Damascus-SANA
Syria reiterated its principled and firm position in support of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state on all their national soil, with Jerusalem as its capital, while ensuring the right of refugees to return to their homes in accordance with General Assembly Resolution No. To international law, United Nations resolutions and all relevant international charters and instruments.
In a letter to the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at the United Nations, Ambassador Sheikh Ning, on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr. Faisal Miqdad, indicated that this day has become a well-established global platform that keeps the Palestinian cause alive and fresh in the minds of the international community, especially With the continuing dangers that still threaten and threaten the Palestinian cause, he explained that no progress has been made to date by the international community in ending the occupation.
The Israeli occupation authorities have not been held accountable for their violations and contempt for the rules of international law, the Charter of the United Nations and its related resolutions due to the continuation of some permanent members of the Security Council, led by the United States, to provide an umbrella of protection, especially in the international forums of the Israeli occupation, with the aim of liquidating the Palestinian cause and aborting the Council’s decisions against an entity Occupation.
Miqdad indicated that the umbrella of protection provided by these countries to the Israeli occupation constituted a major factor in accelerating its Judaization settlement plans in Jerusalem and its attempt to annex large parts of the West Bank, in addition to his declaration regarding the occupied Syrian Golan in violation of international law, the Charter of the United Nations and international humanitarian law.
Al-Miqdad pointed out that the Israeli settler colonization of the Arab lands that it has occupied for more than seven decades, its arbitrary and racist practices, the gross and systematic violations of Palestinian and Syrian human rights in the occupied Arab territories, its destruction of occupied villages and cities, the displacement of their residents and the replacement of their residents by Israeli settlers, which amount to war crimes, formed the focus of the policy of the Israeli authorities. The Israeli occupation since the beginning of its occupation of Palestine and the Syrian Golan.
Miqdad reiterated Syria's firm position of rejecting and condemning the Israeli occupation of Arab lands, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by "Israel", the occupying power in the occupied Palestinian territories, and its rejection of any decisions or measures that do not comply with the relevant United Nations resolutions and do not preserve the established Palestinian rights.
Al-Miqdad stressed that the countries that support Israel bear the responsibility and consequences of the continuing crimes of the occupation, calling on the member states of the United Nations to shoulder their responsibilities towards the tragedy of the Palestinian people and to take concrete and serious steps to confront the daily violations of the Israeli occupation and to hold it accountable for its crimes and systematic racist practices, and not to recognize any measures taken It will be taken by Israel, the occupying power, to perpetuate its occupation of Arab lands and to exert every effort and pressure on the occupation to end its unjust siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and to end its occupation of Arab lands and to support the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in accordance with relevant United Nations resolutions, foremost of which are Security Council resolutions 242 and 338. and 497.
Miqdad expressed his thanks and appreciation for the efforts of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to hold the annual meeting of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People at the United Nations and its continued keenness to preserve the Palestinian cause and the suffering of the Palestinian people in the minds and attention of all UN member states despite the challenges facing them. These noble efforts, praising the committee's efforts in implementing international legitimacy resolutions related to the Palestinian issue, which is the central issue of Syria, and highlighting and exposing the violations of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people.