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“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I welcome the presence here today of the Palestinian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Riad Malki. Palestine recently attained non-member observer State status in the United Nations. This was far too late, coming some 65 years after the adoption of resolution 181 (II). It was the first step on the path towards the realization of the Palestinian people's inalienable right to establish an independent State, with Jerusalem as its capital, within the borders of 4 June 1967.”
2013-01-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6906Resumption1 (2013) · source
“I congratulate them on their membership in the Security Council and I wish them success and good luck in pushing forward the way this Council deals decisively with the issue of countering terrorism throughout the world.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Regional and international interference in our internal affairs has become rampant and shameless, and overlooks the violations committed by some States of the most basic principles upon which so-called international legitimacy is based. Furthermore, the exploitation of Syrian blood to carry out destructive evil terrorist political agendas has become flagrant. How can we move to combat terrorism in Mali while some States encourage, sponsor and arm the same brand of terrorism in my country, Syria? In closing, I would like to express my regards to the representatives of the new members of the Security Council, Australia, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, Rwanda and Luxembourg.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Such criminal acts targeting Syrian livelihoods and means of development should be condemned in the same way we condemn acts of conventional terrorism that lead to immediate death and destruction. Such behaviour calls for a firm response from the Security Council, demanding that the Turkish Government return all stolen property to its Syrian owners and provide compensation to those affected. Just as the Turkish Prime Minister a few days ago called on what he described as "the imperialist States" to return the fortunes looted from Africa, he should call on his Government to return the material it looted from Syria and to end practices that harm the brotherly Turkish people and neighbourly relations between our two countries. This is only the tip of the iceberg.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“In whose interest are prisoners and detainees from Al-Qaida smuggled from prisons and sent to Syria with the funding and support of well-known countries and parties such as Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and a specific political group in Lebanon? Between the dreams of an Islamist caliphate that some aspire to and the dreams of reviving the Ottoman Sultanate entertained by others, as well as the theory of creative chaos popular with a third party, nations are suffering, monuments are destroyed and wisdom is slaughtered on the altar of extremism. The Turkish Government has exploited the suffering of the Syrian people to practice piracy and economic terrorism, in collusion with armed groups, represented in the theft of nearly 1,500 pharmaceutical and industrial facilities, their dismantlement and transhipment from the city of Aleppo to Turkey.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The mass incitement of terrorism and so-calledjihad in Syria and other Arab and Western countries that is rampant on the Internet, and especially on online social networks, must lead us to reflect carefully on the seriousness of United Nations efforts to address the use by terrorists of the Internet and its means of communication to spread their ideas and mislead innocent youth. One wonders for whose sake certain Western nations have mounted the wave of demands for legitimate reform in the Arab world, diverting them and forging alliances with extremist Islamist organizations that, having come to power, remove their masks and start searching for bases in countries that have not yet known such organizations.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Any political novice would wonder about a party that has supported the actions of these terrorists, enabling them to reach that zone to begin with, and that has helped to establish such a movement and is dictating conditions for it. That is particularly true since high level officials at the Department of Peacekeeping Operations have ignored the documented information that we provided on the facilities that Israel, the occupying Power in the Golan, is offering to these terrorists. Is not the first suspect in any crime usually the person who stands to profit from the crime? We are witnessing targeted terrorism wearing the mask of those merchandising in religion and media, and embodied in the takfiri jihadist extremist fatwas issued by fake clerics on satellite television channels that promote ignorance and terrorism.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“It is certain that the goal of the blind, vindictive terrorism practiced in Syria is to destroy the State and society, and not to spread democracy, reform governance mechanisms, protect and promote human rights or combat corruption, all of which are popular demands in Syria and enjoy consensus among the various sectors of Syrian society. The suspect goals of some countries in supporting terrorism and extremism in my country have started to rise to the surface. We now see Israel pointing to certain extremist terrorist groups as justification for building a wall along the disengagement ceasefire line that would be 42 kilometers long in the buffer zone on the territories of the occupied Syrian Golan.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Not one single Syrian is convinced that the actions of these armed groups - supported by black petro-dollars, huge amounts of hatred and a lack of patriotism, and aimed at imposing hunger on the Citizens, depriving them of their homes and security, leaving them in the cold suffering from disease, and pushing them into refugee camps - represent a Spring revolution aimed at serving them and at establishing reform and freedom. How can we explain why these terrorist groups target international humanitarian aid provided by the United Nations and other agencies, assassinate Syrian volunteers of the Red Crescent Society, and make threats against international workers and diplomatic missions accredited in Syria? What is the humanitarian significance of targeting civilian aircrafts?”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“That letter has not yet been issued as an official document, although two months have passed since we made such a request and despite the fact that reports from the United Nations itself have recently indicated the presence of foreign fighters from more than 29 States inside Syria. The terrorist activities being carried out by groups in Syria have reached dangerous levels in terms of both quantity and quality. Those groups have targeted vital facilities and infrastructure in several areas in order to bring about the comprehensive destruction of society and to exhaust the resources and undermine the livelihoods of citizens, including in terms of food, medicine, energy resources, petroleum derivatives, roads and transporation and means of communications.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We also called upon the Security Council, the General Assembly and the various counter-terrorism committees to assume their responsibilities in that regard. However, countries with influence have prevented any concrete action to combat the acts of terrorism being carried out in Syria. Those influential countries in the Security Council have even prevented the Council from issuing seven statements to the press condemning terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent Syrians. Moreover, influential countries have blocked the issuing of a number of urgent letters that I sent on behalf of my Government to the Security Council and the Secretary-General, including a letter dated 21 November 2012 that included the names of 143 foreign terrorists killed in Syria.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“The American news channel CNN - not Syrian television - recently confirmed, in cooperation with many specialized Western think-tanks, that Jebhat Al-Nusra was solely responsible for more than 600 terrorist attacks in Syria over the past two years. We have repeatedly warned the Council and called on it to apply a greater measure oflogic and wisdom. We have issued warnings through hundreds of statements, meetings and official communications to the United Nations and its agencies throughout the crisis in Syria. We have warned of the dangers of terrorists flowing into Syria under subversive slogans such as "doctrinal and sectarian Jihad" and "holy war" against the diverse social fabric that characterizes the Syrian people. We have demanded that the countries supporting those terrorist groups stop doing so.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“In that connection, it is important to note the ironic fact that the Arabiya television network, which is considered the operations room directing such terrorist actions, actually broadcast news of the terrorist act before it had even been carried out, considering it as a blow by the terrorist groups inside Syria against the regime. That is what we mean by media coverage and support to terrorist and armed groups within Syria. Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist organizations publicly claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks perpetrated in Syria in response to orders issued by leaders of the Al-Qaida organization. Among those organizations affiliated with Al-Qaida is Jebhat Al-Nusra, which has claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks in Syria.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Those who toy with terrorism will one day fall victim to it. Despite the late international recognition of the existence of armed terrorist groups, some of which are affiliated with Al-Qaida and are committing the most horrific crimes in Syria, some States still continue to pursue policies of public support for such terrorist organizations by providing financing, weapons, training and safe haven and by issuing fatwahs and offering them political and media support. Today, I will give a practical example of such media coverage. Armed terrorist groups attacked the homes and dormitories of Syrian army units in the southern Syrian city of Dar'a, where only women and children were present. Those armed groups perpetrated a terrorist attack, killing, wounding and humiliating whomever they could.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We fully share and endorse the merit of that choice, as today we are in greater need than ever of such a comprehensive approach to combating terrorism. There are broad similarities between the tools and techniques that continue to be used by terrorists in many Member States and those seen today in Syria. The question is one of how many of the trans-border foreign terrorists currently active in Syria played a role earlier in the killing and injuring of civilians in other countries. How many of the terrorists at work in Syria today will move on to other areas in the future, just as happened in the recent past and, indeed, as is happening today? Anyone who believes that they are able to let the terrorism genie out of the bottle and then manipulate it in such a way as to make it go back in is misguided and deluded.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“We extend our sympathy to Pakistan's Government and people based on a principled belief in the need to combat all aspects of terrorism collectively and comprehensively and from the painful reality that just today struck the University of Aleppo, where a cowardly terrorist attack targeting university students as they sat for their mid-term examinations killed 82 and wounded 162 others. We have always said that the terrorist armed groups in my country are taking advantage of Security Council meetings to perpetrate acts of terrorism inside Syria. That is exactly what happened today, perhaps for the tenth or twentieth time since the crisis in my country began. The President quite rightly chose "Comprehensive approach to counter-terrorism" as the theme for our meeting.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, allow me to welcome the presence of the Foreign Minister of Pakistan during the morning part of this meeting. We are grateful to the sisterly State of Pakistan for the initiative to convene and preside over this important debate devoted to a discussion of the issue of counter-terrorism efforts Terrorism is a scourge that all Member States have pledged to eliminate. I would also like to thank the Permanent Mission of Pakistan for the concept note circulated in connection with this meeting (S/2012/3, annex). I take this opportunity to express the deepest condolences of my Government to the Government and people of Pakistan in connection with the act of terrorism carried out in Quetta, which claimed dozens of innocent lives.”
2013-01-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6900Resumption1 (2013) · source
“One day, we will hold accountable all those who have incited, financed, facilitated or participated in these acts of violence.”
2012-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6862 (2012) · source
“As for the perpetrators, their identity is known to all. In conclusion, the Security Council must now more than ever shoulder its responsibilities to combat terrorism in Syria, in implementation of the resolutions adopted by the Council itself. From here in the Chamber, we call upon the Security Council to promptly take the measures needed to put an end to all terrorist operations under way in Syria and to exert the greatest possible degree of pressure on the States that facilitate, finance and incite the groups that are perpetrating terrorist acts, in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the Council, whether or not they pertain to counter- terrorism or Syria. The terrorist acts that have been committed by armed groups in Syria have shed the blood of our people.”
2012-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6862 (2012) · source
“Would the solution lie in ignoring such information, in simply continuing to monitor the events on the ground in that State and in holding one meeting after another among those who claim friendship with the people of that country, yet seek to entrench terrorism and violence in the country? Or does the solution lie in establishing specialized Security Council committees to closely review the terrorism that is rampant in that country in order to determine the identity of those who are inciting, financing and justifying it, in order to take urgent measures to end it and to hold the countries and groups behind it accountable? The hypothetical Member State that I am talking about, and where some influential members of the Council and beyond are trying to ignore the terrorism that is taking place, is Syria.”
2012-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6862 (2012) · source
“That Member State has provided the Council with all the necessary information, leaving no doubt that organized terrorism is being conducted on its territory. Other States Members of the same Organization constantly aver their readiness to implement United Nations counter-terrorism instruments and to defend human rights. Some are even willing to establish a counter-terrorism centre with the blessing of the United Nations, while their top officials claim that they support terrorism in Syria and send weapons and money to the terrorists in that targeted State. What would the Council do in that situation?”
2012-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6862 (2012) · source
“Moreover, we wonder whether it is really a coincidence that hundreds of prisoners linked to Al-Qaida have escaped from prisons in Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan during the Syrian crisis. Is it really a coincidence that all those Takfiri andjihadi terrorists have easily found their way to Syria in order to wage a holy war there? Let us hypothetically put the Syrian element aside and imagine, for example, that the United Nations is dealing with a crisis in a country facing terrorists who have come to its territory from throughout the world in order to spread violence, terrorism and extremism and to destroy a Member State that has abided by the counter-terrorism mechanisms endorsed by the Organization.”
2012-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6862 (2012) · source
“It is indeed puzzling to see that choice to turn a blind eye to terrorist acts that flagrantly violate international counter-terrorism agreements have been unanimously adopted by all Member States. We have recently seen the very worrying trend of terrorist organizations and groups active in Syria threatening to commit terrorist acts against civilian aircraft in Syria. They are also threatening members of diplomatic missions in Damascus and warning them to leave Syria within 72 hours or risk being killed. There is also a tendency to ignore ongoing incitement to undertake terrorist operations against infrastructure and densely populated civilian areas.”
2012-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6862 (2012) · source
“It has become clear to all which countries and which parties are behind those armed terrorist groups adopting jihadi, Salafi, takfiri and Wahhabi ideologies, such as the Al-Qaida network and related jihadi bodies and groups. Those terrorist groups claiming responsibility for the killing of innocent civilians and the sabotage of infrastructure regularly appear on the news after every terrorist operation or bombing. We have even seen the unprecedented phenomenon of some Security Counil members objecting to the Council issuing press statements condemning the terrorist bombings that struck Syria four times - on 15 August, 10 September, 22 October and 26 October.”
2012-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6862 (2012) · source
“Since such incidents began, we have stressed that armed terrorist groups affiliated with Al-Qaida are committing the most heinous crimes in Syria. However, many political groups embroiled in the Syrian crisis, backed by media organs under their influence, have hastened intentionally to cast doubt on the veracity of such information. Today, as a direct result ofthatpolitical and media manipulation, we are seeing Al-Qaida- affiliated networks clearly declare responsibility for the terrorist acts carried out throughout Syria in response to calls from Al-Qaida leaders, such as people like Al-Zawahiri and other religious fanatics residing in some Gulf countries, for people to head to Syria to wage terrorist jihad there.”
2012-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6862 (2012) · source
“Such operations seek to spread terror among civilians, to completely destroy the structure of the State and society, and to kill and wound the largest possible number of innocent civilians, particularly in densely populated areas. That has become clear from the many terrorist bombings that have targeted various areas in Syria. Most terrorist acts that have taken place in my country bear the hallmark ofjihadi, Wahhabi and Salafi ideologies, known in short as the Al-Qaida network, in terms of killing, dismembering and mutilating corpses and murdering entire families. Such acts are carried out on the basis of extremist religious beliefs and bloody sectarian fatwas issued by instigators residing in some Gulf countries.”
2012-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6862 (2012) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): To comply with your wishes, Mr. President, we have summarized our statement as much as possible. We have followed with great interest the briefings during this meeting by the Chairs of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011), 1373 (2001), 1540 (2004). We thank them for their briefings and you, Sir, for your outstanding work as Chair of the 1540 (2004) Committee. The number and severity of terrorist acts in Syria have lately been on the rise. Extremist terrorist groups have continued their criminal operations using bloody methods, including booby-trapped cars and explosive belts, as well as planting explosives that are directed at essential facilities and targets, in order to destroy the infrastructure of many areas.”
2012-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6862 (2012) · source
“Furthermore, the same countries undermine my country's sovereignty by encouraging terrorism and by supplying and providing all types of logistical, financial and political support to armed groups in Syria by providing them with arms and by recruiting terrorists, foreign terrorists, and facilitating their transit to Syria. The greatest paradox here is that the Security Council has faced the situation in Mali in an appropriate way 4 and we thank the Security Council for that. All Council members agreed to confront the terrorism and extremism that rage in northern Mali today. However, some members of the Council have decided to deal with the same kind of terrorism 4 I am referring to that in Mali 4 in a very different way from that in my country, Syria, which is introduced through neighbouring countries. That is a policy of double standards.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“In brazen violation of international law and of the Charter of the United Nations, and through the interference in Syrian domestic affairs, they have attempted to kidnap the rights of the Syrian people, to deprive them of their right to freely choose their future and their political system, and to put an end to all attempts at comprehensive national dialogue. Flagrant foreign intervention in Syria's internal affairs prevents us from achieving national dialogue and reconciliation, which would enable us to build a Syria by all Syrians for all Syrians.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“We must put an end to the implementation of agendas that we have warned Arabs and non-Arabs against and ensure that the Council does not get bogged down in manoeuvres that will reduce to nought the very essence of the the item under discussion. All of this would only serve the designs of Israel and those who protect it. We are aware that we have a great deal that we could say to refute those allegations, levelled by the same countries that have spared no effort to intensify the Syrian crisis and to thwart any peaceful resolution of it.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“Finally, I am forced again to warn against the frenzied attempts of some delegations that back the continuation of Israeli occupation of Arab lands to weaken the well-known historic references of the agenda item on the Middle East by introducing other topics into the debate in order to move Security Coucil deliberations away from the main objective for which the item was created, namely, to put an end to Israeli occupation of Arab land, pursuant to Council resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 497 (1981). Based on that, I am not going to respond to the false claims and allegations levelled at my country by some delegations during this meeting. I am not going to respond to the undiplomatic language used, which is not appropriate to use in this forum.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“That support is a reflection of my country's initiative in 2003 4 when we were members of the Security Council 4 to free the region of all types of weapons of mass destruction, first and foremost nuclear weapons. As the Council knows, those who prevented that initiative from succeeding are the very same countries that today refer with such hypocrisy to the dangers of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“It is quite astonishing to see those who seek security and stability in the region simply disregard Israel's threat to regional and international peace and security by farming the flames of war against countries of the region and its unbridled attempts to involve its allies in that war. How can some States simply remain silent in the light of Israel's acquisition of nuclear weapons and its decision to remain outside the framework of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons? Aware that Israel continues to refuse to participate in the international conference to be held next month to rid the Middle East of all types of weapons of mass destruction, we remind the Council that Syria continues to back the creation of such a nuclear-weapon-free zone.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“Those who claim that they want to protect the Syrian people cannot pass over in silence the ongoing construction of settlements in the Syrian Golan or the erection of an apartheid wall to the east of the occupied city of Majdal Shams. Israel's refusal to make maps of minefields available to international organizations is inexcusable because cluster munitions and mines that were laid by Israel in the Golan have claimed 726 Syrian lives, including those of 227 children. The last such death took place on 4 October, when two Syrian children, both under the age of 10, died as a result of injuries resulting from the explosion of a disused Israeli land mine in the Syrian Golan.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“In addition to that, Israel has conducted large-scale aggressive and offensive military manoeuvres in the Syrian Golan, similar to those that have taken place against Syria before. The Council has just heard a clear threat by the representative of Israel that his country was preparing actively for war in the region. Those who claim hypocritically that they are concerned about the rights of the Syrian people during these difficult times cannot simply ignore that the Syrian people have a right to recover their occupied lands. They cannot pass over in silence the tragedy or the suffering of Syrians under the Israeli occupation of the Golan.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“We say that because not to do so and to have failed to do so for decades simply confirms the existence of selective and exceptional interpretations among some members of the Council when it comes to the implementation of resolutions concerning Israel. The representatives of the Secretariat are first and foremost tasked with discharging their mandates by informing the Council in a regular, updated, transparent and fair way of violations committed by the occupying Power, Israel, in the occupied Syrian Arab Golan. We systematically provide information on such violations to the Secretary-General, most recently when we presented information to him on the kidnapping of Syrian citizens from the Syrian side of the ceasefire line.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“Some of them did so to such an extent that they simply seemed to forget the agenda item that we are discussing here today. The very bitter truth is that part of our land in the Syrian Golan, which we hold dear to our hearts, has been under occupation for 45 years now, despite the fact that the Security Council adopted by majority vote resolution 497 (1981), declaring Israel's annexation of the Syrian Golan, occupied in 1967, to be null and void and without legal basis. The Security Council must live up to its responsibility, embrace reality in a serious way and implement resolution 497 (1981) and other relevant resolutions it has adopted.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“Was all that not sufficient to make those States feel some unease about their provision of unlimited military, economic and political support or to make them put an end to their illegal assistance to Israel, enabling it to continue its crimes against the occupied Arab lands? All of those questions are levelled at those States that back Israel and claim night and day that they wish to see international law implemented and that they wish to fight against terrorism and maintain the credibility of the United Nations and the inviolability of human rights. During the meeting this morning, we have heard a number of representatives of States backing Israel, explaining to us their countries' position concerning human rights laws, international law and peace in our region.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“Were all the reports submitted after dozens of investigative committees, fact-finding missions and panels of wise men to the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Human Rights Council and the specialized agencies of the United Nations during the decades-long Israeli occupation not enough to make the world aware of the scale of the aggression and terror wrought by Israel upon the States and peoples of the region? More than 1,000 resolutions have been adopted by the Organization and its specialized agencies calling for an end to Israel's occupation and condemning its serious and systematic violations of human rights.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“How many more innocent Palestinian, Syrian, Lebanese and other victims will have to die before those States finally become convinced that this genuine tragedy must come an end? How many more settlements in occupied Arab lands will have to be built? How many separation apartheid walls will have to be erected in our occupied lands? And how many Islamic and Christian holy sites will have to be desecrated before those same States finally wake up and put an end to Israel's crimes?”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“That situation has continued due to the direct assistance provided to it by a number of powerful countries that can be found here in the Council, as well as others, of course, outside of the Council. Despite all of that, some are still in an inquiring mode, posing naive questions to the international community in an attempt to determine the parameters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Palestinian issue. Their naivety is quite similar to the attempts during the Middle Ages to determine the gender of angels. My questions for the Council, therefore, are the following. How many more decades will Arab lands have to spend under Israeli occupation until some States finally admit that there is a need for serious action to end that reprehensible occupation?”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“As I said, there have been more than six decades of systematic settlement activities and grave violations committed by Israel on a huge scale, including violations of the human rights of those who are living and those who have passed away. Violations of our land, of international humanitarian law and of every existing international legal standard and code of ethical conduct have been carried out in the occupied Arab territories. For more than six decades, the Palestinian people have awaited the opportunity to exercise their most basic right, namely, the establishment of a free, independent sovereign State on the land of their ancestors. For more than six decades, Israel has defied international legitimacy, arrogantly carrying out its aggressive policies in order to impede any opportunity for achieving peace in the region.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me, at the outset, to welcome to the Council the representative of Pakistan, who has just been appointed as an Ambassador to the United Nations. I would also like to associate myself with the statement to be made by the Ambassador of the Islamic Repblic of Iran, who will speak on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. More than 60 years have passed since Israel occupied the Palestinian territories. That occupation has caused more than 5 million Palestinian refugees, who were chased from their land and had their houses and property stolen from them. There are those who want to control their present and their future.”
2012-10-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6847 (2012) · source
“The Syrian Government reaffirms its right to protect its citizens and, on the basis of the ethical norms of the Security Council and in keeping with the Charter of the United Nations, my country calls on the members of the Security Council once again to bring pressure to bear on those countries that are funding terrorism in Syria, so that they desist from supporting those terrorist groups and refrain from arming or financing them or facilitating their operations, in keeping with Security Council resolutions on the combat against terrorism. My country also calls for greater emphasis to be placed on the need to repeal the unethical and illegal sanctions that have been imposed on my country, Syria.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Although the suffering of children in situations of armed conflict has been brought to light as a result ofthe work of the Special Representative, her statement was devoid of any mention of the suffering of Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation. Here I would simply like to remind the Special Representative of the fact that Israel, since 29 September 2000, has killed more than 1,500 Palestinian children. It would be equally appropriate to mention the Iraqi and Libyan children who also lost their lives as a result ofthe NATO military interventions in those two countries. We wish also to recall the anniversary of Sabra and Shatila.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Those children, too, suffer on a daily basis as a result of the crimes committed by the Israeli occupiers and daily Violations of their most basic rights: the right to life, education, food and water. That is not to mention the continuing suffering resulting from the antipersonnel mines laid by Israel in the territory of the occupied Golan. Such mines have led to the deaths of 202 Syrian children and have caused 329 others to suffer from permanent disabilities. For years, on dozens of occasions, we drew Ms. Coomaraswamy's attention to the need to focus in particular on this matter in her reports. However, she consistently ignored that request.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source
“The Special Representative also confirmed 86 documented reports of rape that occurred in Turkish refugee camps. We would have also preferred that the report make mention of the illegal unilateral economic measures that have been imposed on Syrian children, who are their primary victims because of the difficulty in transferring funds resulting from the blockade imposed on the national banks, which has seriously hampered the provision of vaccines and medications to children. We were equally taken aback to find that the report devotes eight paragraphs to Syria while failing entirely to mention the suffering endured by Syrian children under the decades-long Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source
“The need to find alternative shelter is urgent, particularly as the new school term is scheduled to start on 16 September." (spoke in Arabic) In other words, the OCHA Coordinator in Damascus explained to the Special Representative that schools in Syria served as places ofrefuge for displaced families and were not being used as emplacements for Government forces. Again, this is an eyewitness account from the Coordinator. Moreover, the Special Representative has received reports and documents concerning a phenomenon that has been noted in certain Arab States and which is known as halal, or authorized, sexual jihad, which allows the targeting of Syrian girl children living in refugee camps in Turkey and Jordan. That type of jihad authorizes marriage to such girl children, aged 14 to 16, in exchange for a modest sum.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source
“This reply was prepared at the fifth meeting of the humanitarian forum on Syria, which took place in Geneva under the aegis of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on 7 September. At the end of that meeting, a communique was issued. I shall quote one of its paragraphs, the same paragraph that I had brought to the attention of the Special Representative: (spoke in English) "The Regional Humanitarian Coordinator, who is, as is well known, based in Damascus and who works for OCHA, briefed on the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation resulting from the recent escalation of violence, said that the local community's ability to support people who have fled their homes has been largely exhausted. Of the 1.2 million people displaced, more than 1 million are sheltering in 470 schools and other public buildings.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source
“As a gift to the children on their return for the first day of school, the armed groups bombed a primary school near Damascus, causing dozens of injuries among the students. In spite of this, none of the advocates of children's rights or education rights have intervened. It seems strange to us that, as usual, the forces oflaw and order are being accused of these very actions. In her statement today, the Special Representative stated that she had asked me to convey to the Syrian armed forces her appeal to evacuate the schools. However, she omitted to include my response to her appeal, and I would therefore like to convey what I said to her regarding the situation of schools in Syria.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source