In the beginning, I congratulate your country [Dominican Republic] for your non-permanent membership in the Security Council, and I congratulate you personally for presiding over the work of this Council during this month. I welcome the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, Mrs. Marsudi, and I congratulate Palestine, the State of Palestine for presiding over the G77 + China.
Mr. President,
Yesterday, the Israeli occupation forces once again committed a series of aggression using missiles targeting the Syrian Arab Republic territories from above Lebanese territories – it was mentioned by my colleague, the representative of Lebanon in great detail. They attacked us from above the Lebanese territories, from the occupied Palestinian territories and from the See of Galilee in the occupied Syrian Golan. This was a gross violation of international law, of the UN Charter and of the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions, as well as the 1974 Disengagement Agreement (between Israel and Syria).
These acts of aggression would not have been committed if the Security Council hadn't failed in compelling the implementation of Security Council Resolutions relevant to the Israeli-Arab conflict over long decades, and were it not for the unlimited support provided by some permanent members of this Security Council to this rogue entity. This encouraged Israel to increase their frequent crimes, violations and State terrorism, away from any kind of accountability, even purely formal. This was demonstrated by the repeated acts of aggression against my country carried out by Israel, and the multifaceted support they provided for years to terrorist organizations.
These acts were not condemned, nor was there any call by the Security Council to stop such acts, in light of the position of the US, Britain and France, who are accomplices and supporters of Israel in such acts of aggression. The policies of these 3 countries and their stances in the UN run counter, in the letter and spirit, to the responsibility they are supposed to shoulder in maintaining international peace and security in line with the international law and the UN Charter’s provisions. The fact that these countries continue to play the role of false witnesses and prevent the Security Council from undertaking its responsibilities will not stop us from exercising our legitimate right of self-defense and work on retaking the occupied Syrian Golan by all means possible.
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Mr. President,
Recovering the Syrian Golan is an
established right for the Syrian Arab
Republic. This imprescriptible right is
not subject to negotiations, concessions
or expiration. The full withdrawal of
the Israeli occupying forces from the
Golan, to the June 4th, 1967 line is an
obligation that shall be fulfilled. It
is an unwavering demand based on the
principles of international law and the
binding UN International Resolutions,
including your own resolutions 242, 338
and 497.
Israel feverishly strives to alter this
reality, as we have seen today in the
Israeli representative's intervention –
he talked about everything, except the
Palestinian cause and the Israeli-Arab
conflict. Israel feverishly strives to
alter this reality, and keeps uttering
aggressive statements and undertaking
criminal acts, but they are doomed to
fail, and will never lead in any form
whatsoever to any prejudice against the
legal or sovereign rights of my country.
Certain countries have invested heavily
in the terrorist war waged against my
country, and counted on the situation of
some countries in the region to
overshadow Arab rights and choke the
voices calling to implement the binding
UN International Resolutions imposing
the end of the Israeli occupation of
Arab land. Moreover, these countries
tried to achieve gains for the
occupation and promote some suspicious
deal to liquidate the Palestinian cause
and the established and unwavering
rights of the peoples and countries in
the region.
They tried to ignite artificial strife
and stir surrealist conflicts between
countries of the region, in order to
deviate their attention from the
fundamental cause of what's happening in
the Middle East. All this lack of
stability, prosperity and development is
because of the continued Israeli
occupation, Israeli settlements and
Israeli massacre of the Palestinian
cause.
Mr. President,
The past period has witnessed many
dangerous and systematic Israeli
practices, through which the occupying
forces tempted to consolidate their
control and impose their will on the
occupied Syrian Golan. Let us mention
for example: holding meetings of the
Israeli government in the occupied
Syrian Golan; striving to organize
illegitimate local elections there;
signing deals and issuing permits to
loot the natural resources of the Golan;
just recently, looting the properties of
Syrians and displacing them to establish
a project for wind power generation over
around 6000 dunams of land, in some of
the surrounding sites around the cities
of Magd al-Chams, Ayn Qania, Buqata and
Massada; and the continuous settlement
activity as well as crimes and daily
repression against Syrian citizens under
the yoke of the occupation. They arrest
them and throw them in Israeli prisons
arbitrarily, as is still the case of the
activist Sedqi al-Maqet, Syria's Nelson
Mandela, and Amal Abu Saleh. They also
subject other Syrians to house arrest.
The Israeli officials have also issued
repeated aggressive statements, which
stress that the occupying power cares
neither about international law nor
about the Resolutions of your Council,
and intends to continue its occupation.
Unfortunately, all these issues and
their rejection by our people in the
Golan did not catch the attention of the
Special Coordinator, Mr. Mladinov, so
that they could be included in his
monthly briefing to you. Worse, he
avoided on purpose to call things by
their names. He talked to us about about
the side "Alpha" and the side "Bravo",
as if each of you knew what means Alpha
and what means Bravo
[1],
instead of issuing a clear condemnation
of the almost daily Israeli aggression
against the territories of the Syrian
Arab Republic, including the continuous
aggression against the Damascus
International Civil Airport, which is, I
repeat, a civilian airport.
Such blatant disregard is a political
and moral failure to undertake his
mandate in a way that turns counter to
the principles and rules applicable in
the UN, and thus deprives him of any
legitimacy.
Mr. President,
We are pragmatic and we know the differences in the political stances of the members of this Council. However, we call upon you to focus on the common ground that joins us, that is the international law, the UN Charter and the Resolutions of this Council of yours. Thus, we stress the necessity for the countries supporting Israel, its policies and stances to review their approach, to stick to that common ground that I have touched upon now, and to work towards the restoration of the legitimate rights to their true owners in line with the binding UN International Resolutions and the internationally recognized bodies. Otherwise, the destiny of this international organization will be just a repeat of the failure of the League of Nations for the same reasons.
This begs the question : from where do such coalitions and meetings gain their legitimacy? Are international relations governed by international law and the UN Charter upon which the founding fathers strove to agree? Or are they governed by the will and the destructive agendas of some countries? Are we not correct, Mr. President, to warn that this organization might end up just like the League of Nations if we do not hold a stance against the policies of these countries? The absence of a UN sponsoring of the Warsaw meeting clearly shows that such an approach will not manage to resolve anything, and won't realize what was announced by the organizers themselves, namingly the drafting of a common strategy on the Middle East. They said themselves that the Warsaw meeting meant to draft a common strategy on the Middle East.
Mr. President,
My country expresses its firm and principled position supporting the rights of the Palestinian people for self-determination and independent statehood over all its territories with Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital, and the right of return of the refugees in line with Resolution 194 of 1948. We renew and stress that any measures that would prejudice those rights are null, void and rejected, and will only escalate tensions and threaten peace and security in the region and in the world.
To conclude, Mr. President, I tell those who are trying to redraw the maps of our region along their own whims that our people, who stood against the unprecedented international terrorist war imposed on us, will also stand against such evil plans, and will thwart them just as he thwarted others over decades.
Thank you, Mr. President.
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