Syria Urges UN, Security Council to Condemn Turkish Involvement in Supporting Terrorist Groups Attacking Kasab
DAMASCUS, (ST)- Syria has urged the United Nations and the Security Council to condemn the Turkish aggression on Syria and to act immediately against the Turkish government’s support for the armed terrorist groups which attacked the town of Kasab starting from Lewa’ Iskenderun.
In two letters sent yesterday to UN Chief and President of the Security Council, the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry called for pressuring the Turkish government to stop its aggression on Syria and halt its support to systematic terrorism in the country.
The ministry said that over the past three years, the government of the Syrian Arab Republic has been keen to draw the attention of the international community to the Turkish government’s violations against the security and stability of Syria through direct involvement in recruiting, harboring and financing tens of thousands of takfiri terrorists and sending them to the country.
“As a result of the failure of the Turkish regime’s attempts to undermine Syria, the Turkish army, instructed by the Turkish Prime Minster launched a flagrant aggression on Syria using its tanks and artillery shells to cover the terrorists’ attacks on Kasab in northern Lattakia, thereby endangering the entire regional security,” the ministry clarified.
“The majority of the armed terrorist groups which attacked Kasab were proved to belong to the terrorist al-Qaeda affiliated-al-Nousra Front,” the ministry said, pointing out that the Turkish Army had provided these groups with direct logistic and military support.
The Foreign Ministry also sent two letters to the UN Secretary General and President of the Security Council urging them to enforce the UN and Security Council’s resolutions, particularly 242, 338 and 419 which reject the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan and which provide for Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories, including the Syrian Golan, to the June 4th 1967 borders.
The ministry affirmed Syria’s respect of the UN Disengagement Observers Forces’ mission and voiced its commitment to provide all requirements necessary to implement the mission’s peacekeeping task, stressing Syria’s keenness on the security of the UN forces working in the country.
“Israel keeps violating the disengagement agreement of 1974 and the resolutions of the UN and the Security Council by its repeated provocative attacks on Syrian areas and by direct and indirect support to the armed terrorist groups operating in the disengagement area,” the ministry said.
“The activities of the Syrian order-keeping forces in the disengagement area and its surroundings come within the framework of efforts to fight the terrorists who have committed crimes against civilians and peacekeepers in this area. They also come in response to calls by peoples of the area who suffer the terrorist acts of the armed groups,” the ministry added.
It called on the Security Council to adopt necessary procedures against the countries supporting and financing the terrorist groups’ activities in the disengagement area which endanger the life of Syrian citizens staying there, further destabilize the area and threaten UN mission forces acting there.
H. Mustafa