Allow me, at the outset, to express our congratulations to you, Madam, on your country’s accession to the presidency of the Security Council for the present month. I also thank your delegation for the initiative of convening this important meeting.
This year coincides with the one-hundredth anniver…
In the statement I made earlier, I did not focus on certain technical aspects of some the Council’s counter- terrorism Sanctions Committees. Unfortunately, the representative of Israel raised the issue of terrorism in Syria in an attempt to cover up his country’s involvement in the crisis in my coun…
I apologize for taking the floor a second time. Once again, let me say that my delegation has repeatedly warned of the danger of being diverted from the substance of the item under consideration, the fundamental objective of which is the self-determination of Palestine and not the situation in neigh…
Allow me, first of all, to thank Ms. Michelle Bachelet for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on
women and peace and security (S/2012/732). We would like to tell her how much we appreciate her work since she assumed her post.
The Syrian Arab Republic has sought to develop in a qualitat…
My country participated actively in the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, which led to the adoption of the Rome Statute in 1998. We signed and ratified the Statute on 29 November 2000.
The Rome Statute was intended to…
It is indeed regrettable that we have had to listen to statements containing a torrent of mischaracterizations and falsehoods from several speakers.
In the statement made by the observer of the European Union (EU) there were assertions that the EU cared about the welfare of the Syrian people. Let m…
I was surprised to hear the representative of the Zionist regime respond once again to our words. I was even more surprised that she talked about maps, topography and the features of that topography in an occupying State that is exercising a new form of occupation based on expelling the original inh…
We regret the statement made by the representative of Israel regarding Syria. We would like to recall that Israel should be the last to speak about combating State terrorism. This is an inappropriate term to be used by Israel, which was born at the expense of the suffering of the Arab people, their …
At the outset, I would like to say that my country, Syria, aligns itself with the statements made by the representative of Argentina on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement and the representative of Kazakhstan on behalf of the Organiz…
My delegation wishes to speak concerning resolution 63/308, entitled “The responsibility to protect”. My delegation thanks the sponsors of the resolution for their efforts to promote and ensure its adoption and for taking into consideration the suggestions made by delegations in the course of its dr…
