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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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“Syria has a principled position in support of the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, to an independent State on all of its national territory, with Jerusalem as its capital, and to the right of return in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III) of 1948. The war from which we suffer in Syria is due in large part to our refusal to succumb to pressure to relinquish our support for the Palestinian people and their just cause. Israel still refuses to return the occupied Syrian Golan to our homeland of Syria. Moreover, Israel has not implemented resolution 497 (1981).”
2017-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7863 (2017) · source
“The Security Council should immediately implement resolution 2334 (2016). That resolution, which was adopted weeks ago, condemns settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory. The resolution should also apply to Israeli occupation policies in the occupied Syrian Golan. The Israeli Government decided to establish 19 new districts and 400 housing units in Katzrin settlement, built on the ruins ofthe Syrian village ofKasreen, and has increased the settlers' numbers in the occupied Syrian Golan by adding 750 farms. Those are matters not covered by Mr. Mladenov in his briefing.”
2017-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7863 (2017) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): We condemn Mr. Mladenov's continued failure to deal with the situation in the occupied Syrian Golan and with ongoing Israeli violations and practices there, which are part of this particular agenda item. They also form an integral part of Mr. Mladenov's mandate as Special Coordinator. This debate coincides with the upcoming 50-year anniversary of Israel's occupation of Arab territories. That includes systematic and documented violations by Israel of international humanitarian law and human rights law. The international community has not taken real steps to end the occupation, which has encouraged Israel to escalate its aggression and its unprecedented settlement policy, the latest illustration of which is the bill seeking to legalize the outposts.”
2017-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7863 (2017) · source
“Putting an end to such coercive measures, which are illegitimate and coercive in nature, would in the end maintain the effectiveness and credibility of the Organization.”
2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source
“Obviously, the term "moderate armed opposition" will not be the last such dangerous and abnormal phrase used by their authors to try to to deviate the United Nations from its purposes and principles. In conclusion, my country, Syria, is still calling on the international community and the United Nations to take a clear and firm position that respects the Charter and its purposes, with regard to the use by the Governments of some states, notably the United States and the European Union, of unilateral economic coercive measures as a tool to bring political pressure to bear on certain developing countries, including my country, thereby targeting citizens in all aspects of their lives and whole segments of society, thereby undermining the ability of our community to bring about socioeconomic development.”
2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source
“We also need to abide by the provisions and purposes and principles of the Charter. We should not ignore it or manipulate its provisions or derive from it new terms and concepts that run counter to its provisions and are still a source of deep controversy and disagreement among Member States. That is due to the hidden purposes of the Governments of certain Member States in the use of terms such as "violent extremism", which have been put forward even before reaching an international consensus on a crystal-clear legal definition of terrorism. That is also the case for the "responsibility to protect", which the Governments of some States are trying to exploit to interfere in the internal affairs of other States and violate their sovereignty.”
2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source
“I must stress that the misleading statements that the delegations of some States made in today's meeting about the reality of the terrorism faced by my country are no longer heard by the international community, and international public opinion has realized the truth about the involvement of the Governments of those countries in supporting armed terrorist groups and the emergence of the phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters What we need today is to develop and activate the work of the United Nations to ensure that it carries out its role with integrity and seriousness as an international body that is mandated to shoulder the responsibility of maintaining international peace and security, while addressing the root causes of armed conflicts, committing to dialogue and political solutions and avoiding the threat of the use of force in international relations, in such a way to provide our peoples with safe, prosperous and peaceful lives.”
2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source
“The Governments of some States are still providing declared financial, military and political support to terrorist groups. Those Governments are still sponsoring the extremist terrorist ideology by issuing fatwas for killing and destruction, providing platforms for preachers of mutiny and callers for hate while the wold is watching. Those Governments are still establishing camps to train those terrorists on their own territories, under the supervision of military and security experts from Governments of States, some of which are permanent members of the Security Council, and which were mandated by the Charter to maintain international peace and security.”
2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source
“Despite the hundreds of resolutions of the General Assembly and the other Security Council resolutions, the Israeli occupation of Arab territories has continued for nearly half a century. Despite many resolutions on counter-terrorism unanimously adopted by the Security Council in accordance with Chapter VII of the Charter, which have provided broad mandates, flexible prerogatives and deterrent procedures that were supposed to ensure the eradication of terrorism, the scourge of terrorism is still spreading in numerous parts of the world. My country, Syria, is still suffering from the terrorist war imposed upon it as the result of the failure of some States to abide by resolutions 2170 (2014), 2178 (2014), 2199 (2015) and 2253 (2015). Foreign terrorist fighters are still flowing in across borders.”
2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source
“Over the past decade, that represented the gravest threat to international peace and security, creating hotspots for armed conflicts, extremism and terrorism. Examples are vivid in in all of our minds. A review of the archives of United Nations resolutions in general, and Security Council resolutions in particular, proves that we do not lack resolutions or mechanisms or necessary mandates to maintain international peace and security. Instead, we lack the political will by the Governments of some States that continue, along with their allies, to consider themselves as tutors of the international Organization and authorities superior to international law. They refuse to abide by the provisions of the Charter and refrain from implementing resolutions of international legitimacy.”
2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source
“My delegation is interested in discussing the role of the Security Council in maintaining international peace and security, on the basis of the principles, objectives and purposes of the Charter of the United nations, free from the practices of double standards, politicization of issues and the exacerbation of the phenomenon of investing in terrorism as a political weapon. That practice has been adopted by Governments of States inside the Security Council, in an attempt to achieve agendas that contradict the purposes of the Charter, to justify interference in the internal affairs of other States and violate their sovereignty and undermine their independence and territorial integrity.”
2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, allow me to welcome you, Mr. President, as you preside over this important meeting. I would also like to express my congratulations to you, Sir, on your country's assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I also take this opportunity to congratulate you and the permanent delegations of Ethiopia, Italy, Kazakhstan and Bolivia for assuming their responsibilities as non-permanent members of the Security Council.”
2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source
“10) There is a second reference to this in the report of the Secretary-General on UNDOF for the period from 1 March to 20 May 2016: "Crossing of the ceasefire line by civilians, primarily shepherds, from the Bravo side to the Alpha side was observed on an almost daily basis. On a number ofoccasions on 9, 10 and 28 March and 11 April, United Nations personnel at observation post 54 observed interaction at the Israeli technical fence between the Israel Defense Forces personnel and individuals from the Bravo side, some of whom were armed." (S/2016/520, para. 5)”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“According to the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force for the period from 21 May to 29 August, "Further south, United Nations personnel at observation post 54 on 1 and 29 June observed Israel Defense Forces vehicles moving from the Alpha side to the ceasefire line where Israel Defense Forces personnel disembarked the vehicles and unloaded items immediately east of the ceasefire line and thereafter returning to the Alpha side. Several individuals in trucks from the Bravo side subsequently arrived at the location where the items had been left and loaded the items on the trucks and drove offin an easterly direction." (S/2016/803, para.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“That terrorist organization, which is on the international terrorist organizations list and has paid visits to the Israeli Prime Minister and to those in hospital, has received all forms of support from Israel, within the framework of UNDOF. Israel allows the tanks of the terrorist groups, including Al-Nusrah, to target innocent people in Al-Qunaytirah, which is very close to the border in Jaulan. I have with me a photo of Mira Zidane, who was two-and-a-half years old when she was killed by Al-Nusrah missiles close to the border while she was at home. Israeli support of the terrorist group Al-Nusrah is very well known on that border region and documented in UNDOF reports.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“In that regard, I recall that the Israeli occupation of Arab territory is the reason for United Nations peace operations missions in the region, which is a burden on the United Nations budget and human resources. My delegation would like to express its deep concern about the security threats and attacks on peacekeepers. My delegation would like to stress that such attacks are the major challenges posed to peacekeeping operations. In that regard, I note the statement made by the representative of Israel and wish to offer some comments. He stated that troops kidnapped security personnel in the Golan, which proves that Israel is supporting terrorist groups. The terrorist group, Al-Nusrah Front, kidnapped and expelled UNDOF elements from the region.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): My country's delegation would like to pay tribute to the good relations that exist between Syria, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) and other peace operations. We would like to reiterate the Government's commitment to supporting the mission with all possible tools. As everyone knows, peacekeeping operations in any region should be for a brief transitional period. However, and unfortunately, in the Middle East that period is often measured in decades. That is because of Israel's continued occupation ofArab territory, posing a challenge to the resolutions of international legitimacy, and its ongoing aggressive policies that threaten the region's peace and security.”
2016-11-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7802 (2016) · source
“Today I would reiterate that the Syrian Government is prepared to effectively participate in any sincere effort aimed at reaching a political settlement that would be decided by Syrians alone, in which they would decide their future and make their choices through an intra-Syrian dialogue under Syrian leadership and without foreign intervention. Such a settlement should ensure Syria's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity and rid from it the scourge of terrorism. In that regard, let me stress the importance of the support provided by some States to armed terrorist groups in Syria. It is essential to control the borders, in particular the borders between Turkey and Syria, where terrorists are flowing daily in large numbers.”
2016-05-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7687 (2016) · source
“That is a manifestation of the threats made by the Al-Riyadh delegation, which has called for burning Syrian cities, thereby confounding the agreement, and for an escalation of military activities against the Syrian Government, thereby flouting the cessation of hostilities and all the efforts made to date to stem the bloodshed of innocent civilians and free them from the cycle of political pressures. What the Syrian Government has been doing in Aleppo city is merely fulfilling its obligation to protect its citizens from terrorism, a response to escalation, killing and destruction by terrorist groups in the city.”
2016-05-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7687 (2016) · source
“The attack coincided with the withdrawal of the so-called Al-Riyadh delegation from the latest round of the Geneva talks. Two things should therefore be clear to everyone. First, the Syrian Government has participated in the Geneva talks, in good faith and with full seriousness, in order to reach a political settlement to the crisis in Syria. For its part, the Al-Riyadh delegation came with the prior intention to abort the talks. That was made quite clear in its withdrawal from the latest round of talks. Secondly, the Syrian Government has abided by the cessation of hostilities agreement based on its desire to protect the blood of innocent Syrians, to restore security and stability and to combat terrorism. At the same time, the armed groups allied with the terrorists of Jabhat Al-Nusra have violated the agreement, particularly in Aleppo.”
2016-05-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7687 (2016) · source
“How can the opposition be called moderate when it kills infants in medical facilities and when it bombs civilians indiscriminately on a daily basis? How can that opposition be moderate when it rains down thousands of indiscriminate shells on Aleppo, when it has used light and heavy rockets, explosive shells, gas canisters and mortars to kill more than 118 civilians, wounding more than 206 people, including women, children and elderly just in the past 10 days? This is the very embodiment of terrorism. It cannot be called by any other name. All this escalation by armed , with the Al-Nusra Front and allied groups at the helm, was not coincidental. It came in the wake of the failure by those terrorist organizations to carry out a wide-ranging attack from many points against Aleppo city under orders from well-known States.”
2016-05-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7687 (2016) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on Egypt's accession to the presidency of the Security Council for this month. Yesterday, in Aleppo city alone, 28 civilians were killed, including infants, in addition to 80 persons who were wounded following the targeting by armed terrorist groups - or the "moderate opposition", as some in the Council like to call them - ofthe Al-Zubayr maternity hospital and many neighbourhoods in Aleppo. Regrettably, the number of fatalities is likely to increase, as there are many critically wounded people. At this point, I say to the representatives of States that they either support or cover up terrorist acts in Syria: Enough hypocrisy, enough politicization and enough playing with the blood of Syrians.”
2016-05-04 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7687 (2016) · source
“To avoid falling into that cheap trap, I will not use this statement on the situation in the occupied Arab territories to respond to the empty claims that some delegations have made about Syria. We have many ways to refute such claims by countries that support, harbour and arm terrorists, help to spread extremism and destruction in Syria and have sought actively to block any efforts to reach a peaceful settlement of the crisis.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“The United Nations, in particular the Security Council, must take measures aimed at ensuring full implementation of the relevant international resolutions on Israel's occupation of Arab land, in particular resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973) and 497 (1981), and must compel Israel to withdraw completely from the occupied Syrian Golan to the lines of4 June 1967. We note that every time Israel escalates its aggression against the Palestinian people or in the occupied Syrian Golan, some delegations escalate the misleading language oftheir statements about Syria, all in an attempt to distract attention from Israel's crimes and reduce international pressure on it.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“The settlements do not just constitute a war crime, they are also part ofa systematic Israeli policy to impose a fait accompli that will kill any chance of achieving peace in the region, entrench the occupation and destroy any hope of creating a contiguous and viable Palestinian State. Ironically, while some members of the Council say that the settlements are illegal and must end, not one step has been taken to stop the escalation of the settlement campaigns and no serious pressure has been brought to bear on Israel. Lastly, if we want to retain whatever credibility remains at the United Nations, prevent all chances ofwar and improve the opportunities for peace in our region, the Organization must stop dealing with the Israeli occupation of Arab lands in such a routine manner, with no serious effort to reach real solutions on the ground.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“In the first four months of this year, the number is three times greater than the number that was recorded in the same period last year. The situation is no less grave in the occupied Syrian Golan. Israel continues to act there as well in an attempt to entrench its settler policies and its occupation of the Golan through expanding and building new settlements, providing financial incentives to bring in settlers through such projects as "Come to the Golan" or the so-called Farms Project, and, recently, through a plan designed to set up 18 new communities in the occupied Syria Golan. The President of the so- called Golan Regional Council declared that it is now preparing to absorb 1,500 new Jewish families in the Golan settlements.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“The recent history is known to all, namely, the blind support for Israel by some influential members of the Security Council, which makes Israel believe that it stands above the law, that it will not be held to account. As a result, Israel insists on imposing occupation as a fait accompli, and has persisted in its settler colonialist and racist policies. We have noted a great increase in settler activity. The size of the area where Israeli settlements have been implanted in the past two decades has increased by more than 182 per cent. The number of settlers has increased by 189 per cent in the same period. According to the latest reports, there are projects to build settler units in the occupied West Bank.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“The United Nations and its States Members bear a historic, legal and moral obligation to end Israeli occupation of Arab lands and establish an independent Palestinian State with full sovereignty and with Al-Quds as its capital, and to see to the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III), of 11 December 1948. However, although many decades have gone by with all the documented accompanying Israeli violations of international law and human rights law, the Security Council has failed to live up to his responsibilities. We have witnessed no serious, genuine moves in that regard.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“We stress that Israel will be legally pursued and brought to account for all the violations perpetrated in the occupied Syrian Golan, whether it be settlements, racist policies, the pillaging of the Golan's natural resources, including oil and water, support for terrorist groups in the separation zone, or the arbitrary detention of Syrians under occupation, especially the prisoners Siddqui Al-Maqt, Bashira Mahmoud, Amal Abu Saleh and Iyad Al-Jawhry, in addition to all other violations of international law, the Geneva Conventions and United Nations resolutions.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Either the United Nations condemns or it supports what Israel is doing in the occupied Syrian Golan. Deluded is he who believes that the crisis obtaining in my country, Syria, will distract us from an inalienable right to recover the occupied Syrian Golan completely - that is, to the pre-1967 border. We stress again that such a right is open to neither negotiation nor bargaining. It has no statute of limitations, and any illegal Israeli practices will not change that right one iota. Proof of this fact is the position of our people in the occupied Syrian Golan, who stressed yesterday that the visit by Netanyahu and his occupation Government to the Golan would in no way change their minds and that, just as other colonizers have been ejected from Syria in the past, the Golan will be cleansed of the Israeli occupation sooner or later.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“As the Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms possible this aggressive behaviour which threatens to further inflame the region, we also call upon the United Nations and the Security Council to immediately intervene and condemn the holding of that meeting so as to ensure that such violations do not recur. We were most displeased that the briefing of the Secretary-General this morning did not include a clear condemnation of that step taken by Israel, although nobody doubts that it is illegal and counter to the Charter of the United Nations and United Nations resolutions on the occupied Syrian Golan. We expect the Secretariat to respect the purposes and principles of the United Nations. We expect the Secretariat to clearly and openly condemn such steps. Failing to do so merely sends an ambiguous message to Israel.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, Mr. President, I would like to congratulate you on your friendly country on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. Yesterday, the Israeli occupation Government held a meeting in the occupied Syrian Golan, which was a grave and very provocative step, one that reflects the fact that Israel is operating outside international law and is flouting the international community and the resolutions of the United Nations, namely and notably, resolution 497 (1981), which considers Israel's decision to impose its laws, authority and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan to be null and void and counter to international law.”
2016-04-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7673Resumption1 (2016) · source
“In conclusion, my delegation reiterates and underscores the role played by women, young people, civil society, religious leaders and the media in combating terrorism. We reaffirm that we do not expect of the United Nations today only a series of reports or statements or instruments. What we want is real resolve, the unfailing determination to combat terrorism, to prosecute those who support terrorism. We want resolve to spare humanity from that scourge and, thereby, to build international peace and security.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“We need to prosecute those States that have provided assistance to terrorists and those that have used chemical weapons on numerous occasions, as was the case in our country a few days ago. The occupied Palestinian territories are still suffering from Israeli occupation and State terrorism, perpetrated by the occupying Power against them. That form of terrorism, which started in the 1920s and 19305 with the Irgun and Haganah groups, has taken root, thanks to the assistance provided to consecutive Israeli Governments. We saw that, during the Syrian-Israeli crisis, Israel provided assistance to those fighting against us, and that such Israeli support crossed the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force line in the Golan Heights. The Security Council must bring that situation to an end.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“The resources of terrorism, including funding, should be cut off. We must also combat the illicit trafficking in Syrian oil and its derivatives and in the archaeological relics from our country. We must have an international alliance against Da'esh, which is destroying Syrian institutions and infrastructure. It is not our network. We need those infrastructures to rebuild our countries. We need to ensure that information and communication technology, the Internet, television and radio are not used to promote or incite violence or to recruit people for terrorist groups. We must also prevent terrorist groups from getting their hands on weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Extremist and destructive speech have nothing to do with religions or civilizations. In addition, we need to combat incitements to hatred and violence. We must combat discrimination and persecution based on religion, nationality, ethnicity, colour or any other factor that could serve as collective punishment for some sectors of society. Furthermore, efforts need to be coordinated in order to combat foreign terrorist fighters. Those foreign terrorist fighters number in the tens of thousands. According to United Nations reports, there appear to be more than 30,000 foreign terrorist fighters, from 115 countries, who have gone to Syria to kill our people and destroy our civilization, economic success and infrastructure. In addition, there need to be additional border controls. Networks of foreign terrorist fighters need to be dismantled.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“First, we urge the full and robust implementation and application of international instruments to counter terrorism that we have adopted over the years, including resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001), 1624 (2005), 2170 (2014), 2178 (2014), 2199 (2015) and 2253 (2015), as well as the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. In doing so, there must be no politicization, no manipulation of the situation and no double standards. We urge the Security Council not to ignore documents regarding the information that some countries have provided on terrorism. We urge all countries to bring an end to any violations of international law and the Charter of the United Nations. The failure of the Security Council in that matter seems to send a message implying the tolerance of terrorists. We must also combat hate speech.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“They claim that they are intervening in order to fight Da'esh in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter, but that is being done without any coordination with the Syrian Government. It is therefore a matter of manipulating international law. The only effective way to combat terrorism is by building an effective global alliance based on international instruments and with the involvement of the States affected, including Syria. Syria is the main stakeholder combating terrorism in the region. In that connection, the Syrian Arab Republic supports the ideas laid out by His Excellency President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation to combat terrorism. The Syrian Arab Republic again urges the United Nations and the Security Council to take the following measures.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Furthermore, we liberated numerous cities and villages from the hands of Da'esh, the al-Nusra Front and other terrorist groups that are operating within Syrian territory. My delegation reiterates once again that any counter-terrorist effort will fail if it is in contravention with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law and if it is not implemented through full coordination with other countries concerned. Any such effort will fail if other countries use terrorism as a tool for their foreign policy and if we ignore the actions of countries that support terrorism. In that regard, we reaffirm that some countries have tried to justify their military intervention in Syria.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Over the past five years, terrorism has continued to target my country. It has targeted our people, the State, our infrastructure, and our educational, cultural, economic and social institutions, as well as archeological treasures. Terrorism, barbarism and criminality have reached an unprecedented level in Syria. Moreover, other States have suffered abhorrent acts of terrorism characterized by their great ferocity, although the identity of the perpetrators has been different. Nevertheless, that heavy toll has been accompanied by several successes on the part of the Syrian Arab Army and its allies in the fight against terrorism. As examples, I will cite the liberation of the historic city of Palmyra and of Cariatan from members of Da'esh.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“International counter-terrorism instruments urge all Member States to take legislative and operational measures to combat the scourge of terrorism. Despite that fact, the Governments of some Member States, which are not unknown to those present in the Chamber, such as those of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, continue to supply all types of assistance to terrorism. They provide that assistance in the form of money, weapons, Tafkiri extremist ideology, recruits and foreign mercenaries. Furthermore, the Governments of other countries, some of which are members of the Security Council, continue to politicize counter-terrorist issues and deal with them by applying double standards, while the actions of Governments that support terrorism go on unnoticed, despite the fact that firm accountability is required for those actions.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): First of all, Sir, I would like to congratulate you on your presidency of the Security Council and thank you for having convened this very important meeting. My country's delegation has looked at the concept note that you circulated (S/2016/306, annex), and we thank you for that as well. We agree with China's convictions that terrorism is one of the most serious threats that the world is currently encountering. It is a common enemy of humankind as a whole. It therefore behooves the international community, represented by the United Nations and the Security Council, to play its role in coordinating and leading international cooperation to combat terrorism.”
2016-04-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7670Resumption1 (2016) · source
“For that reason and although there is a great deal that Syria could refute, I will not respond to the empty claims made by the delegations of States that support, harbour and arm terrorists, spread extremism and sabotage in Syria and do their utmost to undermine the attempts to reach a peaceful settlement to the crisis in Syria.”
2016-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7610 (2016) · source
“In conclusion, I condemn in the strongest terms any attempt to defend Israel, cover up its crimes or introduce new issues before the Security Council that are unrelated to the situation in the Middle East and the crux of that issue, which is putting an end to the Israeli occupation of all occupied Arab territories and granting Palestine its inalienable right to self- determination and the establishment of its own State on its homeland. Every time Israel commits an aggression against the Palestinian people, certain delegations make misleading and incendiary statements about Syria with a View to distracting attention from the crimes of Israel and to diminishing the international pressure on it.”
2016-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7610 (2016) · source
“During the current crisis in Syria, Israel has opened a new chapter in its book of violations through its unbridled support for terrorists in the disengagement zone in the Syrian Golan by providing them with firepower and by treating the injured in Israeli hospitals. Israel thereby violates the Agreement on Disengagement between Israeli and Syrian Forces of 1974 and exposes the safety and lives of the personnel of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force to danger.”
2016-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7610 (2016) · source
“Foremost among those prisoners is the Mandela of Syria, the freedom fighter Sedqi Al-Maqet, who - despite having already spent 27 years in Israeli prisons - was re-arrested by occupation forces last February for no crime other than working to show the links between the Israeli occupation forces and the armed terrorist groups and the Israeli occupation forces' unlimited support for those groups in the disengagement zone in the Syrian Golan. Like Sedqi Al-Maqet, Bashira Mahmoud is a prisoner accused of no crime other than being Syrian and rejecting Israeli citizenship, like all the other sons of the occupied Syrian Golan.”
2016-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7610 (2016) · source
“The United Nations must assume its responsibility to address that reality as seriously as it deserves to be dealt with and to work for the implementation of its relevant resolutions, in particular resolution 497 (1981). Israel should be obliged to put an end to its systematic and severe violations of human rights, settlement policy, confiscation of land, intimidation, suppression and oppression, racial discrimination and social isolation, as well as the plundering of the natural resources of the Golan, such as water, oil and natural gas, in addition to its policy of indiscriminate arrest of Syrian citizens. In that regard, Syria reiterates its urgent call on the Secretary-General and the Security Council to make the necessary humanitarian efforts to require Israel to immediately release all Syrian prisoners without conditions.”
2016-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7610 (2016) · source
“Some even insist on not addressing the current developments in Palestine in their real context and instead attempt to view the situation in terms of reciprocal violence that should be stopped. In so doing, they ignore the crux of the conflict, which is the occupation and its consequences, including settlement activity, forced displacement and other Israeli practices. The Security Council must put an end to the Israeli violations in order to protect the Palestinian people, in accordance with its duties under the Charter of the United Nations. In addition to the barbaric Israeli policy that I have just mentioned, Israel has occupied the Syrian Golan since 1967 and imposed a bitter reality on the Syrian citizens suffering under occupation, which, in accordance with international law, should be immediately ceased.”
2016-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7610 (2016) · source
“On the contrary, the situation has further deteriorated due to Israel's ongoing occupation and its hostile and repressive practices against the Palestinian people, as well as its settlement activities in violation of international humanitarian law, international law and human rights law. Those crimes constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. It has become clear that the impunity extended by certain members of the Security Council to Israel has encouraged it to continue its practices, aggressions and Violations. The situation is extremely alarming and threatens to explode and further undermine the fragile attempts to achieve peace in the region. Nevertheless, there are still those in the Council who deny the Palestinians even their most basic rights, including the right to establish their own State in their homeland.”
2016-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7610 (2016) · source
“Mr. Mounzer (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): The Israeli occupation of the Arab territories and its severe consequences have negatively affected the security and stability of the region. The situation is extremely dangerous, given the deliberate international failure to compel Israel to put an end to its occupation of Arab occupied territories and to its severe violations of international instruments. In spite of hundreds of United Nations resolutions calling on Israel to end its occupation of all occupied Arab territories within the borders of 4 June 1967, Israel, regrettably, has not responded or ended its occupation.”
2016-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7610 (2016) · source