Ambassador Ali Ahmed: Promoting Human Rights in Syria Requires Supporting its Efforts and Ending Illegal Practices Against it

The Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Ambassador Haider Ali Ahmed, stressed that the right way to effectively promote and protect human rights in Syria requires supporting the Syrian State’s efforts and ending all illegal practices against it, and addressing the real challenges and devastating effects these practices have on the Syrian people.

Ali Ahmed stressed in a statement today during the interactive dialogue with the commission of Inquiry on Syria at the 57th session of the Human Rights council in Geneva that the mandates imposed by certain countries without the agreement or consultation of the state concerned with them are only tools designed to implement special agendas that have nothing to do with the protection and promotion of human rights, and today’s meeting and the mandate of the so-called Commission of inquiry is a stark example of this.

The Syrian delegate to the United Nations Office in Geneva said: “What is the benefit of such mandates, we are in front of a commission of inquiry that doesn’t investigate but working to confirm the misleading western version about the situation in Syria,” pointing out that the committee has implemented the demands of the Western countries, but unfortunately betrayed the principles of neutrality, objectivity, independence and transparency.

“ What is the benefit of such interactive dialogues, which are neither dialogues nor interactive. we always listen to canned statements by some Western countries, which contain politicization, hypocrisy and falsification of facts, while the claims of keenness to protect human rights and humanitarian conditions echoed by these countries fall resoundingly to the test of truth and reality,” Ali Ahmed added.

He pointed out that the statements of these countries do not include any talk about the real danger of terrorist groups, nor about the violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed by illegal foreign forces on Syrian territory, nor do these countries condemn themselves when talking about the effects of coercive measures on the humanitarian situation, and their violation of the basic human rights of the Syrian people.

Ali Ahmed noted that it would not be surprising that these countries ignore the gross and systematic violations carried out by the Israeli occupation forces against Syria, which provide justifications, cover and support for committing these violations, and they also support the genocide being committed by “Israel” against the Palestinian people.

He reiterated Syria’s non-recognition of the mandate of the committee and the resolutions established by it, and affirms Syria’s rejection of committee’s reports in detail, stressing at the same time that Syria will continue its cooperation and constructive interaction with countries that really believe in the promotion and protection of human rights in all countries on an equal basis and on the basis of dialogue and cooperation.

Amal Farhat