Jafaari : UN Should Shoulder Responsibility in Fighting Terrorism in Syria

NEW YORK,(ST)- “Most terrorist acts carried out in Syria bear the imprints  of the  Salafi  and Wahhabi jihadist ideology, affiliated to  al Qaeda,” said Syria ‘s permanent representative at the UN Bashar al-Jafaari, adding  that these acts  of killing  and mutilation are based on extremist and sectarian  jurisprudence  of religious authorities in certain Gulf states .

Al-Jafaari remarks were made in a statement during a public meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday dedicated to briefings of heads of subcommittees of the UN Security Council concerned with combating terrorism.

“Decisions concerning Syria stated in the report of the Human rights council is based on unilateral source information and formulated in a misleading and hateful Language unprecedented in the resolutions of the Human Rights Council against Syria, country and people,” he added.

He continued that  “these decisions  only condemn the Syrian government and did  not call for  the cessation of violence nor to sit at the  table of national dialogue to resolve the crisis, based on  the Geneva statement, the UN  six point plan and  al-Ibrahimi mission, rather  ignore the deterioration of the  economic and humanitarian conditions in Syria, resulting from  tough economic measures  imposed  by the European Union, the US and certain Arab countries against the  Syrian people .”

He  called on President Human Rights Council to demand  countries involved  in harboring, arming, and financing the  terrorist groups to stop  what they are doing against the Syrian people,  stressing that these countries should be held responsible  for terrifying the Syrian citizens  and inciting  them  to leave their homes ,  turning them into refugees and destabilizing the country.

T. Fateh