Ambassador Ala: The British draft resolution in the Human Rights Council lacks impartiality and objectivity

Geneva (ST): Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations and international organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Husam El-Din Ala, affirmed that the British draft resolution submitted to the Human Rights Council on the so-called “human rights situation in Syria” lacks impartiality and objectivity, and reproduces accusations that have no basis on the ground, confirming its nature based on selectivity and biased defamation of Syria as part of a political campaign sponsored by the countries supporting the draft resolution.

In today’s speech before the fifty-first session of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Ala said, “Syria renews its rejection of the unilateral and politicized decisions that target it, such as the draft resolution before the Council without justification, and only three months after passing a similar text submitted by Britain and a group of countries insisting on exploiting the Human Rights Council, and its mechanisms to serve its interventionist agendas in a way that violates the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations, especially the principles of respecting the sovereignty of states, and refraining from interfering in their internal affairs, and violating the principles of universality, objectivity, impartiality, and non-selectivity on which this Council is based.

Ambassador Ala added: “In light of the credibility crisis devoted by the current session of the Council, the political motives that control the draft resolutions submitted to it under Item Four, and the double standards in the positions of the sponsoring countries of those resolutions, Council members bear a special responsibility to stop wasting resources and confront this politicized  approach which undermines the Council’s role and mandate under General Assembly Resolution 60/251.”

Ambassador Ala continued: “Apart from the theatrical rhetoric that characterizes the statements of the British ambassador, whose country’s forces and the American forces affiliated with the so-called international coalition, unilaterally and illegally, destroyed the city of Raqqa over the heads of its residents without any regard for humanitarian standards, the Syrian delegation rejects the fabricated allegations. and the illegal mechanisms promoted by the draft resolution, including those that, by their technical nature, fall outside the council’s competence.

Ambassador Ala affirmed Syria’s commitment to its responsibilities to protect its citizens, its keenness to respect human rights under its national laws and obligations, and its rejection of the attempts by the sponsoring countries of the draft resolution to use it to interfere in the course of the political process facilitated by the United Nations, which is based on dialogue between Syrians and their exclusive right to chart the future of their country away from external interventions.

Ambassador Ala stressed that the British draft resolution ignores the suffering of the Syrians as a result of the terrorist war, the Turkish and American aggression on Syrian lands, the looting of its natural and economic resources, and the repeated Israeli military attacks on civilian facilities.It ignores the role of the economic blockade in violating the human rights of Syrians and impeding the return of the displaced.

Ambassador Alla called on the members of the Human Rights Council to vote against the British draft resolution.

K.Q.