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Qassem Agha

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2016-06-02
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2018-04-16
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  1. “It also fails to describe the suffering of Syrian women subjected to the worst violations ofhuman rights and marginalization policies. The Israeli occupation authorities continue to prevent Syrian mothers in the occupied Golan from visiting their children and relatives in Syria. In addition, the Israeli occupation provides endless support to the terrorists of the Al-Nusra Front, which practices the worst forms of sexual violence in areas under its control. In conclusion, I would like to underscore that Syria remains committed to supporting international efforts to end all forms of sexual violence, punishing their perpetrators and instigators and breaking the silence and unjustified disregard.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  2. “Secondly, the report does not discuss the suffering of Syrian women and girls in refugee camps in neighbouring countries, and this is an essential matter. In that regard, allow us to express our deep concern and pain over the ongoing instances of rape of women and children and the phenomenon of human trafficking, sexual harassment and organ trafficking in Turkish camps, and forced marriage in Jordanian camps, and the sexual exploitation of hundreds of Syrian women by humanitarian workers from international organizations working in those camps. This is happening before the eyes of the entire world. Thirdly, the report completely ignores the suffering of Syrian women in the occupied Syrian Golan and the Palestinian occupied territories.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  3. “The Mechanism relies on information gathered from open sources as well as armed and terrorist groups, notably the so-called White Helmets, and does not verify the sources of that information or its credibility. Ms. Patten should have relied on her Office and coordinated with the Syrian Government to carrying out her own investigations in that regard, instead of relying on those fabricated reports. We find it strange that the Special Representative would go beyond her mandate on conflict-related sexual violence and speak in her very brief report on the participation of Syrian women in political life. She also promoted General Assembly resolution 71/248, which was not adopted by consensus. That constitutes in and of itself an egregious departure from her mandate.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  4. “In 2017 we established a family protection centre, in cooperation and coordination with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and the Syrian Commission for Family Affairs and Population, in order to enhance our response to the victims of sexual violence and provide them with care and psychological support. In that context, allow us to provide the following observations. First, the Government of my country completely rejects the allegations in the report that the Syrian Government practices sexual violence. We are surprised that the Special Representative would rely on fabricated reports prepared by the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Those Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  5. “We provided her with access to all facilities, including corrections and rehabilitation centres. We also gave her the opportunity to meet with many women prisoners who had committed the crimes of terrorism, theft and murder, in violation of Syrian law, so that she could fully carry out her mandate. We have read with interest the report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/250), introduced by Ms. Pramila Patten. We have noticed an improvement in the approach ofthe report to Syrian women suffering from sexual violence. The report refers to the fruitful cooperation between the Syrian Government and the Office of the Special Representative, especially with respect to enhancing shelter facilities and transportation services in rural areas.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  6. “Mr. Qassem Agha (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): The Syrian Government has worked hard to strengthen its cooperation and coordination with the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary- General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, so that the Special Representative can successfully carry out her noble work, correct factual information, and refute all allegations by media propaganda supporting the Saudi-Qatari terrorist aggression against my country. This aggression continues to cause Syrian bloodshed as a result of unilateral measures that run counter to the basic rules of international law and are adopted by some members of the Council and beyond against the Syrian Government for purely political purposes. The Syrian Government hosted the former Special Representative of the Secretary-General in 2015.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  7. “1, in turn, say to the representative of the Saudi regime that the day will inevitably come when his country will be described as a key State sponsor of terrorism, and the victims of terrorism in Syria and the world will confront him and everyone who has supported terrorism in Syria and the world and will hold them accountable, wherever they are.”

    2017-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8011Reprise1 (2017) · source

  8. “The representative of the Saudi regime pretended to have forgotten to mention that the terrorism prevailing throughout the world is nothing but the result of the adoption by the ruling regime in the Bani Saud kingdom of an extremist religious doctrine and its promotion worldwide by supporting religious centres on which it spends billions of dollars annually to spread Wahhabism, a doctrine based on the rejection of others, charging them with infidelity and condoning their killing. Since the onset ofthe terrorism war imposed on my country, Syria, we have warned against the fact that the terrorism affecting our country originates in certain States of the Gulf area, particularly Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Today, after more than six years of our analysis, some are now saying that Qatar is a sponsor of terrorism.”

    2017-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8011Reprise1 (2017) · source

  9. “Mr. Qassem Agha (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I will not take up too much of your time, Mr. President. As is his custom, the representative of the Saudi- Wahhabi-expiatory regime that sponsors terrorism worldwide has made a statement that is replete with falsehoods and distorts the truth in a desperate attempt to serve the interests of Israel by deviating from the core of this agenda item, namely, ending the Israeli occupation of Arab lands; to mislead the international community as to the truth of what is taking place in my country, Syria, regarding the achievements of the Syrian army and its allies in facing the war of terrorism that has been imposed on us for six years; and to cover up what the Bani Saud regime is doing by becoming allies with Israel and certain sheikhdoms and kingdoms ofthe Gulfregion, as well as Governments ofthat region and others, in supporting and financing armed groups.”

    2017-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8011Reprise1 (2017) · source

  10. “The information concerning children and the deplorable humanitarian situation in Jordan's refugee camps, particularly the story concerning the deaths of two children there, was reported by the media agencies of Jordan itself. That is also true of the refugee camps of Turkey, which are rife with maiming, killing and displacement. The meeting rose at 6.50 pm.”

    2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source

  11. “Mr. Qassem Agha (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): I apologize for prolonging this meeting. I know that everyone wants to rest, but I should like to respond to the remarks made by the representatives of the regimes of Jordan and Turkey. With regard to the references made to grave violations against Syrian children in the northern and southern parts of my country, and to the mobilization of Qatari, Jordanian and Saudi intelligence forces along Jordan's borders with Syria, these issues will be revealed to be true in due course. Whenever we address a particular issue, we first document it by gathering evidence in our strategic analysis centres. If the Jordanian regime is innocent of these accusations, as the Jordanian Ambassador claims, time will prove it so.”

    2016-08-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7753 (2016) · source

  12. “Mr. Qassem Agha (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): All statements contained in the report on violations of human rights, including those of women and children, in Turkish refugee camps are included in documents issued by the Turkish media. We did not draft those news items. This information has been propagated through social media and at the highest level ofthe Turkish media. We underline this request to Ms. Bangura. She knows very well what happens in refugee camps in Turkey and other neighbouring countries. It is written on the wall. [would ask her to cite those instances, too. The meeting rose at 4.25 pm.”

    2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source

  13. “The authorities concerned are ready to provide further assistance with names or incidents to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General so as to ensure the appropriate implementation of her noble mandate.”

    2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source

  14. “I could cite numerous other examples of human rights violations perpetrated by the immoral Israeli regime, which kills and detains children, refuses to allow some 50 Syrian women in the occupied Golan to visit their siblings and other relatives in Syria, and provides ongoing and open support to the terrorist Al-Nusra Front. To conclude, Syria is committed to supporting all international efforts to put an end to all forms of sexual violence to bring the perpetrators and inciters to justice, and to break the silence and unjustified disregard of many United Nations specialized entities. We stress our desire to continue to cooperate in a depoliticized context.”

    2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source

  15. “In our letters to the Security Council, we have appealed time and again for information on the outcome or status of those abducted women. Thirdly, the report completely disregards the plight of Syrian women in the occupied Syrian Golan and the gross practices against Palestinian women in occupied Arab lands, who are subjected to the most heinous violations of human rights, exclusionary policies and other forms of degrading treatment. Thousands of Palestinian women and girls have fallen victim to the atrocities committed by the wanton regime ofthe Jewish entity in Gaza and other occupied Palestinian territories. I am convinced that the members of the Council are well aware of the case of the Palestinian woman who gave birth to her child as she waited hours at a checkpoint of the Israeli occupation forces.”

    2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source

  16. “That was reported by the Dogan news agency as well, while the BirGiin newspaper has reported that approximately 30 children between the ages of8 and 12 were raped, as well as the forced recruitment of young people to join terrorist groups. Secondly, we reiterate our request that Ms. Bangura's team carry out investigations into the plight of the hundreds of women and girls who have been abducted by the terrorist group Jaish Al-Islam in Adra, in the rural part of Damascus, which has also committed heinous crimes in that town. Jaish Al-Islam has paraded those women handcuffed in iron cages in the town of Duma. That is in addition to other enslaved women taken from areas surrounding Latakia and others killed in cold blood in the Za'ara massacre, which armed takfiris carried out a few weeks ago outside Hama.”

    2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source

  17. “In that regard, we must express our deep concern at the ongoing rape of women and the phenomenon of sexual slavery in the camps. We also express our deep sorrow at the continuing trafficking in the human organs of the vulnerable - above all, as that is taking place before the eyes of the entire international community. Rapes of Syrian women and children, sexual harassment and trafficking in organs also take place in Turkish camps. In particular, according to Turkish news agencies, such crimes have taken place in the Nizip camp, Gaziantep governorate, which, ironically, the Turkish governorate considers a model camp.”

    2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source

  18. “Bangura and afforded her all the necessary facilities. It opened all doors to its corrections and rehabilitation facilities. It gave her opportunities to meet numerous prisoners who had committed killings, looting and other acts against Syrian law. All of that was out of the Government's desire to cooperate with the Special Representative. While we see some improvement in this report in the approach adopted by the Special Representative with regard to Syrian women victims of sexual violence, we would nevertheless like to make the following observations. First, the report does not look into or recount the plight of Syrian women and girls living in refugee camps in neighbouring countries - something that is crucial.”

    2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source

  19. “Mr. Qassem Agha (Syria) (spoke in Arabic): We have noted with interest the report (S/2016/361) of the Secretary-General presented by his Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Zainab Bangura. We appreciate Ms. Bangura's efforts in that regard, in particular following her visit to the Syrian Arab Republic last April at the invitation of the Syrian Government, which has worked to cooperate and coordinate with her Office and with the United Nations to ensure the success of her important task. We have also worked to set the facts straight and refute all allegations made via media propaganda, which is complicit in the shedding of Syrian blood - an approach adopted by some members of the Security Council for pure political objectives and to demonize the Syrian Government. The Government of Syria hosted Ms.”

    2016-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7704 (2016) · source