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Mounzer

lines on the record: 272
first: 2015-11-17
most recent: 2019-04-29
sittings or episodes: 29
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“The Syrian Arab Republic strongly condemns this act of aggression by the United States of America, which runs counter to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, especially given the status of the United States as a permanent member of the Security Council, which is responsible for the maintenance of international peace and security - let alone the fact that such acts of aggression hold the potential to sow total chaos in many parts of the world and will make the law of the jungle the only way to deal with regional and economic crises, with no heed paid to the Charter of the United Nations and international law. I ask those who talk about the respect of the Charter: Did this colonial trio respect the Charter when they killed millions of innocent people, starting in South Asia and all the way through Latin America?”
2017-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7919 (2017) · source
“I assure Council members that if the United States Administration is still delusional that it has succeeded in that blatant aggression in supporting the terrorist gangs and organizations on the ground, the response of the Syrian Arab Republic and its allies will be greater determination to maintain their patriotic duty to defend the Syrian people and to crush terrorism wherever it may be in order to restore security and safety to the territories of the Syrian Arab Republic.”
2017-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7919 (2017) · source
“These are just pretexts to wage war and occupy other States, divide them and control their wealth and energy resources. What is truly disgusting today is that these Governments that have supported Wahhabi thinking - the extremist terrorist ideology of the Al-Saud entity since its creation - are today orchestrating and investing in terrorism without any concern for people's lives, including their own, after terrorism arrived at their doorstep, because of these misguided, hypocritical policies.”
2017-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7919 (2017) · source
“Today the United States of America pursues its misleading policy to justify its aggression against Syria by relying on fabricated information provided by the Jabhat Al-Nusra terrorists. This aggression incontrovertibly proves that Syria has always been correct that successive American Administrations will not change their fruitless policies of targeting States and subjugating people to their will and to impose hegemony around the world. International public opinion and the people of the free world have no doubt that successive United States, United Kingdom and French Administrations have for decades cared neither for democracy or freedom nor for human rights -indeed, let alone the well-being ofpeople or their security and stability.”
2017-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7919 (2017) · source
“Just two days ago here in the Security Council (see S/PV.7893), we warned that three colonialist permanent Member States in the Council had a renewed appetite to repeat the lies and stories spread by the United States and the United Kingdom 14 years ago here in the Chamber to justify the destruction and occupation of Iraq by way of the major lie about weapons of mass destruction. Perhaps diplomatic history has come full circle now in a regrettable, farcical scene in which Colin Powell, the then Secretary of State of the United States, tried to delude the international community and the United Nations in order to justify his country's aggression against Iraq by talking about highly credible information.”
2017-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7919 (2017) · source
“It is in that context that we also see the air strikes by this illegal coalition against the Syrian Arab Army in Jebal Thardeh, around the city of Deir ez-Zor, on 17 September 2016, in an attempt to secure a safe corridor for ISIL elements between Syrian and Iraqi territories. Today's aggression was aimed at saving Jabhat Al-Nusra terrorists following the grave damage inflicted upon them by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies in the centre of the country after they attacked peaceful villages and cities in the area. In that regard, I note that, according to media reports, the United States Congress recently entacted a law allowing the United States Administration to send man-portable air-defence systems to armed terrorist groups in Syria.”
2017-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7919 (2017) · source
“This strategy harms counter-terrorism efforts by the Syrian Arab Army and its partners. It makes the United States of America a partner of ISIL, Jabhat Al-Nusra and other terrorist groups, which from day one of the unjust war against Syria have attacked Syrian army positions and military bases, as well as our infrastructure and civilians. Let me recall here in the Security Council that the United States of America leads a purported alliance against ISIL. However, the real achievements of that coalition are killing civilians and striking infrastructure in Syria. Its real goal is to weaken the Syrian Arab Army and its allies as they confront terrorist groups.”
2017-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7919 (2017) · source
“This act ofaggression will send erroneous messages to terrorist groups, emboldening them them to use chemical weapons in future and to continue perpetrating terrorist acts against Syrian civilians. Following this aggression, Jabhat Al-Nusra and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), both of which are terrorist organizations, and their affiliates waged many attacks on many parts of Syria. However, the Syrian Arab Army and its allies in the war against terrorism are confronting them, despite desperate attempts by others to support them. The American aggression falls under that umbrella. This condemnable aggression is a grave continuation of the same erroneous American strategy that began six years ago to provide all types of assistance to what the United States calls the "moderate armed opposition".”
2017-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7919 (2017) · source
“The Syrian Arab Republic has stressed that the Syrian Arab Army does not have chemical weapons in the first place; that it would never use such weapons in any of its operations against armed terrorist groups; and that it condemns the use of such weapons as being unjustified under any conditions. In this regard, we would like to note that it has become well known that those weapons have been used and stockpiled in many parts of Syria by armed terrorist groups in cooperation with - or, rather, with a wink and a nod from - certain ruling regimes in the region and outside it, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and some European States, which completely ignored all the facts and documented information on the use of chemical weapons on many occasions by terrorists in many parts of the Syrian Arab Republic.”
2017-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7919 (2017) · source
“This treacherous act of aggression constitutes a grave violation of the Charter of the United Nations as well of as all international norms and laws. The United States attempted to justify it with empty pretexts and fabricated arguments that claimed that the Syrian Arab Army had used chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun, without genuine knowledge of what had happened or identifying who was responsible. Those are the very same pretexts used by terrorist organizations and their handlers - in Washington, DC, Ankara, Riyadh, Doha, Tel Aviv, London and Paris - as well as their media outlets.”
2017-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7919 (2017) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): First of all, my delegation wishes to thank both the Russian Federation and Bolivia forjoining us in the convening of this urgent meeting. At the very outset, I have a question for the Under- Secretary General, who said that the Syrian Government described the attack as "an aggression", but he did not give us description according to the Charter of the United Nations. At 3.42 this morning, 7 April, the United States, using a number of missiles, committed a flagrant and barbaric act of aggression against a Syrian Arab Air Force base in the central area of our country, which led to a number of people being martyred and many injured, including women and children, as well as wide-ranging material damage.”
2017-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7919 (2017) · source
“In conclusion, my Government categorically rejects falsified and fabricated accusations. lt nevertheless reaffirms that it will continue to honour its obligations under the Convention on Chemical Weapons and in its ceaseless war against terror. We will relentlessly combat terror despite any cheap attempt to exploit the innocent blood spilled in Syria. The meeting rose at noon.”
2017-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7915 (2017) · source
“On instructions from former Minister for Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius, that country fabricated the report of the use of toxic chemicals in eastern Ghouta in August 2013, which was documented in a book by two French journalists entitled Le Chemin de Damas. France, along with its accomplices, is politically, legally and ethically responsible for the illegal international coalition's role in the shelling of civilians and the destruction of infrastructure. I would like to remind the Council of the barbaric massaerc carried out by French warplanes against 200 civilians in an Aleppo village in July 2016 and the recent airs trikes by the international alliance in Raqqa and Deir eZ-Zor that claimed the lives of scores of civilians and destroyed numerous bridges and infrastructure.”
2017-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7915 (2017) · source
“They do not even give a minute's thought to who is the real beneficiary of using toxic chemicals against innocent civilians. The answer is clear: the main beneficiaries are the same regimes that have targeted Syria for more than six years. They are now attempting to come to the rescue of the armed groups and the alliance of armed groups, so that they can undermine the political process in Geneva and Astana. That narrative in the Council against my country is the only explanation that accounts for the statements made by the President of the Council for the month of March when he declared that he would oppose any draft resolution introduced by the Russian Federation or China with regard to the issue of armed groups' possession of chemical weapons in Syria and Iraq. It is quite paradoxical that France called for this meeting.”
2017-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7915 (2017) · source
“All those letters includede information documenting armed terrorist groups' - namely, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Da'esh) - possession of toxic chemicals that had been acquired via Turkish territory. We condemn the latter and find it very strange that such actions coincide with the holding of international meetings on Syria, negotiations with Syrian representatives in Astana and Geneva, and incidents in which civilians have been targeted. That is in line with the continued cheap political exploitation by certain Member States represented in the Council through using fabricated reports disseminated by the media that have ties to certain countries' intelligence bodies. They do not rely on reason or logic, or wait to establish the facts.”
2017-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7915 (2017) · source
“That is an attempt to hamper the attitude of openness towards Syria that had begun to take shape only recently. On 21 March, the head of my country's delegation in the Geneva talks expressed to Mr. De Mistura Syria's concern about reports of armed terrorists groups' possession of toxic chemicals in the rural areas of Damascus, Idlib and Hama and their potential use as weapons against civilians. He warned of fabricated and falsified evidence and any other accusation levelled against my country as was done in the past. I would like to remind the Council that my Government has sent more than 90 letters, of which the most recent dates from several days ago, to the Council, the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and the OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism.”
2017-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7915 (2017) · source
“That confirms that certain parties represented within the Council, as well as Turkey and other countries, will continue their politicized and dangerous practices aimed at blackmailing my Government and its allies, tarnishing our reputation in our efforts to combat terror, obstructing talks in Astana and Geneva and ending all prospects for a political settlement of the crisis, even if it is at the expense of children and women who are the innocent victims of the terrorism that today threatens Syria and the rest of the world. Certain Governments are now of one voice in unjustifiably and systematically accusing Syria so as to as to send us back to square one with regard to the issue of chemical weapons and serve clear political objectives.”
2017-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7915 (2017) · source
“Those are the firm principles by which we stand and based upon which we joined the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). We have honoured all our obligations under the Convention on Chemical Weapons because we believe that the Middle East should be a WMD-free zone. We have demonstrated our commitment and transparency within the framework of the agreement between my country, the OPCW and the United Nations Office for Project Services. Baseless politicized accusations have been levelled against my country and its allies in our war against terror since day one, as the media have disseminated information provided by Council-designated terrorist groups, especially in Khan Shaykhun.”
2017-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7915 (2017) · source
“First and foremost, we categorically reject the false accusations and allegations of the Syrian Arab Army's use of toxic chemical substances against Syrian civilians in Khan Shaykhun. The latter are used as human shields by armed terrorist groups. Syria also reaffirms that the Syrian Arab Army does not possess any type of chemical weapon. We have never used them, and we never will. My Government subscribes to the principled and firm position that eschews the use of chemical weapons and all weapons of mass destruction whatever the parties concerned, wherever, whatever the circumstance and whatever the justification. Such use constitutes a crime against humanity - an unjustifiable crime that runs contrary to all ethics.”
2017-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7915 (2017) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): Several members of the Security Council today made statements that have unequivocally further demonstrated that my country, Syria, is the victim of two simultaneous acts of aggression. The first involves the attack by the permanent members of the Council, and the second concerns the attack by proxy being carried out by armed terrorist groups in Syria on the instructions of those permanent member States of the Council. Both seem to have an appetite for falsifying and fabricating evidence. We have borne witness to such practices for more than 10 years in the Council. It all began with the lie concerning Iraq and its alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD).”
2017-04-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7915 (2017) · source
“They should close their borders to mercenaries and terrorists, and we should seek an inter-Syrian solution led by Syrians without foreign intervention. We should also put an end to the unilateral coercive economic measures that have been imposed by a number of States against my country, Syria. We should create human, economic, social conditions that would enable Syrians to return to their country.”
2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source
“Ending the phenomenon of human trafficking, one of the most heinous crimes against humanity, requires a collective international stance and commitment to dealing with the root causes of the phenomenon through the implementation of Security Council resolutions, especially resolution 2331 (2016), and the provision ofan enabling environment, both socially and economically, that would lead to the achievement of sustainable development for all peoples without exception. The international community, particularly the United Nations, should shoulder its ethical and legal responsibility to find a solution for Syria by taking serious steps to implement the Security Council resolutions on terrorism. The Governments of some countries must end all support provided to armed terrorist groups.”
2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source
“Hundreds of thousands of Syrians live in those camps without safety and security, and the neighbouring countries that have opened those camps have not lived up to their responsibility. They are not providing a safe haven for those citizens of Syria who have escaped from the armed terrorist groups and who now are victims of human-trafficking networks. United Nations reports, particularly the reports of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration, have pointed out that there is a continued rise in the activities of transnational organized criminals within those camps involving human trafficking, rape, the forced marriages of women and minors and organ- trafficking networks that exploit children.”
2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source
“I would like to point to the recent report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (S/2016/36l), which has documented the crimes of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in the fields of sexual exploitation and trafficking in persons. But the recommendations of the report have not been implemented. Syrians in the areas under the control of armed terrorist groups are enslaved. Women are being abducted and are forced to marry terrorists, especially foreign terrorist fighters. Those terrorist groups have issued fatwas that allow for the sexual exploitation of women. Children are abducted and recruited before the eyes of their parents, and they become terrorists and suicide bombers. Things are not better in the refugee camps.”
2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source
“We became a party to many international protocols, including the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air. We also promulgated our own laws, which adhere to international standards. However, the rights of hundreds of thousands of Syrians are being violated in areas under the control of armed terrorist groups, particularly Da'esh and the Al-Nusra Front. The Governments of some Member States continue to fund, arm and support those groups. They overlook the fact that those groups adhere to a takfiri Wahhabi ideology and they have a religious doctrine that calls for killing others.”
2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source
“It is linked to the spread of terrorism, which exploits the most vulnerable in communities, in particular women and children who are victimized and fall into the trap of slavery, sexual exploitation, forced labour and trafficking in human organs. Transnational organized criminal networks continue to exploit hundreds of thousands of immigrants and refugees who have left their homes. That is supported by a number of Governments, particularly the Government of Turkey, which continues to exploit internally displaced persons and refugees as tools for political blackmail and pressure. Before the current nefarious terrorist war, my country, Syria, had achieved much progress in the field of combating human trafficking.”
2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, my country regrets that the Security Council has been unable to denounce the terrorist bombing in Damascus on Saturday. The Council must assume its responsibilities and condemn the two terrorist attacks that took place in Damascus today. The Council's work is hampered by several of its Western members. It continues to convey the message that there are two types of terrorism - moderate and extremist. Today's meeting is an important one for my country, Syria. Today's debate should be a genuine opportunity for us to highlight trafficking in persons as one of the most dangerous threats to humankind.”
2017-03-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7898 (2017) · source
“I thank all of those States for upholding international law and the principles of the United Nations, because they know that all of this can undermine the credibility of our international efforts and threaten international peace and security by compounding the suffering of our peoples.”
2017-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7893 (2017) · source
“They are not interested in Syria or in the suffering of the Syrian people. Instead of supporting and endorsing the political process that is under way today in Geneva, they prefer to erect all possible obstacles in the way of a political solution to the conflict. My country's Government denies all of the accusations made in the reports of the Joint Investigative Mechanism. We remain committed to all of our obligations, including those stemming from the Chemical Weapons Convention. Finally, on behalf of my country, I would like to thank the friendly delegations that voted against the draft resolution, the Russian Federation, China and Bolivia, as well as the States that abstained, that is, Egypt, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan.”
2017-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7893 (2017) · source
“The question, obviously, is not being posed to the representatives of France, the United Kingdom or the United States, because these States have chosen to obscure reality and to further certain agendas. My question is the following: what is the point of using chemical weapons against a limited number of armed persons when conventional weapons could have achieved the same results without needing to resort to chemical weapons? Why did we not use chemical weapons when terrorist groups attacked airports, large cities or military bases in numerous areas of Syria? My answer is very simple. Syria would never have used such weapons; it does not believe in such weapons as they are simply unethical. The three States concerned attempted to submit the draft resolution to the Security Council, although it runs counter to all ethical principles.”
2017-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7893 (2017) · source
“It is supposed to specify in each case when the weapons were used, the date, the time, the climate, the temperature, the type of weapon used, the nature of the damage incurred and the ensuing medical impact. However, the mechanism drew upon eyewitness accounts that lack all of these elements. We also note that some of the evidence was moved to one location to another by armed terrorist groups and that the Mechanism was unable to analyse these practices, which are of course aimed at manipulating the readers of such reports and masking the truth. Allow me, therefore, to put a very simple question to the Council and to ask it to respond transparently.”
2017-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7893 (2017) · source
“We have seen that the Joint Investigative Mechanism itself is not complying with the tools and methods of work that had been set out for it since the very beginning. There is no specific, precise or objective proof regarding the use of chlorine in particular. We can see, therefore, that the Mechanism has worked in a deplorable manner and lacks professionalism, and that it has failed to comply with the strictest criteria laid down by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Here I would cite a few examples. In some of the Mechanism's reports, it is stated that the Mechanism will draw upon credible, corroborated evidence.”
2017-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7893 (2017) · source
“Our Government has repeatedly denied having using such chemical weapons, in particular chlorine. Our Government has tried to be as transparent as possible and has cooperated fully with all of the commissions and international missions that have come to us since 2014. We have facilitated their work so as to ensure that they could successfully conduct credible investigations. What we saw is that terrorist groups have fabricated certain so-called testimony regarding the use of such chemical weapons. My country deplores the fact that some Council members are trying to use for political ends the reports of various United Nations mechanisms. No logical or scientific consideration has been given to these reports, which should be read on the basis of the strictest criteria, including legal and scientific criteria.”
2017-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7893 (2017) · source
“We have also communicated with the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) and with the highest disarmament authorities, as well as the Joint Investigative Mechanism. We also contacted the Counter-Terrorism Committee and provided corroborated information regarding the use, with the support of certain Governments, of toxic chemical substances by terrorist armed groups against civilians. Unfortunately, these issues were not discussed or even considered. We know that there were intentional attempts to ignore our efforts, and that some of these chemical substances have been burned on board vessels, in particular United Kingdom and United States ones. Now, what are we to do given the insistence of those three countries on putting the draft resolution to the vote?”
2017-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7893 (2017) · source
“That is why my country acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention, with a View to making the Middle East a zone free of all weapons of mass destruction. However, despite all of our efforts, it is clear today that the three States concerned proposed the draft resolution (S/2017/172) simply so as to protect Israel's nuclear, chemical and biological stockpiles. My country's Government has on numerous occasions warned about the threat posed by the use by armed terrorists of such chemical weapons against civilians, in particular groups affiliated with Da'esh, the Al-Nusra Front and Al-Qaida. We have addressed 87 letters to the Security Council, I repeat, 87 letters.”
2017-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7893 (2017) · source
“They are ready to put to the vote draft resolutions that draw from unprofessional reports that are unable to come to definitive conclusions and that draw on the false, fabricated eyewitness accounts of members of terrorist groups that are supported by those very same countries. We know that the majority of these terrorists reside in Turkey, the first country to support terrorism in Syria. It is no secret that draft resolution S/2017/l72 is based on reports written under unprecedented pressure. It is our impression that the missions that draft such reports do so before having even begun their work. The Syrian Arab Republic's position remains unchanged with respect to chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction. We are against the use of such weapons; they are unacceptable and deeply unethical.”
2017-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7893 (2017) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): First, I would like to express our most heartfelt condolences on the passing of Mr. Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, a friendly State. We will always remember him and his positive spirit and wisdom, which we feel in every room of the Organization. May he rest in peace. We are not at all surprised to see that the triangle, composed of the United Kingdom, the United States and France, continues to pursue the same politicized and dangerous practices within the Security Council in order to undermine the Government of my country and subject us and our allies to the worst forms of blackmail.”
2017-02-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7893 (2017) · source
“The Syrian Arab Republic reiterates its appeal to the United Nations and the international community to implement Security Council resolutions seeking to combat terrorism so as to prevent terrorists, sponsored by others, from receiving financial, technological, telecommunications and other support given in the name of personal agendas. Those Governments should compensate the Syrian people and the Syrian Arab Republic itself for destruction of Syrian infrastructure. If not, Security Council resolutions and statements by the representatives of Member States will not go beyond the Council Chamber and the Organization's official records and other documents. That would send the wrong message to terrorists and the sponsors of terrorism.”
2017-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7882 (2017) · source
“These individuals justify their actions - which violate Article 51 of the Charter and the sovereignty of Syria - by professing to fight Da'esh or against terrorism in general, We have sent many letters to the Secretary-General and to the President of the Security Council that contain accurate information and statistics on the harm inflicted on civilian Syrians and the damage to economic infrastructure, social services, education and oil and gas refineries, damage totalling more than $120 billion. Such damage was caused by the atrocities, the military and air strikes by the so-called international coalition, targeting the Syrian people and their infrastructure.”
2017-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7882 (2017) · source
“It also reduced the Syrian Government's ability to meet its citizens' needs. To all that must be added the crimes committed by armed terrorist groups against Syria and its people and infrastructure. The unfortunate irony is that the very Governments that utilize the United Nations as a platform attempt to talk about the humanitarian tragedy experienced by the Syrian people are themselves causing it. In the framework of the very same policy, they target Syrian infrastructure. Illegal military intervention occurs under the guise of what is referred to as the international coalition, which violates the Charter of the United Nations and international law and targets Syria.”
2017-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7882 (2017) · source
“Terrorist armed groups, with the support of known Governments, have continued to commit their terrible acts, some of the worst of which have been the targeting of historical, religious and civilizational sites in Syria, particularly in Palmyra, Aleppo, Maaloula and Idlib, destroying or mutilating many ancient and historic sites and monuments - churches, convents, mosques, temples, mausoleums and theatres, all defaced or destroyed in a barbaric manner. None of this has anything to do with human civilization. From the very beginning, certain Governments have partnered terrorists in Syria by financing and manipulating them, or by imposing coercive, unilateral economic measures against the Syrian people. That has had a devastating effect on various service sectors, on the economy, education and health, and on Syrians' lives.”
2017-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7882 (2017) · source
“For the sixth consecutive year, my country has been a target for terrorism through the systematic destruction of its technological and educational installations, economic, cultural and social infrastructure and historic sites. This atrocious assault has targeted dozens of hospitals, medical buildings, schools, universities and other centres of culture and education, besides destroying power stations, road networks, bridges, railways and telecommunications and Internet links.”
2017-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7882 (2017) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today's important meeting. I would like to affirm Syria's support for the Security Council's credible and genuine efforts to combat terrorism, which reflects the international unanimity about the fact that today terrorism is one ofthe world's greatest challenges, and that the international community, through the United Nations and the Security Council, must do its part to coordinate our efforts and cooperation aimed at countering terrorism and extremist ideology. The war against terrorism is a cultural and information battle, not just a military one.”
2017-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7882 (2017) · source
“Not wanting to be part of those reprehensible attempts, I will not reply or respond to the false allegations made by certain countries, especially those that harbour, support and finance terrorists, or that promote sabotage and extremism in Syria and are working hard to derail any peaceful solution to this crisis by intervening in our internal affairs - in particular Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, the United States, France and others. They use the diaspora of global terrorism as a political tool to put pressure on my Government to change its choices and positions.”
2017-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7863 (2017) · source
“We are not asking for concessions from Israel, which it describes as painful. We are referring to lands and rights that have been usurped and should be restored to their rightful owners and holders. Israeli settlers will have to leave our land in Golan sooner or later. In conclusion, we reject the attempts by some delegations to undermine the substance of the item on today's agenda, which is dedicated to discussing how to end the Israeli occupation of Arab lands, including the Syrian Golan, and not to attempts to mislead the Council through the discussion ofthe internal affairs ofcountries.”
2017-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7863 (2017) · source
“This illustrates that Israel and terrorism are two sides of the same coins. We call upon the Security Council to take immediate action to punish Israel for its aggression and to prevent it from being repeated. The Security Council is also called upon to take immediate action against Israel and force it to end its aggression and violations and its occupation of the occupied Arab territories, including the occupied Syrian Golan, and to withdraw to withdraw to the borders of4 June 1967 in accordance with the relevant Security Council resolutions, in particular resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 497 (1981) and 2334 (2016). We reiterate that Syria has a sovereign right over the occupied Syrian Golan up to the line of 4 June 1967. It is not a right that is up for negotiation, nor can it be waived.”
2017-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7863 (2017) · source
“It has built a two-kilometre berm that crosses the ceasefire line, with illegal gates for use by armed terrorist groups, to the great concern of the Syrian Government and the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force. That is well known to the member States of the Council, but apparently not to Mr. Mladenov. While continuing its terrorism, policies of aggression and defiance of international laws, norms and resolutions and its support to terrorist groups, Israel perpetrated a new, treacherous act of aggression against the territory of Syria after midnight on 13 January. The launch of a large number missiles by its warplanes north of Lake Tiberias, led to a fire on the periphery of Al-Mezzeh airport in Damascus. Apparently Mr. Mladenov and the United Nations do not know about that particular act of aggression.”
2017-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7863 (2017) · source
“Since the beginning of the events in Syria, Israel, the occupying Power, has added a new chapter to its annals of terrorist aggression, in direct violation of the Disengagement of Forces Agreement and Security Council resolutions, in particular those resolutions concerning counter-terrorism. It has provided support of all kinds to armed terrorist groups in the area of separation in the occupied Syrian Golan, including the Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, facilitating their crossing of the ceasefire line. It treats wounded terrorists in its hospitals with a view to allowing them to return to Syria and continue their terrorist activities.”
2017-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7863 (2017) · source
“Israel continues looting the resources of the Golan, distorting its history and plundering its antiquities, and has planted more than 20 million land mines. It has deprived steadfast Syrians on their territory of the right to study using the Syrian national education curriculum in Arabic. It has deprived them of the right to carry Syrian identity cards and the to build national Syrian hospitals. Israel continues its arrest and coercion policy, victimizing scores of Syrians in the Golan. The Syrian Government calls for pressuring Israel for the immediate release from prison of Sidqui Al-Maqt - the Syrian Mandela - and his co-prisoners Iyad Al-Johari and Amal Abu Saleh, who are being held in inhumane conditions in Israeli detention centres, as well as rescinding the unjust sentences of Amal Abu Saleh and a female prisoner, Bashira Mahmoud.”
2017-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7863 (2017) · source
“It continues systematically to Violate international humanitarian law and human rights law with respect to our people in the occupied Syrian Golan, with a view to erasing the Syrian identity of the Golan and separating it from the Syrian motherland. Israel has confiscated land, expanded settlements and demolished homes. Recently, that Government demolished the home of citizen Bassam Ibrahim. Israel also arrested an elderly man, aged 70, named Asa'ad Al-Waly, who died days ago in an Israeli prison after being sentenced to eight months of imprisonment for building a home on his own land. That is a violation of international law, which prohibits any occupying forces from confiscating the property of the citizens of occupied territory, in this case the Golan. The Golan is Arab Syrian land that Syrians have inherited from their ancestors.”
2017-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7863 (2017) · source