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Sabbagh

lines on the record: 652
first: 2021-06-03
most recent: 2023-09-27
sittings or episodes: 62
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“I would also like to reaffirm Syria’s full and transparent cooperation with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and its fulfilment of all its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). In 2013, the Syrian Arab Republic made a strategic decision to accede to the CWC. We demonstrated our commitment to implementing it immediately, even before it entered into force in Syria, by providing detailed information about our chemical programme and then destroying the related stockpiles and production facilities in record time, which is attested to by the relevant reports of the OPCW. I would like to point to some aspects relating to the issue under discussion.”
2023-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9317 (2023) · source
“Mr. Sabbagh (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May, and I would also like to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Rep- resentative of the Russian Federation, for his successful leadership of the work of the Council in the past month. At the outset, I want to renew my country’s condemnation of the use of chemical weapons at any time, anywhere, by anyone and in any circumstances. We reiterate our rejection of the false accusations and lies made about my country in that regard by some States.”
2023-05-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9317 (2023) · source
“Syria affirms that it will continue to play its national role in searching for persons who went missing at the hands of terrorist groups or as the result of the crimes and attacks of American forces and their allies illegally present on Syrian territory. It will also continue its engagement in the Astana format, which includes a special focus on the issue of missing persons.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“Before I conclude my statement, I would like to refer to the continued attempts by some States to interfere in the internal affairs of Syria. The most recent attempt was an attempt made by a group of States seeking to impose a new, politicized mechanism. Those States are claiming that this mechanism would clarify the fate of missing persons in Syria. They are relying on lies propagated by the United States and their Western allies. My country has expressed its rejection of the establishment of any mechanism that does not serve the best interests of the Syrian people and without the consent of the Syrian Government.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“The talk, by those States, about a partial and temporary suspension is a propaganda attempt to mitigate the pressure and criticism directed at them. The complexities of the sanctions regimes do not help dispel the uncertainty of Member States, humanitarian actors, donors or financial institutions that may wish to engage in the process of providing assistance to Syria. Therefore, these exceptions are not tools that are adequate or sufficient to respond to humanitarian needs, especially in emergency situations and natural disasters, which require a more comprehensive response. Syria demands that the United States of America and the European Union respect the Charter of the United Nations, the principles of international law and human rights instruments and immediately and unconditionally lift their illegal coercive measures imposed on it.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“Therefore, it is important to intensify efforts and to take real initiatives to expand the scope of humanitarian activities, including by doubling the size of early-recovery projects. Yesterday, the Syrian Government adopted a comprehensive plan to deal with the repercussions of the earthquake, aiming at unifying the efforts of State institutions, civil society actors and international organizations to rehabilitate the affected areas. The national work plan is human-centred and seeks to ensure the conditions for a life of dignity. Illegal unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States and the European Union on Syria continue to represent a growing challenge to improving the humanitarian situation and represent a tool of collective punishment against the Syrian people.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“The Syrian Arab Republic has made exceptional efforts to deal with the repercussions of the earthquake, including the opening of two additional border crossings, Bab Al-Salam and Al-Rai, by a sovereign decision, for a period of three months to ensure the flow and delivery of urgent humanitarian assistance to our people in the north-west of Syria. It has provided blanket approvals for the delivery of assistance from within, in addition to granting visas at a record speed to allow United Nations staff and humanitarian workers to enter to perform the tasks assigned to them. However, the humanitarian response to the repercussions of the earthquake is much more complex and is broader than simply meeting the urgent needs of those affected.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“The efforts made by Syria to deliver cross-line humanitarian assistance to all those in need, including our people in the north-west, especially following the earthquake, have faced a major challenge, as terrorist organizations present in that region refused the passage of assistance convoys. In addition, they attacked safe areas and Syrian forces present in the de-escalation zone. What is unfortunate is the suspicious silence and paralysis shown by the Security Council in the face of all these practices.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“Syria calls on the Security Council to condemn all forms of violations of the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic and interference in its internal affairs, including repeated attempts to infiltrate Syrian territory by delegations of Western States, some of which are members of the Security Council. The most recent such attempt was the illegal infiltration by a number of French senators, on 31 March 2023, of the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic in the north-eastern region of the country. It is an example that reflects the colonial mentality of Europe generally and of France specifically. It is a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and a clear violation of relevant Security Council resolutions.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“Any pretexts used by the United States Administration in that regard are a failed attempt to justify its flagrant violation of the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Syria, the Charter of the United Nations, the rules of international law and relevant Security Council resolutions. My country renews its call on the United States to stop its hostile approach against Syria, to end its illegal military presence on Syrian territory, to end its sponsorship of terrorist entities and separatist groups and to stop its systematic looting of natural resources and national wealth.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“The Syrian Arab Republic once again warns Israel and its sponsors of the dangers of these reckless policies, which are pushing the region towards a large-scale escalation and another phase of insecurity and instability. It calls on the Security Council to assume its responsibilities in condemning those violations, working to stop them, ensuring that they are not repeated and holding Israel accountable for them. In a related context, the forces of the United States of America, illegally present on Syrian territory, launched an attack on some areas in Deir ez-Zor governorate, which led to several victims and material damage. This is a true embodiment of the crime of aggression, from which various other crimes and violations stem — committed by those forces against Syria and its people.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“Israel has continued its attacks on Syrian territories, which have affected residential buildings, civilian airports and infrastructure in and around Damascus, the southern region, Aleppo, Homs and its countryside. This has led to innocent civilian deaths, injuries and significant material damage. And in a clear coincidence, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) terrorist organization has continued to repeatedly target unarmed civilians. It launched an attack on the people in the eastern countryside of Hama while they were collecting the truffle crop, during which 26 citizens were killed. Those simultaneous and coordinated attacks reveal similarities between ISIS terrorism and Israeli terrorism and prove that they are two sides of the same coin, aiming — beyond a doubt — to prolong the Syrian crisis and deplete Syria’s resources.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“To that end, the President of the Republic made important visits to the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates and other Syrian officials also made work visits to Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Tunisia, during which they discussed unifying Arab efforts made to reach a political solution to the crises facing our peoples in a manner that preserves their unity and territorial integrity and supports their State institutions. During those visits, the importance of enhancing security and stability, combating terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and enhancing cooperation in countering drug smuggling and trafficking was also emphasized.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“Moreover, measures of economic terrorism and collective punishment continue to be imposed on the Syrian people as a result of illegal unilateral measures that prevent the improvement of the humanitarian situation and the fulfilment of the humanitarian needs of the Syrian people. In the spirit of Syria’s commitment to forging brotherly relations with Arab countries, Syria is working to strengthen its relations with them. This serves an Arab and regional interest and plays a necessary role in supporting and helping the Syrian people to overcome the current challenges, including restoring stability throughout Syria and liberating all of its lands. Syria has sought to engage in a process that would lead to joint Arab action. It has sought to strengthen its bilateral relations with brotherly Arab States.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“Mr. Sabbagh (Syria) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me to thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Ms. Doughten for their briefings. At a time when the Syrian people are struggling to face the difficult and complex humanitarian situation and the repercussions of the devastating earthquake that hit Syria on 6 February, the Israeli occupation forces have intensified their attacks on the sovereignty of Syrian territories over the past weeks and days. American forces illegally present in the north-east of the country have persisted in their attacks on Syrian sovereignty and the looting of Syrian resources and wealth. In addition, various terrorist groups continue to attack civilians, thus preventing humanitarian assistance from reaching our people in the affected areas in the north-west of Syria.”
2023-04-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9313 (2023) · source
“That also shows that delegation’s adherence to unrealistic policies that have been overtaken by developments and events, at a time when Syria needs concerted international efforts to help it overcome the negative repercussions resulting from the erroneous policies pursued by the countries of the European Union for more than 10 years, especially by mercilessly imposing, along with the United States of America, unilateral, immoral and inhumane sanctions on the Syrian people.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“We also call on the Security Council to abandon its silence and to urgently shoulder its responsibilities to end the Israeli occupation of Arab territories and to implement relevant United Nations resolutions, especially resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), as well as resolution 497 (1981), which considers Israel’s decision to annex the Golan Heights null and void and with no legal effect. Before concluding, I would like to point out that the European Union delegation usually uses the meeting on the situation in the Middle East to raise issues related to the situation in Syria that are totally unrelated to the topic of the meeting, in an open attempt to divert attention from discussing the crimes committed by Israel in the region.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The fact that Israel launched that terrorist aggression in conjunction with the visits of United Nations officials to Syria to follow up efforts to alleviate the country’s difficult humanitarian conditions after years of war and the devastating earthquake is not strange for a terrorist entity whose suspicious origin coincided with the assassinations of United Nations officials and peace mediators. The Syrian Arab Republic once again warns Israel and its sponsors of the dangers of those aggressive policies, which push the region towards broad escalation and a new phase of insecurity and instability.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The Israeli occupation forces launched consecutive attacks in March and April, targeting areas in and around Damascus and Homs and the surrounding countryside, which resulted in the martyrdom of innocent civilians, injuries and material damage. On 22 March, Israel once again targeted Aleppo International Airport, which rendered it inoperable, thereby interrupting United Nations air transport services and the delivery of humanitarian aid to those affected by the earthquake that hit Syria on 6 February, as that airport was a gateway for the delivery of humanitarian aid.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Moreover, that is reflected in Israel’s systematic expansionist settlement policy in the occupied Golan, which is aimed at perpetuating the occupation and increasing the number of settlers, thereby imposing demographic change and stealing the natural resources, confiscating lands and establishing projects on those lands that have catastrophic effects on the lives of Syrians in the Golan. In addition, the Israeli occupation forces use the occupied Syrian Golan as a platform to launch repeated attacks on the sovereignty of Syrian land by bombing and carrying out assassinations of innocent civilians and targeting Syrian infrastructure.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The crimes perpetrated by the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories are inseparable from the practices of that entity in the occupied Syrian Arab Golan since 1967, which is evident in the continuation by Israel, the occupying Power, of aggressive policies against the Syrian people of the Golan and the most heinous violations of international law and international humanitarian law, including the arrest, killing and displacement of Syrians, in the Syrian Golan for more than five decades.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The Syrian Arab Republic stresses that the continuation of the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and its support to Palestinian refugees is indispensable, especially in the light of the continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. We stress the importance of UNRWA continuing to fulfil its mandate and adequately and sustainably securing the necessary funding for its budget from the United Nations and donor countries.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“They treat the occupying Power and the defenceless people who are subject to that occupation equally, the defenceless people who are deprived of their most basic rights, such as the right to live. Both sides are then required to exercise maximum restraint. Israel, the occupying Power, was and still is the only reason for the emergence and the continuation of the plight and tragedy of the Palestinian people, as it has expelled Palestinians from their homes through killings, massacres, intimidation, forced displacement, the confiscation of property and home demolitions and turned them into refugees for decades. The responsibility for the Palestinian refugees is an international political, legal and moral responsibility before it is a mere humanitarian responsibility.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“It has become clear that the recurrent political crises within Israel are compelling its failed leaders to export their internal crisis by launching attacks against the defenceless Palestinian people and by committing acts of aggression against Syria and its people, as well as the people of southern Lebanon. That attests to Israel’s adoption of the law of force and the law of jungle, which have been the hallmark of its behaviour since 1948. It is unfortunate that the question of Palestine and its people who have been suffering from the most heinous crimes on a daily basis for decades has become a routine matter without any tangible effort undertaken to compel the occupying Power to stop its multifaceted aggression and to hold it accountable for its actions. It is even more unfortunate that some treat the killer and the victim equally.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“We deplore the continued international silence regarding the crimes of the Israeli occupation that aim to ignite the region and lead it to higher levels of tension and instability. Syria holds the Israeli occupying authorities and their supporting countries fully responsible for the escalation and the repercussions thereof. We call upon the United Nations to condemn and put an end to those violations and ensure that they are not repeated. Moreover, we call for Israel, the occupying Power, to be compelled to implement the resolutions of international legitimacy related to the Palestinian question and to enable the Palestinian people to enjoy their legitimate and inalienable national rights.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“A few days ago, the holy month of Ramadan came to an end. That holy month witnesses every year a new criminal escalation on the part of Israel, as well as aggressive practices committed against the Palestinian people, which put all humankind to shame. Unfortunately, the Security Council is a witness to those crimes against humanity and does not lift a finger to stop them. Perhaps it is not allowed to do so, given the umbrella of immunity and unlimited support for Israel provided by some permanent members of the Security Council, which are known by all. The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the attacks of the Israeli occupation forces against worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the desecration by Israel of the Noble Sanctuary.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Mr. Sabbagh (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic entrusted me with delivering this statement on his behalf, as he was unable to attend this important meeting owing to the difficulty of travel resulting from the unilateral coercive measures imposed on Syria. At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Sergey Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and his delegation for convening this important meeting on the situation in the Middle East. The Russian Federation has always stood in solidarity with peoples suffering from colonization and injustice. The delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Azerbaijan on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.”
2023-04-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9309Resumption1 (2023) · source
“In conclusion, I would like to reiterate that today we need more than ever to review the methods of work of the United Nations system and guarantee the promotion of true multilateralism based on the Charter, by upholding its purposes and principles and achieving the objectives that the founding fathers of the United Nations aspired to, and by upholding and promoting the efficiency and efficacy of its work in order to uphold its credibility at the international level.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Its national resources and wealth were pillaged by foreign forces illegally present in its territories, not to mention the worsening humanitarian suffering of its people due to the unilateral compulsory measures imposed by the United States and the European Union, which are totally illegal, inhumane and immoral and have adversely affected all aspects of daily life and given rise to significant numbers of displaced persons and refugees, thereby constituting grave violations of the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“That will also require actively addressing any attempts to manipulate the provisions of the Charter and misinterpret them to justify interfering in the internal affairs of Member States or to fuel bloody conflicts and stoke chaos and terrorism, thereby increasing peoples’ suffering and depriving them of opportunities for development. During the past decade, my country, Syria, has been a victim of the loss of genuine multilateralism and the exploitation by a number of countries of the United Nations as a platform to serve their hostile and interfering policies in intervening in the affairs of Syria. Syria was left alone to face the threats of the most intractable and cruel terrorist groups.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“That was clear in its spectacular failure to prevent the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003; its inability to put an end to the tragedy of the Palestinian people, who have languished under the yoke of the Israeli occupation for decades; its inability to address the increasing terrorist threats and the outbreaks of pandemics and diseases; and the worsening humanitarian suffering due to poverty, hunger, thirst and lack of health care. Preserving genuine multilateralism will require reforming the current structures, above all expanding the Security Council to be truly representative of the new reality in international relations and reforming financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in order to address the interests of developing countries, especially the countries of the South.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“The Security Council has also witnessed severe political polarization, especially on the part of a number of its permanent members, in the form of reframing from addressing important issues and priorities in an endeavour to divert the Security Council away from its primary mandate, namely, the maintenance of international peace and security, in order to serve their own narrow political interests and destructive agendas. The multilateral system established by the United Nations has faced many challenges in addressing a number of political, economic and social crises during the past two decades.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“The development and improvement of the work of the principal organs of the United Nations require more objectivity and informed planning in order to manage the discussions they conduct and address the items on their agenda. In recent years, the General Assembly has witnessed a remarkable increase in the number of items on its agenda, and there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of non-consensual resolutions adopted, while in many cases they are required to be put to a vote despite the substantial differences prevailing with regard to their substance and procedural content.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“The fundamental approach to promoting the work of the United Nations is based on true pluralism by enhancing the values of peace, resolving conflicts peacefully and establishing sovereign equality among all Member States, as well as by enhancing development, economic cooperation and shared benefits. To achieve that objective, all Member States should abide by the founding principles of the United Nations system as reflected in its Charter, in addition to the provisions of international law and the established norms of international relations. Meanwhile, we must avoid using new terminology and concepts, such as the so- called “rules-based international system”, to evade the established provisions and principles of international law. Such terminology and concepts have never gained consensus among Member States.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Any disruption or competition among those organs should also be avoided, whether at the decision-making level or at the level of the management of international crises and conflicts. The mechanisms and working methods of the United Nations have significantly affected the development of friendly relations among Member States, which have also been influenced by the increasing number of challenges imposed by the changing reality of international relations. That calls for continuous and comprehensive reviews of those mechanisms and working methods in terms of their substance and procedures.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“The United Nations has directly contributed to the peaceful settlement of conflicts, decolonization, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, promoting efforts for the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and counter-terrorism. The Charter of the United Nations is clearly organized and includes specific benchmarks with regard to the work of its principal organs, including the General Assembly, the Security Council and the other organs established by the Charter. The Charter also includes a number of provisions that regulate the mechanisms and mandates of all the organs that it creates. There is therefore a need for those organs, in discharging their mandates and activities, to abide by those provisions without departing from their mandates or encroaching on those of other organs.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Mr. Sabbagh (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to welcome Mr. Sergey Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, who is presiding over this meeting. I also thank the Russian Federation for holding this important meeting, which is timely and substantive. My delegation aligns itself with the statements to be delivered by the representative of Azerbaijan, on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, and by the representative of Venezuela, on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations. Since its inception nearly 80 years ago, the United Nations system has been the principal face of multilateralism at the international level.”
2023-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9308 (2023) · source
“Overcoming the repercussions of the Syrian crisis requires that Member States have sincere political will to help Syria, support the efforts of the Syrian State and its national institutions to achieve early recovery and economic revival and to allow Syrians to build a better future for their homeland.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“To question that decision and allege that humanitarian aid is being diverted from its intended recipients is bad behaviour to undermine the efforts of the Syrian Government. In conclusion, the Syrian Arab Republic appeals to all countries to objectively consider all expressed concerns and calls for certain countries to abandon their hostile policies, refrain from distorting the facts about the Syrian State and stop fabricating accusations against it. It also urges donors to show solidarity with the Syrian people in those difficult circumstances and end their suffering by mobilizing financial pledges in line with the scope and severity of the damage.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“As for the measures of promoting exemptions for humanitarian purposes, they are refuted by facts that prove that they are ineffective and mere propaganda. The Syrian Arab Republic is committed to providing facilities to the United Nations and international organizations with the aim of delivering support and relief aid to all affected areas by various means, including through the two additional border crossings that it decided to open by a sovereign decision to facilitate the humanitarian response in affected areas under the control of terrorist organizations, which deserves respect and support. The crossing of nearly 1,000 trucks carrying aid from the United Nations to north-west Syria is the best proof of that.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“Preparations for the Brussels donor conference to support the victims of the earthquake in Syria and Türkiye were recently made without any coordination with the Syrian Government, which represents a country that was affected by the disaster, and neither was it even invited to participate in the conference. Indeed, the organizers of the conference also excluded the participation of the most prominent national humanitarian actors from Syrian non-governmental organizations. The politicization of humanitarian and development work in Syria is also evident in the insistence of the United States and the European Union to continue imposing their illegal and inhumane coercive measures on the Syrian people. Those measures have prevented the provision of items needed to rescue earthquake victims and support those affected by the earthquake.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“It strives to locate them, including through cooperation within the framework of the Astana format to reveal the fate of missing persons held by terrorist groups. Syrian law- enforcement institutions also carry out independent investigations into each incident of missing persons where those missing persons have been registered by a complaint or an official report, especially in north- east Syria, which is occupied by the United States of America and its terrorist and separatist allies. We have witnessed another aspect of politicizing humanitarian issues while addressing the repercussions of the earthquake that struck Syria and Türkiye on 6 February.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“Any credible process to reveal the fate of missing persons in Syria requires knowing the fate of the thousands who were killed as a result of the military air strikes carried out by the so-called international coalition led by the United States of America during its aggression on Syrian cities. It also requires knowing the fate of those who went missing at the hands of such Security Council-designated terrorist groups such as the Da’esh organization, Jabhat Al-Nusra/Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham and other terrorist organizations, over more than 10 years. In accordance with the Syrian Constitution and relevant legislation, the Syrian Government is committed to applying the procedures to search for missing persons, whether at the hands of terrorist organizations or foreign occupation forces.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“Syria has always called for separating issues of human rights promotion and protection from any political considerations, but some still insist on politicizing them. In that regard, I would like to refer to the campaign organized within the United Nations and led, unfortunately, by the same Western countries that follow a hostile approach to raising the issue of missing persons in the Syrian Arab Republic in an attempt to launch another politicized international mechanism whose sole aim is to distort facts and increase pressure on a country that has been fighting terrorism on behalf of all the peoples of the world.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“How can we believe the claims of the United States and its allies that they are genuinely contributing to counter-terrorism efforts and implementing Security Council counter-terrorism resolutions to save the world from the scourge of terrorism, while the United States supports a base for terrorists in Al-Tanf, in south- east Syria? Together with its allies, the United States promotes a terrorist group such as the White Helmets, which is an arm of the terrorist Al-Nusra Front/Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, as a humanitarian organization. How can we explain their refusal to take back the terrorist fighters and their families who hold their citizenship, while shirking their responsibility to prosecute and hold those terrorist fighters accountable and rehabilitate and reintegrate their families into their societies?”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“How can it be accepted that successive United States Administrations have been providing an umbrella of protection for Israel, helping it to evade punishment for its terrorist crimes, and insisting on preventing the Council from discharging its responsibilities to stop such crimes and ensure accountability for them? How is it possible to justify the visit by the United States Chief of Staff on 4 March to a military base of United States forces present illegally in north-east Syria in a covert manner, and not condemn it as a violation of Syria’s sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity?”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“Those countries deplore the situation of Syrian refugees and displaced persons but ignore the fact that they directly worked to undermine the state of security and stability in which the Syrian people were living, which caused many to leave their areas of residence. We see those countries expressing their concern over illegal drug trafficking before the Council while they themselves created an environment conducive to terrorist and criminal organizations carrying out cross- border activities, which brought them sizable financial returns that helped to finance their criminal activities.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“The policy of double standards that governs the Western mentality has distorted the facts in the Council, claiming to support Syria’s sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity while never intervening to stop the repeated and systematic Israeli acts of aggression against Syrian territory, the most recent of which was the Israeli aggression that targeted Aleppo International Airport at dawn yesterday, Wednesday, 22 March. That act of aggression caused the airport to be out of service for the second time during this month, in a double crime against a civilian facility that since the earthquake has been used to support the delivery of humanitarian aid.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“It is reprehensible that those three countries, along with Germany, made a joint statement on 16 March (see S/PV.9285), twisting facts and manipulating events, consistent with the campaigns to mislead public opinion that those countries have been waging against the Syrian State since 2011 and until today. In their statement, those countries sought to evade their involvement in the bloodshed of Syrians, whether through direct aggression or through their tools in the form of various terrorist organizations. They tried to exonerate themselves from the severe human suffering of the Syrian people as a result of the collective punishment policies through the blockade and unilateral sanctions that they impose, not to mention their persistent disregard in depriving Syrians of their national wealth and resources.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“Mr. Sabbagh (Syrian Arab Republic) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to thank Mr. Pedersen and Mr. Talahma for their briefings. Over the past 12 years, the Syrian Arab Republic has sent hundreds of identical letters to the Security Council and the Secretary-General. It has briefed the Council countless times regarding the aggression against its sovereignty and the violations against its unity and territorial integrity, as well as the blatant interference in its internal affairs. However, those issues have not been addressed with the necessary seriousness and responsibility owing to the destructive policies pursued by three permanent members of the Security Council, namely, the United States, the United Kingdom and France.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source