Al-Jaafari Hails ESCWA Resolution against Zionist Occupation Measures in Syrian Golan, Palestine
NEW YORK, (ST)- The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), on Monday issued a resolution rejecting the Israeli occupation measures in the occupied Syrian Golan and the Palestinian lands including East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
In a statement during a session dedicated for voting on the resolution, Syria’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari hailed ESCWA’s report on the economic and social repercussions of the continuity of the Zionist occupation on the peoples of the Syrian Golan and Palestine.
He said that the continuity of occupation has worsened the suffering of the Golanese and the Palestinians due to the Israeli occupation’s racist policies against the legitimate owners of the land.
“These racist policies confirm the occupation’s indifference about the rules of hundreds of UN resolutions that call on Israel to stop its exploitation and exhaustion of natural resources in the occupied Arab territories,” al-Jaafari said.
He blamed the international community for the continuity of the decades-long suffering of the Syrians and the Palestinians under occupation due to its inaction and silence towards Israel’s crimes, violations and racist practices against the people in the occupied lands.
Al-Jaafari warned against the Israeli occupation’s support for the armed terrorist groups in the Syrian Golan, stressing that such support raise the level of danger threatening the Syrians in Golan because it uses the terrorist groups deployed in the Disengagement Force area as a tool to blackmail the Syrian citizens in Golan and pressure them to ally with the terrorists against their homeland and their legitimate government.
He urged ESCWA to refer in its coming reports to the Israeli open support for the terrorists in Golan and to the impacts of this support on the region’s security and on the socio-economic conditions of the Syrians in the occupied Golan.
The Syrian diplomat pointed out that the Israeli occupation continues to carry out arrests and detentions without trial against the Syrians, referring in this regard to the occupations’ rearresting of “Syria’s Mandela” Captive Sidqi al-Maqt without any legal or moral justification.
He asserted that “what the Syrians in Golan and across the country need is the availability of an immediate international support for fighting and eliminating the takfiri terrorism which keeps targeting their stability and security and for confronting the state terrorism being practiced by the Israeli occupation authorities against the people of the occupied Syrian Golan and Palestine.
He reiterated that supporting the Palestinians and the Syrians in the occupied lands should be a top priority to the international community in the coming era.
Hamda Mustafa