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Jaafari

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“In the end, their homeland is the final refuge for its people, especially if we take into consideration the fact that the suffering of Syrian refugees has become a political commodity to be traded crassly; likewise for the suffering, deteriorating health, living and security conditions and unethical indignities imposed on the Syrians living in refugee camps. The Syrian Government has abided by all of the provisions of the presidential statement issued by the Security Council on 2 October 2013. I myself welcomed it a few minutes after its adoption. Many of its provisions are reiterated in the resolution just adopted by the Council.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“Recently, a number of local reconciliation processes have been implemented, sending a clear message to the world that the people of Syria are capable of resolving this crisis by themselves, free of any outside manipulation of their interests. What we have just heard from a colleague - that the security forces arrested some Syrians following their surrender within the reconciliation process - is entirely untrue and I hereby deny it in front of all present. In that context, the Government is working round the clock to make sure that all service facilities in those areas will be ready to provide for the needs of the residents and to receive the remaining displaced persons who are willing to return to their homes to live in peace and stability.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“The Syrian Government announced early on that it was serious and sincere in seeking to resolve the crisis through a political process built on dialogue with all political actors and civil, cultural and economic constituencies within the country, including the national opposition and those armed groups that lay down their weapons and give priority to the language of reason and law in order to preserve the country and safeguard its institutions. In that context, the Government has provided genuine judicial, security and political guarantees to those who wish to be involved in that national process. Indeed, the Government approach has led to concrete results on the ground in several areas of Syria.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“Law enforcement is at the heart of State authority, and that includes countering terrorist activities carried out on our territory. No one can deny the duty of and exclusive right of the State to do so. In addition to the terrorist activities I just mentioned, it is well known that the coercive unilateral economic measures illegitimately imposed by certain States against the Syrian people have had a negative impact on the livelihoods and living conditions of the Syrian people. There is also the additional obstacle of the lack of humanitarian financing. The financing of the humanitarian response plan for 2014 has not exceeded 7 per cent of the required funding, in spite of the highly publicized conferences being held left and right. The amount of financing for the regional response plan for Syrian refugees has not exceeded 13 per cent.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“In addition, they are intentionally targeting in a premeditated way humanitarian convoys, which they have repeatedly plundered. They have also attacked and killed several humanitarian workers, in addition to mounting attacks and blockades against a number of areas of Syria, depriving the civilian inhabitants of humanitarian aid for long periods. Such use of civilians as humanitarian hostages and human shields seeks to prevent the Syrian security forces and army from taking action against the terrorists. In that context, the Syrian Government, like those of all other States Members of this Organization, is upholding its constitutional right and obligation to fight terrorism, which is indiscriminately targeting Syria. It is doing so based on international law and the resolutions of the Council.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“The Syrian Government has long welcomed all sincere efforts to improve the humanitarian situation in Syria and has cooperated positively with the United Nations. We also welcomed the presidential statement of October 2013 and abided by its provisions. Humanitarian support to the Syrian people cannot be effective unless it is accompanied in word and deed by an end to the efforts to politicize humanitarian issues and an end to terrorist acts. The activities of the armed terrorist groups, including those associated with Al-Qaida, are the main cause of the humanitarian suffering of the Syrian people. Those armed terrorist groups systematically target infrastructure, destroying the country and bleeding it of its resources.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“The fact that some members of the Council have sought to reduce the situation in Syria to a politicized humanitarian issue alone itself exacerbates the humanitarian crisis and trades on the suffering of the Syrian people. It is also a biased and subjective reading of the situation, which masks the serious interventionist agenda that seeks to manipulate the humanitarian crisis and mislead international public opinion. Suffice it to say that some members of the Council have objected eight times to the adoption of even a press statement denouncing terrorist acts that have taken the lives of thousands of innocent Syrian civilians. Those same States that are so very eager to discuss the humanitarian situation in Syrian have also refused to provide ambulances and wheelchairs for people with special needs.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“Some States have exposed their deep frustration at the emergence of positive developments in the humanitarian and political fields. That frustration was reflected in destruction and terrorism. The Syrian Government has paid the price, and continues to do so. In addition, there has been a campaign of increasingly provocative statements and inflammatory meetings to encourage and provoke, clearly and crudely, the armed terrorist groups, which are under the command of certain Member States. Those States sponsor and train the groups with a view to depriving Syrian citizens of their daily bread and livelihoods. The Syrian people are left to sink deeper into suffering, as my dear colleague from Argentina said.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“We have covered 75 per cent of such assistance, whereas United Nations bodies and other international organizations operating in Syria have covered only 25 per cent of the total amount of assistance distributed. Certain Governments, some of which are members of the Council, have, in response to Syria's openness, cooperation and positive commitment in the humanitarian field, persisted in and maintained their campaign of deception, sowing doubts and spreading crude claims. That clearly reveals their evil intentions in principle against Syria. That has also revealed that some of them have sadistic intentions. They want to prevail in international relations at the expense of the pain, suffering and destroyed hopes of the Syrian nation.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“That would not have been possible had it not been for the cooperation of the Syrian Government and the measures it has taken to facilitate them as a full partner. I would like to give just one example in that regard, namely, the agreement by the Syrian Government to open a third air bridge to carry humanitarian assistance from the Iraqi city of Erbil to the Syrian city of Qamishli. That air bridge entailed 11 flights, while the first and second had 13 and 10, respectively. The Syrian Government has also offered to use its own air fleet to carry out those flights as a gesture of goodwill. In addition to the partnership I have just detailed, I would like to remind the Council of the fact that the Syrian Government has borne the brunt of the distribution of humanitarian assistance in Syria.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“The Syrian Government is fully committed to, and fully abides by, its international commitments, including its commitment to cooperate with the United Nations and its agencies in the humanitarian field, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 46/182 and the guidelines laid out therein, first and foremost of which is respect for the national sovereignty of States. Accordingly, in the context of the Syrian Government's implementation of the presidential statement of 2 October 2013 (S/PRST/2013/15), the Syrian Government has implemented a number of administrative and logistic measures that enable the United Nations and humanitarian organizations to expand their activities and increase their effectiveness.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I had wanted to welcome the presence of His Excellency the Secretary-General here with us, but he has now left the Chamber. I shall therefore proceed directly with my statement. Since the beginning of the crisis, the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic has been eager to improve the humanitarian situation of its people. Therefore, on the basis of its constitutional and international obligations, it has continued to work day and night to fulfil all the humanitarian needs of its citizens. In parallel to that, the Syrian Government has worked to restore peace and stability to the entire country.”
2014-02-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7116 (2014) · source
“Instead of hearing about efforts to promote the rule of law - the subject of this meeting - and to coordinate efforts to combat terrorism, the United States media informs us of a secret meeting held in Washington, DC, recently that included heads ofArab and Western intelligence organs, including members from this Council, to provide military support to the so-called Syrian opposition, in a clear breach of the rules of international law and its principles. In conclusion, my country, Syria, stresses its support for efforts aimed at promoting the rule of law internationally and nationally, and underscores that providing assistance to achieve that objective necessarily requires that we abstain from turning the issue into a pretext to to interfere in the internal affairs of States or undermine its sovereignty.”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“The Kuwaiti Member of Parliament Nabeel Al-Fadl also stated recently that his country for two decades had suffered from the loss of its sons in Afghanistan and Chechnya, after instigators managed to mislead and send them to fight under so-called legitimate justification. He added that Kuwait continued to receive the bodies of its dead sons who were sent with the same misleading fatwas to Syria. His colleague Saleh Ashour warned that no less than 20,000 Gulf and Arab fighters had decided to move to Kuwait completing their terrorist actitivies in Syria, stressing that changes on the ground in Syria were rapidly evolving, forcing many non-Syrians to exit the struggle there. That is all a drop in the bucket.”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“We have heard recently, following the killing of thousands and of innocent Syrians, many statements by Ministers for Foreign Affairs and security affairs in many Member States warning against the danger of terrorists active in Syria. In that context, the Director of National Intelligence in the United States, James Clapper, confirmed that 20,000 to 26,000 extremists are working in the terrorist armed groups active in Syria, including 7,500 foreign terrorists from 50 countries, including some former elements from Al-Qaida who had participated in wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and are looking forward to attacking Europe and the United States.”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“As for those States that export terrorism and blind extremist ideology - with Saudi Arabia at the forefront - following the exposure of their role in supporting terrorism, they have attempted to improve their image with regard to international public opinion by adopting sham legislation, threatening to prosecute terrorists returning from Syria but not those who are being sent to it. Nevertheless, can any reasonable person believe that the Saudi regime and its intelligence apparatus were not aware that thousands of Saudi extremists had joined what they call "the holy war in Syria" with the blessing of the promoters of the Takfirist fatwas and direct incitement from the Saudi regime's Foreign Minister?”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“The danger of terrorism in Syria has been heightened and its impact has become a threat to peace and security in other States, including Kyrgyzstan, which announced few days ago the arrest of a network of terrorists returning from Syria who had been plotting terrorist acts in the country. After all that, some States very belatedly have begun to take measures to address their failure to commit to the international instruments on counter- terrorism, such as stripping citizenship from those of their citizens involved in terrorist acts in Syria and preventing them from returning to their home countries, as if they are saying to them - to those terrorists - "continue fighting in Syria until you are killed or until whomever sent you to Syria moves you to another State whose stability and security are to be destabilized".”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“However, some Member States in this very Council and outside it have Closed their eyes and ears to our repeated calls - for more than two years - in our statements and through hundreds of formal letters, for the United Nations to shoulder its responsibilities in confronting the terrorist threat facing Syria, as a State and as a people. This is a terrorist menace that threatens security and stability in the region and in the world. Those Member States have turned a blind eye to the need to ensure the rule of law through their failure to hold accountable the Governments of Member States that support such terrorism with money, weapons and disgusting extremist Takfirist fatwas.”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“The answer to such questions is clear and does not call for any interpretation or explanation: those acts are a flagrant violation of the most fundamental principles of international law, the Charter of the United Nations, the principles of friendly relations among States and the international instruments on counter-terrorism. The fundamental objective behind enacting laws, signing of treaties and adopting United Nations resolutions on counter-terrorism is to ensure commitment from the very outset to preventing the spread of terrorism and combating its existing forms.”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“Is the reason behind that behaviour the alleged concern by those States forthe rule oflaw? Is the targeting of national law enforcement institutions - police stations, courts and civil archives and real estate records- the work of those who are concerned for the rule of law? On the other hand, can we consider as implementation of the rule of law the unilateral coercive measures imposed by some States Members of this Organization against my country, which have negative effects on the livelihood of Syrians and deprive them of the basic daily needs of life? Can we consider the continuing Israeli occupation of the occupied Syrian Golan and other Arab occupied lands - for decades now - or their continuing violation ofhuman rights and international humanitarian law to be implementation of the rule of law?”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“Those States have attempted to impose their hegemony and unilateral decisions on other States, using flagrant interventionist methods, provoking trouble and sedition and threatening to use force or actually using it, devising pompous concepts that serve their interests while at the same time politicizing other concepts that are already established. The crisis in my country, Syria, is clear evidence of the policies of flagrant intervention in the internal affairs of States and the endeavours to destabilize its security, stability, unity and territorial integrity through the actions of Governments of States - which have become known to all - to support, fund and arm extremist terrorist elements and foreign mercenaries and send them to Syria to ravage, terror and devastate.”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“The rule of law at the international level can help to maintain international peace and security, for it helps prevent conflicts and contributes to active efforts to resolve whatever conflicts might break out before they become worse. The absence of the rule of law at the international level would open wide the door to foreign intervention in the affairs of States and to their destabilization. That has happened since the end of the Cold War, and unfortunately it continues to happen. Experience has shown that the challenges to the rule of law at the international level have not resulted from a lack of international mechanisms or instruments. Rather, they have been caused by the selectivity and double-standards approach adopted by certain influential States in dealing with international law.”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“Instead, we must evaluate what has been achieved and identify shortcomings in order to find the ways likely to deal with them, to establish the rule of law pursuant to the Charter's provisions and the values of our international organizations. The rule of law is an indivisible whole. It is unreasonable and unacceptable to concentrate on the rule of law at the national level only and ignore it at the international level. Respect for the principles of international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations is the cornerstone on which to establish the rule oflaw in general. Furthermore, respect for the rule of law at the international level could create the necessary environment to achieve the rule of law at the national level.”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): The presidency's choice of this theme at this time is of the utmost importance, because the issue of the rule of law, particularly at the international level, has become a genuine concern to many States, especially developing States. The law has been neutralized - in spirit in most cases, and in letter in many cases - to serve interpretations in the interest of certain States and groups of States. We are not trying to reinvent the wheel and start, regardless of the Charter's provisions, to lay down the bases of international relations and national commitments and their rules anew when we talk about the rule of law as a means to maintain international peace and security.”
2014-02-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7113 (2014) · source
“The same delegations have ignored the declaration from Damascus by Palestinian Minister of Labour Ahmed Majdalani that terrorists, Islamists and religious people, financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatari intelligence, are the ones who fired against the convoy of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) that was attempting to enter the refugee camp. The Director of UNRWA was there, as was the Palestinian Ambassador to Damascus and the Palestinian Minister of Security, and they were all witnesses to the firing on the assistance convoy attempting to enter the Yarmouk refugee camp. There is much to be said. However, I will not delve into further details, as the subject under discussion is that of the question of Palestine and of putting an end to the Israeli occupation.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“Turkish freight trucks sent by the Turkish Government, supposedly carrying humanitarian assistance to Syria, were stopped by coincidence on Syrian territory by the police. It turned out that they were filled with weapons, and not with medication, milk for infants or warm clothes for the refugees. No, they were filled with weapons. However, those weapons, according to the Turkish Government, are humanitarian assistance. Those freight trucks were stopped. When they were searched and the weapons discovered, the Head of the Turkish Government laid off hundreds of police officers, judges and other people involved because they uncovered this deceptive action at the Yarmouk refugee camp, the home of Palestinian refugees - our brothers, our sisters - until a decision is made by the United Nations for a return to their occupied territories.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“At a time when the Foreign Ministers of the United Kingdom, France and other countries, including the chief of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, have admitted their fear of the return of the terrorist elements who are shedding Syrian blood in Syria to their home countries. If they continue to shed Syrian blood in Syria that is fine; but for them to return to their homelands in the West, that is a problem for them. Preferably, they should continue to shed the blood of Syrians in Syria and not return to their Western States of origin. "Kill the Syrians and let the Syrians kill you". That is the solution. "But do not come back to your capitals because you are unwanted." It is as if those terrorists left their countries wearing invisible attire and as if their Governments had no knowledge of their departure.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“However, I would like to remind everyone that it is the same terrorist group - the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant - that has struck both Iraq and Syria. This fact is well known to all. Some have condemned its activities in Iraq, but they have not been able to utter a word condemning the existence of the same terrorist organization in Syria. It is truly shameful that hypocrisy should reach such levels, at a time when we have presented the Council with the names of hundreds of dead in Syria - Saudis, Turks, British, American, Canadians, Australians, Libyans, Tunisians and others. All those have died on Syrian territory.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“I mentioned earlier that, in their approach to the situation in Syria, certain States have focused on certain issues that they consider important enough to raise in this meeting while deeming it appropriate not to discuss to the fullest the issue at hand - putting an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories and attaching comprehensive and lasting peace. That is to say, we have been ignoring the elephant in the room. Although all of this has been discussed, no one has spoken of the importance of fighting the international terrorism that has ravaged Syria. In scores of letters to the Security Council, we have described and detailed the many dangers posed by this terrorism. Terrorism entered our country through its north-eastern borders.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“The nations of the region aspire to peace and prosperity and to ending the state of instability and tension. But Member States that have worked against the fulfilment of this goal and contributed to the creation of volatile hotspots throughout the region are nurturing the violence and fuelling regional clashes based on ethnic, sectarian and religious reason with a view to lifting international political and diplomatic pressure from Israel and to ending any hope of ending the Israeli occupation of Arab territories.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“It has done so by building and expanding settlements, threatening Arab territories and changing historical and demographic characteristics. Any criticism of such actions makes Israel throw up its arms in protest, while any discussion of the untold suffering of the Palestinians is always controversial. No just, lasting and comprehensive peace process in the region can be successful without honouring the well-established terms of reference, especially United Nations resolutions. Those terms of reference are the only basis for any settlement ofthe Arab-Israeli conflict, regardless of any other explanation or judgement that contradicts them and free from any Israeli attempt at extortion, bargaining or to link the peace process to other issues.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“In order to maintain what is left of the credibility of the United Nations, it is imperative that certain States end their policies of double standards and turn their words into action by forcing Israel to comply with United Nations resolutions so as to end the occupation and the unprecedented calamity to which Arab citizens have been subject for decades. We must not delude ourselves or deny the truth. Israel is a settler entity that was established on the basis of occupation and expansion, and has never been interested in peace. It has responded to all peace initiatives and negotiations by raising such invalid pretexts as security concerns, only to enforce occupation and impose a fait accompli that cannot be changed.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“What is strange and unacceptable, however, is that the resolutions adopted by the United Nations go unheeded by the Israeli authorities in their intransigence and total lack of will to follow up on their implementation, in addition to the irresponsible support provided by some powerful States for Israel's ongoing occupation of Arab territories, in disregard for all relevant resolutions. The failure of the United Nations to shoulder its historical and legal responsibilities should not continue, nor should the failure to implement the relevant resolutions on ending the Israeli occupation, including resolution 497 (1981), aimed at ending the Israeli occupation of the occupied Syrian Golan.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“We have informed the Department for Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) of the details of those incidents and formally requested an investigation into the collusion of Qatari intelligence in the kidnapping of Filipino peacekeepers. What is surprising is that DPKO has to date failed to report on the results of that investigation, if such an investigation has even been conducted. In the light of the documented and authenticated facts to which I have just referred, it is only natural to discuss the issue of the Israeli occupation of Arab territories on the United Nations agenda.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“Moreover, a separation apartheid wall is being built to the east of the Syrian city of Majdal Shams. Israel also refuses to remove mines that have been planted on Syrian territory there. The Israeli occupying Power bears full responsibility for the consequences of its support and assistance to the terrorist group in the area of separation in the occupied Syrian Golan, in blatant violation of the disengagement agreement of 1974, the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and international law. Israel's support for terrorists endangers the lives of United Nations forces and undermines their work. This has been demonstrated in reality when such terrorist groups have kidnapped UNDOF peacekeepers, fired upon them or targeted their sites.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“In the same context as the Israeli policies I have just mentioned, the suffering of the Syrian people under occupation in the Syrian Golan has been going on for almost half a century. Israeli settlement activities continue in the occupied Syrian Golan, where the Syrian population is subject to heinous policies of suppression, racial discrimination, detention, torture and depravation of their natural resources, including oil, gas and water. They are also deprived of the right to learn the Syrian national curriculum. Their right to carry their national identity cards is also denied. Syrian citizens in the occupied Golan receive no medical care and students are not allowed to study in Arabic or to use the Syrian national curriculum. Health workers wearing the symbol of the Syrian Red Crescent are not permitted to work in the Syrian Golan.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“Settlement activities have always been a top priority for the policymakers of successive Israeli Governments, in spite ofthe fact that those activities - as recognized by everyone, including Israel's supporters - undermine the possibility of creating a contiguous and viable State ofPalestine, as well as the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people. Israel has not stopped there. It has organized State terror reaching beyond the region, imposed racist laws, desecrated Islamic and Christian holy sites, expelled Palestinians from their homes and arbitrarily detained and inhumanely tortured Palestinians, including women and children, and the democratically elected leaders of the Palestinian people.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“However, what happened after that was just the opposite. Fully supported militarily, politically and economically by its protectors and sponsors, Israel launched one aggression after the other against the people and States of the region, implementing an expansionist policy that resulted in occupying territories in a number of Arab countries in 1967. Furthermore, successive Israeli Governments have perpetrated systematic and documented violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“Those statements encourage extremism and devastation in Syria and feverishly aim to thwart any possible solution to the Syrian crisis, including efforts undertaken to convene the second Geneva Conference, which the Syrian Government has agreed to participate in without preconditions. It is well known that the United Nations bears a historical and legal responsibility for the establishment of the independent and sovereign State of Palestine. That responsibility dates to the adoption of General Assembly resolutions 181 (II) of 1947, which partitioned Palestine, and 273 (III), which endorsed Israel's membership in the United Nations, based on its commitment to United Nations resolutions relevant to the establishment of the State of Palestine and the return of Palestinian refugees to their land.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“They have cited a number of false allegations and accusations that only serve to support terrorism and extremism in Syria and in the region, and to divert attention from the core matter under discussion, which is how to put an end to the Israeli occupation of Arab territories, and not the domestic affairs of the countries of the region. On that basis, I will not respond, under this item, to the statements of countries that support, arm, harbour, train and incite terrorists and facilitate their infiltration of Syrian territory across our borders with neighbouring States.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I would first like to welcome, through you, Mr. President, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and thank him for presiding over this meeting. I would also like to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Council this month. I would also like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing today. In their statements today, some delegations have deliberately referred to the situation in my country, Syria, in a provocative and misleading manner.”
2014-01-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7096Resumption1 (2014) · source
“Much like in 2003, when we were members of the Council and called on the Council to make the Middle East a zone free of all kinds of weapons of mass destruction, we now call on the Council to make the Middle East a zone free of all kinds of terrorism as a step towards eliminating terrorism at the global level. One last comment. I told the Council what had happened yesterday. I forgot to mention how missiles yesterday struck the Social Education Institute in Damascus, where disabled patients were being treated, as well as an orphanage. That led to the death of many disabled people in those two institutions, many of them children.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“Therefore, we want to draw the Council's attention to another form of interference and to more attenpts to dominate other countries. In other words, that is what is being done by certain Member States who openly fund terrorist acts and terrorists, in order to impose their own political agenda and to take a stand against systems of power. All this falls within the comptenence ofthe Council and the counter-terrorism committees. Combatting the terrorism from which Syria is suffering is vital to reach a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis and for the political process in Syria to gain credibility. Our statement is an appeal to the Security Council to show solidarity with the Syrian Government in the face of the terrorism that has claimed the lives of thousands of people.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“Those States must be made to stop those destructive practices, which violate Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 2042 (2012) and 2043 (2012) and 2118 (2013). They are also in contravention of the Geneva Declaration. Therefore, we need to reach a settlement on the Syrian crisis through a Syrian-led political process based on national dialogue among the Syrians themselves. My country has for many decades constantly called for an end to hegemonic colonization. We have incessantly called for the sanctity of the commitment to the non-interference in the internal affairs of States. On many ocassions, my country has affirmed its conviction regarding the role of the United Nations in combatting terrorism. The struggle can only be carried out on an individual basis.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“We have submitted documents to the 1540 Committee which prove that terrorist organizations active in Syria are trying to obtain chemical weapons through neighbouring countries. We have also drawn the Committee's attention to reports about these attempts, as well as shipments which were seized in Turkey and Lebanon, and given it the names of individuals who have been arrested red-handed. The Governments that are financing, training and facilitating terrorist elements need to be held accountable. Those terrorists are moving throughout Syria and being sponsored by States, and those States need to be treated as participants in terrorist activities because they are killing Syrians.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“The article in The Independent states that there are mercenaries coming from France and elsewhere, and it is the same problem. In accordance with resolution 1624 (2005), Member States need to be engaged in stopping the incitement to terrorism and hatred in the media or in official statements, the procurement of weapons for terrorists and the political, financial and media support for terrorist groups. We need to combat the exploitation of the Internet and information and communication technologies that are being used to incite terrorists and target young people in different parts of the world. We need to thwart the attempts by terrorist groups to access to and use of weapons of mass destruction in my country, such as what happened in Khan al-Assal in March and in Ghouta in August.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“That is why we think that we all need to take additional steps to bolster those measures in order to achieve results, namely, addressing the concerns that we have conveyed to the Council and which are closely aligned with the authorities and competencies of those Committees; preventing the funding and arming of terrorist groups and refraining from sponsoring them; combating extremist radical thought and fanaticism, regardless of its sources; calling on States to control their borders and stop the transit of extremists and terrorists who are seeking to travel to Syria. In that regard, I want to cite the article from The Independent that came out yesterday, which said that a British extremist, Anjem Choudary, organized anetwork to send terrorist mercenaries to Syria. According to Choudary himself, he sent over 300 people.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“Despite the fact that the Al-Nusra Front and its head, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, are listed in the list established and maintained by the Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) with respect to individuals, groups, undertakings and other entities associated with Al-Qaida, despite the sanctions imposed against that entity, despite the Council's October 2013 condemnation of the increased terrorist attacks carried out by Al-Qaida in Syria (S/PRST/2013/15), despite the Council's call on all parties to commit to putting an end to terrorist acts perpetrated by such organizations and individuals, despite the Council's reaffirmation in resolution 2118 (2013) that all Member States refrain from providing any form of support to non-State actors that attempt to develop, acquire, manufacture, possess, transport, transfer or use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and their means of delivery - despite all ofthe foregoing, those efforts have not been commensurate with the challenge posed by international terrorism targeting Syrian and the entire Syrian people.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“Mortars were also fired on a school yesterday in Damascus, killing dozens of children. Yesterday, in the city of Deir Atiyah, terrorists and mercenaries who had crossed the Syrian-Lebanese border killed eight doctors and 10 nurses and many patients in the hospital there.”
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“Those acts have targeted institutions of the State, infrastructure, basic public services, hospitals, educational establishments, religious shrines, monuments, museums, holy places, national civil service administrations, clerics and peacekeepers of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force. Those attacks have taken a different turn recently by focusing on civil targets, arbitrarily firing mortars against residents and Islamic and Christian shrines. They have also targeted children in schools, school buses, in an effort to deprive children of their education and maintain the ignorance that fuels extremist views and attitudes. Yesterday, 40 Saudi mercenaries were killed by the Syrian Armed Forces. One of them was the son of the head of the Saudi Arabian Royal Guard Regiment.”
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