As long as the US , EU continue sending weapons to the armed terrorist groups, “rebels” will not come to negotiating table- Jaafari

NEWYORK,(ST)_ Syria ‘s Permanent representative to the UN Dr. said that Fernandez Tranko UN  Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs did not provide a complete picture of the situation in the Middle East, concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian issue .

al-Jaafari told a news conference after a meeting of the Security Council last that Tranko ignored the role played by Qatar in giving instructions to terrorists to kidnap members of the Philippine unit working in UNDOF and that the Syrian government requested investigation of terrorists use of chemical weapons and is still waiting for Aki Selistroum team to arrive and investigate terrorists use of chemical weapon in Khan al-Asal in Aleppo.

On whether the Syrian government trusts the UN inspectors Jaafari said: We do not have any problem about the inspectors, but we have a problem with the framework and details about the inspection task.

al-Jaafari questioned why no one debated the issue raised by Russian President Vladimir Putin when said that al-Qaeda and “al-Nusra Front ” have secret laboratories for the manufacture of chemical weapons in Iraq ?

In response to a question about the outcome of Tuesday talks between Washington and Moscow in Geneva Jaafari said: ” We did not receive any information from the parties and we do not know what happened in Geneva, I heard what you have heard from Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN envoy to Syria and Mikhail Bogdanov, to that no progress was achieved”, noting, ” as long as the U.S. administration and the EU continue sending weapons to the armed terrorist groups, the so called  “rebels” will not come to the negotiating table because they know they are supported politically,militarily, financially and logistically.

Jaafari also wondered, how they (rebels) will come to the negotiations in Geneva as they get billions of dollars from Qataris and the Saudis,receive logistical assistance from the Turkish government and weapons from Western powers.

“The Qataris and Saudis drowned the UN organization with petrodollar and they are buying it”, Jaafari stressed, noting the official messages Syria addressed to the members of the Security Council and Secretary-General that everyone can find on the internet and that ” I have since the beginning of the crisis sent 408 messages in which I described every detail associated with each incident .”

Replying a question about the international conference on Syria, Jaafari said that Syria’s position is clear and committed on the need to hold an international conference on Syria in Geneva, but at the other side there is no unified opposition, rather several oppositions linked to foreign agendas from where they get financial, political, media and diplomatic support and therefore the ball is in the court of the sponsors of those armed groups to form a negotiating delegation called “the delegation of the opposition” in order to sit with the government in the Geneva Conference.

No meaningful conference if sending weapons to terrorist groups in Syria continues

 In response to a question on the establishment of a national unity government Jaafari replied that this is the purpose of the dialogue and the Syrians participants in the conference are the ones who will decide Syria’s future .

He pointed out that a meaningful conference can not be held if the process of sending weapons to terrorist groups in Syria continues, noting that attendees of the conference alongside the representatives of the Syrian government will judge whether the other parties are serious or not.

” We notified since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, in writing, the UN Secretary-General and members of the Security Council on the flow of foreign militants who crossed the border with Lebanon, and asked the Lebanese government to take appropriate action in order to stop the flow of insurgents in addition to our request to the Secretary-General and to the Board security, but unfortunately once again this issue was not mentioned and no action was taken until the kidnapping of the Filipino in the Golan , only then the UN said there is something wrong happening on the separation line related to the security of Israel. They do not talk about the security of Syria.

T. Fateh