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Jaafari

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“In those letters, we confirm that thosejournalists alone bear the legal responsibility for any consequences ensuing from their illegal accessing of Syrian territory. Some Governments are seeking to promote their geopolitical objectives, destroy the Syrian State and undermine its infrastructure and national institutions. A Vigorous media campaign has been mobilized to incite violence and terrorist, spread lies, distort the situation and fuel divisions within Syria. This is a flagrant violation of resolution 1624 (2005). The Council cannot be unaware that that resolution was adopted with the aim of ending incitement to terrorism. In that context, Syrian media were placed on a targeted list in an effort to muzzle them.”
2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The Syrian Government has striven to cooperate with the International Committee of the Red Cross in seeking to ensure the freedom of these abducted journalists, as well as the return to their home countries of the remains ofjournalists who have been killed. Some journalists are infiltrating Syrian territory through common borders with neighbouring countries. This is illegal and is being carried out with terrorist assistance. Accordingly, some of those journalists have been exposed to danger or have been arrested then freed to return home. On behalf of my Government, I have sent official letters to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council containing information about some journalists who have illegally entered Syrian territory.”
2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We have urged them not to enter Syrian territory illegally, as that would expose them to danger. We have also urged them to avoid areas where armed terrorist groups, including Al-Nusra, gather. Unfortunately, terrorist groups have targeted foreign journalists as well as Syrians. They have been killed, assassinated and abducted. Mr. Richard Engel, for instance, was himself abducted by a terrorist group. We had hoped that Mr. Engel would reveal the identity of those hostage-takers, which might have helped the Council to understand in greater detail what is happening in Syria. Two French journalists are still being held captive by terrorist groups. Unfortunately, we have lost other journalists, including Gilles J acquier, who was assassinated by terrorist groups.”
2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We have adopted a reformed media law to promote the work of the media and guarantee greater freedom and transparency. The Syrian Government is working to ensure that the truth and facts emerge. We worked with United Nations Special Envoy Kofi Annan to establish his six-point plan, including its fifth point on media access and work. The Syrian Government periodically gave Mr. Annan a list of the names of journalists who have access to Syria. Those journalists numbered 160 in the Arab and foreign media, from 25 March 2012 to 21 April 2013. According to the Ministry of Information, access has been given to 300 members of the media from around the world, and we have enabled all of them to work freely. The Syrian Government attaches particular importance to the security and safety of journalists.”
2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I wish to thank Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo for the initiative to convene this very important meeting. Impartial media work plays an important role in increasing the understanding among peoples and nations, and it is of great importance for humankind. Today, an armed group killed Mr. Mohammad Jamous in southern Lebanon as he was returning home. He was accompanied by his 17 year-old daughter. This armed terrorist group is receiving military and financial support from States and Governments that are assisting terrorist groups in my country. Lamentably, this honourable man died even as we participate in this very important meeting. The Syrian Government has been working to treat the media openly throughout the events occurring in Syria.”
2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003Resumption1 (2013) · source
“In addition, the Syrian Government passed a law this year criminalizing the involvement of children under 18 in any armed conflict, punishable by 10 to 20 years of hard labour.”
2013-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6980 (2013) · source
“How could that group of thugs of war, sexual perverts and cannibals who reside in certain Gulf sheikhdoms be free to issue edicts on satellite channels making such crimes permissible under the banner of sexualjihad or "fornicationjihad"? We denounce the fact that the report fails to make mention of the suffering of Syrian children under Israeli occupation in the occupied Syrian Golan. We have drawn the attention of Ms. Zerrougui to this issue several times since she took office, emphasizing the necessity to give it due importance in her reports. She has not done so, however. To conclude, I would like to reiterate that the Syrian Government is committed to protecting its citizens, particularly children, and that all perpetrators of acts that violate the safety and security of children will be held strictly accountable.”
2013-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6980 (2013) · source
“Two days ago, on the Saudi Al-Arabiya satellite channel, we witnessed the excitement of a Salafist Wahhabi sheikh from Kuwait, Shafi al-Ajami, who takes pride in having cut the throats of Syrian children in Hatla, in Deir Ezzor. Many other heinous crimes have been committed by the al-Nusra Front that should have been included on the list of terrorists provided to the Council. Thirdly, concerning sexual violence against children, how is it possible that the crimes committed by those terrorist armed groups, including rape and sexual violence, the murder of children, and acts of violence against girls and women throughout Syria were not mentioned in the report? How could the taking of girls and women as spoils of war and sex slaves not be mentioned?”
2013-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6980 (2013) · source
“That incident alone should have been sufficient to warrant the inclusion of those terrorist groups on the list of shame for having bombed schools and hospitals. Secondly, with respect to the killing and disfiguring of children, the world has seen the repulsive crimes perpetrated by terrorist groups against children since the beginning ofthe crisis. Mohammed Qatta, a 14-year- old child, was shot to death in Aleppo by elements of a fundamentalist terrorist brigade of the al-Nusra Front calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. He was whipped and tortured in front of his parents on charges of blasphemy. In another incident, a 4-year-old child named Faisal was hanged by terrorist fundamentalist groups after being raped and dragged for a great distance.”
2013-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6980 (2013) · source
“Acts of aggression by armed terrorist groups continue to be perpetrated against educational establishments in Syria; this has been documented. Such acts include forcibly preventing inhabitants from sending their children to school and bombing schools and nearby areas, including deliberately, as happened with an engineering school and other schools in Damascus. The health-care infrastructure has also been targeted by those armed terrorist groups, which have destroyed, burned and looted more than 35 per cent of Syrian hospitals. We have provided the Special Representative with a video recording, with sound, of terrorists preparing to bomb a hospital and another recording of the detonation itself. However, there is no mention of that heinous crime in the report.”
2013-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6980 (2013) · source
“Allow me to address those claims one by one. First, with respect to the bombing of schools and hospitals, let me say that we welcomed the Special Representative and her delegation in late 2012. She met with the ministers concerned, particularly the Minister of Education, who provided her with documented proof of the extent of the acts of terrorism committed against educational establishments and schools by armed terrorist groups. She also made expanded field visits to schools, hospitals and shelters in Damascus, Homs and the surrounding areas; however, for some reason, she chose to disregard what she saw with her own eyes: that the Syrian Government is using those schools as shelters for numerous families.”
2013-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6980 (2013) · source
“We would have wished that the Special Representative had requested in her recommendation on Syria that the States sponsors of fundamentalist terrorist groups, which are known to all by now, stop supporting those groups by financing them and providing to them arms, munitions, information and intelligence, and that they lift the unilateral coercive economic measures that they have imposed on the Syrian people, of which Syrian children are the primary victims as a result of the lack of development programmes and financing and due to the weakness of the national economy. It is most alarming that the Special Representative insists on including the Syrian armed forces on the list and on considering them responsible for the bombing of schools and hospitals, even for disfiguring children and committing acts of sexual violence against them.”
2013-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6980 (2013) · source
“Despite the fact that the Special Representative has, for the first time, addressed in her report the issue of the crimes and violations committed by armed terrorist groups, particularly with regard to recruitment of children, it is regrettable that she disregarded other incidents reported and documented by many governmental and non-governmental sources. Those sources have reaffirmed that Salafist and Wahhabi fundamentalist groups have recruited children. It took the Special Representative two years to include those armed terrorist groups on the list, despite the fact that they recruit children in the context of the conflict in Syria.”
2013-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6980 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I should like at the outset, Mr. President, to congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for this month. I thank also the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, for her briefing, and those speakers who also briefed the Council at the beginning of this morning's meeting. I also welcome the presence of Mr. John Asselborn among us. We have read with interest the report of the Secretary-General before us on children and armed conflict (S/2013/245).”
2013-06-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6980 (2013) · source
“Concerning the issue of Israel, on Sunday, 5 May, military and civilian positions were targeted in Damascus in yet another demonstration of the direct link existing between the terrorist policies of Israel and the activity of terrorist groups and foreign mercenaries, who targeted several military positions simultaneously with the Israeli incursions. The statements issued by several countries encouraged Israel to launch that aggression. The Security Council must shoulder its responsibility to condemn that incident and to ensure that States that support terrorists are held accountable for their attacks on Syria, cease their destructive practices and uphold their agreements under international law and the Charter of the United Nations. I will provide the Council with the full text of my statement.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“It is striking that some Member States, including permanent members of the Council and members of the Committee, are attempting to hinder follow-up to the Syrian Government's request to send a neutral technical mission under the auspices of the Secretary-General to investigate cases of the use by terrorist groups of chemical substances against civilians and military in the Khan al-Assal area of Syria. I would also like to reiterate the Syrian Government's willingness to host a technical commission of inquiry on the incident at Khan al-Assal, pursuant to the memorandum conveyed in the letter dated 3 April, addressed to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“Their actions not only fly in the face of Security Council resolutions on counter-terrorism, but directly negate resolutions 2042 (2012) and 2043 (2012) and the Geneva communique, which all affirm the need to achieve a peaceful settlement to the Syrian crisis through a Syrian-led political process. Member States have always affirmed the need to ensure that weapons of mass destruction do not fall into the hands of terrorists, and have tasked the 1540 Committee with monitoring and coordinating related efforts to ensure that States uphold the provisions of the resolution by refraining from supporting terrorists or possessing or producing weapons of mass destruction.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“In that respect, I would refer to the final report of the Panel of Experts established pursuant to resolution 1973 (2011), published as the annex to document S/2013/99, on the participation of Arab and regional States in transferring weapons and mercenaries from Libya to Syria. I call on the Security Council to take all necessary measures in that respect without delay. States that arm, finance, train or facilitate the travel of elements from armed terrorist groups to Syria or provide them with safe haven are accomplices to terrorist attacks and responsible for bloodshed in Syria.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“Secondly, it must fight the exploitation of the Internet and social networks to incite terrorism and to mislead large numbers of young people, including Americans. Thirdly, it must dry up the sources of financing for terrorist groups. The Council, in its presidential statement of 15 January 2013 (S/PRST/2013/1), reiterated the need for Member States to refrain from providing any form of direct or indirect support to entities or individuals participating in or in any way linked to terrorist attacks, by, for instance, preventing the recruitment of members into terrorist groups and prohibiting the provision of weapons to terrorists.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“It seems that today Syria is condemned to be the only entity implementing resolution 1373 (2001) in a first line of defence against terrorism. The Group ofExperts ofthe 1373 (2001) Committee underscores in its current programme of work that it is seeking to attach greater importance to the implementation by Member States of resolution 1624 (2005) and of strategies to counter incitement to terrorist acts, wherever they may originate. In that respect, we call on the Committee to enhance the effectiveness of its work through the following measures. First, it must put an end to the destructive role of media, supported by the Governments of certain States, in inciting to terrorism, spreading extremist ideology and deepening the secular, religious and sectarian divisions that may exacerbate the crisis in Syria and other States of the region.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“While over the past two years we have addressed more than 160 letters to the Security Council on the spread of terrorism in my country in order to notify members of barbarous terrorist attacks and suicide bombings in Syria - and in spite of statements and reports from the United Nations, States and Western research institutions, as well as prestigious media organizations, which have all underscored the existence of a spike in terrorist activities in Syria, and affirmed that terrorists from around the world have been flowing into Syria - to this day we have seen no practical action from the Counter-Terrorism Committee aimed at implementing measures to combat terrorism and the necessity ofstemming its financing in Syria or to request accountability from States that openly support such individuals.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“It is bizarre that no mention has been made of the fact that the Chair of the 1267 Committee, His Excellency the Ambassador of Australia, neglected to say anything in his briefing about the activities of Al-Qaida in Syria - terrorist activities of which all of us here are aware.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“We are still waiting for the inclusion of that organization, whose terrorist nature has moreover been recognized by some Security Council members. It has admitted on its website that it executed 600 people in Syria over the past year - a single year. We all know now that the spread of terrorism and extremism in Syria is happening with the blessing, and even the support, of some Council members, and is welcomed and supported by Salafist, Wahhabi and Taqfiri organizations. Some individuals claim to be leaders of counter-terrorism efforts, and there have even been nine attempts by some members of the Council to issue press statements condemning terrorist attacks that have resulted in hundreds of civilian victims in Syria.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“Terrorism - the destruction of hospitals, educational institutions, schools, universities, mosques, churches, civil aircraft and diplomatic missions, as well as the looting of factories, the kidnapping of Muslim and Christian religious leaders, the pillaging of archeological sites and cemeteries, the abduction of peacekeepers working for the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force - how does that serve the interests of Syria and the Syrian people? Two months ago, my country's Government submitted an official request for the Al-Nusra Front organization, responsible for hundreds of terrorist operations and suicide bombings in Syria, to be included on the Al-Qaida Committee's consolidated list of individuals and entities associated with Al-Qaida.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“Recent events have demonstrated the relevance of maintaining a constant alertness, in this case the appearance on Syrian territory of armed terrorist groups, some of them linked to Al-Qaida, and most of whom are transnational extremists or foreign mercenaries fighting wars for others and targeting Syria generally. Such factors hardly serve the interests of the Syrian people, who, whether they are loyalists or opponents, are proud and hope to maintain their country's stability.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Iwould like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your leadership of the Council this month, and to thank you for convening this important meeting. I would also like to thank the Chairs of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), the Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011), concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities, and the Counter- Terrorism Committee for their efforts and their briefings. I also thank the various Groups of Experts for their work in the past few months.”
2013-05-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6964 (2013) · source
“Saudi and Qatari politicians have spread Salafi, Wahhabi, Takfiri terrorism and perverted the precepts of Islam, which is based on tolerance. Those same politicians are today responsible for shamefully sacrificing the lives of tens of thousands of Muslim youth throughout the world under the pretext of Jihad for the sake of petrodollars.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“In their clever statements today, the representatives of that alliance of States have confirmed our conviction that they seek by every possible means to steer attention from the point at hand - the situation in the Middle East - in order to put the situation in my country, Syria, under the spotlight. The situation that has developed is a humanitarian situation and they want to turn it into a political crisis with a humanitarian angle. In that connection, I call on the representatives of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to direct the content and provocative nature of their statements to the miserable living conditions endured by the populations of their two countries. Those populations are deprived of a constitution, a parliament, civil and political liberties and any form of national opposition, not even a formal one.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“However, we have a great deal to say to refute the vindictive allegations made by States that support and arm terrorists, sow fanaticism and destruction in Syria, and work to ensure that all peaceful solutions to the crisis will fail. I am referring to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Israel and certain countries of the European Union, some of which are members of the Council. All of them are engaged in provoking an inter-Islamic conflict as a substitute for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in order to bury the Palestinian cause and distance themselves from the mess of the two-State solution.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Israel then authorized the return of the terrorists to Syria. As I have in other statements that I have made with regard to the situation in the Middle East, I would like to underscore the fact that it is dangerous to introduce other subjects under this agenda item because that could undermine the historic importance of this agenda item and divert our debates from their primary objective of considering ways to put an end to the Israeli occupation. Therefore, I am not going to respond to the vindictive allegations made against my country, Syria, by certain delegations because I do not want to fall into the trap of burying the real point of this agenda item.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“These are all questions that I would put to members and ask for responses, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. Israel is assisting terrorist groups in the separation wall area and ensuring that wounded terrorists get to Israeli hospitals so that they can be treated in Israel before they are brought back to Syrian territory along the same line of separation. We must be aware of the fact that the aid provided to these terrorist groups in the area of separation is not simply a blatant violation of international law but also endangers the lives of United Nations personnel in the area. On 6 March, terrorist groups kidnapped 21 peacekeepers who were working in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force. The terrorists were allowed to take the hostages to Jordan so that their photos could be taken with the terrorists.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“What can we say about the absence of necessary international efforts to put an end to Israeli settlement- building in the Golan? What can we say about the inability of international human rights mechanisms to put an end to Israeli humanitarian and human rights violations? How can we respond when we see that there is no international reaction? The indiscriminant and racist policies and practices of the Israeli regime continue. They continue to remove people from the separation area. Israel is building a separation wall in the occupied Golan. What can we say about the shots fired towards Syrian territory? And what of the licence that Israel and the United States have granted themselves to explore for oil in the Golan?”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Since it began 65 years ago, the Palestinian nightmare has not sufficed to provoke the conscience of the international community into adopting earnest measures that would lead to a fair solution for the Palestinians and restore their legitimate rights, rather than simply making pointless and vain speeches before the Security Council and other international forums. What can the United Nations and its Member States say to the Syrian people who remain under Israeli occupation after more than 45 years? What can the United Nations say to them when they call into question the credibility and effectiveness of the United Nations? It is the United Nations that has been incapable oftaking real measures against Israel to force it to implement relevant resolutions, in particular resolution 497 (1981).”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Is it possible or admissible for certain States to impose their own biased agendas on our Organization? Everyone has the right to know openly whether this failure of our Organization is desired by those influential States, or whether it is just the result of a lack of power, collusion and weakness on the part of States? Or should we consider the Israeli occupation as something that transcends international law and accountability because Israel enjoys the favour ofa specific country? If that is the case, then let us call things by their name; our Organization should not be called the United Nations, but the organization of the countries of major influence. The United Nations and its Members must act.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“But the paradox is that none of the threats and sanctions imposed or pressure exerted on certain States, particularly those that have peaceful nuclear programmes in conformity with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, have been applied to Israel, despite the danger that Israel's weapons represent for the region and for the world. These are the realities and the paradoxes that some States with influence within the Organization try to sweep under the rug and turn our attention from because these realities are crystal clear. How should we answer someone who might quite rightly ask why we in the United Nations are failing on the political, humanitarian and ethical fronts to meet our responsibilities to deal with the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and to put an end to these flagrant violations by Israel?”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Paradoxically, no genuine calls have been made for the freeing of the Palestinian prisoners. Very few have called for the Israeli detention camps to be opened up to international observers or non-governmental organizations, even though a great number of detainees have lost their lives due to torture, medical negligence or hunger strike, or have been killed in a premeditated way. Israel introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East, and in so doing precluded the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in our region.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Israel is implacably pursuin its settlement activity, to which many have referred today and which has been widely condemned. The surface area of the settlements has risen by 182 per cent. The number of settlements has gone up 189 per cent. Paradoxically, there has been no international response to deter Israel. Israel has been spared the sort of military and economic sanctions that are imposed on others, even though everyone is agreed that settlement building is illegal and an obstacle to peace. Israel is behaving in flagrant violation of international law. The paradox is that Israel is considered by some to be a racist, thuggish State when it comes to international law. Israel has not respected any of the resolutions adopted against it. It has enacted more than 60 racist resolutions against the Palestinian people since 1968.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Israel occupies Arab land in Lebanon and Palestine, yet no one at the international level has acted to put an end to those occupations. The overwhelming enthusiasm that some are expressing for the Security Council to adopt resolutions under Chapter VII dissipates when it comes to Israel, although the occupation has been going on now for over half a century. Israel is committing documented, systematic violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. But, paradoxically, no official in Israel has ever been punished for that. Today we have heard suggestions that certain dossiers should be referred to the International Criminal Court, but that desire disappears when it comes to Israel, whose violations have clearly reached the level of war crimes or crimes against humanity.”
2013-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6950Resumption1 (2013) · source
“When asked what he meant by that, he said that "the individuals belonging to those minorities can eitherjoin Islam and pay a tax, or we will kill them with a sword". That terrorist, located in Istanbul, was hosted by the Saudi Al-Arabiya channel. Many people watched him; many innocent people in Libya and Tunisia, who come to Syria to kill and be killed, watched him. That is the right image of what is going on in Syria, and I leave it to the Council for its kind attention and consideration.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“What about the resolution, adopted by the so-called League of Arab States, financing terrorism - a resolution adopted by an Arab summit to finance terrorism. The League pretends that it has a special envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, pursuing a peaceful solution. How can he pursue a peaceful solution while the Arab League is financing terrorism in Syria? I wish to make one more comment, and I apologize for taking so long. Two days ago I was watching Al-Arabiya, the Saudi channel. The channel hosted a terrorist who leads an Islamist group affiliated with Al-Qaida. It hosted that terrorist from Istanbul and held a dialogue with him from there. When the journalist asked him, "What will you do with the minorities in Syria if you take over?" He responded: "We will judge them according to the sharia".”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“Those weapons, transported on ships from Libya via Lebanon and Turkey, were confiscated, and the information was submitted to the Council, but no one lifted a finger. Billions of dollars are spent on financing terrorism by means of the Gulf petrodollar, with everyone's knowledge. Weapons are being purchased in Croatia, financed by Saudi Arabia, transported to Jordan and then, via Turkey, to Syria. But no one responds. We are talking about the excruciating suffering of children and women here, and that is important and significant. We hope that the crisis will cease and that all criminals - Syrian and non-Syrian alike - will be brought to justice. What about those who spend billions of dollars on funding terrorism?”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“Guterres, thankfully, stated that the crisis in Syria is not humanitarian in the main. That is true; the crisis in Syria is a humanitarian and political crisis in the main. Unless we deal with the main political dimension of the crisis, we will not be able to assist the Syrian people at the humanitarian level. Yes, there is a humanitarian crisis in Syria; we have mentioned that time and again. However, we need a correct legal reading of what is transpiring in the country, one that will put an end to the arrogance of and violations of international law by certain Powers that are very well known to all. The smuggling of weapons was reported to the Security Council over a period of more than a year and a half.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“My Government insists on the implementation of that political solution through a Syrian-led inclusive national dialogue in which all Syrian people are represented. Such a dialogue will echo their voices internally, regionally and internationally, telling the entire world that enough is enough and to stop manipulating a country whose citizens have only shown goodness and love for all citizens of the world throughout their history. A year ago, I addressed the Counter-Terrorism Committee and drew the Council's attention to the existence of Al-Qaida terrorism in Syria, but no one paid heed. Today, however, we have heard that there will be cooperation between Al-Qaida in Iraq and Al-Qaida in Syria. What we said a year ago was correct, and our reading of the political map was also correct. Mr.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“Syria will remain the strongest link in dealing with any attempt to impose any new reality that is foreign to our region and its peoples, who have lived in harmony and coexistence with one another for centuries and have taught humankind that belonging to a homeland and respecting one's land are the greatest and most enduring emotions. In conclusion, I would like to say that enough is enough. After two years of trading on the fate of Syria and the blood of its citizens, there must be sincere action to help my country, people and Government to move forward towards the political solution endorsed by the United Nations in resolutions 2042 (2012) and 2043 (2012) and approved in the Geneva communique (S/2012/522, annex).”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“There is no Christian member of Iraqi society in Iraq, or any Christian in Palestine. The conspirators against my country are about to succeed in removing our Christian citizens. Such matters are extremely important in the work of the Security Council. Hundreds of churches in Syria have been burned, as well as in Iraq and other places. Hundreds of mosques have been destroyed. All those acts exist on the YouTube terrorist archive. Some accuse the Government of such heinous acts. In that connection, I wish to emphasize that Syria will not allow another Sykes-Picot Agreement at the expense of the peoples of our region.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“They have not talked about the attack on Halab University and the killing of the engineering and architecture students in Damascus. All those incidents were not carried out by ghosts; they were undertaken by terrorist groups financed and supported by foreigners and trained abroad. There are no ghosts carrying out terrorist acts in Syria. While States continue to strengthen their societies on the basis of diversity, pluralism, harmony and true citizenship, we see strong, subversive Powers seeking to shatter the social contract in our region, which is famous for its diversity, richness and plurality, by promoting a culture of religious, sectarian and factional divisions and encouraging the concept of slaughtering people on the basis of their identity. Such Powers seek to displace significant parts of our societies outside their homeland.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“During the deliberate attacks by terrorist armed groups on educational institutions and teachers in Syria, there have been documented cases of people being directly and indirectly threatened and prevented from sending their children to school, owing to terrorist groups bombing schools with improvised explosive devices or deliberately targeting schools with missiles. Those incidents were repeated at the start of the school year in Syria. The Syrian Arab Republic has respected its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict since 2003. Regrettably, no speakers have mentioned the terrorist suicide bombings that have frequently struck Syrian cities.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“They force them to take up arms, participate in terrorist acts and carry out the orders of the leaders of the armed groups in order to perpetrate acts of murder and sabotage against public and private property. That is in addition to the burning, looting and destruction of more than 3,000 schools and kindergartens and dozens of hospitals and hundreds of laboratories - 1,500 laboratories, in fact, in Idlib and Halab, have been displaced to Turkey - about which we have sent an official complaint to the Council. That represents a blatant attack on the rights of an entire generation of children to the education and knowledge that will enable them to help build the country in the future.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“However, the complex phenomenon of sabotage has entered Syrian society and has destroyed that way oflife in Syria. Armed terrorist groups with Wahhabi, Salafist and Takfiri ideologies imported from petrodollar Gulf countries entered from neighbouring countries. Such groups, backed by the extensive financial, intelligence, military and media support and weapons provided by certain Arabs from a bygone era of ignorance and Western collusion, in partnership with Israel, have worked deliberately and systematically to sabotage the security and safety of Syrians, including women and children. Dozens ofpolitical and media reports, as well as the testimonies of well-known non-governmental groups, have shown that armed terrorist groups have resorted to recruiting children into their ranks.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“Some States hosting Syrian refugees seek to exacerbate the Syrian refugee crisis by preventing them from returning to their homeland and are trading on their suffering, despite the repeated and continued requests of the Syrian Government to the Governments of those States to allow Syrians who want to return to their homes to do so. With regard to sexual violence, I would like to recall the statement that I delivered on behalf of my country to the Security Council yesterday, 17 April (see S/PV.6948). I should like to add that, throughout its history, Syria has never witnessed such heinous crimes as those being perpetrated today by jihadist thugs and bandits. Women in Syria used to take pride in the secure and safe environment provided to them to play their natural role in society. Syria used to rank third in the world in terms of safety.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source