Terrorist Acts Uncover Some UNSC Members Involvement in the Crisis in Syria, Says Foreign and Expatriate Ministry

DAMASCUS, (ST) – the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry on Tuesday sent two identical letters to the Chairman of the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General. “Ever since the commencement of the crisis in Syria, a number of permanent and non-permanent members of the UN Security Council have been giving misleading images of the forces that helped put Syria on the track of violence, killing and destruction with the aim   of bolstering their own policies as to  destroy Syria,  country and people.” said the letters.

” Over the past  few days, Al Qaeda and other armed criminals led- blind terrorism, hit many areas in Syria, killing and wounding hundreds of Syrian citizens, including women and children,” asserted the letters.

The Ministry made it clear that the terrorist acts perpetrated by armed terrorist groups which are supported by some permanent and non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, in addition to their open collusion, blatant funding and arming of terrorists including providing them with Stinger missiles uncover the truth of what is happening in Syria and the sides responsible for terrorism.

” France, Turkey and specifically Qatar, in addition to Libya which has become an incubator hatching terrorists, have fully  adopted  the acts of terrorists providing them with facilities in contradiction with the related UN Security Council’s resolutions on counter-terrorism,” said the letters, adding that this is accompanied by mobilizing  misleading media means to rally the global public opinion against Syria.

The Ministry pointed out that one in a series of terrorist bombings which took place in Syria recently was in al-Mazzeh 86 area in Damascus on November 5th, 2012, which claimed the lives of tens and injured tens, in addition to blowing up a civilian bus in al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, which killed five citizens including women and children and another attack on the same camp with Mortar shells which also claimed lives.

”Some media outlets uncovered one of the many war crimes committed by the so-called opposition in the town of Selkin, as a video was published showing terrorists murdering a number of unarmed Syrian Arab Army soldiers and civilians, torturing them then shooting them in cold blood,” noted the letters.

The Ministry said that other Syrian cities witnessed dozens of incidents which were reported to the Security Council officially, but it didn’t receive an objective response from the Council, adding that terrorist gangs are now besieging citizens and starving them, driving them to the edge of disaster and depriving them from the humanitarian aid which the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent have been attempting to deliver to the towns of Harem and Selkin for over two months.

”So we didn’t hear any response from the so-called  custodians of human rights ,defenders of international and humanitarian law!” added the Ministry.

”According to international law, countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Libya, Turkey, Britain, France and the United States which  are funding and arming terrorist groups led to perpetrate crimes in Syria, and that countries that claim falsely to combat terrorism continue to protect these crimes and cancel  the Security Council’s role in taking the simplest procedures to condemn them, noting that this was done by the United States, Germany and Britain recently,” clarified the letters.

The Ministry reiterated Syria’s demands that the Security Council play its role in condemning international terrorism and forcing some countries to halt arming, funding and harboring the terrorist groups.

Furthermore, the Ministry warns against the repercussions of violating the  Security Council’s  resolutions on counter-terrorism, international humanitarian laws, human rights laws, and threatens security  and peace in the region and the world as a whole.

“Instead of supporting terrorism, the said countries should encourage Syrian opposition sides to engage in national dialogue to resolve the crisis through negotiations among Syrians themselves.” concluded the letter.

M. Daoud