Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafari stressed that endangering the lives of 8 million civilians in Damascus in order to protect terrorists in Eastern Ghouta is unacceptable act.
Jaafari made his remarks during a UN Security Council meeting held on Thursday to discuss the situation in Syria.
He added that the draft resolution submitted by Kuwait and Sweden to the UN Security Council was not coordinated with the Syrian delegation, describing it “as a big shame.”
The Syrian diplomat noted that terrorist groups situated in the Eastern Ghouta and designated as terrorist organizations by the UN Security Council have been targeting Damascus with hundreds of rocket and mortar shells on a daily basis, causing the death and injury of dozens of civilians.
He stressed that those terrorist organizations control humanitarian aid convoys which enter the Eastern Ghouta, distribute them on their members and arrest anyone who protests their practices.
On the other hand, Jaafari said that the US-led coalition has moved from the proxy war against Syria to the direct aggression on it in order to achieve what the terrorists failed to achieve.
The Syrian diplomat meanwhile, lashed out at the United Nations for turning blind eyes and deaf ears to the Israeli occupation’s repeated attacks on the Syrian territory, stressing that such attacks come within the framework of its support to the terrorist groups.
Jaafari said the UN has been ignoring the US-led international coalition’s crimes including the complete destruction of Raqqa city under pretext of fighting ISIL Takfiri terrorist organization, as the international body did not also mention the Turkish aggression on Afrin area.
Jaafari said the aforementioned facts “stress that this international organization suffers a professional and ethical crisis through adopting the stances of states which support terrorism in Syria and denying the right of the Syrian government to defend its citizens.”
Source: SANA
