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Mounzer

lines on the record: 272
first: 2015-11-17
most recent: 2019-04-29
sittings or episodes: 29
sources: un-security-council

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“Yesterday we concluded round nine of the Astana process, and we are pleased with the results. We thank the delegations of Russia, Iran and the host country, Kazakhstan, for making the Astana process a success with regard to combating terrorism. The outcome document of the meeting stresses the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic against any external entities that attempt to violate them. In cooperation with our friends and allies, the Syrian army has succeeded in liberating eastern Ghouta and the southern area of Damascus, making the capital and its surrounding areas safe. With the cooperation of our friends and brothers, we have also expelled the terrorists from the northern area of Homs and the southern area of Hama.”
2018-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8260 (2018) · source
“Israel has continued its dangerous acts of aggression, which would not have been possible without the continuing unstinting support of the United States Government, because it enjoys impunity as a result of the support it has from the United States in the Security Council, enabling Israel to continue its terrorist acts threatening international peace and security in the region and the world. The Syrian Arab Republic reaffirms that through its military and armed forces it is able and ready to fend off all acts of aggression against its sovereignty and independence. However, we want to reiterate that any attempts to support this failing terrorism will not work. Such flagrant violations will not present obstacles to us in combating terrorism throughout Syrian territory.”
2018-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8260 (2018) · source
“We deplore the fact that the United States speaks of its eagerness to reach a political agreement while it has been committing acts of aggression against my country based on lies, simply because it is working to give support to the armed groups because they have suffered losses in eastern Ghouta. It was the United States that supported Israel's aggression on 9 May when Israel was unable to protect its own proxy terrorist groups and implement its conspiracy against my country's unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
2018-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8260 (2018) · source
“The legal and constitutional obligations established under international decisions and Security Council resolutions on combating terrorism obliged my Government to undertake military operations in eastern Ghouta in order to rescue civilians from the armed terrorist groups holding them hostage and using them for years as human shields. In that regard, I want to state that contrary to some false narratives, the successful military operations conducted by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies against the armed terrorist groups controlling a number of areas that the United Nations has classified as besieged or hard to reach - along with the settlement and reconciliation agreements - have all mitigated civilians' suffering, reduced the numbers of those areas and facilitated humanitarian access to them, including eastern Ghouta.”
2018-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8260 (2018) · source
“They have also used the United Nations as a political tool to put pressure on the Syrian Government to implement their hegemonic agenda, interfere in our internal affairs and destabilize my country. They have not used the United Nations to fight terrorism and its sponsors or to help Syria overcome the suffering inflicted on it by armed terrorist groups, which should have been the goal. The Special Envoy devoted part of his statement to discussing the humanitarian situation. In that regard, I want to reiterate that the Syrian Government gives priority to providing every kind of humanitarian assistance to all Syrians in need, wherever they are in Syria. That is our duty, and we are doing our duty.”
2018-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8260 (2018) · source
“Through their positions, their malicious acts and their illegal occupation of various areas of Syria, they have shown that, contrary to their claims, they cannot let go of their history of greed, occupation and imperialism. When speaking in the Council, they claim falsely that they are trying to find a political solution to the situation in Syria, but let me point out, briefly, that we have been able to defeat their agenda in Aleppo and eastern Ghouta, and we will be able to ensure that they cannot win in any part of my country. For the past seven years, since the beginning of the terrorist war in Syria, the United States, Britain and France have been working relentlessly to support and help conduct that war.”
2018-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8260 (2018) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): To begin with, the delegations of the United States and the United Kingdom have tried to promote false claims justifying their aggression against sovereign States, particularly my country, Syria, with the aim of concealing their direct involvement in terrorism and their part in the responsibility for the bloodshed in Syria. I would like to say to them that the testimony, as cited in the media, of the thousands of Syrians who have escaped the blockades of armed terrorist groups in eastern Ghouta, has proved that those countries have been involved in making those citizens suffer through their support of those terrorist groups.”
2018-05-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8260 (2018) · source
“Why has the Netherlands not provided information so far about the chemical agents and technology found on the plane that crashed in Amsterdam in 1992? The explosion led to a giant orange glow, smoke and strange odour. Why has the Netherlands not provided information thus far on those chemical agents? The meeting rose at11.50 a.m.”
2018-04-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8221 (2018) · source
“It is an attempt to sidestep legitimate international mechanisms and to establish a politicized, parallel mechanism in order to serve the agendas of States that wish to accuse the Syrian Government at all costs. The partnership does not aim to prevent impunity, but rather to protect the real perpetrators who use chemical weapons. Finally, the Syrian Government underscores that it is committed to implementing all the obligations it assumed when it joined the Chemical Weapons Convention, and will continue its war against terrorism regardless of any political or media blackmail and cheap exploitation of the blood of innocent people in Syria. In conclusion, I would like to pose a question to the representative of the Netherlands.”
2018-04-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8221 (2018) · source
“How can the United States, the United Kingdom and France claim to be committed to justice when their track record is full ofshameful attacks against people and wreaking annihilation in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen and Africa and, before that, in Viet Nam, Cambodia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Grenada and many other States? With regard to the martyred city of Raqqa, an assessment mission conducted by the United Nations visited the city a few days ago and found that it has been completely destroyed by the attacks of the United States-led coalition against Raqqa and other parts of Syria. What credibility is it they talk about before the Council? I would also like to refer to the so-called French initiative - the International Partnership against Impunity for Use of Chemical Weapons.”
2018-04-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8221 (2018) · source
“Such groups include the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, the Al-Nusra Front and associated entities. They have used chemical weapons in other places in Syria in terrorist crimes they committed in the country and the wider region. We have sent the Security Council and its specialized agencies more than 130 letters, with details about the possession, production and use of toxic chemicals by armed terrorist groups. Regrettably, the Syrian Government did not receive a response, not even one word on measures that the Council took against States that have helped terrorists to gain access to and use such weapons. It is also deplorable that the Governments of some States have claimed to defend peoples and laws, while their political and colonial history is full of violations against them.”
2018-04-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8221 (2018) · source
“also relied on so-called open sources, which proves that the comical investigation lacked minimum credibility and transparency. The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic has repeatedly underscored before the Council and the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that it condemns any use of chemical weapons or any other kind of weapons of mass destruction, which constitutes a crime against humanity and is an objectionable and immoral act that cannot be justified under any circumstances for any reason and regardless of where it takes place. We again stress that the Syrian army did not use any chemical weapons. It no longer possesses such weapons. In fact, the Syrian army itself and civilians have been the target of chemical weapons and toxins, including chlorine, used by armed terrorist groups.”
2018-04-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8221 (2018) · source
“Some members ofthe Council are in unprecedented denial although the majority of the members of this international organization agree that the conclusions of the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) against the Syrian Government pertaining to Khan Shaykhun incident are false and unfounded. That did not prevent some States from repeating lies and unfounded accusations against my country. I would like to remind the Council that the JIM. refused to visit Khan Shaykhun. It decided instead to rely on statements made by the criminals who perpetrated this immoral incident in Khan Shaykhun and on fake witnesses, presented and introduced by terrorists to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the Joint Investigative Mechanism. The JIM.”
2018-04-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8221 (2018) · source
“In a dangerous precedent being set, we have heard statements by high-ranking officials of the States I mentioned, who said that the only way for those groups to be saved is through the use of chemical weapons in Syria. It is as though such officials tell terrorist groups to use chemical weapons against civilians, fabricate evidence, use fake witnesses and manipulate crime scenes, as they did previously, and such officials would provide those groups with media coverage and political support, and intervene to save them and then accuse the Syrian Government. That is what those States tell the terrorist groups to do. Such theatrics are staged not only by the White Helmets; they are also staged here in the Council as part two of the Khan Shaykhun play directed by a permanent member of the Security Council.”
2018-04-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8221 (2018) · source
“Furthermore, they are inventing new meeting formats at the Council, with the aim ofachieving one clear goal, namely, to obstruct any progress by the Syrian army against the terrorist groups supported by those same States. They aim to tarnish the image of the Syrian Government and blackmail it politically. The best proof of what I say is the theatrics staged by the White Helmets, the propaganda wing of the Al-Nusra Front. They claimed that toxic chemicals were used in eastern Ghouta. Such claims have coincided with the successful liberation of that area from armed terrorist groups by the Syrian army and its allies, and were proved to be false.”
2018-04-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8221 (2018) · source
“The elimination was confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Mission in its report (see S/2014/444) submitted to the Council in June 2014. However, unfortunately, instead of commending the efforts of the Syrian Government, some members of the Council - and I mean the United States, which has not destroyed its huge chemical arsenal and makes one excuse after another to avoid doing so, in addition to the United Kingdom and France - have mastered the art of deception and misinformation in order to dominate the world and return to the time of colonization and trusteeship. Those States continue to exploit the Council to make false and baseless accusations against the Syrian Government.”
2018-04-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8221 (2018) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your country's assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. Syria has fulfilled its commitments under the Chemical Weapons Convention and resolution 2118 (2013). Syria has always cooperated fully and objectively, as well as in a positive, transparent and flexible manner, in the fulfilment of its commitments, despite great challenges and the complicated, difficult and provocative security situation resulting from the hostile conduct of some regional and international parties. The Syrian Government has realized an unprecedented achievement in the history of the Organization by eliminating forever the Syrian chemical-weapons programme in record time.”
2018-04-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8221 (2018) · source
“They have demonstrated their commitment to the supremacy of the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, as well as their conviction that such abnormal practices undermine the credibility of international actions and institutions and jeopardize international peace and security. The meeting rose at 11.45 a.m.”
2018-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8174 (2018) · source
“The letter proves with scientific and legal evidence that the accusations against my country are false and that Syria has never used such chemicals, and will we ever use them, because we do not possess them. Let us recall that those who level such false accusations against Syria are the Governments of the same States with a dark history of using such internationally prohibited weapons against millions of innocent people - in Viet Nam, Cambodia, Algeria and the list goes on. Finally, on behalf of my Government, I would like to extend our gratitude to the Russian Federation and to friendly countries in the Council, countries that seek to establish truth based on their awareness about the pernicious aims behind the false accusations.”
2018-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8174 (2018) · source
“My country continues to honour all of its commitments f the ones we assumed when we joined the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction. We shall persevere in our fight against terrorism - a war that we will wage despite any political or media blackmail or any exploitation of the blood of innocent civilians in Syria. The Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic will today circulate a letter of the National Committee for the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, in response to the United States allegations vis-a-vis the work of the JIM. and the Fact-finding Mission of the OPCW.”
2018-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8174 (2018) · source
“They brought pressure to bear on its Chair and its members by pressuring them to refuse to visit Khan Shaykhun. Rather than conduct a field visit to collect real evidence, they merely sought to level accusations and offered up evidence trumped up by Western countries to undermine Syria, to support terrorist groups and to cover up their responsibility for this incident. That occurred after the United States and its partners rejected the call by the Russian Federation to stop the politicization of the work of the JIM. and to rectify its methodology by refraining from using false evidence and, instead, limiting itself to scientific and legally sound and reasonable proof.”
2018-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8174 (2018) · source
“False accusations against my Government of using toxic chemical substances are attempts to cover up its efforts to reveal to the world that certain armed terrorist groups and their sponsors have continued to perpetrate crimes against innocent civilians through the use, more than once, of toxic substances. The Syrian Government has provided the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the OPCW-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) with evidence that proves that such groups possess banned toxic substances. We have repeatedly called for the carrying out of investigations to corroborate such evidence. However, our calls have been ignored. All of my colleagues here recall that the United States and its allies destroyed the JIM. Through their practices here in the Council, they put an end to the Mechanism.”
2018-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8174 (2018) · source
“The latter are today waging a war, on behalf of the entire world, against terrorism, which, unfortunately, is being supported by certain Governments that have no interest in ensuring international peace and security and are solely seeking to advance their own political agendas. My Government reaffirms once again that the United States, the United Kingdom and France are fully responsible for the paralysis of international investigative mechanisms concerning the use of toxic chemical substances, as the Governments of those States are seeking to shield the armed terrorist groups that they support. We recall before all present here that it is Syria that originally called for an investigation into instances of the use of toxic gas by armed terrorist groups.”
2018-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8174 (2018) · source
“In that regard, on behalf of the Government of my country, I once again reiterate our condemnation of all American and Western allegations accusing us of committing chemical-weapon attacks in our country. I reaffirm that those accusations are groundless and cheap lies. International public opinion and the majority of United Nations Members now know that this is but standard procedure for the United States and its allies in the Council each and every time they learn that the armedterrorist groups that they finance, arm and support on the ground in Syria are at an impasse and losing ground to the advancing Syrian army and its allies.”
2018-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8174 (2018) · source
“My country achieved an unprecedented and definitive feat in the history of the Organization by ending the Syrian chemical-weapons programme in record time. That was corroborated in the report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism to the Council in June 2014. My country is the party most desirous of uncovering the truth. We have always supported, and will continue to support, in principle any initiative by the Council whose aim is to establish the truth, identify those who are really trading in the blood of the Syrian people and using toxic chemical substances against Syrian civilians, including armed terrorist groups, as well as levelling false accusations against the Syrian Government.”
2018-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8174 (2018) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): My country condemns and rejects in the strongest possible terms any use of chemical weapons or of any other weapon of mass destruction, as this constitutes a crime against humanity and an unethical and unjustifiable act, under any circumstances. The real target of such weapons is the Syrian people, who remain the primary victims of the crimes committed by armed terrorist groups, which have not hesitated to use chemical weapons against them. I reaffirm before the Security Council that my country has sought, and continues to seek, to identify the real perpetrators responsible for the use of chemical weapons in my country, Syria. Based on those steadfast principles, my Government joined the Chemical Weapons Convention and has honoured all of its commitments thereunder.”
2018-02-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8174 (2018) · source
“Terrorism that it has been spreading for decades must be addressed on an international level in an urgent and decisive manner before it is too late. The Saudi regime is fully responsible for the evil of terrorism that is currently affecting all countries of the world.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“I condemn him for what he said. This is an Arabic proverb. In his statement, the representative of Al-Saud said that we need a Syrian consensus in order to arrive at a settlement in Syria. To that end, I say that the Al-Saud regime should stop issuing terrorist fatwas, which fuel terrorism in my country, Syria. We are all aware of that, and not in Syria alone but all over the world. It must stop providing support to armed terrorist organizations in order to kill Syrians. The Wahhabi Saudi regime is supporting more than 100 armed groups in Syria. It should stop providing them with the toxic chemicals that are being used against civilians and the Syrian army. It should cease its lies and hypocrisy.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“We will regain our occupied territory and usurped rights, and the Israeli settlers must leave the Golan sooner or later. We will regain our territory and free our people who are suffering under the yoke of Israeli occupation, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the relevant Security Council resolutions. We call on the Security Council to take immediate action against Israel, to stop its offences and violations, and to oblige it to end its occupation ofArab territories, including the occupied Syrian Golan. It should withdraw to the border of 4 June 1967, in accordance with Council resolutions, especially resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 497 (1981). Lastly, I was not going to respond to what we have heard in some statements. But I would like to respond to the representative of the Saudi regime.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“The resilient Syrian people of the Syrian Golan have pronounced all such practices null and void and not to be recognized or obeyed, and have expressed their continued allegiance to their homeland, Syria, and their Syrian Arab nationality. They are opposed to all such Israeli attempts and decisions, which will ultimately fail. From the very first day of this heinous occupation, the residents of the Syrian Golan have continued to underscore that the occupied Golan is an integral part of the Syrian territory, and that they are Syrian nationals. Their land is holy, and they will never relinquish it to the Israeli occupiers. We want to emphasize the Syrian right to the Golan with its borders of 4 June 1967. This right will be upheld forever.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“The international community has been silent in the face of Israel's policies and actions, which encourages Israel to continue them as well as to violate the Separation of Forces Agreement and Security Council resolutions. Those violations would never have happened without the United States Administration's unlimited support to Israel, which hinders accountability, ensures impunity and encourages Israel to continue its threats to regional and international peace and security. The Syrians in the occupied Syrian Golan have rejected all Israel's oppressive practices, most recently the announcement by Israel's Minister of the Interior to prepare for elections of the so-called local councils in October of this year. This is a flagrant violation of Security Council resolutions and international conventions.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“It is preventing them from building national Syrians hospitals in their occupied towns in the Golan, and from receiving treatment in Damascus hospitals. Since the very first day of the occupation, Israel has instituted policies of terrorism, oppression, racial discrimination and arbitrary arrest. It has conducted mock trials and punished Syrians with long prison sentences. In that regard, I would like to remind the international community of Syria's captured Mandela, Sidqi Suleiman Al-Maqt. After spending 27 years in Israeli prisons, he was detained again in 2015 and sentenced to 14 years because he showed footage of Israeli cooperation with the Al-Nusra Front and other terrorist organizations in the Syrian Golan. We are calling on the international community to release him and all other detainees from Israeli prisons.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“Mladinov did not address this issue despite the fact that it is at the core of the item under discussion and constitutes an integral part of his mandate as the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. Israel has refused to return the occupied Golan to Syria or to abide by the relevant internationally legitimate resolutions, especially resolution 497 (1981). It has continued to confiscate territories in the occupied Syrian Golan, expand its settlements there, exploit the area's resources, distort its history and rob it of its culture. Israel also continues to lay mines in the Golan and is preventing the resilient Syrians living there from communicating with their families in Syria. It is depriving them of their right to an education based on a Syrian curriculum and their right to possess Syrian identity cards.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“My country, Syria, strongly condemns Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, who insists on disregarding the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan. He did not talk about the United Nations position on the Israeli occupation of Syrian Golan, according to relevant United Nations resolutions, especially resolution 497 (1981). He did not address the suffering of more than 23,000 Syrian citizens living there under occupation for 50 years, not to mention the illegal Israeli practices and the continued Israeli violations of the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement. Israel cooperates with the armed terrorist groups, which have occupied sites related to the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force. Mr.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“The Syrian Arab Republic, despite the ongoing terrorist war in Syria, has never lost its compass and has always maintained its principled position on the Palestinian question and on the rights of Palestinians, Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem. My country will do its utmost to regain all occupied Arab territories. It has always maintained its principled position on the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination, and to establish an independent State on all its national territory, with Jerusalem as its capital. Syria supports guaranteeing the right or refugees to return, in accordance with Council resolution 194 (1948). The Syrian Arab Republic welcomes the fact that the State of Palestine has been granted observer status at the United Nations, but calls for granting it full membership.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“Syria welcomes the resolution adopted by the General Assembly on Jerusalem on 20 December 2017 (resolution 72/240), which represents a slap in the face of the United States Administration by the international community that demonstrated how isolated it is in its cooperation with the Zionist entity as a result of the aggression and the arrogance that characterizes their policies. Tensions and destabilization in the world today are a result of their policies. The international community has stood by the rights of the Palestinian people in Jerusalem. It underscored the limited American influence, and that people with a free conscience cannot be bought. They are immune to those kinds of threats.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“They are part of the oppression practiced against Palestine, and constitute attempts to displace its people and establish an occupying settlement entity on its territory. The United States used its veto against a draft resolution (S/2017/1060) on the status of Jerusalem on 18 December 2017 (see S/PV.8139). That underscores its total disregard for international law and its flagrant violation of the resolutions adopted with international legitimacy. It also shows the unlimited support of the United States for the racist and Zionist entity at the expense of the Palestinian people, and proves that it has never been a fair and competent negotiator in search of peaceful settlement for the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month. The Syrian Arab Republic condemns the decision by the United States to relocate its Embassy to the occupied city of Jerusalem and to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Israeli occupation. We stress that such decisions are flagrant violations of Security Council and General Assembly resolutions and run counter to the legal, political and historical status of the city of Jerusalem. As such, they are no more than unilateral decisions that have no legitimacy or value whatsoever and have no impact on the legal status of Jerusalem.”
2018-01-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8167 (2018) · source
“That is why we urge the Secretary-General to convince States that sponsor the opposition groups to invalidate the so-called Riyadh 2 statement and pave the way for serious progress in the talks on Syria.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source
“As usual, those States have exploited the position of the Special Envoy in the media so as to justify the preconditions imposed by the opposition groups in order to obstruct the Geneva process and thwart any possible solution to the crisis. In conclusion, the Syrian Arab Republic has participated in 15 rounds oftalks in Geneva and Astana and two rounds of talks in Moscow, and expects to participate effectively in the inter-Syrian national dialogue conference in Sochi. The position of my Government is clear. No one can alter or manipulate it, or weaken Syria's resolve to respond to any sincere effort to end the bloodbath in Syria and to meet the aspirations of the Syrian people.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source
“He also began to promote the dangerous outcome of the Riyadh 2 meeting and tried to justify it to the extent that he became party to the exacerbation of the crisis, rather than a facilitator. The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic strictly respects the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international humanitarian law, which are the basis of the United Nations role and its credibility. We reject the misuse of United Nations mechanisms by certain influential States. We condemn the hostile and irresponsible statements of certain States that have employed terrorist armed groups in Syria.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source
“Therefore, the Syrian Government position was clear and firm in rejecting the goals of the Ryiadh 2 grouping, namely, to waste time and prolong the crisis in an act of submission to the injunctions of their employers in Saudi Arabia and Western States. Resolution 2254 (2015) stipulates that all preconditions should be rejected and that the dialogue should be inter-Syrian and led by Syrians without foreign interference. However, the Special Envoy, who attended the Riyadh 2 meeting, decided to laud its outcome and adopt it in a provocative manner, in violation of the United Nations resolution. He adopted an unbalanced position and sided with the so-called opposition groups that are still imposing preconditions.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source
“Members are also well aware that the outcome of the Riyadh conference is a deliberate violation of the relevant United Nations resolutions on the Syrian crisis, in particular resolution 2254 (2015). The statement issued by that conference contained preconditions on key issues that eliminate any potential for a Syrian national dialogue led by the Syrians themselves, without foreign interference. The Special Envoy, who was present at the Riyadh meetings, ignored the fact that the so-called Riyadh 2 document was a flagrant attempt to undermine the Geneva track and prevent a political solution to the Syrian crisis.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source
“My country's Government continues to call on the authors of the report to be transparent and credible by clearly mentioning the deeply negative impacts of the unilateral economic coercive measures imposed on Syria by the United States of America, the European Union and other States. Those measures have an impact on all basic sectors of life and affect even the activities of the United Nations entities and foreign non-governmental organizations in Syria. As Council members are aware, the eighth round of the Geneva talks took place immediately following the so-called Riyadh conference for the Syrian opposition, which was attended by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General after having been postponed for three months.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source
“We warn that most of those entities have close ties to or affiliations with armed terrorist groups. My Government regrets the continuous use by the authors of the report of the term "besieged zones" when talking about the situation in eastern Ghouta, while they constantly and deliberately ignore the fact that citizens in eastern Ghouta are under internal siege by armed terrorist organizations there. Those organizations use citizens as human shields and seize, monopolize and distribute humanitarian assistance to their supporters, but sell it at exorbitant prices to those in need, as was the case in eastern Aleppo. Independent media have aired audio and video footage of the suffering of besieged civilians and exposed the practices of terrorist groups that steal humanitarian aid and deprive it to those in need of that aid.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source
“Those groups have prevented humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in those areas. That requires us today to agree on mechanisms to deliver assistance from within Syria and in cooperation and coordination with the Syrian Government. Fourthly, those who prepared the report did not mention the refusal of the United States and Jordan to allow aid to reach the Al-Rukban camp, or of Turkey to open the Nassibine crossing points, which is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and further evidence of the double standards and politicization of cross-border assistance. My Government reiterates the need for United Nations personnel in Syria to refrain from dealing with any separatist entities, the illegal so-called local councils or unlicensed civil society organizations.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source
“In that connection, my Government is bewildered by the vague ideas contained in paragraph 29 of the report regarding partners or independent third-party companies that were contracted to ascertain the delivery of assistance to the warehouses and to those who are eligible for such aid. I would add that, to date, no United Nations official has proposed such ideas to the Syrian Government even though the Syrian Government is the main party concerned. The Syrian Government therefore requests that the United Nations provide the names and reports of the United Nations partners who are allegedly able to verify this essential information. Thirdly, the Syrian Government, in cooperation with its allies, has liberated most Syrian territories from Da'esh, the Al-Nusra Front and other affiliated terrorist groups.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source
“First, Syria still believes that there is currently no practical justification for the cross-border delivery of such assistance, in particular given the options created by the agreements for the establishment of de-escalation zones in order to deliver humanitarian assistance to those in need from within the country. Secondly, the parties in charge at the Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs are still either unable or unwilling to offer the necessary guarantees that assistance reaches those who deserve it, and not armed terrorist groups, as has been the case so far.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source
“In that regard, Syria reiterates that it provides every possible facilitation to ensure the delivery of that assistance when it is genuinely directed to those Syrian citizens who truly deserve it and when it is arranged in accordance with the agreed mechanisms that respect the applicable Syrian laws and regulations. As Security Council members will recall, the Syrian Government has approved the proposal of the Resident Coordinator to set up a tripartite mechanism because it is open to any measure that would strengthen humanitarian work in Syria. The mechanism has met five times to date - contrary to the sugegstion of the authors of the report that it is ineffective and that its meetings are few and far between. With regard to cross-border deliveries of humanitarian assistance, I would like to make the following points.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source
“Yesterday, we sent an official letter to the Secretary-General and to the President of the Security Council, setting out the position of the Syrian Government on the report of the Secretary-General (S/2017/1057) under consideration today. However, I would like to make the following main points. The authors of these periodic reports are incapable ofresolving a serious professional shortcoming, namely, the fact that they are relying on politicized and other open sources that lack credibility, while continuing to ignore the Syrian Government's reliable sources. The Syrian Government regrets that the authors of the report speak about what they administrative impediments and deliberate restrictions that they claim limit the delivery of humanitarian assistance to unstable areas.”
2017-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8142 (2017) · source