Some UNSC Permanent Members Claim Keenness to Improve Humanitarian Situation in Syria While Supporting Terrorism

NEW YORK, (ST)- Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari has stressed that some countries, including UN Security Council permanent members, continue to claim keenness to improve the humanitarian situation in Syria while keep supporting terrorism and illegally deploy their forces in Syria and launch repeated aggressions which claim the lives of thousands of Syrian civilians, most of them women and children.

During a Security Council session held on Tuesday on the humanitarian situation in Syria, Al-Jaafari said that these countries are supporting their political terrorism against Syria by economic terrorism through imposing unilateral coercive economic measures on the Syrians. He pointed out that these arbitrary measures have affected all walks of life in the country and caused huge suffering for the Syrian citizens.

“Improving the humanitarian situation of the Syrians can’t be done effectively except when the humanitarian issues are not politicized and when terrorism, the main cause of the Syrians’ suffering, is eliminated,” added al-Jaafari.

 He pointed out that French Colonel Francois-Regis Legrier, who has been in charge of directing French artillery in the illegal US-led coalition’s activities in Syria has admitted the coalition’s crimes.   In rare public criticism by a serving officer, the French Colonel said the coalition’s focus had been on limiting its own risks and this had greatly increased the death toll among civilians and the levels of destruction, adding : “We have massively destroyed the infrastructure and given the population a disgusting image of what may be a Western-style liberation leaving behind the seeds of an imminent resurgence of a new adversary. The coalition could have got rid of just 2,000 Daesh fighters much more quickly and effectively by sending in just 1,000 troops.”

Al-Jaafari stressed that the Security Council member states should seek coordination and consultation with the Syrian government in all Syrian files in order to assume their responsibilities in accordance with the UN Charter not in accordance with their own agendas, but, regrettably, some permanent members ignore this fact.

The Senior Syrian diplomat also said that some countries, including certain Security Council permanent members, continue to hinder the return of the displaced Syrians to their towns, which the Syrian Arab army had liberated from terrorism, and to link the development and humanitarian work to politicized conditions which contradict the principles of humanitarian action.

UN reports on situation in Syria are still depending on so-called “open sources”

He regretted the fact that the UN reports on the humanitarian situation in Syria are still depending on so-called “open sources”, pointing out that last month, the Security Council was informed that one of the German Deir Speigel Magazine’s correspondents had for years fabricated news about Syria in order to “demonize the Syrian government”.

He also said that BBC Syria producer Riam Dalati has stressed  that the footage of people being treated in a hospital after an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Syrian city of Douma was staged.

Al-Jaafari renewed Syria’s calls for honest cooperating with the Syrian government in accordance with resolution No.46/182 and based on respecting the country’s sovereignty.

He said that Syria in coordination with the Russian side has opened two humanitarian corridors to provide safe exit for people in al-Rukban camp besieged by US forces and affiliated terrorist groups. He reiterated that Syria seeks ending the suffering of the residents of al-Rukban camp who want to return to state-controlled areas and it calls for ending the illegal presence of the US troops and the terrorist gangs there.

He urged the Security Council to enhance the principles of the international law and the UN Charter and to prevent exploiting the humanitarian aid file to destabilize states and interfere in their internal affairs, pointing that such interference and destabilization attempts are being blatantly repeated in Venezuela.

Hamda Mustafa