Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari said that the US administration is pushing the terrorist war on Syria towards dangerous levels through moving from a stage of proxy aggression into that on its own behalf through direct military action.
Al-Jaafari made his remarks during a UN Security Council session held today to discuss a draft resolution submitted by the US, Britain and France on the use of Chemical weapons in Khan Shaikhoun in Idlib province.
He said that the US administration has felt that the terrorist groups had begun to retreat, so it committed its aggression on al-Shayrat air base.
Al-Jaafari said it seems that Britain’s decision to leave the EU pushes it to seek to a new role through an extremist discourse which reminds us of the criminal role of former British prime minister Tony Blair who led Britain into the invasion and occupation of Iraq 14 years ago after fabricating the lie about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, a war to which the Iraqi people continue to pay the cost till this day.
“About a week ago, we thought that we are going to attend this session and share with you the outcomes of what has been achieved in the recent meetings in Astana and Geneva and confirm our support to the efforts exerted by the UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura and those who are serious about reaching a political settlement to the crisis in Syria and coordinating counterterrorism efforts,” the Syrian diplomat added.
He noted that the US has never refrained from providing all kinds of support to the terrorist groups in order to perpetrate the most heinous crimes against civilians and the infrastructure in Syria and this includes the practices of the so-called international coalition to fight the ISIL which provided an aerial cover to the ISIL, al-Nusra and other terrorist groups, not to mention its bombardment of infrastructure and civilians, adding that the best example for that is targeting a Syrian military site in al-Tharda Mountain in Deir Ezzor on September 17th, 2016.
Al-Jaafari stated that providing military support to terrorist groups was not limited to the US-led coalition countries but ‘Israel’ was in the lead of offering this support such as treating injured terrorists and providing medical care to them and launching airstrikes against Syrian army positions.
“The direct Israeli support to ISIL through attacking Syrian army sites in Palmyra city on March 17th, 2017 added fuel to the fire and made things worse. The same scene on April 7th, 2017 when the US administration and its allies felt that the terrorist groups began to retreat, so they committed their flagrant aggression against al-Shayrat airbase under pretexts of using chemical weapons in the terrorist-held town of Khan Sheikhoun,” he added.
The US administration preceded its aggression with exploiting the UNSC international legitimacy mechanisms and submitted provocative draft resolutions which blame the Syrian government for using chemical weapons.
This serious aggression had been plotted long in advance inside the secret rooms of intelligence agencies of Tel Aviv, Riyadh, Doha, Ankara, Amman, Washington, London and Paris. These are the same capitals which supplied their terrorist tools, on the top of which is al-Nusra terrorist organization, in Syria with toxic chemical materials to use them and accuse the Syrian government of using them, recalling what happened in Khan al-Asal on March 19th, 2013, in the Eastern Ghouta on August 21th, 2013, in Tal Mins on April 21st, 2014, in Sermin on March 16th,2015 and in Qnaynas on March 16th, 2016.
Al-Jaafari affirmed that Damascus sent 90 letters to the UNSC on the possess of chemical weapons by terrorist groups with the aim of using them against civilians and accusing the Syrian government of committing these crimes, adding that some of those letters included the smuggling of sarin gas from Libya through Turkey to Syria on the board of an aircraft via a Syrian criminal, named Haitham al-Qassar.
He indicated to statements made by former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas who was on a visit to London on June 2013 during which he was told about a conspiracy against Syria which aims at destroying the country and isolating its government due to its anti-Israel stances.
He also referred to a report published on the British Daily Mail newspaper in January 2013 which contained emails between senior officials in British Britam Defense Company about a scheme approved by Washington that Qatar, in cooperation with Turkey, will fund terrorist groups in Syria to use chemical weapons, adding that documents released by WikiLeaks website proved that the White House has given green light to launch chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus in order to blame the Syrian government and provoke taking an international military action against the country.
Today, the new US administration, which claimed to give priority to counterterrorism and we have felt optimistic about, has found no way but to resort to the trick of red line and fabricate the incident of toxic chemical attack in Khan Shaikhoun to commit its aggression against Syria, abort Astana and Geneva talks, rescue armed terrorist groups and help opposition groups withdraw from political settlement and counterterrorism obligations because we succeeded to add the basket of counterterrorism to the agenda of Geneva talks.
“The enemies of the political track were not satisfied when we added the basket of combating terrorism to Geneva talks and the US new administration, along with its allies, did not find a pretext except the chemical weapons. In paradox, those who destroyed Syrian chemical weapons were the US ships in the Mediterranean,” he said.
Source: SANA
