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Jaafari

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“We must take immediate tangible steps to implement international law free from double standards and in a way that maintains the Council's credibility in the maintenance of international peace and security. The situation of the Syrian population living in the occupied Golan is not much different from that of the Palestinian people. The Israeli occupying Power is continuing its policy of forced displacement and expulsion, as well as the seizure of the private property of Syrian citizens in the Golan. Israel is also continuing to confiscate land and to expand settlements in occupied Syrian Golan.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Even worse is the fact that, despite the statements we have heard in the Council, some States have attempted to justify such illegal acts by Israel and have prevented the international community, and the Security Council in particular, from adopting measures to halt such violations. We would like to point out that the Charter of the United Nations does not grant States the right to violate the rights of civilians, including those living under the yoke of occupation, under the pretext of self-defence. The Charter establishes specific and clear responsibilities for occupying Powers under both international and international humanitarian law as regards humanitarian issues and other issues relating to peoples under occupation. The international community, including the Security Council, should assume its clear obligations in that regard.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“That includes such organizations as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which has called for emergency relief because Israel has stopped providing the Gaza Strip with fuel. All of that means that there is a huge imbalance in the Security Council's and the international community's response as regards the prevailing tragic situation in Gaza. Moreover, it cannot be denied that the occupying Power is continuing its attacks against civilians in the occupied Arab territories undeterred. That is due to the hesitation on the part of the international community to condemn Israel's siege against the Gaza Strip, as well as its failure to call for an immediate halt to those policies and illegal practices.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Those policies have resulted in starvation, injustice, tyranny, collective punishment, the confiscation of land, violations of human rights and international humanitarian law and forcible displacement. Israel, the occupying Power, is continuing to intensify its siege against the Palestinian people, to close crossing points and to transform the Gaza Strip into the largest prison in the world. At the same time, it is depriving the population of life's basic needs by cutting off water, electricity, fuel, medical and food supplies, as well as by blocking access to humanitarian assistance and preventing international humanitarian organizations from carrying out their work.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Their only fault is to be living in a region of armed conflict or to have had their land occupied by others in their absence and disposed of without their consent - although most of the time that takes place while they are on their own land. In his briefing to the Council last November, Mr. Holmes referred to the deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, and especially in Gaza. He said then that "the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly in Gaza, is reaching the limits of what is bearable for any community" (S/PV.5781, p. 4). I believe that the situation to which Mr. Holmes referred has not improved to date; in fact, it has worsened. Israel, the occupying Power, has continued its policies against the Palestinian people.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“7 In spite of the legal developments and the international conventions adopted to address the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict since the establishment of the United Nations - from the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War to the many resolutions of the Security Council - civilians in armed conflict continue to pay the ultimate price. As regards the protection of civilians in armed conflict, the gap continues to grow between the letter of the law and its implementation. Civilians living in armed conflict and people living under the yoke of colonialism and foreign occupation and settlement are still submitted to all sorts of Violence, forcible displacement, deliberate denial of humanitarian assistance and the confiscation of their land.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I should like to express to the Security Council my delegation's gratitude for the holding of this meeting devoted to the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict. I would also like to thank Mr. John Holmes, Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, for his briefing to the Council on the latest developments relating to the protection of civilians in armed conflict since the publication of the Secretary-General's most recent report (S/2007/643) on the matter, in October 2007.”
2008-05-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5898Resumption1 (2008) · source
“The boy was surprised by her statement and said to her, "But mother, what if a Turkish soldier were to kill me?" His mother replied, "God damn that Turkish soldier, my son! Why would he want to kill you? What could you have done to him to cause him to want to kill you?" That is the Israeli mentality, one that allows for the killing and accusing of others while proclaiming its own innocence. However, it is all of us in the region who suffer from Israel's occupation, aggression, inhumanity and evasion of its commitments and the terms of reference for peace.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“I shall summarize the mentality of the representative of Israel by recalling a story told by an Israeli dove. Speaking about Israel's disregard for the rights of others, that Israeli advocate of peace gave the following account, which has something to do with your country, Mr. President. The story goes as follows. At one point in the war between czarist Russia and Ottoman Turkey, a Russian citizen of the Jewish faith was conscripted into the army. He was sent to the Ottoman Turkish front, where the war was then taking place between czarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire. As he was preparing to join the forces at the front, his mother said to him, "My son, each time you kill a Turk you must rest for a few minutes".”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“While there are fortunately many things that set us apart from the Israelis, a relevant distinguishing feature in the context of our discussion today is the fact that a permanent member of the Council has not had to use the veto 44 times to protect our efforts because of evasion of responsibilities under international law and the principles and objectives of the Charter. However, the State to which I am referring did use the veto 44 times to protect Israel as it evaded its commitments under the Charter and international law. It is for that reason that the representative of Israel been able to criticize various States, for he knows in advance that there is some one to protect him in the Council, even if it means using what is referred to as the privilege of the veto.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I apologize for taking the floor once again. I shall be very brief, for I have already made a lengthy statement. Perhaps had the Council met its responsibilities in the course of the decades of the history of the Arab- Israeli conflict, we would not be at a point at which a Member State is requesting that this item be removed from the agenda, or one at which some people would feel uncomfortable listening to the representative of a country asking for an end to the occupation of its territory that has existed since 1967. My country is a founding Member State of this international Organization. We consider ourselves to be among the victors in the war against Nazism and fascism.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Foreign interference in Lebanese affairs cannot serve the cause of Lebanon's stability, security and civil peace. Lebanon very much needs support and encouragement for its national unity, stability, civil peace and political independence, free from external influence or hegemony. Those who care about Lebanon must deal with that country while taking into account the will of the Lebanese people and ensuring Lebanon's integration into its natural Arab environment. They must not jeopardize Lebanon's stability by sending warships to its coasts.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Yet more surprising and strange is the fact that Israel bombed the United States spy vessel Liberty during the 1967 war, because it was certain that the ship was monitoring orders for the mass execution of Egyptian prisoners in the Sinai. We would also remind the Council that Israel destroyed a Libyan civilian airliner in 1971. Finally, the statement by the representative of the United States suggesting that my country is interfering in the internal affairs of Lebanon is puzzling, given the blatant round-the-clock interference by the United States in Lebanon's affairs, which is taking place very publicly and openly and without any diplomatic or political constraints. That American interference has resulted in displeasure among large segments of the populations of Lebanon and the region.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“They were also responsible for the assassination in Jerusalem of United Nations envoy Count Bernadette because his conscience drove him to request a review of the resolution dividing Palestine into two States. Israel carried out the first act of air piracy in modern history, when it hijacked a Syrian civilian airliner in 1954. In Beirut in 1968, Israel carried out political assassinations of unarmed civilian Palestinian intellectuals. In the 1980s Israel placed bombs in the cars of Palestinian mayors. Israel's aggressive behaviour in the region has led to the establishment of no fewer than five peacekeeping operations. Israel cooperated with the racist apartheid system in South Africa due to the similarities between that regime's doctrine and Israel's policy of ethnic cleansing and racial segregation in occupied Arab territories.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“However, since 2000 Israel has made those appropriations public. Over time, Israel has violated every border and carried out terrorist operations outside its own territory - beginning in Tunisia and then moving on to Beirut, Cyprus, Iraq and every European capital. The statement by the Israeli representative, which included accusations against my country, was truly ironic, for he completely overlooked his country's official policy of terrorism. Israel introduced that policy to the region even before it was established in Palestine in 1948. Everyone is aware that terrorist groups such as the Stern Gang, the Irgun and the Hagganah killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and forced the displacement of millions from their land.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Former United States President Jimmy Carter has not been the only one to say that Israel practices racial segregation against Palestinians. Before him, Bishop Desmond Tutu, who personally experienced racism, and Special Rapporteurs Jean Ziegler and John Dugard made similar statements. Israel has the darkest record of violations and attacks against international peacekeeping forces in our region. Its aggression and attacks have been described in the Security Council as deliberate by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Israel is the only country in the world with a policy of targeted killing. Moreover, in the budget adopted annually by the Knesset, Israel dedicates funds for a policy that has been internationally condemned. Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has kept that item secret.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Documenting the terrorism carried out by Israel would require an archive and an entire museum specializing in shedding light on Israel's war crimes and acts of annihilation and ethnic cleansing during its bloody history against Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptians, Jordanians and others. It is astonishing that those who talk about their suffering in the Nazi Holocaust also publicly state their desire to inflict a new holocaust on the Palestinian people - this time, one of Israel's making. We are not the only ones to say that the Israeli State commits war crimes and crimes of annihilation against Palestinians. Well-known Western officials also share that opinion, including senior international officials of the United Nations itself. Many of them have testified before the Security Council.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“That means the return of all occupied Arab territories, including occupied Syrian Golan, to the 4 June 1967 lines, as well as the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital. The ongoing occupation is a contradiction of peace, which by definition requires mobilizing all the necessary means to end the occupation. The question still before us is this: if the Arab hand that has been extended in peace is not met with a hand extended in peace from the other side, what reason can there be for continuing to extend that Arab hand?”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Instead of reaching out for the Arab hand extended in peace, Israel has already begun to provoke the capitals of the area, just as it did during the Beirut summit of 2002, when it carried out the Jenin massacre only a few hours after the adoption of the Arab peace initiative. The upcoming summit meeting to be held in Damascus therefore takes on added significance. The meeting will be an opportunity for Arab leaders to discuss and coordinate their positions. It will be a summit meeting of Arab solidarity to unify Arab perspectives and positions in the face of those Israeli challenges. It will therefore be an especially responsible summit meeting. Syria has made a strategic choice for a just and comprehensive peace based on the well-known terms of reference for peace and decisions of international legitimacy.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“There is no doubt that Israel's escalation against the Palestinian people, its forthcoming manoeuvres in the occupied Syrian Golan, its troops massing along the Lebanese border, its intensified settlement activities in occupied Jerusalem, its ongoing construction of the separation wall and assassinations of Palestinians will make the situation in the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the question of Palestine priorities on the agenda of the Arab summit shortly to be held in Damascus. The Israeli escalation is intended to have negative repercussions for the summit and to poison the regional atmosphere.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Israel, the occupying Power, continues to prevent the residents of the Syrian Golan from visiting their families and relatives in Syria, their homeland. Israel's policies extend to the very livelihoods of our children in the Golan, making life even more difficult for them. That is quite evident in its policy of uprooting fruit trees, including not least the uprooting of 370 trees of our citizen Majed Fadel-Allah Abou-Awad on 23 February 2008. We informed the members of the Security Council of the details of that most recent Israeli aggression in our letter of 6 March.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Israel's practices have violated all legal and moral norms in the occupied Syrian Golan, where it pursues a policy of terrorizing and oppressing Syrian citizens and sending them to prisons and detention centres, where some have remained for over 30 years under no legal basis and in potentially lethal circumstances as the occupying authorities continue to ignore their medical needs. In that regard we make specific note of our citizen Bishr al-Maqt. Our Government has pleaded with the Secretary-General and the International Committee of the Red Cross to save his life. In that context, we ask the United Nations and the Security Council to pressure Israel to release those prisoners, including the Syrian journalist Ata Farahat, who was arrested by Israel because of his nationalist journalistic work.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“John Holmes, during his briefing to the Council last month, in which he noted Israel's ongoing construction of the separation wall in the face of the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, and its continued expansion of settlements, arrests and other actions that are well known to all and have made the lives of Palestinians into a living hell and increased their suffering. The Security Council's inability in recent weeks to adopt a resolution calling for an end to those crimes and Israeli violations is destroying whatever remains of its credibility. Despite the passage of 40 years since the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan began, Israel continues to refuse to return the occupied territory to its motherland, Syria, and to implement the resolutions of international legitimacy, especially resolution 497 (1981).”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Indeed, Israel is exercising its right of self-defence against electricity, water, medicine and food. All such practices constitute collective punishment and grave violations of international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention. They reaffirm once again the fact that Israel is an outlaw State that blatantly flouts international norms, seeks to make the situation explosive, and obstructs any fair, comprehensive and just settlement of the conflict. The situation in the West Bank is no better than that in Gaza, as reaffirmed by many senior international observers, including Alvaro de Soto, Jean Ziegler, John Dugard and, most recently, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Israeli actions in the occupied Arab territories - including killing, oppression, arrests, deportation, the demolition of homes and the expropriation of territories - can only be described as war crimes, genocide and a holocaust against the Palestinian people. Israel continues to engage in targeted killings, collective punishment and daily massacres of the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip. The victims, including women and children, number in the thousands. Israel continues to close the border crossings and to make the Gaza Strip the world's largest prison. It continues to deprive the inhabitants of that territory of the basic necessities and to prevent humanitarian assistance, including United Nations aid, from reaching them.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“The direct or indirect support of some parties for the ongoing Israeli occupation of Arab territories contravenes the principles and foundations of international law at the expense of the interests of Arabs and Palestinians. It sends the wrong message to Israel that its tactics of occupation, aggression, provocative settlement activities and the forcible annexation of territories enjoy the backing of its supporters. Those parties would do better to urge Israel to fulfil the requirements of peace, which is in the interests of all parties, including those who offer blind support to Israel. The absence of stability in the Middle East and the ensuing continued aggression and escalation will inevitably harm the interests of those parties.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“The United Nations must therefore ensure the implementation of the resolutions it has adopted since its inception, denouncing Israel's occupation of Arab territories, violations of human rights and inhumane practices in contravention of international humanitarian law and the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention. No preventive diplomacy can succeed unless it addresses the core issues of our region - the Israeli occupation of Arab territories in Palestine, the Golan and southern Lebanon - thereby allowing a just and comprehensive solution based on the resolutions of international legitimacy, specifically resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), and the Arab peace initiative to be reached.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Mr. President, allow me at the outset to congratulate your friendly country for chairing the work of the Security Council this month. We also would like to express our deep gratitude for the efforts of the Permanent Representative of Panama and the members of his delegation last month. I also wish to express my deep pleasure at seeing the Secretary- General participating with us in the meeting this morning. The United Nations can no longer deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian question on a 3 business-as-usual basis. The Security Council's inability to carry out its obligations cannot be allowed to lead to catastrophic results for our region and its peoples.”
2008-03-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5859Resumption1 (2008) · source
“Israeli State terrorism stands naked before the eyes of the international community. The words of the Israeli representative truly reflect his desire to turn the Council into a despicable theatre. However, we will not allow that endeavour to succeed. We have come here in an effort to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace. No one should attempt to derail that undertaking. The resolutions of the Security Council and the resolutions of international legitimacy are not mere polemics. This is a responsible political dialogue, whose primary objective is the maintenance of international peace and security. The goal is to avert a confrontation in our region, free the occupied territories and help the Palestinian people, who are languishing under the ugliest of crimes against humanity.”
2008-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5827 (2008) · source
“The representative of Israel boasts of his disregard for the presidency of the Security Council. What can one say? One cannot but say that the words of the Israeli representative increase his isolation both in the Security Council and in the international community. Such words show how unprofessional and immoral his reaction is to the very rules that govern the work of the Security Council. The representative of Israel does not have the right to boast of Israel's State terrorism against the Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian peoples - and, indeed, the peoples of Jordan and Egypt. Israeli State terrorism has reached Tunisia and Iraq as well. Israel boasts of manufacturing missiles with a 4,500-kilometre range and capable of carrying nuclear warheads. What is the need for such missiles? Whom do they target?”
2008-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5827 (2008) · source
“Since the adoption of that resolution more than sixty years ago, the birth of the Palestinian State has not taken place. Organized Israeli terrorism, State terrorism, by the Ergun and Stern Gang at the time, led by former Israeli Prime Ministers, undermined the noble objective that this international Organization had provided for. By its organized terrorism, Israel has killed hundreds of thousands Palestinians and Arabs. Israel has occupied the land of others by force, in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt. It has assassinated representatives of international legitimacy as well as of United Nations forces in the region. Israel committed the first act of piracy against a civil aircraft in the world in 1954. Israel introduced nuclear devices into the region in the 1960s, thus seriously exposing the region and its peoples to danger.”
2008-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5827 (2008) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I apologize to you, Mr. President, and to the members of the Security Council for taking the floor a second time in order to exercise my country's right to respond to the statement just made to this meeting by the terrorist State of Israel in this international forum. The disregard shown by Israel for this international Organization and for international law had its genesis at the very moment when this Organization gave birth to Israel from historic Palestine with its resolution on partition. The partition resolution conditioned the creation of the State of Israel on the establishment of a Palestinian State side by side with the new State of Israel in the land of Palestine.”
2008-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5827 (2008) · source
“Moreover, the first hijacking operation in recent history was committed by Israel in 1954, and it was a Syrian aircraft that was hijacked. There is only one kind of terrorism in the region: the State terror of Israel. No matter how hard Israel's representatives try, either in the Security Council or elsewhere, to conceal the barbaric aspects of their occupation of other peoples' lands, they will not succeed in concealing one fact: the international community has voted more than 1,000 times against Israel and its barbaric policy of occupying others' territories - a policy that it carries out in total disregard for international law and humanitarian law.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736Resumption1 (2007) · source
“I need not recall the various reports prepared by Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations on all the aspects of that policy; even the Special Rapporteur on the right to food has criticized the Israeli occupation of Arab territories. It also goes without saying that the Human Rights Commission in Geneva has condemned Israel's barbaric and bloody conduct dozens of times and that the Human Rights Council, successor to the Human Rights Commission, was convened, only a few hours after it had been established, in an emergency meeting to investigate Israel's barbaric and criminal practices in Gaza and Lebanon last July. In addition, I wish to recall that Israel introduced nuclear weapons to the region decades ago and is opposed to the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736Resumption1 (2007) · source
“Mr. Ja'afari (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I regret having to speak again before the Council at this late hour. However, with his last statement, the Israeli representative left me with no choice other than to reply. I will not speak at length, but will focus on only the following points. As members are well aware, the Israeli policy of occupation and aggression since the establishment of the United Nations has been the focus of great efforts and energy on the part of the entire international community, particularly in the Security Council, to put an end to that policy of occupation and aggression, which has lasted too long.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736Resumption1 (2007) · source
“The Israeli policy of State- sponsored terrorism has a long history. Israel refused to receive the international committee that was sent to investigate Israeli practices against civilians in the occupied Arab territories. Peace is action, not words, and the actions of the Israeli Government are very far removed from its words and the repeated hackneyed words spoken by its Permanent Representative to which we must listen in this Council.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“The facts are also corroborated by the commanders of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and UNDOF, in addition to the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice and scores of resolutions adopted by various United Nations organizations, agencies, bodies and entities such as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The Israeli State acts of terror have already harmed UNIFIL personnel and international representatives. It has stood in the way of implementing many of the resolutions of the Security Council. It also stood against attempts by the Secretary-General to send fact-finding missions to verify and testify to the Israeli crimes committed in Jenin, Nablus and Qana.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“It is documented by hundreds of relevant international institutions and includes the slaughters, crimes, detentions, imprisonments, the building of settlements, the building of the racist wall of separation in the occupied territories and the changing of demographics and of the landmarks of Syrian and Palestinian territories. The Israeli representative cannot hide the truth, which is known to everyone. He cannot hide or cover these facts through his unfounded claims. The truth to which we refer is represented in the facts already cited by Mr. Williams in his opening statement.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“The continued occupation runs counter to peace and means more conflict, more victims and more destruction. As the President of the Syrian Arab Republic, President Assad, stated recently: "Israelis must learn that genuine peace that continues is more meaningful than any other option because other options are not permanent. The cost of peace is hundreds of times less than the cost of occupation and aggression, which cannot continue forever." That is the end of my statement. Allow me to comment briefly on the statement we have just heard by the Israeli representative. The policy of State-sponsored terror pursued by Israel is internationally documented.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“Such a process must also provide the necessary guarantees for the implementation of internationally legitimate resolutions and should be a comprehensive and a sincere peace initiative that will bring about the recovery of all usurped Arab lands. The policy of wasting time and ignoring the legitimate rights of people is only a prescription for further failures in addressing the questions of our region, and it only attempts to protect Israeli settlement and expansion projects. The Syrian Arab Republic has chosen comprehensive and just peace as a strategic option on the basis of the well-known terms of reference of peace, which definitely include the return of all occupied Arab lands, including the Syrian Golan, to the lines of 4 June 1967 and the establishment of an independent Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as its capital.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“Israel is also, through statements like these, riding roughshod over repeated Arab and Syrian calls for the realization of peace. This proves beyond any doubt that Israel does not really have the real political will to achieve peace. On a larger scale, this means that the international community must adopt measures that force Israel to comply with international resolutions and to sit in good faith at the negotiations table. The Syrian people will not surrender and will not submit to occupation, and wants negotiations that will restore all of its occupied territories to the boundaries of 4 June 1967. My country follows closely the developments regarding the call for an international peace conference next fall. It believes that any such initiative should be clearly defined, with clear terms of reference and objectives.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“Netanyahu, the Chairman of the Likud Party, made a statement on 2 August 2007 to settlers in the Katzrin settlement, which was built on the ruins of Qasrin, a Syrian village, stating "Golan Heights is part and parcel of the State of Israel and it is the most beautiful piece of land in northern Israel". In addition, statements have been made by Mr. Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, in which he claimed that the Golan is part and parcel of Israel and that it would remain in the hands of Israelis as long as he remained the Prime Minister of Israel. Israel has proved yet again through such irresponsible declarations that it is not really interested in the peace process and that it continues to pursue a policy of fait accompli by force and in a manner that runs counter to the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“This is associated with Israel's continued attempts to consolidate and expedite the settler activities in the occupied Syrian Golan, the last instance of which was an attempt by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism to grant new Syrian land - an area of 80 dunums in the region of el-Bouteiha, which is the southernmost point of occupied Syrian Golan, at the intersection of the Jordanian, Syrian and Palestinian borders - to build a tourist village. Confirming Israel's intention to act against peace and against returning land to its rightful owners, Mr.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“The command of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in Golan (UNDOF) confirmed on 11 July 2007 that the tension along the Syrian-Israeli border has reached its highest level in years. The UNDOF command also confirmed that Israel bears the full responsibility for this tension. These unquestionably suspicious Israeli military moves in the occupied Syrian Golan are cause for serious concern, particularly when they are accompanied by public threats by Israel politicians and leaders in the Israeli army regarding the possibility of an outbreak of war with the Syrian Arab Republic.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“The Israeli military manoeuvres that are continuing in the occupied Syrian Golan for the second time in a couple of months - described by the Israeli officials themselves as the largest in scale in years - starkly testify to the Israeli indifference to and disregard for the possible consequences of preparing to wage new wars and of provocations and continued occupation. The disquieting irony is that these Israeli measures coincide with Israel's attempt to market the claims of its commitment to peace while its military machine continues to mobilize in an unprecedented manner that runs totally counter to the will not to escalate tensions and the will to work for peace.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“Syria followed the events in the Gaza Strip between our Palestinian brothers with great sorrow. Syria insists on the need for Palestinians to overcome the adverse repercussions of these serious developments by addressing their differences through direct dialogue among parties concerned with a View to restoring Palestinian national unity in order to best serve the goals and noble cause of their people. Syria would stress that it would make every effort possible to push toward the realization of this objective.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“Arab commitment to the realization of a just and comprehensive peace must be matched by a concomitant and serious commitment by the Israeli Government and those who support it to the achievement of that peace, including by compliance with the resolutions of international legitimacy and withdrawal from occupied territories as mandated by Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973). Peace is a major political responsibility, the weight of which can be felt only by those who truly believe in it. We cannot talk about peace - this noble word - in the context of a manoeuvring Israeli logic of division, with its intention of circumventing the necessary measures leading to such peace and Israel's attempts to dwarf the noble objectives of a just and comprehensive peace process on which the international community pins its hopes.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“This Israeli policy, which is readily condoned by some and deliberately protected by powerful States in the Security Council, basically aims at keeping the achievement of a just and comprehensive peace ever at a distance. In their recent summit in Riyadh, Arab leaders relaunched the Arab Peace Initiative that was adopted by the 2002 Beirut Summit. The Initiative confirmed the Arab commitment to a just and comprehensive peace as a strategic choice. It also confirmed that this process is indivisible.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“Regrettably, more than 40 years after Israel's occupation of Arab territories, including Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan, the clear picture on the horizon still speaks of Israel's rejection of peace and its persistence in escalating acts of aggression, its continued war crimes, its settlement activities, its killing, terror, destruction, siege, detention, imprisonment and continued building of the separation wall. These activities have been carried out in full view of those who sing the praises of democracy and who claim to be champions of human rights in other parts of the world where the amount of human rights violations is almost negligible in comparison to those committed by Israel in the occupied Arab territories.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source
“The Charter of the United Nations and the tenets of international law consider the annexation or acquisition of territories of others by force a criminal act endangering international peace and security. The United Nations International Law Commission has confirmed this definition. Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations, in total complementarity with the tenets of international law, exhorted its Members to "refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations". The Security Council, the General Assembly and all other organs of the United Nations have adopted hundreds of resolutions calling on Israel to end its occupation of Arab territories.”
2007-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5736 (2007) · source