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Jaafari

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first: 2006-07-21
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“This attempted backtracking is embodied in the recognition by Donald Trump, the President of the United States of America, of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan, ignoring the commitment of all previous United States Administrations to upholding the provisions of resolution 497 (1981). Naturally, this utter silence has encouraged the Israeli occupying entity to continue its occupation for decades with impunity, protected and encouraged by the United States of America and a number of other Member States. Israel has continued to occupy Arab territories, confiscate our lands, expand settlements and reverse itself on its commitment to a just and comprehensive peace, pushing the region towards war in an unprecedented manner.”
2019-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8567 (2019) · source
“I did not object to the fact that my British colleague wanted to take the floor to make a point of order, but she should have done so in accordance with the proper procedures by asking the President to give her the floor. The utter silence of the Security Council after Israel's more than 50 years of occupation of the Syrian Golan - and I thank you, Mr. President, for concluding your statement with a reference to the Golan - has encouraged the United States Administration to attempt to backtrack on the provisions of resolution 497 (1981), which declared the decision of Israel, as the occupying Power, according to the description commonly used at the United Nations, to impose its laws, administration and authority on the Golan to be null and void and without international legal effect.”
2019-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8567 (2019) · source
“There are 27 international non-governmental organizations operating in Syria with the approval of the Syrian Government, but it is unacceptable for certain countries to send intelligence groups to Syria across the border with Turkey under the pretext of doing humanitarian work. We need to draw the attention of the Council to this particular fact. We objected to our dear colleague the representative of Britain when she interrupted me while delivering my statement because her act was not in line with the rules and procedures. Any representative who wishes to interrupt another representative has to go through the presidency. We do not keep interrupting each other as if we were in a circus. We have to show some respect for each other, even if we disagree politically.”
2019-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8567 (2019) · source
“How would the Council react if some country were to establish the Mexican-American Syrian-Iraqi Medical Society - call it whatever you wish - and send it to the border between the United States and Mexico, without the approval of or coordination with the United States Government, to care for the Guatemalan refugees who are drowning in the river there on a daily basis? We have read that story in the New York Times. Is that international law? Is that respect for the Charter? Humanitarian work requires that the law be respected. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is working in Syria with the approval of the Syrian Government. Its work is purely humanitarian.”
2019-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8567 (2019) · source
“The Security Council is not a private-sector entity owned by one Member State. It is not a store where the owner selects its clientele. The Council is responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security - nothing more, nothing less. We are not here to personalize or politicize issues according to our whims. It is normal not to agree sometimes, but disagreement has to be expressed according to norms, and, as they say in English, we go by the book. I would remind my dear friend, the representative of the United States of America, that our book is the Charter of the United Nations and the provisions of international law.”
2019-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8567 (2019) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to welcome the Special Envoy and wish him every success in carrying out his mandate. I will make just a few remarks. I will not speak at length, so as not to derail the discussion. Today, we are discussing the political track, not the humanitarian track. I will therefore not comment at length on some remarks that pertain to a previous meeting that was held on the humanitarian situation (see S/PV.8561). Nonetheless, my country strongly believes in multilateral diplomacy. That is why we were one of the founding States of this international Organization. We emerged victorious over those who would violate international law. Accordingly, when we speak from a political and diplomatic perspective, we speak out of our belief in international law.”
2019-06-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8567 (2019) · source
“The Syrian State must be supported in the humanitarian and development areas, in addition to the measures taken by the Government to fight terrorism and put an end to the illegal presence of United States, British, French and Turkish forces throughout the entire territories of the Syrian Arab Republic.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“In conclusion, I reaffirm that my country's Government will spare no effort to help the Syrian people surpass these difficult times of the history of their country by providing them with the support and services they need to move forward to rehabilitate and rebuild what has been destroyed by terrorism and aggression. I also emphasize that the way to improve the humanitarian situation in my country is clear to everybody. It requires full respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as the lifting of the illegal, inhumane and unilateral coercive measures against it.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“The Syrian Government, like every other responsible Government in the world, including the Governments of Member States, cannot sit idle while terrorists control one of its regions and use the citizens of Dara'a as human shields, targeting peaceful civilians in neighbouring cities and towns with indiscriminate missiles and rockets. It is obvious that the Syrian Government must defend its citizens and has the right to respond to terrorists launching missiles. It has the right to fight terrorism, as stressed by international law, the Charter of the United Nations and the anti-terrorism resolutions. Any allegation that the Syrian Government and its allies are deliberately targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure is purely baseless.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“I will refrain from reading certain paragraphs contained in my statement so as not to be accused of attacking the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. We have made great progress in spite of the enormous challenges we face and we are confident that, together, we could have achieved much more in the humanitarian field if some of our United Nations partners had been committed to the principles of humanitarian work, notably by respecting the principles of sovereignty, neutrality, non-politicization, full cooperation and coordination with the Syrian Government, which is the key party involved in meeting the needs of Syrians.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“Are the representatives ofthose Western States ready to discuss economic terrorism and the collective punishment that their Governments practice by imposing unilateral coercive sanctions against the Syrian people? These sanctions do not exclude children, the elderly, women or the sick. Are those colleagues willing to discuss the role their Governments are playing in prolonging this crisis, which has lasted for more than eight years? These Governments are hindering the political solution and thereby increasing the suffering of the Syrian people. We all know the answer very well. We realize that those Governments are offering various fake excuses and pretexts to avoid this discussion, which would highlight their serious political, legal and moral failings.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“Obviously, discussing the details of these aggressive interventions requires time that the Council is not willing to spend. I do not believe that certain members of the Council are willing to seriously engage in core issues leading to the achievement of the noble objectives of real humanitarian work. Are the representatives of certain Western States ready to discuss the terrorism that is targeting my country? Some States are investing in this terrorism. They collateralize their investment with tens of thousands of foreign terrorist fighters from more than 100 States Members ofthe Organization, providing them with all kinds of support, finance and weapons.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“Are we going to see those terrorists in other targeted countries, pursuant to the policies of certain countries under fabricated names such as the Islamic State in North Africa, like Da'esh in our region, Or the Islamic State in the Caucasus and Central Asia? It would seem that investing in terrorism is far more lucrative for certain States Members of the Organization than investing in the Sustainable Development Goals, the environment, conflict containment, the fight against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or humanitarian work. Ever since the first meeting of the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in my country years ago, we have stressed that a tangible improvement in the humanitarian situation in Syria requires dealing with foreign political, military and economic intervention in the affairs of my country.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“We have extremely important information about that. Thousands of foreign terrorists residing in Al-Hol camp were transferred to other places. We have the right to ask about their destination. What will their fate be? Will they be recycled through Turkish territory back into Syria? We have seen that happen in the north- east of the country and other areas in order to launch attacks on peaceful civilian areas in the north-west of Syria, such as the city of Kesab, or to enter Idlib and its rural areas. On what basis were they released from the camps? Who facilitated and funded this operation?”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“They always write short and ambiguous expressions, refusing to use clear language and without attributing responsibility for the war crimes and crimes against humanity to the international coalition, the occupying Turkish forces, the militias and affiliated terrorist groups. They do not address the tragic plight of the civilians, including in areas occupied by the United States, such as Rukban and Al-Hol camps. Because they claim to be neutral and professional, as we hope they truly are, they had to say something about the existence and enormity of those unquestionable crimes. In light of the information contained in the report, we have the right to ask about hundreds of foreign fighters whom the report claims to have resided in Al-Hol camp and were reportedly transferred to other places.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“The proof is that most pages of the report focus on the situation in Idlib, guided by the vision of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and its open sources. It uses vague language and fabricated names that take us back to an era that we thought OCHA had left behind, an era in which it was exploited by certain agendas of States that have influence in the Security Council. Those countries sought to undermine the efforts of the Syrian Government and to find pretexts to accuse it and to make it an enemy rather than to establish a partnership with it and fully cooperate and coordinate with it in advance. Cities such as Raqqa, Hajin, Baghouz, Deir ez-Zor, Tell Rifaat, Palmyra, Afrin and Manbij did not receive any attention from those who draft such reports.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“My delegation has taken note of the sixty- first report on the implementation of supposedly humanitarian resolutions aimed at supporting the efforts of the Syrian Government and its institutions to improve the lives and well-being of Syrian civilians and to build their capacity to improve the difficult humanitarian conditions that are the result of the civil war imposed on my country. I will not address the report before the Council in detail as it is intended to deal with objectives that are not related to the interests of the Syrian people or their security and well-being. It is simply used to repeat obsolete things that may please certain anti-Syrian Governments.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): That is the first time that I have seen a representative of a country interrupting the representative of another country while reading his statement to raise a point of order. That does not happen. No one may interrupt an ambassador of another country while delivering a statement. In any case, I recounted facts and information and posed legitimate questions to all members. Consider what I said regarding information and factual events. Members can verify them. They are not accusations, rather they are facts.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“That means that a terrorist group controls 99 per cent of Idlib where the Syrian American Medical Society is active. How could it be that the society is active in places controlled by a terrorist group? Hence, there is cooperation between the terrorist group and the society, meaning that the society provides assistance to a terrorist group in Idlib rather than providing assistance to civilians in Idlib.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“As members know, General Assembly resolution 46/182 stipulates that no one can provide humanitarian assistance without the consent of the authorities of the State concerned. Paragraph 14 of the General Assembly resolution on the pattern of conferences that we adopt by consensus every year stipulates that United Nations halls, buildings and facilities are not allowed to be used against the interests of a State Member of the United Nations. There is another important point to mention. The Executive Director of that organization or society said that it provided 14 million medical services in Idlib. All members know that, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and others, the Al-Nusra Front controls 99 per cent of Idlib.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“There is something important called legal ignorance, which does not authorize anyone to ignore the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, resolutions of the Security Council or the General Assembly or the consensual resolutions of other important international institutions, which I will address now. First, the Geneva Conventions do not allow the society to be active on the territory of another State without the consent of the State involved. Secondly, the system that established the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in 1921 forbids any medical or non-medical society from being active on the occupied territory of another State unless that State approves it.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“The person present with us here who spoke on behalf of a society called the Syrian American Medical Society is an employee of USAID, which is an agency ofthe United States Administration, meaning that he is a non-independent federal employee. He should therefore not have been invited to speak before the Council. He is an American, not a Syrian. He has no right to speak about another country, while the Syrian American Medical Society or the American Syrian Medical Society - I do not know what they call it - is not authorized to work in Syria. That means that it is an illegal organization that is illegally active on Syrian territory.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“Every year it submits a request and fails to achieve consultative status for reasons of which States Members of the Organization are aware and there is no need to go into further detail. As mentioned on its website, the organization is affiliated with the Federal Government of the United States. Indeed, it is affiliated with an agency called the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), for which the person present with us here worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and then Syria for eight years before he was transferred to preside over the Syrian American Medical Society. The important thing is that the society works for USAID and the latter introduces itself on its website as an independent agency of the United States Federal Government with a budget of more than $27 billion.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): There is a well-known adage that says, "That which harms you can also help you grow". This saying makes considerably easier my task of criticizing the invitation extended to the Executive Director of the so- called Syrian American Medical Society, particularly in the light of the praise heaped by the United States representative on that Society and its work in Syria. I think the commendation speaks volumes as to the extent to which the society is linked with United States intelligence agencies operating actively in my country and in other countries. That is not an accusation against the society, which every year fails to obtain consultative status in the meetings of non-governmental organizations here in New York.”
2019-06-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8561 (2019) · source
“My country's Government is also committed to a political solution that will allow Syrians to determine their own future and choices through a Syrian-Syrian dialogue led by Syria, without foreign interference and in a manner that will guarantee the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“Council members may draw their own conclusion from that. I again reiterate that the Syrian Government will not succumb to the terrorist war imposed on it and will not allow its citizens to be endangered. The Syrian Government will continue to exercise its sovereign and constitutional rights and implement the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law to defend its land and citizens, combat terrorism and end the illegitimate foreign presence on all territories of the Syrian Arab Republic.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“The United States, Britain, France and other countries oppose the reconstruction of areas destroyed by terrorism in Syria. It is up to Council members to interpret the meaning of that. The Syrian State must be supported in its efforts to facilitate the safe and dignified return of Syrian refugees, and donor pledges should be directed to that end. In conclusion, the Council has adopted more than 46 resolutions on counter-terrorism, and nine years have passed since the beginning of the terrorist war waged against my country, Syria. The dimensions of that war and the role played by certain Governments in fuelling and prolonging it have now become clear. However, some Council members and other Member States continue to invest in terrorism as a way to target the Syrian State, instead of building a partnership with it against terrorism.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“Secondly, the illegal presence of United States and Turkish forces on Syrian territories and the suffering of millions of civilians in the areas controlled at the hands of those forces must end. Thirdly, the illegal unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people, which constitute economic terrorism and a collective punishment of the Syrian people, must be immediately and unconditionally lifted. F ourthly, the deliberate and systematic politicization of the humanitarian issue and attempts by some States to exploit it in a manner that is completely inconsistent with the principles of humanitarian law must come to an end. Fifthly, the reconstruction efforts of the Syrian State in areas destroyed by terrorism must be supported.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“If it did, it would think about the future in the context of international law and good- neighbourliness agreements between Syria and Turkey. The Turkish Government must look to the future. We and Turkey are in a region bound by geography and history. The Erdogan regime should not open its borders with Syria to hundreds of thousands of foreign terrorists and the smuggling into Syria of all kinds of weapons, including chemical weapons that are brought from Benghazi through Istanbul, then to Aleppo and eventually to Khan Al-Assal with the help of a Syrian terrorist by the name of Haitham Kassar, who worked for Turkish intelligence. I have sent the Council 800 official letters detailing that information, but some do not wish to read them.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“First, the root causes of the suffering of Syrians must be addressed, including the policies of terrorist- sponsoring Governments, the practices of their armed terrorist groups and the continued crimes committed by the so-called international coalition and its militias, including the deliberate burning of crops, such as wheat and barley. With regard to the burning of agricultural crops, two or three days ago an announcement was made in Turkey in Arabic, addressing Syrian farmers. According to the announcement, the Turkish Government is willing to buy their crops with Turkish pounds. The crops that are not burned will therefore be sold to Turkey for a quarter of their price. Certain countries accuse us of making false allegations about the Turkish regime. The Turkish regime has absolutely no regard for good- neighbourliness.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“I would highlight the fact that Rukban camp is on Syrian territory and is occupied by United States troops, which are sponsoring a terrorist group in the area known as Maghawir Al-Thawra. That terrorist group demands 100,000 Syrian pounds for every Syrian civilian who wants to leave the camp, with the knowledge of the Americans, which means that a family of seven must pay 700,000 Syrian pounds in order to merely leave the camp. Ending the suffering of Syrians in Idlib and other parts of Syria will require the following actions.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“There must be no further attempts to undermine the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic or to exploit the crisis to serve the destructive agendas of certain countries and their agents. We must put an end to selective policies and systematic biased approaches. That is unequivocally reflected in the fact that certain members overlook the crimes committed by terrorist groups and the role of certain Governments that are widely known to support terrorism, as well as the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the international coalition in Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor, Hajin and Baghouz - thankfully referred to by my Russian colleague - also overlook the detention of tens of thousands of Syrian civilians by American troops in Rukban camp.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“The implementation of the principles of international law, the Charter of the United Nations and the Council's resolutions on counter-terrorism also require support for the efforts of the Syrian Government and its allies in combating terrorism. Partnerships must be built with the Syrian Government, as it is the only party concerned about ending the presence of terrorists in Syria and improving the humanitarian situation in general. That should be done instead of convening meetings to show off, spread misleading information and falsely accuse my country and its allies in order to support terrorist groups while blocking all legal measures taken by the Syrian Government to protect its citizens and liberate them from the terrorist groups that use them as human shields.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“To this day, the United States and the European Union still prohibit the exportation of medical devices, such as MRI and CT scanning equipment, to Syria, as well as medical threads used in surgical procedures in the country. I do not understand how Council members can talk of the humanitarian situation in Syria and express concern, while banning the export of medical equipment to the country. Shame on them. I would go so far as to say that that constitutes a crime, to which the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. DiCarlo and the humanitarian penholders are seemingly blind. The Syrian Government and its allies do not target hospitals or schools, as those are our hospitals and schools.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“How can members in this Chamber therefore state that 27 hospitals have been targeted in Idlib? I would like to know their sources. I wish to state on the record that the misleading information that has been provided is based on lies. Those sources are lying. There are not 27 hospitals in Idlib. With regard to what was said by our colleague the British representative, if the White Helmets are using some sort of basement from which to launch attacks, then that cannot be called a hospital; rather, it is a makeshift medical facility. That is a mere lie; it is simply a basement that is used to launch attacks on and shell civilians and the Syrian Arab Army. I also wish to refer to another scandal. We have had sanctions, or so-called non-Council unilateral coercive measures, imposed on us for eight years.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“Some members, as well as regrettably Mr. Lowcock and Ms. DiCarlo, have stated that 27 hospitals have been targeted in Idlib. I am unsure of the sources on which they relied for that information. I wish to inform the Council that Damascus, home to 8 million people, has only eight public hospitals, with a further nine in its suburbs, amount to 17 in total. I repeat that Damascus, our capital and home to 8 million people, has only 17 public hospitals, with a further 10 private hospitals. The total number of hospitals is therefore less than 30. That is in Damascus, Syria's capital. Aleppo has 11 public hospitals and 10 private hospitals, which is 21 hospitals in total. Aleppo, the second largest city in Syria, is home to 5 million people. As for Idlib, there are only four public hospitals and four private hospitals, which are eight in total.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“The Turkish regime has disregarded its commitments under the de-escalation agreement and the Astana and Sochi agreements. That has allowed the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham terrorist group, which includes tens of thousands of foreign terrorists, including 15,000 Europeans, to take almost complete control of the city of Idlib and some of the adjacent areas in north-western Syria and to create a terrorist outpost for blackmailing the Syrian State. It has allowed them to use hundreds of thousands of civilians as human shields and commit the most heinous crimes against them, spread terror, death and destruction and destroy civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and schools, turning them into military barracks, detention and torture centres while killing anyone who dares to reject their takfiri and pre-Islamic ideologies.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“We have repeated that fact inside and outside the Council, and a Security Council sub-committee has confirmed that 101 Member States have exported foreign terrorist fighters to Syria. The statements that we have heard in this Chamber today indicate that there is a shared understanding of the fact that we must address the problem in Idlib. That is what we have understood from the statements of Council members. I refer to the city of Idlib in Syria and not an Idlib in Florida, Britain or Germany. I am talking about the Syrian city of Idlib. On 17 May (see S/PV.8527), I explained to the Council in detail that this problem stems from the Turkish regime and its allies, which continue to provide various forms of support to terrorist groups.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“The city of Mhardeh has also been repeatedly targeted by scores of rockets, most recently earlier today. The positions of the Syrian Arab Army and the locations of allied Russian forces, in particular Hmeimim airport, are continuously targeted with rockets and explosive drones. As some Council members would like to ask questions, I wish to ask a good one: Who provides those terrorists with all their weapons? Where do they get their weapons? By parachute? From another planet? Or from Council members and other Member States? Who provides those terrorists with rockets, tanks, missiles and mines? Where do the terrorists and their arsenals come from? Some 100,000 foreign terrorists have entered Syria through our borders with Turkey.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“I would like to provide the Council with a few examples of the crimes that have resulted in the death of dozens of martyrs and injuries to hundreds of innocent civilians, including many women and children - and I am citing only civilian victims, not military casualties. On 25 May, the city of Al-Suqaylabiyah and the town of Ein Al-Krum and village of Bilhsein were targeted with dozens of missiles. On 26 May, the cities of Silhib and Al-Suqaylabiyah were targeted with more than 30 rockets. On 29 and 31 May the town of Qamhani was targeted with a number of rockets, and scores of missiles and rockets were aimed at the towns of Qalaat Al-Madiq, Karakat and Shat-ha in the northern and north-western suburbs of Hama, along with many areas in Aleppo and its suburbs, while the city of Jablah was targeted with several rockets.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“Terrorists from the Al-Nusra Front, supported by Erdogan's Turkish regime, fired rockets, leaving the bodies of the martyrs and the wounded, mostly women and children, scattered across the village, and also significantly damaging houses and other private and public property, including a health centre and the village mosque. That barbaric crime was part of a series committed by terrorist groups led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, which is the Al-Nusra Front of Al-Qaida in Syria, a terrorist group on the Security Council's list of terrorist groups and entities, and the Security Council should condemn those crimes unequivocally.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): This is a timely meeting, as it has given us and a number of other countries an opportunity to inform the Security Council about the attacks that armed terrorist groups from Idlib are carrying out on neighbouring cities and towns in the suburbs of Aleppo, northern Hama and northern Latakia. The most recent was two days ago in the village of Al-Wadihi in the southern suburbs of Aleppo, where those groups committed a massacre in which 12 civilians died and more than 16 others were injured as they were celebrating a wedding in the village. Those villagers are now living in an indescribable state of terror after leading a safe and normal life.”
2019-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8553 (2019) · source
“He or she must go to the country's Embassy and obtain a visa and authorization, rather than illegally entering the country through its borders with neighbouring countries to cover terrorist activities then getting killed by a terrorist missile. Everyone knows that. The French authorities are well aware of that. The safety of our armed forces was compromised in order to recover the journalist's body that my British colleague spoke about and hand it over to the authorities of her country in Beirut. The French authorities know that. They know the identity of those who brought the journalist's body to them. The Syrian Government again put its own security forces and army in jeopardy to protect United Nations personnel and accredited journalists in Syria. Those who wish to behave like Hollywood actors will pay the price.”
2019-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8535 (2019) · source
“However, I call on the Ambassador of Germany and my other colleagues to first uphold international law and the provisions of the Charter before upholding international humanitarian law because the former prohibit interference in the domestic affairs of a State Member of the Organization. Respect for the law cannot be selective. We respect international law, the provisions of the Charter, international humanitarian law and human rights law. We also respect the law on the protection ofjournalists so as not to annoy my British colleague. We respect a journalist who upholds his profession and its rules and who wishes to visit a country to cover events. Such a journalist must request a visa from the authorities of the country he or she wishes to visit.”
2019-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8535 (2019) · source
“Those who say today that the Syrian Government must implement a ceasefire with the terrorists in Idlib are speaking in contradiction to the provisions of that resolution, in which the Council decided not to negotiate with or pay ransoms to terrorists. However, the regime in Qatar has paid ransoms scores of times to the Al-Nusra Front in the Golan, Aleppo and Idlib. Those present know the old stories, but in the Golan, when the Al-Nusra Front took members of the Fijian and Philippine units hostage, Qatar openly paid them ransoms of â‚¬35 million with the knowledge of the Secretariat. My colleague the Ambassador of Germany said that everybody here must uphold international humanitarian law. Yes, we too believe in upholding it.”
2019-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8535 (2019) · source
“There are many Western media and political reports that elucidate the truth about the establishment of that organization, led by a British intelligence officer whose name we shared with the Council. If that organization were truly a humanitarian one, its workers would not have been smuggled through Israel into Canada, the United States and certain European countries. Why do those humanitarian White Helmet workers have to be smuggled through the Golan and then Israel? If they were truly White Helmet humanitarian workers, why did they go to Israel and the Syrian occupied Golan? Four hundred terrorists have been smuggled through Israel to Western countries. Thirdly, resolution 2133 (2014) prohibits the payment of ransoms to terrorists and rejects negotiations with them.”
2019-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8535 (2019) · source
“After its adoption, we, as the Government of Syria, started to implement the humanitarian response agreement, together with OCHA. We renew that agreement every six months. Thus, OCHA, which talks about supplying aid to millions of Syrians, could have offered nothing ifit were not for the support of the Syrian Government, which endorsed the humanitarian operation. OCHA, then, is not acting alone on Syrian territory, but rather with the agreement and assistance of the Syrian Government, which gratefully allowed it to provide assistance to millions of Syrians. That operation has been ongoing since 2014. It is nothing new. Secondly, I would like to turn to the White Helmets.”
2019-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8535 (2019) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I apologize for taking the floor once again. I would like to respond to the comments made by my colleague the Ambassador of the United Kingdom. Asking questions is not one sided. It is her right to do so, and I will answer them. But I asked many questions that went unanswered. Those were key questions, which could have reduced the length of this discussion and could have stopped at number 62, rather than getting up to 100 reports. That would have happened ifI had received genuine responses to the many unanswered questions that I have raised on numerous occasions. First, the Syrian authorities were asked to support the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), whose representative is present in the Chamber. OCHA is working in Syria pursuant to resolution 2139 (2014).”
2019-05-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8535 (2019) · source
“Those senior officials and Ambassadors tell armed terrorist groups in Idlib that they will be saved only if chemical weapons are used. They ask them to use toxic chemical weapons against civilians in Idlib, fabricate evidence, bring forward false witnesses, as usual, and manipulate the crime scene as they have done before, and then those countries are ready with their political and media capabilities to accuse the Syrian Government and to come to their aid. That has happened before, and we should prevent its recurrence.”
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“Those countries continue to use the Security Council to protect terrorists and undermine the advances of the Syrian army when confronting terrorist groups supported by those countries, including by instructing the White Helmets terrorist group, which is a branch of the Al-Nusra Front, to fabricate so-called use of toxic chemical materials and to accuse the Syrian Government of the act. It would not be the first time that two of those countries have fabricated the lie of the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Similar to what happened when the Syrian army made advances in eastern Ghouta, Aleppo and other areas, we hear senior officials from those countries and their Ambassadors in the Security Council making threats in the event of the use of chemical materials.”
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