Al-Jaafari: UN Meetings on Humanitarian Situation in Syria Politicized

NEW YORK, (ST)-Syria’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari has stressed that the existence of foreign-backed armed terrorist groups and the coercive unilateral measures imposed by the European Union and the United States on the Syrian people are the main causes of the humanitarian crisis in Syria.

 During a session dedicated for listening to the UN Undersecretary-General’s report on the humanitarian situation in Syria on Tuesday, al-Jaafari said “the Syrian government doesn’t deny the existence of humanitarian crisis in the country, but it is shocked by the shallow and politicized way the world has been dealing with this crisis.”

 He  said UN meetings on the humanitarian situation in Syria are politicized and don’t aim at helping the Syrian people get out of this crisis, wondering how such meetings are held under the request of countries involved deeply in supporting terrorism in Syria.

Al-Jaafari pointed out that Saudi Arabia which called for holding this meeting to listen to briefings on the humanitarian and political situation in Syria, is the same country that has threatened the UN Chief and blackmailed him as to remove it from the list of systematic violators of child rights. It is the same country that has been using terrorism as a tool to realize its political agendas and has been the source of Takfiri terrorist Wahhabi thinking, he added.

According to al-Jaafari, the UN has proved to be working against its charter, particularly “when Saudi Arabia is elected as a human rights council member and head of the UN Counterterrorism Center, when Qatar is presided over the UN Alliance of Civilizations, when Turkey is given the honor to host the first humanitarian summit and when Israel is elected as head of the UN legal Committee.”

The Syrian diplomat clarified that those who want to end the humanitarian crisis in Syria don’t hold a humanitarian summit in Turkey which keeps providing financial and arms support to the terrorists and don’t give a blind eye to Israel’s incessant support for the terrorist groups, including al-Nusra Front, in the disengagement area in the occupied Syrian Golan.

 Al-Jaafari asserted that the Syrian government has been keen on providing all forms of humanitarian assistance to all the Syrians affected by the crisis wherever they are in the country and it has been cooperating and coordinating its efforts with the UN and other international organizations working in Syria to deliver aid to many areas even hot spots.

Hamda Mustafa