Al-Jaafari Condemns Provocative, Misleading Way Some Countries Deal with Crisis in Syria

 NEW YORK-Syria’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari has condemned the anti-Syria provocative and misleading statements made by delegations of some countries at the Security Council session held on Tuesday to discuss the “Situation in the Middle East”.

 “Some countries keep promoting anti-Syria claims, fabrications and accusations which serve the scheme of supporting terrorism and extremism in Syria and the entire region. Such fabrications aim at diverting attention from the core topic of discussion which is the methods of ending the Israeli occupation of Arab territories not the internal situation in the region’s countries,” Al-Jaafari said in Syria’s statement.

He added that “these countries support, shelter, arm and provide training to terrorists and facilitate their infiltration into Syria across the borders with neighboring countries. They keep inciting extremism and terrorism in Syria and work hard to foil efforts to attain any peaceful settlement to the country’s crisis, including the efforts exerted to hold Geneva 2 conference in which the Syrian government had agreed to participate without preconditions.”

Al-Jaafari explained that the delegations of these countries referred to and condemned the terrorism spreading in Iraq at Syria’s eastern borders but ignored the terrorism hitting Syria, despite the fact that the major terrorist organization targeting both Syria and Iraq is called al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant.

He wondered why these countries had condemned the activities of al-Qaeda in Iraq, but kept silence regarding the activities of terrorist organizations in Syria, though Syria had provided the Security Council with names of hundreds of terrorists killed in the country including Saudi, Qatari, Turkish, British, French, Belgian, American, Canadian, Australian, Libyan and Tunisian terrorists.

Syria’s UN Representative pointed out that the interior ministers of Britain, France and some other Western countries in addition to the American FBI had admitted their countries’ concerns over the possible return of their terrorist nationals who are shedding the Syrian blood in Syria to their home countries.
“These Western officials see a problem in the return of western terrorists to their home countries and find this issue unacceptable. They prefer their terrorist nationals to stay in Syria and keep shedding the blood of the Syrians, as if those terrorists had come to Syria without the knowledge of the intelligence systems of the governments of these western countries,” Al-Jaafari explained.

Al-Jaafari went on to say that the delegations also ignored the announcement made by the Palestinian Labor Minister Ahmad Majdali in Damascus recently that the Saudi, Qatari and Turkish- financed Islamist terrorists are the party which shot fire on the UNRWA humanitarian aid convoy while trying to enter al-Yarmouk Camp to provide assistance to the Palestinians there.

On the Palestinian issue, al-Jaafari said that the UN shoulders historical and legal responsibility to establish an independent Palestinian state with a complete sovereignty in accordance with related UN resolutions, but the Israeli occupation authorities have violated all the resolutions and aborted every opportunity to establish a Palestinian state.

Al-Jaafari referred to the almost half a century old suffering of the Syrian citizens under the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan  as a result of the oppressive and racist policies of the occupation authorities.

He clarified that the Syrians in the occupied Golan undergo racist policies by the occupation and they are deprived of their rights of education and medical service.

“The occupation authorities have also built an apartheid wall to the east of Majdal Shams town and refused to hand over the maps of minefields in Golan to the international organizations, al-Jaafari said.

He held the Israeli occupation authorities full responsibility for the outcomes of the assistance and support they provide to the armed terrorist groups in the UNDOF area, describing this behavior as a blatant violation of the international law and the UNDOF agreement of 1974.

He stressed that the Israeli support for terrorists exposes the life of the UN peacekeepers acting in the Golan to danger

Al-Jaafari affirmed that it is not allowed to let the failure of the United Nations in shouldering its responsibilities towards implementing its resolutions continue.

“The United Nations now should keep what has been left of its credibility by putting an end to the double standard policies being adopted by some member countries and by forcing Israel to comply with the UN resolutions that end the Israeli occupation of Arab territories,” al-Jaafari said.

He stressed that any just and comprehensive peace in the region won’t be attained except in accordance with the well-known peace terms of reference, particularly the UN concerned resolutions.

Al-Jaafari asserted that all what peoples of the region want is peace, prosperity, stability and ending the state of tension and occupation.

H. Mustafa