Syria’s Commitment to Implementing Rules of International Humanitarian Law Reiterated

DAMASCUS, (ST)- Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Faisal al-Mikdad, who is also the head of the Syrian National Committee for International Humanitarian Law (IHL) has reaffirmed Syria’s full commitment to implementing the principles and rules of IHL.

During the opening ceremony of the training workshop for the army and armed forces on IHL, al-Mikdad said Syria, with all its national institutions and society categories, has always promoted the principles and rules of the international humanitarian law. He expressed Syria’s pride in the full commitment of its army and allied forces in International Humanitarian Law in all their battles against terrorism.

 The workshop was organized by the Syrian National Committee for Humanitarian International Law in cooperation with the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) and the Training Commission at the Ministry of Defense.

“We in Syria are implementing international humanitarian law’s rules on ground while the so-called international coalition, which claims respecting the International Law, sends us killing, destruction and sorties that raid civilians, kill women and children and destroy cities as what happened in Raqqa,” al-Mikdad told reporters on the sidelines of the workshop.

Valeris Gamboni, deputy head of the ICRC in Syria, said, on her part, that the three-day workshop aims at promoting international law, referring to continuous cooperation with the ministries of defense and foreign affairs in this respect.

Hamda Mustafa