Shukur: The unilateral coercive economic measures against Syria violate international covenants

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Ambassador Lamia Shakour, the permanent representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization “UNESCO” confirmed that the unilateral coercive and unfair economic measures imposed on the Syrian people violate international conventions and the provisions of international law, noting that the Syrian government is making tremendous efforts to ensure the continuation of the educational and educational processes and to preserve Syrian cultural and natural heritage.

In a speech during the opening session of the 211th session of the Executive Council of UNESCO, Shakour said: “In the midst of the fateful entitlements that the world faces as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, the suffering of the peoples and countries of the South that are suffering under the weight of unilateral, unfair sanctions imposed and renewed by various pretexts and which are brutally violated. All international charters and the provisions of international law.

Shakour added: “It is not a destiny for the takfiri armed terrorism, unfair sieges and epidemics to join forces on the capabilities of peoples, the sustainability of their societies and the future of their generations, and it is not a destiny for the targeting and destruction of the millennial ancient civilizations in their homeland, the cradle of humanity, and the plundering and dispelling of their cultural property.” Illegal and blatant external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states.

She emphasized the support of the Syrian delegation to what was stated in the statement of the Arab Group on occupied Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan, calling for the full implementation of General Conference Resolution “40 M / 67” and Executive Council Resolution “210 CE / 37” regarding educational and cultural institutions in the occupied Arab territories and what is related to the Syrian Golan occupier.

Shakour pointed out that Syria has been responding to a devastating crisis ten years ago and continues to liberate its entire land, formulating national plans, and launching a process of reform, legislative modernization and digitization to limit the rootedness of the repercussions of this crisis as well as the disastrous consequences of unlawful unilateral sanctions on the humanitarian, educational, cultural, health, environmental and economic levels, as the government is addressing And people daily for the pandemic, despite its capabilities subject to siege.

She called on UNESCO to assume a pioneering role in establishing an inclusive international cooperation approach to provide vaccines to countries suffering from illegal sanctions and facilitate access to them for all teachers and students, noting that the Syrian government is making tremendous efforts to ensure the continuation of the educational and educational processes, preserving the Syrian cultural and natural heritage and clearing mines. In one of the World Heritage sites in Syria, the archaeological site of Palmyra, in cooperation with the Russian Federation, work is underway to limit the illicit trade in Syrian antiquities and their recovery, and to preserve the threatened intangible cultural heritage in Syria, convinced of the importance of cultural heritage in preserving the national and linguistic identity and cultural and creative industries.

Shakour said: “We are looking forward to the upcoming outputs of the World Heritage Committee organized by the People's Republic of China. We also aim to allocate / World Heritage sites at risk in Syria / with emergency support from the World Heritage Center Fund and revive them and raise the site of the Old City of Damascus from the list of cultural heritage at risk and strengthen partnerships with The civil society and the private sector and the strengthening of cooperation with allied and friendly countries and brotherly Arab countries, so the international conference was held in Damascus in September 2020 on the return of refugees, as well as the third international conference on digital transformation in April 2021.

Shakour called for achieving the goals called for by the organization to reduce the level of tensions and translate this through transparent governance that ensures avoiding double standards and rejecting double standards and establishing multilateral cooperation that reduces gaps instead of deepening them and creating real spaces for constructive dialogue without discrimination or politicization.