Geneva-Sana
Syria's permanent representative to the United Nations Office and International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Hossam El Din Ala, affirmed that the hostile approach adopted by the Commission of Inquiry on Syria and its refusal to recognize its right and duty to liberate its land and protect its people from the practices of the occupation and the crimes of terrorist groups detracts from its professional and objective reports, expressing regret To turn the meetings and mechanisms of the Human Rights Council into a platform and a tool for defaming countries based on fabricated reports.
In a statement today on item 4 (the report of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria) during the forty-eighth session of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Ala said that it is questionable the insistence of the Council’s mechanisms to ignore the American, Turkish and Israeli attacks and their logistical and military support for terrorist groups that practice murder and terrorism against Syrians and for militias that threaten the unity of the Syrian people. Syria and its territorial integrity and the theft of its natural resources, indicating that the continuous looting of Syria’s oil and wheat and smuggling them across the border is carried out in collusion with the American occupation and deprives the Syrians of their national resources and impedes their enjoyment of their basic rights, including the right to development, and the talk about the places of refining and trafficking of stolen oil run by terrorist groups in areas The Turkish occupation and portraying them as centers of economic and human activity lacks professionalism and legal and moral basis.
Ambassador Ala pointed out that the Turkish regime’s use of water as a means of blackmail and as a weapon against civilians and threatening the lives of millions of Syrians by reducing the flow of the Euphrates River and its repeated halting of water pumping from the Allouk station to the city of Hasaka and its vicinity constitutes a collective punishment that amounts to a crime against humanity, as he continues this The regime obstructed the sending of humanitarian aid from the inside to the northern regions in order to promote the mechanism of entering aid across the border and to devote its sabotage role in Idlib, which has turned it into a safe haven for terrorist organizations and provided them with protection and care. .
Ambassador Ala explained that in 2017, an American raid on a school used as a center for displaced persons in the village of Mansoura in Raqqa governorate killed more than fifty citizens, and the Turkish invasion of Afrin and other Syrian areas killed dozens, destroyed schools and properties, and displaced tens of thousands in the context of a demographic change that the Turkish regime seeks to implement. Where are the results of the commission’s investigations into these crimes that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, pointing out that the commission’s evasion in its reports finds justification in the fact that the countries concerned with these crimes are observant of the commission’s mandate and the decisions regulating its work.
Ambassador Ala pointed out that the unilateral coercive economic measures imposed on Syria have caused great suffering to its citizens and violated their basic rights. The unintended secondary is in contravention of the calls of the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which acknowledge the humanitarian consequences of these illegal measures and demand their lifting.
Ambassador Ala stressed that the hostile approach adopted by the committee, which expresses itself in insisting on directing its work and its pre-prepared accusations against the Syrian government, questioning its administrative and legal procedures, and refraining from recognizing its right and duty to liberate its land and protect its people from the practices of the occupation and the crimes of terrorist groups, and incitement against the return of refugees And the displaced detract from their professional and objective reports.
Ambassador Ala indicated that the deliberate distortion of facts in dealing with the situation in Daraa can only be explained as an encouragement to terrorist groups whose crimes affected civilians and military personnel and claimed the lives of 18 mayors and dozens of civilians and soldiers, pointing out that the return of the people to their cities and villages after the end of the armed presence and the return of a number of areas To the authority of the state confirms the correctness of the approach taken by the government, which was characterized by self-restraint and concern for the lives and property of civilians.
Ambassador Ala stressed that raising allegations related to chemical weapons in the report of the committee is outside its powers and the mandate of the Human Rights Council that established it, stressing Syria's rejection of these allegations, which it had previously clarified its position on in the relevant forums.
Ambassador Ala pointed out that the committee's adherence to its work methodology tainted by professional errors, its breach of standards of proof, its ignoring of facts on the ground, and its evasion of investigation of the crimes and violations of the Turkish and American occupations and their terrorist groups comes out with its reports on the foundations and principles of impartiality, objectivity and non-selectivity defined by Resolution 60-251 and confirms the correctness of Syria's position Not recognizing the mandate of this committee, which determines for itself without any reference oversight its work, determines the sponsoring countries’ course of action and provides the necessary funding to carry it out. Thus, its reports lack any basis that qualifies it to speak credibly about the situation in Syria.
