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Jaafari

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“We have been waiting for an official response on practical measures undertaken by the Council through the three Counter-Terrorism Committees with respect to the terrorism that is targeting my country. In other words, we are still awaiting a response to 259 letters addressed to the Security Council on the struggle against terrorism in Syria. In those letters, we have drawn the Council's and the Committees' attention to barbaric terrorism acts committed by armed terrorist groups, some of which are affiliated with Al-Qaida, the majority of which are cross-border extremists and foreign mercenaries who are pursuing a proxy war on Syrian territory.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“In addition to our statements at the United Nations, in which we have sought to explain the various aspects and types of terrorism that we are being subject to, on behalf of my Government, I have sent 259 official letters to the Secretary-General and successive Presidents of the Security Council on all issues related to the fight against terrorism. I have in my hand the entire file - 259 official letters, 76 of which refer to terrorist activities by Al-Qaida, in addition to nine addressed to the Chair ofthe Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning counter- terrorism, and four addressed to Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004).”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“Sadly, the fact is that terrorism poses a serious threat to international peace and security, and certain entities and their branches affiliated with that organization are trying to find bases from which they can relaunch their activities in new places, taking advantages of conditions in certain countries and exploiting the support and unlimited sponsorship offered to them by certain States Members of the United Nations who have found in terrorism a tool to benefit their own foreign policy and narrow interests. Since the crisis in Syria began, my country's delegation has unremittingly tried to shed light on the increasing terrorist danger that is targeting my country, Syria.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“As that has been noted by many of our colleagues who have taken the floor before me, I will not repeat what was said. We are now witnessing a new surge in extremism and radicalization that is producing unprecedented acts of violence, contrary to the belief held by some that terrorist organizations, led by Al-Qaida, have become weaker and that the world has become a safer place after the death of Osama bin Laden.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“In addition, the General Assembly has adopted the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (General Assembly resolution 60/288). All of those efforts are aimed at coordinating the efforts ofthe Member States to combat terrorism. The United Nations counter-terrorism entities must step up their efforts and improve their effectiveness. They must refrain from politicizing the issue of combating terrorism so as not to give in to the temptation to justify terrorism or the temptation on the part of some to classify terrorism as either benign or not benign. Despite all of this, and despite the many efforts and the many resolutions on combating terrorism, the fact remains that terrorism continues to increase and is starting to employ new methods.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I congratulate you, Sir, on assuming the presidency of the Council for this month and thank you for convening this important meeting. We have listened with interest to the briefings by the three Chairs of the Committees on the implementation of the Security Council resolutions on counter-terrorism. They discussed the activities of the three Committees since the most recent briefing to the Council (see S/PV.6964). Despite the many threats posed by terrorism, the United Nations remains the main forum for coordinating international efforts to achieve a world free from that scourge. The Security Council has been committed that idea and has adopted a number of resolutions on fighting terrorism.”
2013-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7071 (2013) · source
“We requested an independent official investigation in a statement I made at the General Assembly on behalf of my Government, which I have reiterated in a number of statements at the Security Council. Strangely, months later, we continue to await a response from DPKO. To date, we have received no reply, either from the Secretariat or from DPKO. However, as the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining. That Qatari-Israeli collusion with Wahabi/Takfiri radical terrorists, who wreak havoc along the separation line in the Golan, is indicative of the policy of double standards and its collusion against the safety and stability of Syria and its people, as well as that of United Nations personnel.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“We should pay due attention to ensuring that such Israeli assistance to terrorists does not constitute a flagrant violation of the Disengagement of Forces Agreement, the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) or international law - or that it endanger the lives of UNDOF personnel and undermine the work of the forces. That is precisely what has happened many times: terrorist groups have abducted UNDOF peacekeepers, targeted their positions and fired on them. We have informed the Department for Peacekeeping Operations of all the full details of such events, including the very serious matter concerning a Qatari intelligence conspiracy and the abduction to Jordan of a Filipino peacekeeping battalion.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“It is paradoxical that Israel was established by a resolution of the Organization (General Assembly resolution 181 (II)). Regardless of our views on that resolution, Israel, which is indebted to the Organization for that resolution, currently, does not carry out any of the resolutions adopted by the United Nations when it comes to ending its occupation of Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian land. Israeli occupation forces provide assistance to terrorist groups in the buffer zone in the occupied Syrian Golan by transferring injured terrorists through the separation wall to Israeli hospitals to be treated. It then returns them to Syrian territory, again through the separation wall, to continue their terrorist activities in that critical region.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“I should like to ask, given that, after so many years, the United Nations has been unable to end the Israeli occupation of our occupied territory and return the rights of its people, what, in the Council's view, is the alternative? How can we regain our occupied territory in Palestine, the Syrian Golan and South Lebanon? We believe that what is needed today to preserve the credibility of the international Organization is for some very well-known States to end their policies of double standards. Member States should match words with deeds by taking concrete measures that force Israel to abide by United Nations resolutions in a manner that will help to end the occupation and the unprecedented bloody tragedy being experienced by Arab citizens and Palestinians living under occupation for so many decades.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“United Nations resolutions have been adopted to be implemented. Accordingly, we have learned, and in turn we teach young diplomats, to come to the Organization to perfect the art of diplomacy. We try to convince them that the resolutions of this international Organization must be respected and carried out. That is supposed to take place seriously and applied to everybody without exception. I do not believe that any of the States Members that have acceded to the Organization for noble goals have come just to adopt resolutions that remain dead letters, or merely to cite those resolutions and laws in their statements or have them apply to some and not to others in accordance with so-called double standard policies.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“Since all present claim to be against occupation and to seek its termination, why has the United Nations failed, in humanitarian, political, economic and moral terms, to fulfil its responsibility to bring Israel's occupation to an end? While it is true that the United Nations, including the Security Council, has succeeded in adopting hundreds of resolutions calling for the cessation of the Israeli occupation, what is frustrating is that none of those resolution has been implemented, including resolution 497 (1981), on terminating the occupation of the Syrian Golan. It is useful to recall here that all resolutions, as well as international law, have been elaborated to be applied. The Charter of the United Nations, as well as other international instruments, have been adopted to be respected.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“Israeli settlement campaigns continue in the occupied Syrian Golan, where Syrians are subjected to the most horrendous policies of racial discrimination, detention and torture. They are deprived of their natural resources and of education meeting the Syrian national curriculum. They are also prevented from carrying their Syrian identity cards. If a Syrian citizen in the occupied Syrian Golan refuses to carry an Israeli identity card, he or she is prevented from entering an Israeli hospital if he or she falls sick. Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights are prevented from following the Syrian curriculum in their studies. Those facts are well-documented, well-established and well-known to all present.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“There has been more than half a century by Israel of State terrorism, racist laws, desecration of Islamic and Christian holy sites, and the eviction of Palestinian citizens from their homes, including women and children. There has been more than half a century of blind support by influential States, both within and outside of the Security Council, for the continued Israeli policy of occupying Arab territories. For more than half a century, part of our land has been occupied and Syrian citizens have been chafing under the yoke of Israeli occupation. In the occupied Syrian Golan, Syrian citizens continue to suffer. Their suffering has been overlooked once again by the Secretariat in its briefing today.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“For more than half a century, successive Israeli Governments have perpetrated systematic and documented violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. There has been more than half a century of settlement campaigns that undermine - as recognized by everyone, including Israel's supporters - the prospects for the establishment of an independent Palestinian State within the 1967 borders and of peace and security in the region. There has been more than half a century of complete disregard by Israel for the relevant United Nations resolutions seeking to bring to an end its occupation of Arab territories.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“I will not respond to the statements made by enemy States that shelter, arm and train terrorists and facilitate their infiltration of Syrian territory across our borders with neighbouring States. They spread devastation, radical terrorism and Wahhabi extremism in Syria and seek, in particular, to bring about the failure of any peaceful solution under Syrian leadership. I mention in particular the regimes of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey as well as some well-known Western Governments whose conduct is in blatant violation of the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, in particular the principle of the peaceful settlement of disputes. Israel occupies territories in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. The beginning of that occupation coincided with the birth of this international Organization.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): In their statements today, a number of delegations deliberately referred to the situation in my country in a misleading, provocative and distorting manner. They adduced a number of false allegations to serve their aim of supporting radicalism and terrorism in Syria and across the broader region and to detract attention from the core matter under discussion today: the situation in the Middle East. We remain firm in our conviction, reiterated time and again before the Council, that the objective for our discussion of this item should be to bring to an end the Israeli occupation of Arab lands, not to discuss the internal situation of a certain State.”
2013-10-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7047 (2013) · source
“By encouraging, arming and protecting regimes that refuse to attend the Geneva conference and that continue to kill Syrians from Paris and elsewhere, the French regime, through its irresponsible and childish interference, has become a threat to international peace and security and is no longer a member to be trusted with maintaining international peace and security.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“We also look forward to her active participation in protecting the rights of Syrian women under the Israeli occupation in the occupied Golan Heights and in improving their living conditions. The permanent representative of France spoke about my country in a manner that lacks the diplomatic finesse expected from the representative of a permanent member of the Council. It would seem that the French regime - through its extremism and its continued disregard for its responsibilities as a permanent member of the Council, along with its bloody interference in the affairs of several member States, including my country - has lost the legitimacy to maintain its status in the Council.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“Syria has notified all the specialized organs of the United Nations system, especially the Security Council and the General Assembly, through a number of official communications and reports. Regrettably, the United Nations remains less engaged than expected, despite the important role it could play to achieve justice, to hold perpetrators accountable and to put an end to such an inhuman and immoral phenomenon. We hope that Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngucuka will actively seek to put an end to that phenomenon and that she will pressure those foreign Powers that seek to intensify the bloodshed in Syria to cease their interference in my country and their violations of international law and the United Nations charter.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“We cannot but express our deep concern about the deterioration of the situation in the refugee camps of our Syrian brothers, where Syrian women and girls face insecurity and are being trafficked, raped and subjected to forced marriage, all of which has been documented in international reports. Although slow and delayed, Western media reports, most recently that of Germany's RTL television, have documented the tragedy of Syrian refugees younger than 14 who have ended up in slave markets, where petrodollars turn them into concubines in the name of religion. Those who exploit the tragedy of the Syrian refugees do so deliberately in order to create a ghetto of Syrian victims and exploit them in a manner that degrades Syria and its people.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“The Syrian authorities are eager to bring to justice all those who commit such crimes, and we are documenting those grave Violations. Syria arrests the perpetrators and subjects them to accountability under Syrian national law. On the other hand, we must work together to remove the root causes of crimes against women and girls and to combat impunity by immediately putting pressure on the regimes that seek to promote terrorism in Syria to halt their financial support and the provision of arms, as well as to end the media coverage they give to terrorist groups that violate women's basic rights. We call for the accountability of the regimes of both Qatar and Saudi Arabia for their support for and the media coverage they provide to the crazy, irresponsible minds that encourage the rape of innocent Syrian women.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“Those States have spent countless sums on influential media and invidious sectarian incitement to halt Syria's socioeconomic, security and judicial development. They work to undermine its independence, its national decision-making and its rejection of those who exploit religion. Most prominent among the fatwas that affect women is the fatwa of sex as struggle, which allows fornication under the guise ofjihad. Published by some irresponsible minds and financed by the Gulf regimes, the fatwa encourages Islamic women to commit adultery in the name of religion. My delegation has sent a detailed letter on that diseased fatwa and the mentalities that promote it to the Secretary-General (A/68/487, annex). We urge all those present and those who are concerned for human rights to study it.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“A woman serves as a Vice-President in my country at a time when other countries ban women from driving cars. Regrettably, the current crisis in Syria has evoked a strange and inhumane phenomenon that runs contrary to the values of the Syrian people and all the legal instruments that Syria has signed and acceded to in its efforts to support the rights of women and children. The current situation runs contrary to the principles of the Islamic religion and Arab chivalry. That change came about with the arrival of mercenaries and takfiris who are openly recruited from all parts of the world to impose unjust Wahhabi ideas that degrade women and turn them into concubines. All this has taken place with arming, support and financing from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and France.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, allow me to express my gratitude to Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka for introducing the report of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security (S/2013/525), which we read and followed attentively. We wish Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka success in her new post as Executive Director of UN Women. I also would like to congratulate Azerbaijan on assuming the presidency of the Council for the month of October. We wish its delegation every success. My country, Syria, has long been among the fairest countries in the Arab and Islamic world in securing all the necessary provisions and environment for enabling women to enjoy equal rights with men, free from the ignorance, blindness and social and intellectual shortcomings that prevail elsewhere.”
2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source
“We call on the Arab League to work in the interests of Arab causes, foremost of which is putting an end to the Israeli occupation of the occupied Arab territories.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We call on the League of Arab States to be part of the peaceful political solution, not a part of the problems of the region and the crisis therein, in service of agendas that are not in the interests of the Arab peoples and that promote the so-called phenomenon of the Arab Spring, which is more like a harsh winter that has overshadowed the peace, stability and security of the Arab people. We call upon the League of Arab States to liberate itself from the hegemony of the petrodollar and return to the tenets of reason and respect for international law and respect for its Charter and its rules ofprocedure, and to refrain from using terminology that has been used by others to undermine the sovereignty of Arab States and their territorial integrity.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“That League of Arab States decision also encroached upon the Security Council's role in maintaining international peace and security under Article 24 of the Charter, and its exclusive power under Article 53 to authorize regional organizations to undertake enforcement actions. All those decisions have only fanned the flames of the Syrian crisis and hindered all efforts to find a political solution thereto. They have harmed the Syrian State and the Syrian people, and supported the terrorism that all countries of the world have pledged to combat.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Lakhdar Brahimi, and constituted a clear admission on the part of some States that they stood on the side of the terrorists in their aggression against Syria, its people, State and institutions, in violation of resolutions 2042 (2012) and 2043 (2012), which provided for a political settlement of the crisis in Syria. That decision also obviated the efforts made by the Geneva Conference, in clear violation of the commitments undertaken by Arab States members of the League of Arab States and of the basics of international law, the aims and objectives of the Charter of the United Nations, particularly Article 2 on the sovereignty of States, non-interference in the internal affairs of States, the peaceful settlement of conflicts and the non-use of force.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The last of those decisions provided for cooperation with one of the external opposition parties that is financed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia and, without any right whatsoever, recognized it as the representative of the Syrian people in clear Violation of its own Charter, the basics of international law and Arab and international relations. It went still further when those two countries, despite the objections of another Arab country, exerted pressure to adopt a decision that permits Arab States Willing to do so to provide weapons to the Syrian opposition and armed terrorist groups that are also sponsored by the Turkish Government, which funds and arms them and assists them in crossing the border. This clearly undermined the mission of the United Nations Special Envoy, Mr.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The mission had made it clear from the beginning that armed groups were committing acts of terrorism and aggression in various parts of Syria and serving external agendas that threatened the peace, security and stability of the country. It went even further when it issued a number of illegal decisions that were aimed not only at manipulating the role of regional organizations and shirking the responsibility of the League but also at internationalizing the Syrian crisis and calling for external interference in its internal affairs.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“However, Arab States, in particular Qatar and Saudi Arabia, have taken advantage of the unstable situations in some of the States in the region to hijack the decision-making in the League of Arab States and to impose the will of other countries, sometimes through threats and at other times through bribes. They have worked at making the League of Arab States implement or push for external agendas that are not in the interesta of the Arab region or its people. Instead of working for the good of all, the League of Arab States has fallen victim to the hegemony of the petrodollar and cooperated in committing aggression. The deviation began when the secretariat of the League of Arab States aborted the mission of the Arab observers and obfuscated its results before the Security Council early in the situation that has afflicted my country.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Syria deeply believes in its Arab roots and nature, and welcomed the engagement of the League of Arab States in settling the Syrian crisis, thinking that it would play a positive role in exposing the facts of the situation and in assisting to put a halt to violence and in supporting the national dialogue launched by the Syrian Government for the settlement of the crisis. In that regard, the Syrian Government has cooperated with the Secretary General of the League of Arab States and has remained committed to the implementation of the action plan agreed to by both sides. At the same time, the Syrian Arab Republic has opened its doors to Arab observers.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“That leads us to consider what has been mentioned with regard to the role of the League of Arab States as a regional organization that assists in promoting and preserving regional peace and security and in settling issues in the Arab region, such as the situation in my country today. As the Council is aware, the Syrian Arab Republic is an original founder of the League of Arab States and has played a pivotal role in the history of the cooperative work among Arab States. It has defended the interests of Arab Member States and has been committed to the Joint Defence and Economic Cooperation Treaty between the States of the Arab League. In spite of all that, it has also been subject to pressures and aggression that have cast a dark shadow on the life of the Syrian people and the country's prosperity.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Some of those organizations have proven the important role that they can play in many fields in the interests of Member States, notably in the areas of mediation and the prevention and peaceful settlement of conflicts, in addition to defending the interests of the Member States and promoting cooperation among them. The complementarity of the efforts of the United Nations and regional organizations on common issues, the foremost of which is the preservation of international peace and security, adds value to theirjoint work. Success in those endeavours requires, however, that those efforts be consistent with international law, the objectives and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations and related propositions.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Permit me at the outset to welcome Her Excellency Ms. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of the friendly Argentine Republic, and to congratulate her on her country's assumption of the presidency of the Council during the month of August. I would also like to express our appreciation of the initiative taken by Argentina to convene this important debate. The Charter of the United Nations has established a legal framework for cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations.”
2013-08-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7015Resumption1 (2013) · source
“This is a very grave matter, and we are still awaiting the results of the Under-Secretary-General's investigation of it. In conclusion, there are those whom it behooves not to continue deceiving themselves and the rest of the world or providing justifications and excuses for Israel. It is well known to all that Israel is a settlement entity built on ethnic cleansing and that it has thus never been concerned with peace. It has responded to every peace initiative with postponements, diversions and justifications about what they falsely term security concerns, at the expense of the Arab population, which has now been living under the Israeli occupation for decades.”
2013-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7007 (2013) · source
“Israeli occupation forces are providing assistance to terrorist groups in the area of separation in Golan by transporting injured terrorists across the line of separation to Israeli hospitals, where they are treated and returned to Syrian territory across the line of separation, where they can continue their terrorist activities in that very sensitive area. We should focus on the fact that such Israeli assistance to terrorists is not merely a blatant violation of the Separation of Forces Agreement, the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and international law, it also puts the lives of United Nations forces there at risk and undermines their work. That is exactly what happened when, on several occasions, terrorist groups kidnapped members of UNDOF's staff with direct incitement by Qatari intelligence.”
2013-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7007 (2013) · source
“We would like to state here that Israel's continued perpetration of such acts of aggression has increased tension in the area to unprecedented levels that could lead to the outbreak of a widespread regional war, which could threaten international peace and security. The continuing practice of certain permanent members of the Security Council of providing cover for acts of aggression and occupation of Arab territories by Israel makes them partners in those acts and entirely responsible for their consequences.”
2013-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7007 (2013) · source
“Almost 46 years have passed since Israel occupied the Golan and began its barbaric practices there. Unfortunately, during that time, we have heard no one call for meetings aimed at defending and protecting the population of the Golan suffering under the occupation or those displaced by Israel from their lands. We have heard no one call for conferences to be held to collect humanitarian assistance for those people - not to mention the fact that the enthusiasm of certain parties for establishing commissions ofinquiry suddenly evaporated when it came to the occupied Syrian Golan. Thanks to this international silence concerning such Israeli practices, Israel went so far as to commit an act of aggression against Syrian territories on 5 May, and has continued to threaten further such acts.”
2013-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7007 (2013) · source
“The suffering of Syrian citizens continues under the Israeli occupation in the Syrian Golan, in the absence of the international will needed to end that occupation in accordance with relevant United Nations resolutions, especially resolution 497 (1981), and in the context of the impotence of international human rights mechanisms and the failure to take steps to end Israel's methodical and gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the Golan. There has unfortunately been no serious international movement to end those violations, or to halt the campaign of settlement, oppression and racial discrimination, as well as the kidnapping of Syrian citizens from the area of separation and Israel's construction of a separation wall in the occupied Golan.”
2013-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7007 (2013) · source
“In that regard, we should point out the dangers ofIsrael's pursuit ofwhat is called the Prawer Plan, which effectively seeks to confiscate 800,000 dunums of Arab lands in the Negev, destroy 36 Arab villages and displace 45,000 Palestinian residents from their homes in order to build Israeli settlements instead, in order to further its plans for ethnic cleansing and Judaization, practised by Israel in full view of merchants of crisis around the world.”
2013-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7007 (2013) · source
“The Israeli occupation of the Arab territories and its consequences for the peace and security of the area have reached dangerous levels, in the context of the international community's failure to compel Israel to end the occupation in compliance with the relevant international resolutions and to halt Israel's gross violations of international conventions, particularly the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and its continuing and unprecedented settlement activity and expulsion of Arab peoples from their lands. In that regard, it is very strange that certain countries that feign enthusiasm for the protection of civilians and respect for human rights lose that enthusiasm where Israeli violations are concerned, depriving the Palestinian people of their right to self-determination and to rid themselves of the racist Israeli occupation.”
2013-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7007 (2013) · source
“I should say, however, that we have much to say in refutation and dissection of the claims made by the delegations of the same States that support, shelter and arm the terrorists spreading destruction and extremism in Syria and working very hard to ensure the failure of any peaceful solution to the crisis under Syrian leadership. In that regard, I would name in particular the Governments of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, as well as various well-known Western States, as was recently confirmed by Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former United States National Security Advisor, and Roland Dumas, a former Minister for Foreign Affairs of France.”
2013-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7007 (2013) · source
“On top of that was his failure to address the importance of ending the Israeli occupation of the Golan in accordance with Security Council resolutions. He also failed to highlight the cooperation between Israel, on one side, and the armed terrorist groups that are active in the area of separation in the Golan, on the other side. I will not respond to the arguments and claims of certain delegations about my country under the agenda item for this meeting, because I do not wish to contribute to efforts that serve only the continuing Israeli occupation and the policies of those who protect it.”
2013-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7007 (2013) · source
“Their objective is clearly to marginalize the Israeli occupation of Arab territories, to demote it on the list of United Nations priorities, and to nullify the terms of reference and substance of the item, which, as we all know, is connected primarily to the effort to end the Israeli occupation and to achieve a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict in accordance with the well- known terms of reference. It was very strange to hear the Personal Representative of the Secretary-General disregard, in his briefing this morning, the clear legal description of the occupied Syrian Golan accepted by the United Nations. He continually referred to "the Golan" rather than to "the occupied Syrian Golan", which is the accepted expression used in the United Nations.”
2013-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7007 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): My delegation reiterates its forceful rejection of the insistence of certain delegations on diverting the deliberations of the Security Council on the item "The situation in the Middle East" from the primary purpose for which it was established by forcibly introducing other topics outside the scope of the item, such as the internal situations in Syria, Egypt, Lebanon or other countries.”
2013-07-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7007 (2013) · source
“The Taliban movement in Pakistan has announced that hundreds of these elements have participated in clashes against Syrian forces at the request of so- called Arab friends, who have also provided help in Afghanistan. Many honourable journalists have taken noble positions and have resigned from the chain that is promoting division and inciting hatred and carnage in Syria, Egypt and in other countries. These resignations have played a very important role in revealing the destructive approach adopted by some media that have failed to respect the values and objectives of noble media workers.”
2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003Resumption1 (2013) · source
“It has been carried on by an embargo imposed on the Syrian media through a resolution adopted by the League of Arab States on 2 June 2012 to stop the broadcasting of certain satellite channels on Nilesat, Arabsat, and the European Hotbird channel. Despite the ferocious campaign against Syria, many courageous, honourable and professional journalists have contributed to raising public awareness of the reality of the situation in Syria and exposed terrorist attacks perpetrated by extremist groups, including foreign extremists and mercenaries who came to Syria to spread chaos and destruction at the behest of certain countries that are known to all.”
2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Journalists and media professionals have been threatened to prevent them from carrying out their task of disseminating the truth. When those efforts failed, some media officials were abducted and assassinated. Furthermore, a number media institutions were the targets of terrorist attacks and destroyed, including the offices of a satellite channel, which were attacked on 27 June 2012, their premises looted, four security guards killed and three journalists executed in cold blood. Other buildings were targeted on 6 August 2012 with explosives. We arrested the perpetrator of that terrorist attack, who has admitted that he received his instructions from Saudi Arabia. The toll ofthe attack was nine journalists killed. Twenty-three Syrian and 39 foreign journalists have been abducted by a terrorist group. This media war has not stopped there.”
2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003Resumption1 (2013) · source