A call to stop theft of Syrian natural resources
On the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights, the Syrian Association of the United Nations called on the international community to implement its obligations to guarantee the right of people to self-determination and to freely dispose of their wealth, and to stop the theft of Syrian natural resources, including oil.
In a statement, the association stressed the importance of working to implement the two covenants related to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights issued on December 10, 1948, namely the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The association underlined the necessity of working on the implementation of the two covenants by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of the Human Rights Council, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and their workers. It stressed the very special status of the first unified article in the two covenants, which guarantees world peace and security, as it states in its first paragraph that “All peoples have a right to self-determination” and in its second paragraph that “All peoples have the free disposal of their wealth and natural resources.”
The Association confirmed that there is a clear violation of the second paragraph of Article One, as the whole world witnessed the head of a major country declaring that he took Syrian oil and sold it, and it is still watching the theft of Syrian natural resources, including oil.
The association asked: “Does it need a meeting of the Security Council with rights of veto in order to announce that a violation of human and peoples’ rights has occurred, and isn’t it the normal professional duty of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to call things by their names and to say clearly to that country that it violates the two covenants and human rights?”
The American occupation forces continue to steal Syrian oil from the Syrian Jazeera and load it through tankers into Iraqi territory through the illegal Al-Waleed crossing.
Inas Abdulkareem