Geneva ,(ST)-Syria condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ dishonoring commitments towards the Human Rights Council and its rejection to attend its meetings, as well as its indifference to submitting its report in the comprehensive periodical review in this respect.
Syria reiterated its commitment to chapter 7 of the Council’s charter related to the human rights condition in occupied Palestine and the Arab territories, including the Golan.
Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Dr. Faisal al-Hamwi stressed that Syria, backed by all countries who believe in human rights, will continue to pursue the occupation at the Council and other international forums to put an end to the violations of human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan and coerce Israel to implement the Council’s decisions.
In a statement delivered in the name of Syria during the Human Rights Council’s deliberations pertaining to chapter 7 of the Charter, Al-Hamwi urged all countries of the world to boycott Israeli manufactured goods in the Israeli settlements as they are considered by the international law as stolen merchandise from the Arab inhabitants in the occupied territories.
The Israeli occupation continues its human rights violations in occupied Golan, greatly depending on the US support and the reticence of other countries to these crimes, atrocities and malpractices perpetrated by Israel.
”Israel, according to the convictions of the US and some countries, has a special status that places it above the international law and the international human rights law, and beyond all responsibility and accountability,” al-Hamwi said.
Al-Hamwi expressed keenness to remind of the Syrian prisoners in Israeli jails and the severe conditions they are facing, the incessant settlement operations, Israeli attempts to alter the demographic diversity in Golan; and defacement of its cultural character and the appropriation of Golan wealth and water, also denying the Syrian Golan locals the visitation right to relatives in motherland Syria and their right to education and health.
O. Al-Mohammad