What our region witnessed yesterday is a natural and inevitable consequence of the repeated acts of aggression and grave violations of international law and the Charter of the United Nations committed by the Israeli occupation authorities against the territories of my country, Syria, and other count…
We thank the President of the General Assembly for his efforts in presiding over the work of the General Assembly.
My country’s delegation aligns itself with the statements delivered on behalf of the Group of Arab States and the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations (see …
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on your country’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of April. I would also like to thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of Japan, and his team for successfully conducting the Council’s …
Every March, the permanent members of the Security Council from the Western countries issue and reiterate misleading statements promoting a false narrative of the terrorist war that my country, Syria, has
been witnessing for the past 13 years. Their statements are designed to cover up those same St…
We thank the President of the General Assembly for convening this important meeting.
My delegation aligns itself with the statements delivered by the representatives of Yemen, on behalf of the Group of Arab States, and Venezuela, on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter (see A/78…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your country’s assumption of
the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to thank Guyana for the successful conduct of the work of the Council over the month of February.
Once again, the Security Counci…
For more than 140 days, the entire world has borne witness to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide being committed by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people.
Regrettably, the Security Council is paralysed, because one Council member has prevented it from carry…
The Syrian Arab Republic underscores the importance of diplomacy, dialogue and the peaceful settlement of disputes in the maintenance of international peace and security and in promoting the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. Accordingly, my country believes that the inclu…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on the election of your friendly country, Guyana, as member of the Security Council and on its presidency of the Council for this month. We wish you success in this endeavour.
My delegation thanks the Permanent Mission of the Russian…
My country’s delegation would like at the outset to congratulate you, Mr. President, and your sisterly country, the United Arab Emirates, on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council this month. We are confident that you will manage its work successfully. We would also like to thank t…
My delegation aligned itself with the consensus on resolution 75/264 because as a general rule we support cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations in areas that serve the objectives laid out in the Charter of the United Nations, which is the common denominato…
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…
The delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic is convinced of the importance of justice. It is for that reason alone that we were among the countries that actively contributed to negotiations on the Rome Statute, which led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court. My country was also am…
I apologize for requesting the floor at this late hour. However, my delegation would like to respond to statements made by the representatives of the regimes in power in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. Their statements included a collection of claims,
falsifications and propaganda, in which they se…
I would like to apologize for taking the floor again. My country’s delegation would like to respond to the statement made by the delegation of Turkey. I also want to underscore the content of the statement delivered at midday today by the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic. In part…
At the outset, I should like to welcome Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba. On behalf of my country, I reiterate my country’s full support for him and for the people and the Government of Cuba in dealing with the unjust embargo that successive United S…
My delegation welcomes the adoption of resolution 69/281, entitled “Saving the cultural heritage of Iraq”. I thank the sponsors for having submitted the text. The delegation of my country, the Syrian Arab Republic, joined the sponsors of the resolution, thereby underlining our support for the effort…
I apologize for asking to speak again, in view of the late hour, but my delegation would like to comment on the allegations made by the representative of Turkey in his statement.
Over the past four years of the crisis in Syria, we have repeatedly informed the Council of Turkey’s unrestrained suppor…
I will be brief, but I would nevertheless like to respond to the statement made by the representative of Israel who just took the floor. I would simply say that the Middle East region has known terrorism only since the Israeli occupation, which in the 1940s brought with it terrorist organizations th…
My delegation would like to exercise the right to reply to certain statements that have been made concerning the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. In that connection, my delegation would like to emphasize the following points.
First, the major responsibility for accountability and the administ…
