Al-Jaafari: U.N. politicized resolutions on Syria prolonged crisis and reassured terrorists

NEW YORK, (ST)_Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations has said the politicized and unfair resolutions adopted by the U.N. Security Council against the Syrian government have increased the Syrian people’s suffering and sent a reassuring message to terrorists that they are protected and they can go ahead with their crimes.

Bashar al-Jaafari clarified in a speech before the UN on human rights that the UN resolutions have hindered the possibility of putting an end to the crisis in Syria as they turned blind eye to the reasons of the spread of terrorism and violation of human rights in it.

“Those resolutions have harmed the international efforts exerted to have a human rights council that deals with all violations around the world without discrimination,” he added.

The diplomat affirmed that after more than three years of terror attack on Syria, all states realized the risk of terror threat and its spread in the world.  

He indicated that the recent Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria acknowledged that there is terrorism in Syria after the power states in the International organization allowed the commission to say so for their interests.

“The commission’s report on “Rule of Terror: Living under ISIS in Syria” has not frankly called on the Qatari and Saudi regimes to stop their support for terrorists. It [the report] also has not appealed to the Turkish regime to stop the flow of terrorists via Syrian-Turkish border, nor did it demand the U.S. and France and other western countries to abide by their obligations under UN resolutions 2170 and 2178.”

Basma Qaddour