Jaafari: UN Report on Sexual Violence is Piecemealed, ignores the Syrian Documents about Terrorist Groups Crimes

NEWYORK,(ST)_ Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari stressed that the report of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary- General on sexual violence in conflict situations Zainab Bangura in the section on the situation in Syria is incomplete and of a unilateral source, noting that its interpretation is based on media and misleading allegations, besides ignoring the documents submitted by Syria on sexual violence crimes of murder, kidnapping, rape and torture, committed by terrorist groups against Syrian women.

Jaafari said in Syria’s statement at a meeting of the UN Security Council yesterday on the item “Women, peace and security, that the ” the Syrian delegation ” spared no effort to provide the Office of the Special Representative of data and documents, forensic and official letters proving the responsibility of the armed terrorist groups of committing rapes and sexual assault, kidnapping and murder against women and girls in Syria, as an integral part of the Salafist Wahhabi ideology they seek to disseminate in the region. “

Jaafari stressed the Syrian government’s refusal to any alleged accusations against the army forces, including accusations of women’s vulnerability to sexual violence at check points that are installed in open spaces, a matter which defuses such charges.

He continued that the Syrian government has provided the UN Special Representative with documents about sexual violence crimes committed by members of terrorist groups against the women, including murder,kidnapping random raping, rape and enslavement of women, torture and exchange of victims and Jihad marriage, regretting that the UN Special Representative and her aides did not bother to investigate the issue with the he Syrian government.

Jaafari renewed Syria seriousness in dealing with such ugly and disgusting violations of human rights and the desire to maintain instant cooperation with the United Nations and in particular with the UN Special Representative Bangura to show the reality of the situation in Syria, away from politicization and agitation, stressing that the Syrian relevant authorities are ready to receive any names or incidents sent to the Special Representative for investigation in the framework of the continuity of cooperation and dialogue with her office.

Jaafari concluded his statement by noting that the International Center for the Study of extremism at King’s College University in London revealed the travel of ten British women to Syria to fight alongside the armed terrorist groups and that Belgium called on the nine European countries, concerned with the file of foreign fighters in Syria to hold a meeting on May 8 in Brussels, in the presence of representatives of the United States, Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, noting what was stated by the Belgian interior minister, that dealing with returning fighters is one of our most important concerns, which means that the issue of foreign terrorists in Syria is in the European “ intensive care unit”, a matter which Syria has repeatedly warned against over the past three years.

T. Fateh