New York-Sana
Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, affirmed that Syria is counting on the valuable support of the Group of 77 and China in order to put an end to the theft of its natural resources and the foreign occupation of its lands.
Al-Jaafari said in a speech during the first meeting at the ambassadorial level chaired by the Republic of Guinea of the Group of 77 and China for the year 2021 .. “The challenges facing our world today are enormous. In just a short period of time, the Covid-19 pandemic caused disruption of efforts to achieve the 2030 sustainable development plan, as the epidemic was revealed On the fragility of our world and showed how interconnected we are all.
Al-Jaafari pointed out that multilateral cooperation is always the best way to overcome all global challenges, explaining that unfortunately some governments still choose the unilateral path, including the imposition of unilateral coercive measures that are illegal, while we need solidarity, cooperation and collective action in order to implement the 2030 Agenda. And the goals of sustainable development away from unilateralism and politicization, indicating that since the establishment of the group, solidarity among its members has always been the key to its success as it allowed countries to defend their interests, so we must preserve them by all means.
Dr. Al-Jaafari concluded his speech by stressing the importance of the group’s annual decision entitled “The permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources.” He said .. We count on the group’s valuable support in order to put an end to the theft of our resources. Naturalism and the entire foreign occupation.