New York-Sana
Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, affirmed that the international organization has accomplished a lot in facing humanitarian, social, economic, health and environmental challenges, saving hundreds of thousands of lives and providing education for millions of children, but it has not succeeded in preventing wars and conflicts and ending colonialism, occupation and aggression.
Al-Jaafari said in a statement by Syria during today's General Assembly plenary session devoted to “the high-level meeting to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.” When talking about humanity, its security and its well-being, the founders of the international organization must be remembered after the tragedies of the Second World War and those who hold today's meeting to commemorate their memory and achievement. The great thing is to create this organization that was required to give hope to all humanity in a better world in which everyone works within the framework of multilateral diplomacy to end colonialism, hegemony, occupation and aggression and to reduce the risks of wars, poverty, disease, famine and desertification. However, an inventory of the account of the past seventy-five years and our legitimate fears of the future can only be done. To impose on us the duty to transcend the festive atmosphere and to have the courage to admit that we have not lived up to the hopes of all humanity at the United Nations.
Al-Jaafari indicated that the United Nations has accomplished a lot in the face of many humanitarian, security, social, economic, health and environmental challenges, saved hundreds of thousands of lives, provided education to millions of children, and worked to promote basic freedoms and rights for all, including equality between women and men, but it did not succeed in owning or activating tools. The occasion to prevent wars and conflicts, ending colonialism, occupation and aggression and did not succeed in resolving crises, but rather surrendered in many cases to the desire of governments that only seek to maintain their hegemony and arrogance over the world, not to mention the inability to address the impossibility of governments towards creating hotbeds of tension and chaos and igniting wars and conflicts, leading to the phenomenon of the times. The most dangerous is terrorism and extremism, in which the same governments have invested in order to spread chaos through proxy wars.
Al-Jaafari pointed out that there is no denying that the past three decades have resulted in the United Nations and within the framework of international relations a tendency towards political and financial polarization that was linked to patterns of rebellious policies based on the provisions of the Charter ... policies governed by the selfish interests of some governments with political, economic and military influence, which were targeted before each. Something that many countries of the world have the right to respect their territorial integrity, political independence, self-determination and non-interference in their internal affairs until the situation today has become the most prevalent pattern in international relations which is the occupation by one superpower and its partners without hesitation or fear of the consequences of violating the Charter as well as continuing In threatening to use military force or using it against the territorial integrity or political independence of any country in parallel with imposing unilateral coercive economic measures aimed at starving peoples and breaking their will.
Al-Jaafari stressed that the achievements are many and everyone owes the United Nations, its employees and those who paid their lives in the context of peacekeeping operations, but the coming years will be difficult and fateful on the road to a free and secure world in which everyone enjoys health, well-being and sustainable development and in which everyone respects the natural right to disagree and disagree without resorting to the threat of using Military force or its use without imposing governance models on states or punishing their people economically.
Al-Jaafari stressed that only actions govern the extent of commitment to the true spirit of the slogan "We the peoples of the United Nations", otherwise we will remain prisoners of the remembrance celebrations while some governments apply their own slogan, which is "We are the donor governments that have economic and political influence and military power." We can stand in the face of the course of events and their repercussions on this world of ours, which will lead our organization to the same fate of the League of Nations.