering of the Syrian population. To this end, we have to start diagnosing the root causes of the problem. Secondly, we have to determine the goals we seek to achieve. Thirdly, we must adopt the legal grounds on the basis of which we will be working. Fourthly, and finally, we must set out the mechanisms governing our work. I would like to detail each of these points separately. First of all, let me address how to diagnose the root causes. It is high time for some parties, after a long period of denial, to recognize that the root cause of the humanitarian crisis in several areas of Syria is the result of the expansion of terrorism supported by foreign forces.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“Why is her country allowed to target terrorists in other countries' territories while our air force is not allowed to target the same terrorists on our own territory? And why is it that a terrorist we are targeting on our land becomes an innocent civilian on whom we are dropping barrel bombs? A year has now passed since the adoption of resolution 2139 (2014) and it has been more than seven months since the adoption of resolution 2165 (2014) seeking to deal with the humanitarian situation in Syria. Nonetheless, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate in some regions, begging the question, "Why?" To answer this question, we need a serious assessment of how we have been dealing with this important humanitarian dossier.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“Such a serious assertion reveals the identity of those who are supporting ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and Lebanon. It also shows why a terrorist, such as ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front are still in the region, and it illustrates the facat that they are not truly fighting those two terrorist organizations. I also heard a colleague say that our air force is targeting terrorists with what she called barrel bombs. Regardless of the fact that there is nothing called a barrel bomb in military terminology, it is worth noting that the air force of that colleague has been targeting terrorists with cruise missiles, smart bombs and other highly destructive weapons.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“A year ago the Security Council adopted resolution 2139 (2014), which condemns the destruction of the cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria by ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front. Since some Member States are not serious about fighting ISIS and theAl-Nusra Front by way of this resolution, ISIS terrorists demolished the Mosul Museum today, and sold 100 pieces of cultural heritage in London in an auction sale a few days ago. Despite all that, we are still hearing some speakers ignoring the errors in the policies of their Governments towards my countries. They insist on blackmailing the Syrian population and the international community's opinion by repeatedly saying, as we heard only minutes ago, that as long as President Al-Assad stays in office, ISIS and the Al-Nusra Front will remain strong.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, allow me to pay tribute to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and to the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. I thank them for their briefings on the humanitarian situation in my country, Syria. I would also like to thank the presidency for issuing a press statement (SC/11799) this morning condemning the fact that terrorists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have kidnapped more than 100 Christian Assyrians from their villages in Al-Hasakeh governorate. I would also like to thank all the speakers who sympathized with the humanitarian suffering being experienced by large segments of the Syrian population as a consequence of the persistence of the crisis. I would like to start with a few preliminary comments.”
2015-02-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7394 (2015) · source
“In response to the statement made by the representative ofthe United States, who is a specialist in international law, need I remind her that the Pentagon's training of mercenaries in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to deal with Syria is a flagrant violation of the principles of the Charter and prohibited under resolutions 2170 (2014), 2178 (2014), 2195 (2014), and 2199 (2015)?”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“I have with me today a 500-page document that includes the names of thousands of foreign terrorists who were killed in October 2013 alone. Hundreds of those were nationals of Council members. We are talking about realities and we feel deep pain. Thousands are being killed in Syria, Iraq and other States in the context of the inertia of the so-called international community and its inability to bring to account the masterminds of international terrorism. If the United Nations is not compelled to respect the principles of the Charter and international law, it will have lost its moral quality and will have become a weapon for the strongest against the weakest.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“Just yesterday morning, it carried out an aggression on Syrian territory when hundreds of soldiers and armoured divisions from Turkey made an incursion into Syrian territory. That aggression demonstrates Turkish intentions to expand into the region and the depth of the relationship between the Turkish regime and the terrorist group ISIL. Where are the promises made by those States, when they joined the United Nations, to live together in peace and in relations of good-neighbourliness? Where is their respect for the principles of international law concerning friendly relations and cooperation among States, set out in General Assembly resolution 2625 (XXV) of 1970? How can the representatives of these influential countries who have spoken today explain these violations? Why is the Security Council unable to condemn these practices?”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“The brotherly Libyan people and the whole world continue to see the disastrous effects of such an approach, without hearing the least apology from those who responsible for these deadly destructive and serious actions. We see no enlightenment or change in their disastrous policies, which have heaped shame upon them and bled our peoples. The situation does not stop there. Certain influential States members of the Council have worked to guide their puppet regimes in the region and encouraged them to gather terrorists, criminals, foreign mercenaries and bloodthirsty Takfiris from throughout the world, to finance and arm them, and send them to Syria and Iraq to establish their pseudo-State and make Syria a new base for their terrorism against the rest of the world. The Turkish regime has gone further still.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“Since the initial days of the crisis - and we are now in its fifth year - certain States have used this forum to intervene flagrantly in the internal affairs of Syria and worked relentlessly to provoke, spread lies, demonize the Syrian Government, exacerbate the crisis and support terrorism in all its forms, as well as to block efforts to achieve a settlement, destabilize Syria and undermine its policies and its strategic, national sovereign choices in order to promote regime change through force and terrorism. Certain States have also sought to impose unilateral measures against the Syrian people and to lay the groundwork and find excuses for military intervention on the basis of falsehoods, as we saw in the Libyan experience.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“We see this in Boko Haram, the Movement of East Turkestan, the Caucasus Emirate, Ansar al- Sharia, Al-Shabaab, and others. Syria reaffirms in this respect that all efforts aimed at putting an end to terrorism will be successful only if we stick to the principles of the Charter and international law and cooperate with the Governments and institutions of the States involved, since certain States make use of terrorism as a tool for international policies, and only if we stop ignoring the fact that others actually practise terrorism. The situation in Syria and other States of the region demonstrates the deplorable state the United Nations is in.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“This concept that does not enjoy full international support and has been used to justify colonialist, bloody, military interventions in certain areas, for example in Iraq and Libya, which are now dealing with chaos and terrorism. It is also used to impose illegal unilateral measures against certain States, including Syria. Thirdly, the United States, which won the Second World War and defeated fascism and racism, must now work seriously and sincerely on the civilian and military fronts to address the terrorist tidal wave represented by international terrorist groups linked Al-Qaida, such as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Al-Nusra Front and their offspring in Syria and Iraq, which are supported from outside.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source