Western Countries Blackmailing UN Platforms to Cover up Their Crimes against the Syrians: Al-Jaafari

NEW YORK, (ST)- Some western countries member in the Security Council continue to blackmail the UN platforms as to cover up the crimes they have committed against the Syrian people and also to cover up the crimes of the terrorist groups in the country, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar Al-Jaafari has stressed.

During a Security Council session on Monday on the situation in the Middle East, al-Jaafari said that discovering mass graves in the Syrian province of Raqqa have increased the number of martyrs because of the US-led coalitions airstrikes against the city to 4000 and proved how savage the crimes of the coalition are.

Al-Jaafari urged the Security Council to act immediately as to stop the coalition’s crimes, to conduct an international investigation into these crimes and mass graves and to end the presence of the occupying American forces and that of other foreign troops which operate illegally in the Syrian territories.

Syria’s war on terrorism won’t stop under any political or media blackmail

 Al-Jaafari affirmed that Syria’s war on terrorism won’t stop under the effect of any political or media blackmail and it will continue to implement all its commitments resulted from jointing the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

“Syria has implemented all its commitments resulted from joining the Chemical Weapons Convention. It has always been keen on all forms of cooperation and has dealt with complete positivity, transparency and flexibility in this respect even under huge challenges and critical security conditions caused by the aggressive behavior of some regional and international parties, al-Jaafari said.

He added that Syria has made an unprecedented achievement in the history of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons through ending its chemical program within a record time.  

Al-Jaafari went on to say that statements made by senior officials of some western countries member in the Security Council imply that the only way to save the terrorist groups is the use of chemical weapons. He reiterated that these statements constitute a direct call on the armed groups to use toxic chemical materials against civilians in Idleb and to fabricate evidence, bring false witnesses and manipulate the crime scene with the purpose of accusing the Syrian government of the crime of using chemical weapon, exactly like what happened in the alleged Khan Sheikhoun chemical incident which was staged by members of the so-called White Helmets group which was proved to be a branch of Jabhat al-Nusra terror organization.

Al-Jaafari said, according to SANA that the OPCW fact-finding mission in Syria has consistently violated the terms of reference for its work and adopted an unprofessional and selective approach that is totally far from transparency.

He wondered how did some states turn a blind eye to more than 160 letters sent by the Syrian government to the UN Secretary General, the UN Security Council and the UNSC Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 as well as other committees on counterterrorism containing information about the terrorist groups’ possession and use of toxic chemicals, asking why no action was taken by the UN Security Council against states which sponsor, support and fund those terrorists.

 “On October 18th , Syria informed the UN Security Council about a massive explosion within a terrorist-held factory containing huge amounts of fertilizers, explosives and liquid chlorine barrels in Termaneen town in the countryside of Idleb, 15 km from the Turkish borders and it is operated under the supervision of foreign experts including Turkish, British and Chechen ones,” said al-Jaafari, adding that the 9 experts and 2 members from the so-called “White Helmets” organization were killed  at the blast.

 “At the end of 2003, Syria, through its membership of the Security Council, proposed an initiative to make the Middle East an area free of all Weapons of Mass Destruction,” said al-Jaafari, adding “At that time the US delegation threatened to use the veto if we submitted the proposal to the UNSC,” al-Jaafari said.

He renewed Syria’s call upon the UNSC member states to free the Middle East from nuclear weapons and all WMDs, and exert pressure on the Israeli entity to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to put all of its facilities and nuclear activities under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

“Syria has repeatedly condemned any use of chemical weapons or any other kind of weapons of mass destruction as a crime against humanity and an unacceptable, immoral act that cannot be justified under any condition, affirming that the Syrian army has never used any chemical weapon and it doesn’t possess it,” said al-Jaafari.

Hamda Mustafa