Syria’s efforts to achieve socio-economic stability impeded by Western countries aggressive practices: Sabbagh
Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bassam Sabbagh has stressed that western countries and their allies persist in their aggressive practices towards Syria and in their violation of the principles of the international law and the UN Charter, thus impeding the Syrian government’s efforts to achieve security as well as economic and social stability and to improve the living conditions of the Syrians countrywide.
During a Security Council session on the humanitarian situation in Syria on Friday, Sabbagh reiterated the need to end the illegal foreign military presence in the country, including the US and Turkish occupation, and to immediately lift the unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people.
Sabbagh explained that the US administration’s recent decision to license economic activities and investments in certain areas in the northeast and northwest of Syria constitutes a direct support for the separatist militias and terrorist groups controlling these areas and a blatant violation of Syria’s sovereignty, national unity and territorial integrity and a grave violation of the relevant Security Council resolutions. They also aim at imposing an illegal situation and a racist policy against the Syrian citizens based on supporting those who are loyal to them and punishing those who are loyal to the Syrian state, he said.
He pointed out that holding a repeated version of so-called “Brussels Conference” this month without inviting Syria and Russia and without UN sponsorship means that this conference has been turned into a gathering for western countries which are well known of politicizing humanitarian issues and violating the internationally recognized principles of humanitarian action.
Such conferences aim at covering up the western countries’ suffocating siege and illegal punitive measures which prevent the Syrian people from securing their basic needs, he said, pointing out that linking humanitarian and development action to politicized conditions hinder carrying out reconstruction and early recovery projects that help create conditions for safe and voluntary return of the refugees and the displaced.
These aggressive practices have been accompanied by repeated Israeli acts of military aggression against Syrian territories and by terrorist attacks on Syrian army units, said Sabbagh, pointing out that these attacks confirm the continuous coordination between the occupation authorities and their terrorist tools in the country.
He clarified that Syria has informed the UN Chief and President of the Security Council about these attacks and called on them to assume their responsibilities towards putting an end to the repeated Israeli attacks that pose a serious threat to international and regional peace and security.
Sabbagh went on to say that this week, Syria facilitated the passage of a fourth UN convoy of 14 trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Aleppo to the northwest of Syria and it is looking forward to consolidating aid deliveries from inside the country when the obstacles placed by the Turkish regime and its terrorist tools are eliminated.
He reaffirmed Syria’s rejection of the so-called “cross-border aid deliveries mechanism” as it violates Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and contains many grave shortcomings.
Sabbagh also said that Syria calls for taking into consideration the steps it has objectively taken in the humanitarian file and called on some countries to reconsider their wrong policies and adopt positive and constructive approaches through responsible coordination with Syria away from any political considerations that don’t serve the Syrians’ security and interests.
He reiterated that the Turkish regime’s attempt to establish a safe zone in the north of Syria comes within the framework of the anti-Syria projects and aims at achieving a divisive colonialist goal that helps in carrying out the terrorists’ schemes against the Syrian people.
Hamda Mustafa