Ambassador Khaddour: Coercive measures hinder Syrian government’s efforts to improve development and industrial sectors
Syria’s permanent representative to the UN and other international organizations in Vienna, Ambassador Hassan Khaddour, said that the unilateral coercive economic measures being imposed on Syria have undermined its ability to improve the development and industrial sectors.
His remarks came during a statement he made before the 49th session of the Industrial Development Council in Vienna.
Ambassador Khaddour spoke about the catastrophic impacts left by the terrorist war on all sectors in Syria, particularly the industrial one, pointing out that the industrial areas were repeatedly targeted by armed terrorist groups that looted factories and destroyed some of them.
He stressed that the Syrian government has issued necessary legislations that meet the needs of society in line with the requirements of sustainable development, and it has exerted efforts to address the negative repercussions of these situations and reduce them.
The diplomat expressed the Syrian government’s aspiration to establish fair global partnerships based on respect for the principles of international law and the UN charter, in order to support the efforts of the institutions of the Syrian state to overcome all the challenges resulted from the years of the terrorist war and the new obstacles left by the Covid-19 pandemic and to achieve sustainable development goals far from politicization.
He concluded by saying that Syria attaches great importance to strong cooperation with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in the light of the circumstances that has faced Syria since 2011.
Basma Qaddour