Al-Jaafari: The West won’t be able to conceal consequences of its economic terrorism against Syria, humanitarian allegations won’t hide its crimes

New York (ST):  Syria’s permanent representative to the UN Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari affirmed that the Western states, which are imposing coercive economic measures on the Syrian people, would not be able to conceal the consequences of their economic terrorism on Syria, noting that the humanitarian allegations would not hide the reality of their crimes which aim at suffocate Syrian citizens, put more pressure on the Syrian state, hinder the reconstruction process and the return of the displaced.

During a UN security Council session on the humanitarian situation in Syria, held through video conference, al-Jaafari said that 75 years after the victory in the World War II and the foundation of the UN, the school of the former German propaganda  minister Joseph Golez, which was based on the idea that “if you tell a big lie and continued to mention it, people will believe it later.” is still a policy adopted by the representatives of many Western states. This is clearly manifested in the Western states representatives’ allegations that the coercive measures being imposed on Syria illegally do not target the Syrian people and that  they are exerting huge efforts to make humanitarian and medical exceptions and offer aid to Syrians claiming that the Syrian government was depriving its citizens who are infected with corona-virus from treatment.

He added that the Western states’ representatives have been working to make lying a strategy to pass their devastating policies, noting that their lies can’t be believed by anyone, because all Syrians are aware  every time of  the catastrophic consequences of the Western coercive measures which target them in the simplest details of their daily lives and diminish the ability of the Syrian state to ensure basic services and support for its citizens.

Al-Jaafari clarified that targeting Syrian people with economic terrorism is not new as it is a result of the narrow vision of the consecutive US administrations which is based on serving Israeli interests at the expense of our region as  a whole and the blood of its peoples, noting that since 1978, consecutive US administrations have been imposing coercive measures on the Syrian economy and its vital sectors including civil aviation, oil, energy, communications, banks and medical equipment in an attempt to subjugate Syria and make it change its principled stands which reject hegemony ignoring all UN resolutions and international conventions which affirm the illegitimacy of such unilateral coercive measures and their violation of the UN charter and human rights conventions.

The Syrian diplomat went on to say that the unilateral coercive measures have  increased during the last few years, especially under the current US administration and the issuance of the so-called Caesar Act with the aim of weakening the Syrian state and making it change its national stands and achieving what the US and its allies failed to realize through investing in terrorism.

Al-Jaafari referred to the statements made by the head of the US administration regarding targeting President Bashar al-Assad, noting that such a statement affirms that this administration represents an outlawed and rogue state that follows the same policies adopted by the terrorist organizations.

He pointed out that the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)  submitted 68 reports to the UNSC regarding the humanitarian situation in Syria, but the UN Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs and his predecessors did not dare to talk about the necessity of lifting the unilateral coercive sanctions being imposed on Syrian people.

Concluding his speech, al-Jaafari referred to the report recently published by the British the Guardian Newspaper in which it quoted research centers and academics who said that since 2001, the US has been the reason behind the displacement of more than 37 million people from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya under the so-called ” war on terrorism”. In this case, who is the maker of crises? And how can this Council preserve international peace and security when its permanent Western members appoint themselves as foe and referee at the same time.?

K.Q.