Ala Criticizes Politicized Report of International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Says it Lacks Credibility, Objectivity

GENEVA- Hussam Eddin Ala, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, has criticized the politicized and selective nature of the reports of the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria.

In a statement during the Human Rights Council meeting yesterday, Ala said the inquiry Commission’s new report lacks the credibility and objectivity which are presumed to characterize the work of the commission.

The report presented accusations provided in previous reports based on incomplete and unilateral information put forward by unknown sources, according to Ala.

He stressed that the commission deliberately ignored the testimonies of thousands of Syrians bout their suffering from the crimes of the terrorist organizations and gave no heed to the information presented by the Syrian government to the United Nations regarding the terrorists’ violations and crimes against the Syrians.

 “This unjustified behavior of the commission goes in harmony with the already set goal of its work which seeks accusing the Syrian government of committing human rights violations and aims at destabilizing Syria,” Ala said.

He clarified that “what confirms our suspicion about the credibility and real goals of the commission’s report is its selective anti-Syrian government approach and its policy of ignoring the crimes and massacres committed by the terrorist organizations, including al-Qaeda-affiliated “Jabhat al-Nusra” which the commission’s report classifies as “armed opposition groups” though it was classified by the UN Security Council as a terrorist group.”

The Syrian official pointed out that the commission’s report on the crimes of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) terrorist organization in Syria include confirmations about the foreign support for the terrorist groups operating in the country, “but the same report didn’t mention anything about the involvement of countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in supporting terrorism.

He noted that the report neglected Turkey’s responsibility for allowing the smuggling of stolen Syrian oil and selling it on the Turkish lands. He also criticized the report’s ignoring of the disastrous repercussions of the unjust unilateral economic sanctions on the Syrian people.

Ala concluded by saying that “our notes about the bias and non-objectivity of the commission’s work lead us to cling to our rejection of the commission’s reports which violate its authority and serve the agenda and interests of some countries known of their involvement in destabilizing Syria and shedding the Syrian blood.

Hamda Mustafa