UNSC inaction encourages foreign-backed terrorist groups, says FM
DAMASCUS,(ST)_ Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that the armed terrorist group’s savage crime perpetrated today in Khan al-Asal in Aleppo comes as a result of the UN Security Council’s turning blind eye to terrorism supporters.
Today (Tuesday), terrorists launched from Kafer Dael area a rocket containing chemical products into Khan al-Asal area in Aleppo province, killing 25 citizens and injuring at least 110 others.
“Syria has told the UN Security Council on December, 8th, 2012 about its fears for using chemical weapons by armed terrorist groups to attribute the act to the Syrian government”, the ministry said in two identical latters addressed on Tuesday to the International Security Council’s Head and the UN Secretary General.
Syria warned against reaching banned-weapons to al-Qaeda-linked armed groups especially after these terrorist groups had hegemony over a private factory in north Aleppo including tons of poisoned chlorine.
Reports have revealed that men from al-Qaeda threatened to use chemical weapons, which they produce in a laboratory near the Turkish Ghazi Intab city, against the Syrian people to allege that the Syrian government did it.
Videotapes posted on You Tube explained the method of producing poison gases through chemical items, which al-Qaeda men got from a Turkish company.
The ministry said: “Syria repeatedly stressed that it would never use chemical weapons, if any, against its people”, adding that it would go ahead with hunting down terrorists and those who support them as it (Syria) is keen on safety and security of its people.
Syria appealed to the UNSC to put an end to the support being offered by terrorism-supporter states, particularly Turkey, Qatar, and some western states ,in order to prevent the terrorist groups from pressing ahead on committing dangerous crimes against the Syrian people.
FM denies firing rockets inside Lebanon
In a separate development, the ministry denied as ‘untrue’ reports of some Lebanese, Arab and international media that Syrian warplanes fired rockets inside Lebanon.
An official source at the ministry said that the reports circulated by the states that practice hostile policy towards Syria through arming and funding terrorist groups are ‘untrue’ and ‘groundless’.
“Foreign and Expatriates Ministry stresses that it respects Lebanon’s sovereignty and its keenness on security and stability of Lebanon,” the source added.
Condemnation of deadly blasts in Iraq
On the other hand, the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry condemned in the strongest term terrorists blast that rocked Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, today morning.
It was reported that as many as 56 Iraqis were killed and other 200 ones were injured in the blasts targeted restaurants, bus stations, and shops. The blast comes on the eve of the 10anniversary of the US-Britain invasion of Iraq.
Basma Qaddour