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Jaafari

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“This is not a report prepared by my Government, but by the Council's own experts. I would like to emphasize the exclusive responsibility of the Syrian Government for protecting its citizens, in accordance with the principles of international law and in a manner that safeguards its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity and restores its constructive leadership role on the international stage. The crude and excessively compliant and aggressive propaganda that some Governments are seeking to promote is intended to justify their attempts to interfere in Syria's domestic affairs - in breach of Syria's sovereignty - on pretexts such as humanitarian intervention, imposing no-fly zones, establishing safe humanitarian corridors and the concept of the responsibility to protect.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“Many reports indicate that some Governments' consciences have been bought off by petrodollars and that they have opened their borders to the passage of weapons to be delivered to groups responsible for indiscriminate acts of terrorism in my country. Those weapons are purchased by Qatari and Saudi petrodollars from several sources, which are well known to everyone, and smuggled to this day across the borders of some of Syria's neighbouring countries from Libyan arms depots, according to the final report (S/2012/163) of the Panel of Experts on Libya established pursuant to resolution 1973 (2011). I have a copy of that report with me here, which refers to the smuggling of weapons from Libya and other places, with financing from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“We all know that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has received only 34 per cent of the requisite funding. That confirms what we have said many times before, namely, that those pledges are nothing but media propaganda promoted by crisis mongers and those who spread lies. In response to the cooperation of the Syrian Government, there are parties, known to everyone, who shamelessly insist on contributing to sustaining the cycle of violence in my country through support to terrorist groups affiliated with Al-Qaida, which is a clear threat to peace and security in Syria, the region and the world.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“My Government emphasizes its commitment to its obligations towards the United Nations in accordance with the 2013 humanitarian response plan, which helped deliver humanitarian assistance to various regions of Syria, including the A'zaz area, which is approximately 1 kilometre from the Turkish border. We are undertaking such actions with the United Nations within the framework of General Assembly resolution 46/182. The ability of the Syrian Government to fully comply with the humanitarian response plan has been hampered by poor funding and the conditions imposed. The commitments announced by donors in the media, including those undertaken at the Kuwait meeting held in January and at a number of other international forums, remain unfulfilled.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“We also cannot forget the Israeli partnership with Salafist, Takfiri and terrorist groups, which enables those armed groups to cross the separation line into the occupied Syrian Golan and to have their wounded treated in Israeli hospitals before returning them to Syrian territory, once again across the separation line. Those States and parties, through the actions I just mentioned, seek to have their illegal and immoral actions damage the sovereignty, role and status of Syria in the United Nations. Legal and political scholars may have plenty of time to study the case of Syria, a founding State Member of the United Nations, and what it was subjected to at the hands of political wheelers and dealers.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“After today, the Syrian people will not forgive those who have facilitated the movement of thousands of European and other Western terrorists and jihadists, who are sponsored by well- known intelligence agencies, across the borders of dozens of countries - from Australia to the United States of America - with the ultimate goal of reaching the Turkish, Lebanese and Jordanian borders with Syria, where they are sheltered and accommodated in training camps and then enter my country and spread destruction and sabotage and shed innocent blood.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“I would like to take this opportunity to say that the Government of Syria will bring before the Council all those who finance terrorism in my country, either by purchasing stolen oil from terrorist groups or in any other manner. Our charge against them will be financing terrorism rather than eliminating it. We therefore wish to say today that there is no justification for any Western Government to ignore the terrorists among its citizens crossing international borders into Syria and actively participating in the shedding of Syrian blood.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“The indiscriminate terrorism that is battering my country finds zealous supporters here among us: those who are working to give it legitimacy in the media, as well as politically and diplomatically. They give legitimacy to that terrorism as part of a movement in my country, while they claim to be fighting the same terrorism in Mali, the African Sahel and Libya. There are also those who defend and seek to give legal status to the economic blockade that is stifling my country's capabilities and undermining the living conditions of its people, while at the same time the European Union is discussing purchasing Syrian oil, which rightfully belongs to the Syrian people, from the terrorist groups that control certain oil wells in Syria.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“Syria has a balancing role to play in a volatile and sensitive area of the world. The region's many assets are being trampled by the bloody confluence ofArabs who live in an era ofignorance and Israel's interests and its protectors. The crisis in Syria has revealed serious flaws in the system of international relations and the mechanisms for applying the principles of international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations. All the challenges and risks faced by Syria are being considered in a manner riddled with unprecedented double standards and scandalous political hypocrisy. There is no longer any doubt that the mechanisms of so-called international action function in a selective manner.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“We applaud the humanitarian feeling they expressed towards Syria and its people. We would have wished that their appeal had touched upon the core issues causing the suffering of the Syrian people and addressed the state of the unilateral, coercive and illegal measures imposed on them. We would also have wished that it had mentioned what Syrians are experiencing in terms of the dangers, challenges and threats stemming from the spread of international terrorism on Syrian territory and the impact of that indiscriminate terrorism, as illustrated by the mass killing, displacement and destruction of not only infrastructure and human beings, but of all that Syria represents in the region, namely, coexistence, social harmony, religious tolerance and cultural and ethnic diversity.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“Anyone who may think, even for a moment, of turning back the clock is delusional, because the people of Syria, who have thousands of years of history, will not allow anyone - however great or mighty, working openly or covertly, old or new, near or far - to threaten their sovereignty, dignity, political independence and national unity. Although there are some differences in the way Syrian citizens love their homeland, they are all determined to stand united in the face of any attempt to undermine Syria's dignity, its political independence and its well-established national principles. Allow me to thank Ms. Valerie Amos, Ms. Margaret Chan, Ms. Ertharin Cousin, Mr. Antonio Guterres and Mr. Anthony Lake for the appeal they issued on behalf ofthe United Nations in the New York Times on 15 April.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to thank you, Sir, for successfully managing the work of the Security Council this month. By the same token, I would also like to thank the ladies and the gentleman who briefed us at this meeting. Today, the Syrian people are celebrating the sixty-seventh anniversary of Syria's independence from French colonizers. I take this opportunity at the Security Council table to salute the soul of the first martyr who fell in the fight against the colonizer, who was then the Minister for Defence, Yousef Al-Azmeh. I would like to assure him that the legacy he entrusted to the Syrian people is in capable hands. The people of my homeland, Syria, oppose occupation and reject dominance and subjugation, as everybody knows.”
2013-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6949 (2013) · source
“Zainab Bangura, in order to expose the true events unfolding in Syria in a manner free of sensationalism and politicization and divorced from the agenda of influential Powers in this international Organization. We therefore look forward to her forthcoming visit to Syria as the beginning of an optimal way of cooperating and ascertaining correct information on the sexual violence committed by armed terrorist groups against the Syrian people.”
2013-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6948 (2013) · source
“That is in addition to the inappropriate exploitation of the suffering of Syrian families in another Arab State where documented reports have referred to the marriage of more than 12,000 underage Syrian girls in the course of one year - on the basis of false edicts and pernicious calls by clerics in certain mosques who are followers of Salafi and Wahhabi movements. It is as if the only way to provide humanitarian assistance by those demagogic religious idiots is through religious sexual warfare. In conclusion, my homeland, Syria, would like to seriously deal with those horrendous and egregious violations of human rights. Syria would like to cooperate with the United Nations, especially with Ms.”
2013-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6948 (2013) · source
“We had sincerely hoped that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General would have publicly presented the violations of the rights of Syrian women and girls in refugee camps in neighbouring countries. For example, there were more than 250 documented cases in which Syrian women in a Turkish refugee camp had been impregnated by Turkish supervisors and their terrorist associates. We had hoped that there would have been references to violations against Syrian girls in Jordanian refugee camps, of the serious violations by means of systematic acts of rape by false religious groups wearing religious garb, and of Syrian women being forced to enter into forced marriages, in some cases involving girls under the age of 14.”
2013-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6948 (2013) · source
“Why did the Special Representative choose to ignore the hundreds of reports that have been issued in the course of the two years of the crisis by Western media sources that document violations by terrorist groups of the rights of Syrian women and girls? Why did the Special Representative choose to disregard the admissions by armed groups themselves of having committing sexual assaults and rapes f contained in documented videos posted on the Internet - in which those crimes were part of the Takfiri fundamentalist ideology they seek to promote? Why did the Special Representative avoid shining a light on the violations committed by the countries hosting displaced Syrians and Syrian refugees of their obligations under international conventions related to the protection of the rights of women, children and refugees?”
2013-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6948 (2013) · source
“That morally and socially perverse behaviour has been met by unwarranted responses by many United Nations specialized agencies. It is no longer acceptable for this suspicious silence to continue. In that regard, I would like to raise some questions. Why did the Special Representative choose to ignore the statement she issued on 15 February under the headline "Syria, release kidnapped women and children and protect them from sexual violence". In the statement, she documented an incident involving the kidnapping of a bus carrying no fewer than 40 civilians, most of them women and children, by armed groups in north- western Syria.”
2013-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6948 (2013) · source
“My delegation addressed several official letters to Special Representative Zainab Hawa Bangura that included documented information on the responsibility of armed terrorist groups for committing acts of rape, sexual assault and killing of Syrian women and girls. Those armed groups have become proficient at kidnapping Syrian women and girls and exploiting them as sexual handmaidens for the entertainment of terrorists. At the same time, the advocates of those armed terrorist groups, the jihadi thugs and perverts in some Gulf sheikhdoms, issue open religious edicts on satellite television channels sanctioning their crimes under the guise of what they call sexual religious warfare or sexual intercourse religious campaigns.”
2013-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6948 (2013) · source
“It conveniently selected inaccurate claims, as the Special Representative herself admitted, and chose to use inaccurate sources implicated in terrorism and the bloodletting of Syrian citizens. In its conclusions, the commission relied on unofficial, inaccurate reports submitted by opposition parties and sources hostile to the Syrian State and the Syrian people. For the Council's information, I would like to mention that the commission has to date not visited Syria. The Government of Syria has outlined those serious lapses to the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, as well as to the commission of inquiry in an official and documented manner. But the commission has ignored all that, for unknown reasons.”
2013-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6948 (2013) · source
“However, we also call for extreme care and objectivity in addressing this grave humanitarian issue, which has reached serious levels in more than one place. Perpetrators must be held accountable and brought to justice, whether for crimes committed in the jails of Abu Ghraib in Iraq or in any other place. The report of the Secretary-General includes seven paragraphs concerning my country. The allegations contained in the report were based on reports by the independent international commission of inquiry in 2012 and 2013. My country would like to stress that the work of that commission since its inception was not professional; rather, it was primarily politically motivated. The commission rejected hundreds of compelling documents and evidence submitted by the Government of Syria regarding crimes committed by armed terrorist groups.”
2013-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6948 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I would first like to congratulate my colleague Ambassador Eugene-Richard Gasana on his leadership of the Security Council for this month. I also welcome the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Rwanda to preside over today's important meeting. I also welcome Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflicts. My country has examined the Secretary-General's report on sexual violence in armed conflict (S/2013/149) and the information it contains, submitted by the Special Representative. We support all efforts aimed at putting an end to all forms of the crime of sexual violence in conflict, ending impunity and punishing perpetrators and those who incite such violence.”
2013-04-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6948 (2013) · source
“However, the Israeli representative, with his ignorance and his arrogance, now believes that his country's policies are above the Charter of the United Nations and above the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He also believes that the so-called international community must thank Israel for its occupation and aggression and that it must lionize Israeli State terrorism against Arabs in the occupied territories. Israel provides aid, arms and sponsors Takfiri extremist fundamentalist groups that work fundamentally from the separation line in the Golan. Israel is an integral part of those acting to use and abuse the crisis in Syria to perpetuate the occupation of Palestinian land and to prevent forever the creation of a Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The fact is that many of the countries that have announced pledges of donations are themselves the basic reason for the displacement and suffering of the refugees. In conclusion, let me say that the arrogance of the Israeli representative has made him fall victim to the illusion that he is Salah Al-Din, Hammurabi or Nebuchadnezzar, or indeed Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi or Simon Bolivar; and that his country's acts of aggression and occupation and its repression of the Palestinian people are examples to be followed by all Member States. He misses the fact that the resources spent by the Organization to discuss the very means of ending Israeli occupation and aggression have taken from the Organization and the Security Council millions of work hours and produced hundreds of resolutions.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The Syrian Government has also provided all the necessary facilities for the relevant United Nations specialized agencies, including the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the International Committee of the Red Cross, in order to help in that regard. Furthermore, the national committee that is investigating the current events is continuing its task to ensure that those proven to be involved in acts of violence are prosecuted and held accountable, without exception. Finally, the unethical political trading in the situation of Syrian refugees and the organizing of media press conferences only to announce pledges that in most cases go unfulfilled are inconsistent with the effort to protect civilians.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“There is a difference between the protection of innocent civilians - a noble task and duty of all Member States - and the protection of insurgents, terrorists and fundamentalists who recruit children, attack civilian aircraft and diplomatic missions and primarily target the very safety of civilians and destroy the State infrastructure that has been built to fundamentally serve them. The Syrian Government continues to carry out its constitutional duties in protecting its own citizens from acts of terrorism and sabotage. The Government is working to restore security and stability. It is doing its best despite unilateral, unjust measures and enormous pressure to meet the needs of its citizens, to provide shelter for those forced by the distressing events and terrorist actions to leave their homes and to facilitate their voluntary return.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We believe that concern for Syrian civilians cannot be expressed by sponsoring terrorism or extremism or by derailing settlement efforts or through exerting pressure in order to undermine any possibility for an inclusive national dialogue that alone would be able to restore security and stability in Syria and allow Syrians to determine their own future through a Syrian-led political process among Syrians, as backed up by resolutions 2042 (2012) and 2043 (2012) and the Geneva communique (S/2012/523, annex).”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Despite our opposition to the exploitation by some delegations of the subject of our discussion today, and comparing that to the regrettable events currently being witnessed in Syria, let me point out that caring for Syrian civilians, if it is serious, cannot be compared to the policies being pursued by well- known Arab, regional and Western countries that boast publicly about providing arms, funding, training and safe havens to armed terrorist groups that are crossing borders in order to target all aspects and sectors of the Syrian State, utilizing civilian populated areas as bases for terrorist operations and using civilians as human shields.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“On this occasion, my delegation would like to see renewed emphasis on the need to provide protection for civilians languishing under Israeli occupation in the occupied Arab territories, including the occupied Syrian Golan, as well as on putting an end to the aggressive practices of the occupying authorities against those civilians.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“It also means putting an end to actions by countries that infringe upon the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other States, as well as military interventions or invasions that kill hundreds of thousands of people and displace millions of others, under the pretext of protecting them. The protection of civilians also requires not subjecting them to suffering a slow death by depriving them of the necessities of daily life, including food, medicine and fuel, among others, through the imposition of unfair unilateral coercive measures by some countries that have been confirmed as illegitimate by the United Nations.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We have begun to see fevered attempts to market political propositions that do not enjoy international consensus, such as the so-called responsibility to protect and humanitarian intervention, which are now being touted to shape public opinion that will pave the way for NATO military intervention in the domestic affairs of developing countries and to overthrow ruling national Governments. The issue of protecting civilians in armed conflict must be addressed in a holistic manner that encourages the peaceful settlement of conflicts and condemns and holds accountable the Governments of States that support armed violence and terrorism and use the media to incite sectarian provocation.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Practical experience has proved that the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict or unrest has been used as a pretext to serve intrusive and suspect agendas and the interests of certain States that seek to aggravate and manipulate tensions. Indeed, the practices adopted by the Governments of some of those countries have drifted from some of the most fundamental principles of international law, human rights and international humanitarian law.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“It is utterly unacceptable for such an important issue to be addressed in a discretionary or, indeed, selective manner, or in a way that voids it of its meaning and content and makes it nebulous enough to accommodate numerous forms of abuse and misapplication. The experience of protecting civilians in Libya is still fresh in our minds. One of the most important principles of sovereignty is that the State has the exclusive and primary responsibility to protect its own citizens. That is a fundamental rule of international law that was agreed upon by the founding fathers of the Organization.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“They have also allowed those terrorists to cross Syria's borders with neighbouring countries or armed, funded, abetted and advocated on their behalf in the media. The ideal way to protect civilians in armed conflict and to spare them the scourge ofwar lies fundamentally in preventing armed conflicts and adopting peaceful means to settle existing ones. Those Governments that have initiated and continue to initiate and incite such conflicts must be held accountable. Moreover, the civilians in armed conflict will never be protected without strict respect for the principles of international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular the principles of respect for the sovereignty of States, sovereign equality among States, and non-interference in the internal affairs of States.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“First, I wish to thank all those of goodwill who have referred to the crisis in my country, Syria, and offered constructive points of view on how to protect Syrian civilians from the consequences of the crisis shaking the country. As for other colleagues who see the crisis in my country through the prism of mere criticism and superficial humane theorizing and reckless accusations, I should like to stress that their Governments are an integral part of the creation, escalation and expansion of the crisis in my country, be it through coercive, unilateral sanctions imposed on the Syrian people or by allowing their own fundamentalist and terrorist Takfiri citizens to come to my country through open borders under the noses of every intelligence agency in the world.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me, at the outset to welcome Mr. Kim Sung-hwan, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, and to thank him for presiding over this important meeting. I also welcome you, Sir, my colleague Ambassador Kim Sook, in presiding over the work of the Security Council this month. I further welcome the participation of the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda, Azerbaijan and Brazil at this important debate. I have listened carefully to the statements made by delegations in this debate on the important topic of the protection of civilians in armed conflict. I am compelled to underline the following fundamental points.”
2013-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6917Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Their statements outght to have been open to the priority of supporting the national dialogue mechanism to resolve the crisis in Syria in both a political and peaceful manner, on the basis of the aspirations of the Syrian people and led by Syrians themselves, as is recalled in the two resolutions addressing the Syrian crisis. Instead, they expressed support for one entity of the Syrian opposition, inciting it to operate against the motherland and the interests of the Syrian people, and thereby pushing them into a cycle of destruction and violence in my country.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Finally, our preference would have been for the first statement that was made to the Security Council by our colleague from the United States at the start of President Obama's second mandate, as well as the statements made by our colleagues the representatives of France and the United Kingdom, to have been balanced in nature and to have been based on the reality on the ground in Syria, in keeping with their obligations pursuant to the Charter of the United Nations, the Geneva Conventions, international law, and Mr. Brahimi's mandate.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“In this regard, I should like to point specifically to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. I shall be brief on this matter and will simply underline the fact that the Syrian Government recently submitted a comprehensive political programme for a resolution of the current crisis in Syria. This document is a national solution, based on dialogue between and among the Syrians themselves under Syrian leadership. We call upon all those who claim to be committed to resolving the situation in Syria to respond positively to this programme by putting forward constructive ideas to enable its implementation instead of rejecting political solutions or national dialogue. The crisis in Syria will find a peaceful solution on the Syrian scale.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The issue is putting an end to Israel's occupation of the occupied Arab territories and the establishment of a Palestinian State. Accordingly, I shall not respond to the fraudulent allegations that have been made by a number of delegationsagainst my country, Syria, during this debate, as this is a matter ofprinciple. We must not find ourselves discussing an agenda item that we have often drawn warning attention to. Naturally, there is a great deal we could say to refute the allegations that have been put forward by some member States that have spared no effort in seeking to further exacerbate the crisis in Syria by supplying, sheltering and arming extremists and terrorists operating in Syria in order to stymie any possibility of finding a peaceful solution to the crisis.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The General, who passed away in 1995, converted to peace and became a peace activist in Israel. The author speaks about the wrongdoings of Israel's policies towards the Palestinian people as well as towards the Arabs in the occupied territories. By the way, this man lives in Israel and is an Israeli citizen, but the book was published in Ramallah. The Palestinians authorized the publication of this book. The Israeli Government prevented it from being published. (spoke in Arabic) Once again, I am obliged to warn of the unbridled attempts of a number of delegations to water down the agreed traditional terms of reference concerning the situation in the Middle East by addressing other subjects at this debate and seeking to distance us from the matter at hand for the sake of pursuing their own objectives.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We all witnessed this morning the insolence of the representative of Israel who, in his statement, unequivocally demonstrated that he is completely divorced from reality and operating in a state of political delirium and immoral hallucination, completely denigrating the rights of the Palestinian people. The Israeli representative is misled ifhe believes that he can alter or distort in any way the historic reality through a statement that is full of lies and political trickery. We call upon himto read this book The General's Son. (spoke in English) The General's Son is a kind of biography written by Miko Peled, son of the famous Israeli General Matti Peled. He is considered to be one of the most prominent Israeli generals who participated in Israel's wars against its neighbours in 1948, 1956 and 1967.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“In spite of the perpetration of all Israel's crimes; in spite of all the resolutions adopted by the United Nations; and in spite of all the reports that have been drawn up by the United Nations commissions of inquiry, condemning and describing these crimes unequivocally, it is truly regrettable that the Israeli leaders and perpetrators of these war crimes and crimes against humanity continue to shirk any responsibility or accountability at the international level because of the illegal immunity that has been granted to them by certain influential States.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The intention of Israel and the occupying authorities is to pursue their unbridled attempts to tear the Golan from Syria and to include it as part of its occupation. We underscore the need for the Golan to be returned in its entirety to my country. We call for the Golan to be restored to Syria, whether or not this is acceptable to the Israeli representative.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The explosion of cluster munitions and mines placed by the occupying Power in the Syrian Golan have led to over 726 casualties, including 227 children. We have brought this information to the attention of the Secretary- General. The most recent such acts of violence saw an increase in the number of abductions of Syrian citizens from the disengagement zone by the occupying Israeli Power. The Israeli authorities have even gone so far as to provide support to armed terrorist groups operating in the disengagement zone so as to exploit them to justify the construction of a wall of separation and racial discrimination that stretches 42 kilometres along the ceasefire line in the occupied Golan.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Instead, he referred at length to the prevailing internal situation in Syria, even though that is not part of his mandate. More than 45 years have passed since Israel occupied the Golan. However, apparently these long decades have not been enough to compel Israel, the occupying Power, to implement the relevant United Nations resolutions, in particular resolutions 497 (1981), 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), to bring its occupation of the Syrian Golan, its grave and systematic violations of human rights, its terrorist policy of racial discrimination and reprisals, and its unbridled expansionist activities to an end. We call on Israel to provide international supervisors and organizations with maps of the areas that have been mined in the Syrian Golan.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We are all the more alarmed as the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process also failed in his briefing to refer to an essential component of his mandate and obligations - addressing the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan - even when it was brought to his attention and other representatives of the Secretariat warned him ofthe consequences of ignoring this essential component of the international stance on the Middle East. This is an essential point; the occupied Syrian Golan is an integral part of the item before the Council. The representatives of the Secretary-General must therefore refer to the occupied Syrian Golan in their briefings and statements. In his briefing to the Security Council, the Special Coordinator avoided making any allusion whatsoever to the Golan, even though it is part of his mandate.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“It is time to start taking concrete measures to bring to an end once and for all the inability of the United Nations to fulfil its obligations to stop the Israeli occupation of Arab territories - an inability that, as we all know, is the result of the intransigence of successive Israeli Governments, which have themselves been blindly supported and unfairly justified by a number of influential Powers present and active in the Council. We were deeply alarmed by the fact that, in his briefing two days ago onpriorities for201 3, the Secretary- General failed to include a reference to the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was not included among the priorities.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“In the light of the unflinching support that several members of the Quartet have given to Israel, how could it be otherwise? If we wish to preserve what is left of the credibility of the United Nations, uphold the prospects for peace in the region and prevent war, then the United Nations and its Member States must refrain from the ceremonial and business-as-usual approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That approach lacks any serious content and cannot lead to tangible results on the ground.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“How could it be otherwise, given the continued systematic campaign of settlement activity, which has stamped out any hope for the emergence of a viable Palestinian State, halting not even for a single day? How, indeed, could it be otherwise, given that Israel, the occupying Power, has practiced and continues to perpetrate the worst forms of racial discrimination and flagrant violations of human rights and international humanitarian law? How could they not look with skepticism on the informal periodic meetings at which the Council has proven incapable of putting an end to the tragic suffering of these people and restoring their legitimate rights, ceding instead the large part of its prerogatives to the Quartet, which itself has failed to tackle the situation, seeking instead to sideline the General Assembly?”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“To that end, we call on the Security Council to respond to the call of the Palestinian State to be granted full Member State status in the United Nations, while guaranteeing the restoration of all the legitimate rights of all of the Palestinian people, including the return of Palestinian refugees to their motherland and the provision of compensation in a fair and equitable manner pursuant to resolution 194 (III) of 1948 for the losses incurred. I can affirm that the Palestinian people, following the panoply of United Nations meetings that have been held since the Israeli occupation began, view us with skepticism. How could it be otherwise, given the fact that these people have been held hostage for more than 65 years under the most abject forms of racist and expansionist occupation?”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source