VEINNA,(ST)_ In conclusion of its 42nd session held yesterday in Vienna, the UN Industrial Development Organization UNIDO board adopted several decisions that strengthen the Organization’s role in providing assistance to developing countries to achieve industrial development.
Syria’s permanent representative to the UN and international organizations in Vienna, Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh spoke during the meeting about the systematic destruction the Syrian industry has been suffering by barbaric terrorism, which targeted industrial cities of Aleppo , Damascus and other Syrian factories owned by the public and private sectors and looting and destruction acts against the Syrian industrial facilities, referring to acts of looting machinery and stocks , raw and produced materials of Aleppo factories and transported them illegally to be sold cheaply in Turkey.
He stressed that the suffering of the industrial sector in Syria is not limited to destruction and theft but also includes the destruction of power transmission lines in addition to illegal unilateral economic measures imposed by certain countries against Syria, which put obstacles before Syrian industrialists to import raw materials and export products, transportation, and insurance measures, stressing Syria ‘s urgent need for UNIDO Member States support to expand the scope of bilateral cooperation, especially in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Syrian industrial sectors affected by terrorist acts.
Ambassador Sabbagh reviewed the reality of cooperation between Syria and UNIDO, as framed in the industrial modernization and development program agreement in Syria , which set a comprehensive strategy to modernize the Syrian industry in all sectors.
Syria was elected to UNIDO Board for a four year- period, during UNIDO General Conference, which was held in Lima, Peru in December 2013.
T. Fateh