As he said that Nusra Front terrorists are taking civilians in Idlib as human shields, Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafari stressed that it is the Syrian state’s right and duty to protect its citizens from terrorism and liberate its territory.
“Syria will liberate all its territory from terrorism and from any illegitimate foreign presence in the country,” Jaafari told a UN Security Council session on the situation in Syria on Tuesday.
He went on to say that some UNSC member states have worked, since the beginning of the crisis, to exploit the humanitarian issue in order to defame the efforts of the Syrian State’s institutions, distort its image and stir up the public opinion against it.
“Syria will spare no effort to rescue its citizens from the dominance of terrorist organizations in Idlib which take people as human shields and to put an end to the attacks of those terrorists on civilians in the neighboring towns and cities,” Jaafari said as quoted by SANA news agency.
He called on the countries whose nationals have been for years fighting in Syria to withdraw its militants, estimated at tens of thousands, immediately and bring them to justice for their crimes against humanity.
The Syrian envoy meanwhile, noted that the US occupation forces and their affiliated terrorists still seize thousands of civilians at al-Rukban camp in al-Tanf, prevent them from returning to their areas and reject to remove the camp. In this context, he called on the UNSC to force the US to abstain from obstructing the Russian-Syrian efforts to end the suffering of the camp residents.
Source: Agencies
