Jafaari: Syria is Integral Part of UN Humanitarian Response Plan

NEW YORK,(ST)_ Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN  , Dr. Bashar Jaafari  stressed that , the Syrian government is an integral part of the  so-called Humanitarian Response Plan it had  signed with the UN Office of humanitarian response coordination  ” OCHA ” and therefore no one can deny the role of the Syrian government as a full partner with the UN  in the implementation of the humanitarian response plan .

“We are proceeding  in this plan since more than two years  in  cooperation with the UN  and therefore talk about the lack of cooperation by the Syrian government is not true,” Jaafari said during a news conference yesterday at the United Nations Headquarters in New York .

Jaafari added : Talking about the Syrian government or the Syrian army besieging  certain  areas  is true , because there are  fighters armed terrorists in these areas  fighting the government , defy the  state and using civilians as human shields , explaining that because of security conditions relating to the safety of UN  humanitarian personnel , the UN humanitarian personnel   cannot always get into some hot spots  and that have happened with  aids convoys  from the  World food Program ( WFP ) , which  admitted that it  had failed eight times to  enter  Madameya area .

Dr. Jaafari continued that the Syrian government evacuated  ten days ago from Madameya area  three thousand families at the protection  of the Syrian army , who  opened  and renovated more than a thousand schools where thousands of displaced Syrian families  have been hosted.

Jaafari  added that , the United Nations knows  exactly negative effects of the unilateral procedures, wondering  how the UN Secretary General Assistant for Humanitarian Affairs Valeri  Amos  ignore a very important aspect in the culture of UN  in terms of political and humanitarian support that she is  supposed to know what’s going on in the  United Nations to that these are not  sanctions and that sanctions are imposed by the  UN  Security Council .

Jaafari indicated that the sanctions taken against Syria are but a punitive coercive action by some countries, are unacceptable  ,  pointing out that the  UN General Assembly will discuss after several  days  the U.S. embargo on Cuba , which is rejected by a majority of 187 countries each year ,  noting  that  these  are facts and truth in the United Nations  that every diplomat, even if a beginner, should take into account .

T. Fateh