Al-Jaafari- Syria-Related Decisions of Human Rights Council Based on Unilateral Information

 NEW York- Syria-related decisions provided in the recent Human Rights Council’s report were based on unilateral information and were consistent with political plans of some countries which don’t want the good to Syria and its people, stressed Syria’s UN Permanent Representative Bashar al-Jaafari.  

Al-Jaafari, who was speaking at the UN General Assembly’s meeting, said that no single article in the report had called for stopping the terrorist acts perpetrated by the armed terrorist groups against the Syrian state and citizens. The council’s report also didn’t call for disarming the terrorist groups or urge sponsoring countries to halt their military, political and media support to gunmen.

“Reports by terrorism-fighting committees of the UN Security Council prove that terrorism in Syria is being supported, added al-Jaafari, pointing out that these reports are documented in details with names and figures in the Council’s archive.   

The UN Syria Representative also said that the report ignores the critical economic and humanitarian situation in Syria caused by the unilateral economic procedures and sanctions imposed by the European Union, the United States and the Arab League on the Syrian people.

He stressed that though such procedures threaten states’ sovereignty and violate the UN Charter and human rights principles, yet some countries member in the United Nations insist on applying illegal procedures like sanctions on other countries.   

Al-Jaafari regretted the Human Rights Council’s insistence to ignore the great efforts being exerted by the Syrian government to confront the armed terrorist groups and to ease alleviate the repercussions of the crisis in Syria.

Government cooperation to solve crisis

Al-Jaafari also affirmed that the Syrian government had provided all forms of cooperation to attain a peaceful solution to the political and humanitarian crisis in Syria, yet some countries which re directly involved in worsening the political and humanitarian situation in Syria are keen to adopt unilateral politicized decisions that force Syria to concede its sovereignty and rights.

He criticized the Council’s silence regarding Israel’s refusal to implement tens of council’s decisions concerning Israel’s violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories and in the occupied Syrian Golan.

Al-jaafari asserted that the council’s politicized decisions give a blow to efforts exerted to have a human rights council that treats all human rights violations around the world in clear standards.

“Such decisions hinder the objective role played by international parties to put an end to the crisis in Syria and they encourage intransigence in rejecting the holding of Geneva2 conference and in going further in shedding the Syrian blood,” he said.

He condemned Qatar’s blatant interference in Syria’s internal affairs through recruiting and supporting terrorists to destroy Syria and kill innocent people.

H.Mustafa