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Ali Ahmed: Syria denounces exploitation of the human rights issue to implement political pressures and blackmail agendas

Ambassador Haider Ali Ahmed, Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations Office in Geneva,stressed that the allegations of concern regarding the Syrian- humanitarian situation in Syria are incompatible with the continued exploitation of it in the implementation of agendas of pressure and political blackmail which the Committee represents International Commission of Inquiry on Syria is one of its tools.

Geneva, SANA-Ambassador Haider Ali Ahmed, Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations Office in Geneva,stressed that the allegations of concern regarding the Syrian- humanitarian situation in Syria are incompatible with the continued exploitation of it in the implementation of agendas of pressure and political blackmail which the Committee represents International Commission of Inquiry on Syria is one of its tools.

Certain hostile countries impose politicized, selective and subjective meetings, mechanisms and reports directed against specific countries, in this case Syria, without this having any real result or relationship with the protection and promotion of human rights during an interactive dialogue with the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria that held a session within the framework of the 54th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva,the Ambassador said.

Ali Ahmed pointed out that this the aforementioned Commission of Inquiry has been insisting since the beginning of the war in Syria 12 years ago, on continuing with the same biased approach and on its non-objective reading of the situation in Syria, its causes and consequences, for which we once again find ourselves faced with deliberate distortions of the facts.

He explained that this committee has repeatedly engaged in the evaluation of issues outside its mandate, and continues to ignore issues that lie at the heart of human rights and that have a direct causal relationship with the continued deterioration of the humanitarian and living conditions in Syria.

He referred to the effects of the illegal foreign military presence and terrorism, which continues to be supported by the States that sponsor the Committee’s mandate, and the responsibility of the United States for several of its illegal practices against the Syrian people, including the acts of aggression, support for separatist groups and the continuous looting of natural resources and agricultural crops.

Ali Ahmed underlined that Syria is firmly commitment to continue the arrival aid to those who need it in all its regions, and in this framework the UN and its specialized agencies permitted to use the Bab al-Hawa crossing for a period of six months to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians, despite that, terrorist organizations prevented the arrival of this aid for more than two months , the comparison is that Human Rights Counci didn’t criticize in any word nor from the countries that claim to be concerned about the humanitarian situation in Syria.

He called for the withdrawal of occupying US and Turkish military forces from all Syrian territories, reestablishing state authority over them, supporting efforts to facilitate the return of displaced people and refugees to their homes, and lifting unilateral coercive measures immediately and unconditionally.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency