New York-SANA
The permanent representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations, Dr. Bashar Al-Jaafari, confirmed that the American statements issued by James Jeffrey, an employee of the US State Department, about Syria on Monday, are not responsible, misleading, and merely an attempt to cover up the crimes and violations of the United States of America against the sovereignty, independence and safety of Syrian lands, security, peace and stability The Syrian people prospered and said that Syria calls on the United States government to immediately and unconditionally lift all coercive and unilateral economic measures imposed on it.
Al-Jaafari stressed in a letter addressed to both the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the UN Security Council that Jeffery's statements reflect the continuation of the policy of denial and perseverance by a government that cannot be relied on any humanitarian and global role for it in combating the spread of the Corona virus.
Al-Jaafari said that the government of the United States of America imposed from 1979 until today a wide range of unilateral economic coercive measures on Syria, and the size and impact of these illegal measures against the Syrian people have increased from nine years to today as a result of the issuance of eight previous and current US administrations to implement strict The economic blockade of the Syrian people and the imposition of new unprecedented punitive measures on the sectors of banking, energy, investment, import, export, communications, air, sea and land transport, with the aim of depriving the Syrians of their basic rights to life .
Al-Jaafari presented the most important direct and indirect negative effects of these measures, namely the decline in Syria’s ranking in the Human Development Index to the list of the least developed countries, “Human Development Report 2016”, in addition to that it had serious negative effects even on the process of delivering humanitarian aid as well as undermining the ability of the Syrian people to meet Its basic needs and harm to the ability of the Syrian government to provide basic services to its citizens, especially in the energy sector.
Al-Jaafari said that in light of the global health pandemic to which our world is exposed today due to the spread of Corona virus "Covid 19", Syria is subjected to additional pressure and challenges of a different type in the face of this serious pandemic that imposes on the Syrian government the necessity of providing the basic infrastructure and necessary ingredients for the health sectors for Providing prevention, examinations and treatment for all without exception, providing basic medical, food and service materials for all without exception and enhancing the strength of the economy in a way that gives the government and public and private sectors the ability to support and finance the necessary plans and procedures to ensure that no access The virus or prevent the expansion of its spread and transmission of infection, particularly sterilization procedures, isolation and closure of places of public and private facilities, or even demand from the citizens' commitment to their homes and not to go out for a reasonable period of time.
Al-Jaafari emphasized that the aggressive policies pursued by the United States of America against the Syrian people can only be evaluated as a direct and flagrant violation of the Charter and the principles of international law and international humanitarian law and Security Council resolutions related to the situation in Syria, and the continuation of the American government today in imposing coercive unilateral economic measures Against the Syrian people, despite the grave threats that the spread of this global epidemic poses to all of humanity, it is new evidence that this government does not value weight for humanitarian considerations and does not heed the global appeals issued by The leaderships of the United Nations and its organizations, and of world leaders and world public opinion, aiming to achieve global solidarity in the face of this epidemic.
Al-Jaafari said that Syria calls on the government of the United States of America to work immediately for the immediate and unconditional lifting of all unilateral coercive economic measures imposed on it, especially on the sectors of banking, air and maritime transport, communications, energy and oil, and that allows the free flow of medical materials and equipment in particular and enhances Syria's ability to Confronting this epidemic and preventing its spread without any restrictions.
He added that Syria also demands the exit of the occupied American military forces from all Syrian lands, especially from oil and gas fields, and to allow the Syrian state to re-establish its control over these various regions, to rebuild and maintain oil and gas stations, direct its resources exclusively to the Syrian people, and close all illegal camps and camps that The United States and its unlawful separatist militia are established on Syrian soil to ensure that all foreign terrorist fighters and members of their families are removed from Syria and returned to their countries of origin, especially ISIS terrorists, and Stop those dangerous plays and irresponsible, which aims to release the smuggling of terrorists and foreign fighters from places of detention run by "intentionally" separatist groups in the city of Hasaka prisons and other from time to time.
Al-Jaafari stressed that the Syrian government reserves the right to hold the American government and its partners within the framework of the so-called "international coalition" legal, moral and financial responsibilities for the destruction of the cities of Raqqa, Deir Al-Zour, Ain Al-Arab, Hajin and other areas in Syria, as well as responsibilities for targeting illegal military operations carried out by this The Alliance for Syrian Infrastructures, which led to its total or partial destruction, including roads, bridges, electric power stations, oil and gas wells, and supply routes.
Al-Jaafari said at the end of the message: The government of the Syrian Arab Republic confirms that it has mobilized all its human, medical and food resources available to serve all Syrians and wherever they are in the face of this global epidemic. It also highly appreciates the positions and statements issued by the Secretary-General of the United Nations recently in which he called for an end For the unilateral coercive measures imposed on many peoples of the world, among them the Syrian people, the Syrian government stresses that any collective and global effort to combat the spread of this dangerous virus and eliminate it, cannot be equated in light of the continuing policy The economic blockade imposed by some governments, led by the United States of America, on more than two billion people in our world.
