Syria Urges UN and UNSC to Condemn Terrorist Attacks Targeted Aleppo

DAMASCUS, (ST)_ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has urged the UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General to condemn the terrorist attacks that targeted Aleppo on Monday morning, and to take real deterrent actions  with the coordination of Syrian government, against terrorist groups and countries supporting and sponsoring terrorism, in accordance with UNSC relevant resolutions, especially resolutions No. 2170 of 2014, 2178 of 2014 and 2199 of 2015.

Addressing the United Nations and the Security Council in two identical letters today, The ministry said that terrorists intentionally targeted Aleppo city with dozen of rocket propelled grenades and mortars on safe neighborhood of Bab al-Faraj, Bustan Kulaib, al-Jamilieh, al-Baroun and Saadallah al-Jabri, resulted in killing 12 civilians and 20 wounded, including women, children and human remains, and heavy material damage in private and public property.

It added that this massacre perpetrated by terrorist organizations and what some countries like to call them “Moderate Opposition”, came under series of terrorist crimes that targeted Aleppo which remained impregnable wall in the face of the armed terrorist organizations for more than a year and half since the crisis in Syria began, until countries called themselves “Friends of Syria” gave the orders to the terrorist organizations to target Aleppo by killing, starving and besieged the people and use them as human shield, in addition of destroying the infrastructure of the city.

“We can’t forget how the terrorist organizations destroyed cultural and religious heritage by destruction of the grand Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo and burning Souq Al-Madina, the oldest Souq in the world,” the ministry said.

The letter concluded that “Syrian Arab Republic stressed its determination to fight terrorism and the intention to continue its duty to defend and protect Syrian people.”

Ibrahim Zaaboub