Syria renews its rejection of the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry of the Human Rights Council and demands its termination

Geneva (ST): Syria has renewed its rejection of the mandate of its investigation committee of the Human Rights Council and its false reports, which made this committee a platform to practice defamation and promote rejected accusations, demanding an end to this politicized mandate that is not accepted by the concerned state and whose work lacks credibility and objectivity.

Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations Office and International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Hussam El-Din Ala, said during a session of the Human Rights Council today: The report of the committee before the Council practices misleading in its handling of the situation in Syria and ignores the major challenges it faces as a result of the continuing terrorist war waged against it with the support of regional and international parties, the foreign occupation of part of their lands, and the repercussions of unilateral coercive measures imposed to create stressful living conditions that prevent Syrians from food, medicine, oil and energy resources, in addition to the theft of natural national resources and wealth with the complicity of the American occupation to deprive the Syrian people of their economic capabilities, and the Turkish occupation’s use of water as a weapon and a tool for extortion and political pressure.

Ambassador Ala indicated that in conjunction with the efforts to extend the committee, which operates with a semi-open mandate in light of non-consensual decisions promoted by the United Kingdom on behalf of a group of countries pursuing the illusions of their interventionist agendas, Syria renews its complete rejection of the report, which contributes to providing a cover for the abuses and violations of the states sponsoring the committee’s mandate. It also calls on the Council to end this politicized mandate, which is not accepted by the concerned state and whose work lacks credibility and objectivity.

Ambassador Ala made it clear that after years of organizing sessions falsely called interactive dialogue, promoting unilateral reports full of politicization and professional flaws, and imposing decisions that do not reflect the reality of the situation in Syria, it is time for the Human Rights Council to act responsibly away from the plays taking place in the council hall and to replace the confrontational approach that serves the narrow political interests of Western countries with constructive dialogue and cooperation approach to enable the Council to restore its role and credibility in protecting and promoting human rights for all, away from selectivity and double standards.

K.Q.