Syria rejects Canadian draft resolution submitted to UN General Assembly

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari said that Syria rejects the Canadian draft resolution on the situation in Aleppo which was submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, calling on the Assembly’s presidency to obtain the opinion of Assembly’s legal counselor.


During a UN General Assembly’s session for voting on the aforementioned Canadian draft resolution which calls for the cessation of combat activities in Aleppo without removing terrorists from it, al-Jaafari said that the practices of Canada’s delegation and those who joined it highlight the huge gap between theory and practice with regard to states’ sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity.

Al-Jaafari added that Canada’s delegation and its partners violated the sovereignty of Syria by calling for convening this session without consulting with the Syrian delegation, and that they also violated Article 12 of the UN Charter which states the inadmissibility of discussing any file in the absence of a UN Security Council request.

He noted that Canada’s delegation, which feigns caring for the Syrian people, had voted a few days ago against a draft resolution on condemning the Israeli occupation of the Golan and against a resolution that considers Israeli settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan illegal, and this blatant contradiction shows the ill intentions of those who submitted the draft resolution on Aleppo including Canada.

Al-Jaafari pointed out that since day one, the Canadian government has participated in the so called “international coalition” against ISIS despite that this coalition is illegal and violates the Syrian sovereignty and destroys infrastructure, adding that Canadian aircrafts along those of the US, France, Britain, and Denmark destroyed infrastructure in Syria instead of targeting ISIS, instead killing innocent civilians and targeting schools, hospitals, and villages.

He went on to note that the coalition targeted Syrian Arab Army positions that were preventing ISIS from expanding, asserting that the true goal of the coalition’s airstrikes is to prevent the Iraqi and Syrian armies from closing in on terrorists.

“It seems that the US administration doesn’t learn from its mistakes, and today it insists on providing armed terrorist groups with all sorts of weapons including anti-air missiles, then they talk about security of civilian airplanes!” Syria’s Representative added.......http://sana.sy/en/?p=95724
 SANA
9/12/16