Thursday, 30 July 2020_Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari has denounced the Western economic sanctions against his country, saying the coercive measures are used as a pretext to keep up violations of Syrian sovereignty and support the terrorist groups wreaking havoc on the Arab country.
Addressing a Security Council session via video link on Wednesday, Jafari said the financial restrictions by Western states against his country and their attempts to hinder efforts to deliver aid to Syria expose their fake humanitarian claims.
“The motive behind all that is to find pretexts to continue violation of Syria’s sovereignty, threaten its territorial integrity, supporting the terrorist organizations,” Ja'afari said.
This month, he said, the Security Council has witnessed “feverish Western endeavors” to extend a 2014 resolution on aid delivery to Syria.
“The motive behind that is not to bring in aid to needy people, but to continue violation of Syria’s sovereignty, threaten its territorial integrity which contradict with the General Assembly Resolution No. 46/182,” he said.
After three attempts, the UNSC voted finally voted to extend aid deliveries to Syria for a year through a single border crossing from Turkey within the framework of a 2014 mechanism.
Russia and China abstained from voting.
Two of the earlier attempts were blocked by veto-wielders Russia and China, which argued the measures would violate Syrian sovereignty and any aid should be channeled through the Damascus government. The UNSC had also rejected relevant a Russian-drafted resolution.
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