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“As always, we remain committed to upholding our obligations under these international conventions. We should also have preferred that the Special Representative include in the paragraphs concerning Syria the acts that have been perpetrated by armed terrorist groups that have been supported and financed by foreign parties. Those groups have burned or destroyed more than 2,600 schools, nurseries and kindergartens, and targeted health centres. These acts have been detailed in UNICEF reports. In fact, it is those armed groups that are violating the rights of the child in Syria and hindering the evacuation of the wounded, the sick, children and disabled from certain areas, where they have been taken as hostages, as was the case in the city of Homs, confirmed by the representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source
“These are facts about acts on the ground that even the Secretary-General has been unable to deny in the report, due to the fact that they cite credible allegations that armed groups are recruiting children. The latest report of the international commission of inquiry on the situation in Syria also underscores the fact that anti-Government armed groups have recruited children under the age of 18 to participate in combat or provide support by helping to evacuate the wounded or act as messengers for the armed groups. In that context, I recall that the Syrian Arab Republic is not only a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but since 2003 has also been a party to its Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source
“We would have preferred that the authors at least acquaint themselves with the views of the Syrian Government, which we sought to communicate to Ms. Coomaraswamy from the very onset of these events. The author of the report has imputed the entire responsibility for the acts of violence perpetrated against children to the Syrian armed forces, accusing them of bombing schools and killing and maiming children, thus deliberately contradicting dozens of other political and media reports, as well as the eyewitness accounts of non-governmental parties, which provide evidence of armed groups' use and recruitment of children by forcing them to take up arms, participate in terrorist activities, and obey orders given by the leaders of terrorist groups to kill and vandalize private and public goods and property.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Apparently, the author was motivated by a desire to harm Syria and to tarnish its reputation, questioning its international commitments concerning the protection of children and ending violence against children in situations of armed conflict. We therefore entirely reject all the allegations in the report about Syria and denounce the politicization of this important humanitarian issue, which is chiefly concerned with the safety and security of children in my country. Before they drafted this report, we should have preferred that its authors substantiate their information, rather than basing it solely on allegations that have appeared in the media and that can be attributed to hostile propaganda efforts being waged against Syria.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I would first like to congratulate Ms. Leila Zerrougui, the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, on her appointment and to wish her every success with her mandate. We hope that she, too, will be able to leave her own mark in fulfilling that mandate, and that it will be very different from the style adopted by her predecessor. We have noted with concern the report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the document before us (S/2012/261), due to the misinformation that it contains, submitted by the outgoing Special Representative, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy. In our View, this is not a professional report and does not provide an accurate reflection of the facts.”
2012-09-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6838Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Secondly, if the Permanent Representative of Germany really wants to build the Syria of the future for all Syrians, why did the German daily newspaper Die Welt publish an article two days ago stating that "The German Government is currently working in the Bundestag on a plan to make the necessary arrangements to host the Christians from Syria"? I reiterate that that plan refers only of hosting Christians from Syria. Why only Christians? Why do we want to dismantle this Syrian society that we have all praised? The answer is in the Council's hands.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“That said, as the Minister spoke to me directly as the representative of my country, I would like, on behalf of my people and Government, to express our most serious concern regarding the new shadow that has been cast on our troubled relations and memories going back to the period of the occupation. We have endeavoured to expunge those memories since 1946. (spoke in Arabic) To conclude, I would like to turn to my colleague, His Excellency the representative of Germany, who called for the establishment of the Syria of the future for all Syrians, irrespective of their origin. He also said that there was no future for Bashar Al-Assad in the new Syria. I would like to ask him who authorizes him to speak on behalf of the Syrian people. Is that not a violation of diplomatic practice in the Council?”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“At the time, I learned about the values of national independence and having an uncompromising attitude in the face of foreign interference in the internal affairs of any country. I was obviously also familiar with the major universal messages of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire and others. Among the fine principles of international law of which I learned during my post-graduate studies in Paris, I recall today one in particular that I hold very dear, namely, the principle of respect for the most sovereign of State symbols in each nation: a country's President. I shall therefore refrain from making the slightest criticism of France and its senior representatives.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“I invite him to adjust his aim and readjust Morocco's relationship with other countries by responding to the demands of the Moroccan people and renouncing certain royal practices that have become archaic. Morocco should renounce such practices which involve, for example, kneeling before His Majesty the King and kissing his hand. Also, with regard to the border, there are people living in the Sahara who are demanding their rights. (spoke in French) At the beginning of my professional career, more precisely during the first seven-year term of Mr. Francois Mitterand, I spent a lovely part of my life as a young diplomat in the Syrian Embassy in France. I retain excellent memories from the time I spent among the French and at the centre of French and, more specifically, Parisian academic, cultural and educational establishments.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“His Excellency the Minister for Social Affairs of Lebanon regretted the presence of 20,000 Syrians in Lebanon. I would like to remind him that, after the Israeli aggression against Lebanon in 2006, our aircraft welcomed tens of thousands of Lebanese in Syria. We did not turn to the Council to ask for help. On the contrary, we welcomed our Lebanese brothers with open arms. The closure by certain States of their Embassies in Damascus means that it is no longer possible for those States to follow the real events as they happen in Syria. In turn, that means that they are not able to accurately analyse the facts and the situation. I therefore cannot reproach the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Morocco for what he said because I do not wish to rub salt in a wound.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“I would have liked to have said that directly to His Excellency the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, and not to my friend and brother the Ambassador of Turkey, whose moral integrity and great moral probity I know full well. The arms trafficking through Lebanon is being perpetrated by Lebanese political parties, and not officially by Lebanon. The President says that it is Lebanon's turn. When the Lebanese Government confiscated the Luifallah I] loaded with arms coming from Libya, it must have truly called down the wrath of God. The seizure by the Lebanese authorities of that weapons-loaded vessel bound for Syria is an event that is not worthy of the very close links between the two countries. That vessel was followed by seven others, also loaded with arms and intended for Syrian armed groups.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Kofi Annan attributed his lack of success to three main causes, one of which involved the lack of cooperation on the part of States and parties that have influence over the armed groups. Certainly, everybody knows that if the neighbouring country, in this case Turkey, had merely hosted Syrian refugees, it would have done nothing. However, given the fact that Turkey is harboring armed elements that perpetrate cross- border crimes on my country's territory and the fact that Turkey is allowing those groups to set up training camps for Salafist extremist groups and for groups that are attempting to go back to prehistoric times, in that regard, the Turkish Government - its Government, not the Turkish people - is becoming Syria's executioner.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Given that statement, we would like to know if France, with that information on arms trafficking to Syria, would take the appropriate measures necessary as a permanent member of the Security Council and current Council President in order to ensure scrupulous respect for the articles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law and the spirit of resolutions 2042 (2012) and 2043 (2012). No one can ignore the fact that turning a deaf ear to arms trafficking to armed elements in Syria flouts all those provisions. Major Turkish and international newspapers have reported the role played by the Turkish Government, not the Turkish people - those neighbourly, friendly people linked to us historically and geographically. The international press has referred of the role of Turkey in spillilng Syrian blood. Why do we say that? Mr.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Syria has always been and will remain a land for Syrians of every stripes; it was a civilization even before it was a State. We listened attentively to the statement made by His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of France on 29 July. He said, "they are being supplied with weapons. According to the information we have, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and probably others are supplying weapons." We understand "them" to mean the armed groups in Syria.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“That said, we would also like to thank all who have extended the hand of friendship to Syrian refugees without imposing preconditions, let alone transforming some of those camps into military centres where terrorists gather to train so that they can then be sent to Syria to commit their vile crimes, as is still happening in Aleppo. What certain capitals may be planning and plotting for Syria is one thing; what the Syrian people want is another, namely, genuine reforms and a better life. The challenges are not only about legitimate aspirations for reform; the greater challenge right now is to protect Syria as an independent State, and to counter the extremist terrorist agendas that aim to condemn Syria - a country with a history of tolerance and civilization - to the dark ages and to inquisitional tribunals.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Today we Syrians feel deep bitterness and sorrow at the sight of some of our brothers, living in terrible conditions in tents on our borders while attempts are made to intimidate them into not returning home. Their dignity is being insulted; they are being turned into refugees, prisoners of those camps. At best, one would describe them as detention camps. We ask those countries that have taken in Syrian refugees to allow all those who wish to return to do so, and not to prevent them from returning to their motherland, Syria.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Guterres, who is at this meeting, knows full well what we are talking about, because he has personally witnessed the hospitality Syria has shown towards Arab and non-Arab refugees, freely welcomed by my country, without seeking to promote or profit from them in any international forum or authority. My country has not just put up tents to shelter the refugees who have sought asylum on our territory. It has notjust welcomed them in camps on its borders or in the desert in order to exploit or manipulate their hopes. On the contrary, Syria has done its duty, sharing its meagre resources with them and treating them just as it treats its own citizens, sharing the brotherly ties of humane responsibility and in accordance with its international commitments.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Is there any Government that would agree to suspend its duty to protect its citizens, leaving them at the mercy of extremism, terrorism and violence? Let me back up my statements with facts. Here is a list of 107 names of Arab and non-Arab terrorists who have died in Aleppo, killed by the forces of order. It includes names, nationalities and other details, and we are happy to provide it to anyone who is interested. It includes Tunisians, Libyans, Saudis, Palestinians, Jordanians, Egyptians and so on. Those persons were not Syrian citizens. For decades, Syria has hosted millions of refugees from Iran owing to hostile acts that had nothing to do with Syria. Mr.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“I would urge the Council to read an article by the British journalist Robert Fisk in The Independent on what he saw in Aleppo. It corroborates what I have been talking about here. His description tallies precisely with what has been admitted by senior United Nations officials, such as Major General Mood and others. There is further proof in the fact that the armed groups refer to the Battle of Homs, the Great Battle of Damascus and the Battle of Aleppo as if they were battles happening beyond Syria's borders or between Syria and a foreign State. It is undeniable, after all, that Horns and Aleppo are both Syrian cities. In that regard, we must ask if there is any State in the world that would allow armed elements, terrorists and mercenaries supported by foreigners to control neighbourhoods in its towns?”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“In that regard, I would like to recall a well-known Chinese saying that states that wisdom begins with calling things by their real names. In that context we believe that, to the extent that the intentions are sincere, the best way to aid the Syrian people is, first of all, by dealing with the causes of the suffering, since the continuing efforts of the armed groups, which are operating with external support, to destroy the means of subsistence - such as infrastructure, health and education institutions, communication channels, power sources, places of worship and museums - while encouraging violence and intimidating peaceful citizens, are all factors that explain this intolerable suffering, exacerbated by the armed groups' attempts to exercise military control over residential areas in various principal cities, using civilians as human shields.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“At the same time, those States have imposed unfair economic sanctions, which have had serious humanitarian repercussions on the lives ofthe Syrian people, inflicting damage on their means of subsistence and well- being, even depriving them of medicines and medical equipment. Who can understand why certain States have done everything in their power to suspend Syria's membership of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on the pretext of sympathy with the Syrian people? And speaking of humanitarian aid in Syria, some of those States have not even contributed funds to the regional response plan approved by OCHA and the Syrian Government, although they are aware that funding is the major obstacle to the implementation of the plan.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“They refer to aid to support their own interests in interfering in the internal affairs of other States. If this meeting is truly focused on a discussion of the best possible ways of providing humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, why then have some insisted on promoting actions outside the framework of the United Nations, in clear contravention of the text of the Charter of the United Nations? We fail to understand how it is that certain countries provide their modest sums of humanitarian aid via the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) while imposing prior conditions.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“The erroneous and subjective reading of the situation by certain people, policies based on internal interference in Syrian affairs, and the failure on the part of certain countries to cooperate with the six-point plan are all factors that contributed to the resignation of Mr. Annan and the decision not to extend the Supervision Mission in Syria. Today, we would like to see the clear intentions of those who talk of addressing the humanitarian aspects of the crisis. There are those who claim that they wish to help the Syrian people, provided, however, that such assistance goes only to the last Syrian in Syria. It is patently clear, alas, that certain States can only view the issue of humanitarian aid in the framework of their own biased political agenda.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Lakhdar Brahimi as the Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on Syria. I take this opportunity to warmly welcome him. But what is odd is that certain States that rallied the consensus for the final communique then did everything they could to stifle it just hours after its issuance. They did so through non-consensual parallel efforts aimed at ending all endeavours towards a peaceful end to the crisis in Syria. Such efforts would put an end to the national Syrian-led dialogue by promoting an inevitable and imminent military intervention under humanitarian pretexts, which confirms the existence of a virtually hysterical obsession among the leaders of those countries to target Syria both as a country and as a people.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“As a counterpart, the Syrian Government has responded with openness and a positive spirit to the legitimate claims of its people and all initiatives aimed at settling the crisis by peaceful and political means, including Mr. Annan's six-point plan, which is clearly supported by Syria. To implement the plan, Syria has fully cooperated with the Supervision Mission by making all the necessary facilities available in accordance with agreements made with the United Nations through the efforts of Mr. Annan and based on respect for national sovereignty. Syria also welcomed the final communique of the Action Group for Syria, issued after its meeting in Geneva on 30 June. In accordance with an official communique issued by the Syrian Foreign Minister, my country consented to the appointment of Mr.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Those are quotes from official statements attributed to representatives of certain countries represented here in the Council, and from others of our region. Those words represent the very substance of the statements and tendencies of certain Arab, regional and international parties supporting the armed groups and representing them outside of Syria. How is it possible, then, to put an end to the violence and resolve the crisis in Syria by peaceful means? Is it not high time for us all to learn the lessons of the disasters brought about by foreign interventionist policies carried out by certain influential international Powers aimed at interfering in the internal affairs of other Member States?”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in French): I take the opportunity to begin my statement by thanking you, Sir, for convening this meeting of the Security Council. (spoke in Arabic) Mr. Annan's six-point plan was stillborn. First Arab observers and then United Nations observers bore false witness by saying no to a peaceful political solution and national dialogue, offering no other solution than providing weapons to the opposition. They have said that foreign military intervention and the fall of the regime are non-negotiable points. Safe corridors, buffer zones and provisional Governments must be established. The struggle against the authority of the Syrian State and the fall of its institutions are irreversible. The Syrian President has lost all legitimacy and should relinquish power.”
2012-08-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6826 (2012) · source
“More than 250 Qatari opposition figures - some of them members of the ruling family 4 have made legitimate demands for reform and for an end to the squandering of the Qatari people's money and resources on attacks and conspiracies against other Arab and Islamic peoples. Qatar and Saudi Arabia are no example for anyone to follow when it comes to democracy.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Qatari and Saudi foreign policy should have supported the Kofi Annan plan and the Geneva document, instead of conspiring to undermine both while escalating their attacks on Syria and its interests in the General Assembly, having failed to do so in the Security Council. The Syrian people will find their own wellspring, free of the petro-dollar spigot, Wahhabist-Salafist forces and Western hegemony over their political fate and options. I call on the Governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia to immediately respond to the demands of their own people and to their internal and external oppositions. Saudi civilians have suffered greatly from oppression by the military and security forces in Al-Qatif and Al-Awamiya.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“However, the representative of the Secretariat failed to mention any of these facts in his briefing, to the great detriment of the Secretariat's credibility. In conclusion, the representatives of Qatar and Saudi Arabia shed crocodile tears over the suffering of the Syrian people. The Syrian blood being spilled hourly by the Qatari-Saudi collusion - through direct military, financial, diplomatic and political interference and the media should suffice in the eyes of any observer to contradict the outrageous claims made on the Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya satellite channels and by the officials of those two countries, to which Syria has never done any harm. That coverage and those statements clearly unmask the political approach of the politicians of those two countries.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Those actions enjoy the direct intelligence, military, media and financial support of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other countries, such as the United States and France, which provide these armed groups with sophisticated equipment. Meanwhile, they claim that the equipment is non-lethal, when in fact it is being used to facilitate terrorist operations in Syria, costing the lives of thousands of innocent Syrians, civilian and military alike. We have provided the Secretariat and the members of the Council with scores of documents and evidence about armed incursions into Syria originating in Lebanon and other neighbouring States. That reality has been confirmed by the international media, including through video and audio evidence, most recently in an article in today's New York Times.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“In that context, we do not need to stress the strong bilateral Lebanese and Syrian ties, and we welcome the measures taken by the Lebanese authorities in charge of monitoring the common borders to prevent arms smuggling to Syria and to stop all terrorists. However, the problem lies in the actions taken not by the Lebanese Government but by certain political parties in Lebanon that finance, shelter and support those armed groups and help them to smuggle weapons from Lebanon to Syria to carry out terrorist operations that would prolong the bloodshed and the conflict among innocent civilians and members of the military.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“The simplest lesson that we can draw from all of this is that this approach has encouraged Israel to maintain its policies of aggression and occupation and to keep the truth from the members of the Security Council and the United Nations. There is another point that I would like to make clear at this juncture concerning the reckless attempts of certain countries to harm brotherly relations between Lebanon and Syria. Violations of Syrian sovereignty by armed terrorist groups from Lebanese territory have recently increased. I have with me an official list of 114 cases ofweapons smuggling from Lebanese into Syrian territory; there is none in the opposite direction. Those 114 cases are only the ones we know about, and they all took place within a period of only two months, from 1 May to 24 July.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Not only did the representatives of the Secretariat not address those serious Israeli violations in their monthly media briefings to the Security Council under the agenda item "The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question", but they also did not refer to the Syrian Golan at all, including the threat made by the Israeli Minister of Defence two days ago that the Golan is a candidate for aggression and the potential trigger of a full-scale war that would actually backfire against Israel itself. That approach by the representatives of the Secretariat, which is repeatedly and blatantly collusive, represents a clear violation of the Secretariat's duties to brief the members of the Security Council on these and related developments in accordance with resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 497 (1981).”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“It continues to dismember the Golan, build the separation wall and establish the segregationist isolation of the Golan east of the occupied Majd al-Shams village. We have informed the Secretary-General and the members of the Security Council of all of those violations; we sent our most recent official communication on 17 July. However, and most regrettably, our complaints have fallen on deaf ears.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Nevertheless, this morning we have listened to the statements made by some colleagues, ambassadors of European countries, in which they spoke of the fact that the Palestinian State is now being called Area C in the deliberations of the Council. Later on, it will become Street A, B and C and not Area C. Area C would be the Palestinian State. The Palestinian State is no longer there. Israel continues to refuse to return the occupied Syrian Golan to its motherland, Syria, in flagrant violation of resolution 497 (1981), which declares Israel's annexation of the Syrian Golan null and void and without legal basis. Israel also pursues its settler policies, its State terrorism and the exercise of policies of discrimination and oppression against the Syrian inhabitants of the Golan.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“On the contrary, the situation has deteriorated since the United Nations has become a disabled second fiddle to the international Quartet with regard to the continued escalation of aggression by Israel and the uncontrolled and unprecedented settler activity, political intransigence and preparation for new aggression in the coming days. The Israeli escalation enjoys the political, military and unlimited financial and media support of certain influential States that are originally responsible for all the tensions and conflicts in our region. It may be useful to recall here that just yesterday, in Brussels, the European Union entered into around 60 new agreements of cooperation with Israel, in spite of Israel's violations of human rights and its policies of aggression and settlement activity contravening international law.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“They are the same States that have defended Israel's failure to implement the resolution on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction, adopted at the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (see NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I), Annex). In that context, the Security Council regrettably has not been able to rise up to its responsibilities in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. No progress has been achieved in that regard.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“The reason behind the Israeli challenge can be attributed to the absence of any serious deterrent to Israel, which benefits from the promotion of the culture of impunity and from putting itself above the law due to the direct protection provided to it by certain influential States. Those States that claim to be concerned with international law and human rights are the same States that guarantee Israel illegitimate immunity for all its crimes during decades of occupation ofArab territories. They are the same States that have provided Israel with nuclear weapons and submarines capable of launching nuclear weapons.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“The fact of the matter, regrettably, indicates once again that there is a systematic Israeli policy - which some wouldnot like to subj ectto standards of international accountability - of violations and practices that contradict the absolute minimum of human rights principles, international humanitarian law and all moral and humanitarian standards. Israel, as we well know, continues to disregard hundreds of resolutions adopted by the United Nations since 1948 calling on the occupying Power to withdraw from all occupied Arab territories to the borders of 4 June 1967, with a view to establishing ajust, lasting and comprehensive peace.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“I will not fall into the trap, about which Syria has repeatedly warned over many years, of involving the Council in manipulations and manoeuvres that could undermine Arab-Arab relations and establish delusional fronts that can only benefit Israel and its protectors. I would like to put an observation on record - those who have most harmed the discussion of this agenda item, the situation in the Middle East, are certain Arab delegations that have consistently tried to kill the spirit of the item in a manner that benefits Israel's continued occupation of Arab territories at the expense of the legitimate rights of the Arab people.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Some are attempting to cover up the failure to find a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, due to Israeli intransigence, supported by some influential countries, by involving other issues within the discussion of the item with the intention of weakening the well-known and established terms of reference for putting an end to the Israeli occupation of Arab territories, and to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian State within the borders of4 June 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital. That is how we understand the substance of this agenda item. Therefore, I will confine myself to the substance of the item under discussion. I will not respond to the false claims and allegations made by certain delegations against my country, Syria, at this meeting.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): My delegation would like to express once again its great concern at the repeated feverish attempts of certain delegations to distract the Security Council's deliberations of the item on its agenda, the situation in the Middle East, from the main objective and reason for which it was included, namely, putting an end to the Israeli occupation of Arab territories and the settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, based on the well-known terms of reference for peace.”
2012-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6816Resumption1 (2012) · source
“Let us heal our wounds. Let us recall our common history. Let us understand what is being plotted against us. Let us build our homeland, a country that is strong enough to withstand any heinous aggression. I would like to conclude by quoting the wisdom of a Sufi philosopher who lived in Syria in the tenth century and who advised his students and followers: "My children, the rational individual person must not lose his perspicacity when he participates in writing history. Those who have had a problem with the Devil should not seek to find a solution by consulting Satan."”
2012-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6810 (2012) · source
“Consequently, it is incumbent upon all of us to realize that the only solution must be a Syrian solution through a comprehensive and inclusive Syrian political process that satisfies the aspirations ofthe Syrian people in a national dialogue in which all participate under the umbrella of the homeland in order to establish a democratic, pluralistic country where all enjoy equality before the law, far from any political or ideological tendencies, a State where political and economic opportunities are available to each and everyone without discrimination, where there are democratic, transparent and free elections in which all compete, as is the case in other countries. The Syrians alone are capable of defending their country and preserving its invincibility against any geopolitical interest that seeks to attack its existence and dignity.”
2012-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6810 (2012) · source
“They opened a wound that is still bleeding in Palestine, invaded Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya and provided all forms of political, military and diplomatic support to Israel so that it could occupy the Syrian Golan and the Palestinian territories and what remains ofthe Lebanese territory. Anyone who believes that those people are today willing to provide Syria with anything that would serve its real interests is deluded.”
2012-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6810 (2012) · source
“It is up to us Syrians, including the national opposition, to realize that those countries that claim to be eager to support the Syrian people and their interests are not in any way looking for a peaceful solution that would maintain the unity, stability and independence of the country and achieve the common aspirations of the Syrian peoples. Those so-called friends of Syria are targeting the Syrian State and people and the roles played by Syria at the Arab, Islamic and regional levels by using the political contradictions that have surfaced in the Syrian arena during the crisis. Who can believe those who deceived the Arabs by imposing the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration on us, assassinated the first Syrian Minister of War and bombarded the Syrian Parliament in 1945.”
2012-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6810 (2012) · source
“All Syrians are concerned and seek to participate on the basis of reconciliation, joint action and tolerance in order to reconstruct what has been destroyed by the war and anarchy and to proceed to re-establishing the rule of law and reshaping peace and stability. They do not seek to invoke Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations or seek external military intervention, of which the Security Council's memory is full of examples. One need only look at the disasters that it has imposed on the peoples of States Members of the Organization against which such interventions were applied.”
2012-07-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6810 (2012) · source
“Those who sympathize with the armed groups and the terrorists in Syria should host them in their own countries and provide them with what they want, namely, the freedom to carry weapons and destroy the social fabric and the structures of the State under the slogans of realizing democracy and calling for reforms. What has been said repeatedly of late in the media about chemical weapons and Syria's intention to use them has no basis in fact whatsoever. The media is trying to plant some insidious intentions, and if those insinuations reflect anything at all, they reflect the intentions of some who would want to use chemical materials against our people in order to find a pretext to accuse the Syrian Government and garner the support of the Security Council and international public opinion against Syria.”
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“Such sanctions have negatively impacted their daily lives, ignoring all the principles of good-neighbourliness and the international norms and instruments that criminalize such actions. Those States have severed their diplomatic relations with Syria, which has closed dialogue and all channels of direct communications. To those countries, we say, in the name of our people, that if they want to impose the law of the jungle on others and if they find that that is the logical course of action, then they should allow that course in their own countries as well.”
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