The delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic would like to express its complete rejection of draft resolution III, on the situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. It is simply yet another political attempt to target the Russian Federation for reasons unrelated to human rights. W…
My country’s delegation would also like to express its reservation with regard to, and dissociation from, the consensus on paragraph 12 of resolution 73/212, just adopted. The reason for our reservation and dissociation is that we want to be in line with the positions that we have always maintained …
My country’s delegation would like once again to express its reservations about paragraph 3 of resolution 73/207, which has just been adopted, and dissociates itself from the consensus on that paragraph, given that it refers to a report of the Secretary-General contained in document A/73/253.
The b…
The Syrian Arab Republic has been a State party to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction since 2013. We acceded to the Convention based on our rejection of all uses of chemical weapons, and since then have f…
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its adoption, and the subsequent adoption of further human rights instruments, was an important step in the promotion and protection of human rights and a successful part of the efforts of the United Nations to …
Every year we meet again to reaffirm our moral, humanitarian and legal commitment to providing purely humanitarian assistance to all those in need without discrimination, politicization or blackmail, and in accordance with the humanitarian principles that we all believe in. In that context, I want t…
I exercise my right of reply to the right of reply exercised by my colleague the representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
I would like to very briefly address him by saying that we were discussing objective matters related to the current method of work of the Organization of Islamic Cooperati…
I understood that my colleague the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh had asked for the floor on a point of order. However, he spoke about the draft resolution. In any case, it is not true that there is consensual language in the draft resolution under consideration because it was voted on last …
My delegation would like to express its position on agenda item 128 (b) and draft resolution A/73/L.45, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation”.
The Syrian Arab Republic is one of the founding States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (O…
My delegation would like to express its sincere
appreciation and gratitude to the General Assembly for having once again, and without interruption since 1981, adopted the resolution entitled “The Syrian Golan” (resolution 73/23), as well as for having adopted the other resolutions submitted under t…
I thank the representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt for introducing today’s draft resolutions A/73/L.30 and A/73/L.29, entitled “The Syrian Golan” and “Jerusalem”. I also thank all the sponsors of the draft resolution on the Syrian Golan and those who vote in favour of it.
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My delegation would like to express its position with respect to sub-item (d) of agenda item 128 and draft resolution A/73/L.23, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States”.
As members of the Assembly are aware, my country, the Syrian Arab Republic, was one of th…
In conclusion, we in Syria continue to believe that the League of Arab States can regain its role and credibility. However, what we heard today from the League Observer confirms what we said this morning, namely, that there is a movement afoot within the organization to co-opt its decisions and stan…
My country’s delegation would like to exercise its right of reply to address the misconceptions and unfounded accusations made by the observer of the League of Arab States at this morning’s plenary under agenda item 128 (d), entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab Sta…
The performance of the observer of the European Union (EU) confirmed once again our doubts and those felt by many Member States with regard to resolution 65/276, which was submitted and adopted several years ago to grant observer status to the EU and to give it the right to speak at the United Natio…
The delegation of my country, the Syrian Arab Republic, reiterates its steadfast position, namely, that we reject the politicization of human rights issues and mechanisms and their use as a political tool to serve the interests of certain influential countries in this Organization. They target Membe…
At the outset, I would like to stress that my delegation dissociates itself from any consensus on resolution 73/7, which has just been adopted. The Syrian Arab Republic has been and remains opposed to suspicious and unfounded attempts by the Governments of certain Member States to expand the scope o…
I apologize for taking the floor during the final minutes of the meeting, but I must reply to what was said earlier by the representative of Canada in order to refute his false allegations. We stress that those allegations are baseless and that they were made in the framework of Canada’s engagement …
I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, and your country, Ecuador, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy- third session. I wish you every success. I would also like to thank your predecessor for his role in steering the work of the Assembly during the previo…
The late Nelson Mandela — a great warrior in South Africa’s struggle and President of that country — left us a glorious legacy and is a source of pride for all peoples opposing foreign occupation, fighting for their independence and sovereignty over their national territory, and combating terrori…
