Al-Hamwi: We Denounce Pillay’s Bias towards Events in Syria
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GENEVA, (SANA)- Syria’s delegation to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) expressed deep denunciation and regret over the obvious partiality with which the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pilay deals with the events in Syria.
“My country’s delegation inspected the Commissioner’s report and wants to express their deep denunciation and regret at the obvious bias which Pillay practices in her dealing with the events in Syria,” Faisal al-Hamwi, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, said in response to Pillay’s report before the UNHRC.
He denounced the fact that the UN High Commissioner “places blame on the Syrian government while closing her eyes to the widespread human rights violations committed by al-Qaeda and al-Nusra groups and other takfiris.”
Al-Hamwi added that Pillay has “ignored the Syrian state’s right to protecting its people and presented an unprecedented exaggeration of the situation in the city of al-Qseir that amounted to pure imagination as she predicted that massacres were going to happen twenty days before the events started.”
“This is understood as an irresponsible and unacceptable instigation for more violence,” he stressed.
The Syrian Representative lashed out at the “style of exaggeration that has nothing to do with reality” to which Pillay returned when she talked in her current report about the death of “hundreds of innocent civilians in al-Qseir”.
“Syria challenges the Office of the Commissioner and her team which she sent to some of the region’s states, the eyewitnesses whom they listened to and the American agency which she hired, and all of those that convinced her of those lies-I challenge them all- to provide one single evidence on these allegations,” said al-Hamwi.
He clarified that those hid information from the Commissioner that the Syrian government actually allowed the civilians to leave al-Qseir city under its protection and that it gave the gunmen a chance to hand over their weapons to be able to leave the city unharmed and have their situation settled.
He added that “some of the gunmen however insisted on continuing to fight keeping thousands of civilians as human shields in a flagrant disdain of a human’s right to live.”
Al-Hamwi slammed Pillay’s “continued attempt to deny the Syrian state’s right to protecting its people in the face of the terrorism of thousands of mercenary takfiris who came from more than 40 states provided facilitations from Qatar and Turkey.”
He stressed that these practices along with the Commissioner’s refraining from condemning Qatar and Turkey constitute “a serious and worrying precedent regarding the work of the UN and the Commissioner’s Office…which harms the credibility of the human rights system at the international organization and in the world.”
Al-Hamwi affirmed that Pillay’s continued demand that Syria’s file be referred to the International Criminal Court “is a choice that is beyond her mandate,” especially that the Commissioner knows very well that the Syrian efforts in the context of investigating all the crimes are ongoing.
He underscored Syria’s cooperation with the Commissioner and her Office over the past two years “despite the intentional neglect with which the Office met all what Syria has presented of credible information and documents.”
Al-Hamwi concluded as saying that “Therefore, we and many delegations have reached a conviction that the Commissioner and her Office are determined to follow this biased and unprofessional approach and there is no hope the office may change this irresponsible style of it.”
H. Said
Al-Hamwi: Draft Resolution on Syria Submitted to UNHRC Non-Objective
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GENEVA, (SANA) – Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Dr. Faisal al-Hamwi, said that whenever the countries supporting terrorism in Syria sense that their mercenaries are suffering military defeats, they rush to hold impotent sessions on the situation in Syria.
Addressing the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) during an emergency session on the situation in Syria held on Wednesday, al-Hamwi said that it’s a disgrace that the two countries sponsoring this session are Qatar and Turkey who are primary accomplices in the murder of Syrians and shedding their blood.
He said that regrettably, the baseless allegations made by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in May 10th encouraged Qatar and Turkey to further infringe upon the role and reputation of the UNHRC, stressing that such irresponsible behavior on the part of the High Commissioner’s office will undermine the credibility of the organization.
“If the High Commissioner’s office isn’t qualified to give documented data, then it’s better for it to remain silent,” al-Hamwi said.
He also indicated to a recent article published by a major European newspaper a week ago, which said that up until today, Qatar spent USD 3 billion on the war on Syria, noting that Qatar spent billions to bring Takfiri mercenaries from over 40 countries to Turkey where they were trained under Turkish-Israeli supervision before being sent to Syria to wreak havoc.
Al-Hamwi said the draft resolution proposed by Qatar and Turkey is non-objective and biased due to it having political motives, and that its phrasing is malicious, unconstructive, distant from transparency, and has absolutely nothing to do with reality.
He asserted that no massacres took place in the town of al-Qseir, and that the tears shed by the resolution’s sponsors over Syrians are pure hypocrisy and a cheap ploy to exploit them, pointing out to the suffering of the people of al-Qseir at the hands of Takfiri groups who launched missiles and shells at citizens in Lebanon, all in a desperate bid to involve Lebanon in the Syrian crisis.
Al-Hamwi said that out of commitment to carrying out its duty of protecting its people and in order to end this anomalous state on the borders with Lebanon, Syria allowed civilians to leave al-Qseir under protection of the Armed Forces and gave the gunmen there a chance to surrender their arms and leave, but some of them remained determined to stay as per order received from Qatar and Turkey, and these gunmen are using civilians as human shields.
He said that delegations have grown weary of these pointless and impotent charades which waste the Council’s time with their cheap and non-objective way of dealing with the situation in Syria which is content to direct condemnation and hatred without any objective substance, noting that this aims to provide political and moral support for terrorists and encourage them to escalate violence and murder.
“Syria, which is fighting terrorism and protecting its people, will continue at the same time its cooepraiton with honest efforts to end the crisis politically… it will now acknowledge this resolution because it is irresponsible, immoral, and contains a tremendous amount of lies and slander,” al-Hamwi concluded.
Al-Hamwi: We Denounce Pillay’s Bias towards Events in Syria
Earlier, al-Hamwi and Syria’s delegation to the UNHRC expressed deep denunciation and regret over the obvious partiality with which the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pilay deals with the events in Syria.
“My country’s delegation inspected the Commissioner’s report and wants to express their deep denunciation and regret at the obvious bias which Pillay practices in her dealing with the events in Syria,” al-Hamwi said in response to Pillay’s report before the UNHRC.
He denounced the fact that the UN High Commissioner “places blame on the Syrian government while closing her eyes to the widespread human rights violations committed by al-Qaeda and al-Nusra groups and other takfiris.”
Al-Hamwi added that Pillay has “ignored the Syrian state’s right to protecting its people and presented an unprecedented exaggeration of the situation in the city of al-Qseir that amounted to pure imagination as she predicted that massacres were going to happen twenty days before the events started.”
“This is understood as an irresponsible and unacceptable instigation for more violence,” he stressed.
The Syrian Representative lashed out at the “style of exaggeration that has nothing to do with reality” to which Pillay returned when she talked in her current report about the death of “hundreds of innocent civilians in al-Qseir”.
“Syria challenges the Office of the Commissioner and her team which she sent to some of the region’s states, the eyewitnesses whom they listened to and the American agency which she hired, and all of those that convinced her of those lies-I challenge them all- to provide one single evidence on these allegations,” said al-Hamwi.
He clarified that those hid information from the Commissioner that the Syrian government actually allowed the civilians to leave al-Qseir city under its protection and that it gave the gunmen a chance to hand over their weapons to be able to leave the city unharmed and have their situation settled.
He added that “some of the gunmen however insisted on continuing to fight keeping thousands of civilians as human shields in a flagrant disdain of a human’s right to live.”
Al-Hamwi slammed Pillay’s “continued attempt to deny the Syrian state’s right to protecting its people in the face of the terrorism of thousands of mercenary takfiris who came from more than 40 states provided facilitations from Qatar and Turkey.”
He stressed that these practices along with the Commissioner’s refraining from condemning Qatar and Turkey constitute “a serious and worrying precedent regarding the work of the UN and the Commissioner’s Office…which harms the credibility of the human rights system at the international organization and in the world.”
Al-Hamwi affirmed that Pillay’s continued demand that Syria’s file be referred to the International Criminal Court “is a choice that is beyond her mandate,” especially that the Commissioner knows very well that the Syrian efforts in the context of investigating all the crimes are ongoing.
He underscored Syria’s cooperation with the Commissioner and her Office over the past two years “despite the intentional neglect with which the Office met all what Syria has presented of credible information and documents.”
Al-Hamwi concluded as saying that “Therefore, we and many delegations have reached a conviction that the Commissioner and her Office are determined to follow this biased and unprofessional approach and there is no hope the office may change this irresponsible style of it.”
Russia’s Representatives to UN Office in Geneva: Human Rights Council Discussions on Syria Hamper Efforts for International Conference on Syria
Russia’s Permanent Representative to UN Office in Geneva, Alexey Borodavkin, stressed on Wednesday that the emergency meeting of the UN Human Rights Council to discuss the situation in al-Quseir city in Homs countryside is aimed at hampering the efforts exerted to hold the international conference on Syria (Geneva 2).
Russia Today website reported Borodavkin as saying during the meeting “Emergency discussions which were called for by the US, Turkey and Qatar and the proposed draft resolution are counterproductive and they may complicate the initiation of a peaceful process in Syria.”
H. Said / H. Sabbagh / F.Allafi
Lavrov: Syrian Opposition Abroad Out of Touch with Suffering of Syrian People
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MOSCOW, (SANA)- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday warned against the increasing inflow of foreign fighters going to Syria from North Africa and Europe.
In a press conference in Moscow, Lavrov said that the Syrian opposition abroad is not in touch with the suffering of the Syrian people, as most members of this opposition live abroad.
He asserted that holding an international conference on the crisis in Syria is the only way to resolve the crisis, pointing out that the developments of the crisis threaten the stability of the region, deepen disputes in the Islamic world, and increase threats to Syria.
Lavrov stressed the need to avoid unilateral solutions and double standards when dealing with the crisis in Syria, calling for inviting all sides, including Iran, to the negotiations in the international conference.
He said that the European Union’s decision to not extend the embargo on exporting weapons to the Syrian opposition constitutes an obstacle for the international conference, noting that putting an embargo on something forbidden by international law and EU laws was in itself an act with double meanings.
Lavrov pointed out that ending the embargo at this time makes the situation more complicated and creates many obstacles for holding the international conference.
He also criticized the US-supported draft resolution which is due to be discussed at the UN Human Rights Council as this resolution would harm attempts to end the crisis, voicing surprise over the very active efforts of the US delegation to push this harmful draft through alongside Qatar and Turkey, adding that this would undermine the efforts made by himself and US counterpart John Kerry.
Lavrov said he discussed this unilateral draft resolution with Kerry a few days ago in Paris, with the latter telling him that he’s unaware of this issue and that he’ll look into it, wondering if he did so or not.
He warned that adopting this resolution and the enthusiasm shown by some Arab Gulf countries regarding it constitute attempts to complicate the implementation of the Russian-US initiative on holding the international conference, recalling that similar attempts were made by involving the UN General Assembly when the initiative was announced, and now they’re trying to do the same thing through the Human Rights Council.
Churkin: S-300 Missiles Help Deter Intervention in Syria
Meanwhile, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, renewed his country’s support to the principle of non-interference in the Syrian affairs and the importance of focusing on finding a political solution to the crisis in Syria.
In an interview with CNN news network, Churkin stressed that supplying Syria with the Russian S-300 missiles will help deter any foreign intervention against it.
He clarified that Russia is supplying Syria with weapons according to known contracts signed with it before the crisis, while other sides are supplying “the armed groups” with weapons that help increase violence.
He added that the weapons being sent by Russia aim to consolidate the regional stability, stemming from the fact that Syria is an important country in the Middle East.
Russian Source: Arab Gulf Countries Hinder Holding International Conference on Syria
A source close to the Russian delegation which held talks recently with a US delegation in Paris affirmed that the positions and provocations of Arab Gulf countries constitute an obstacle which hinders holding an international conference on Syria.
The source said that Russia believes that submitting draft resolutions at the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council which assigns full blame to the Syrian government for bloodshed in Syria, in addition to lifting the embargo on arming the Syrian opposition by the EU, are part of the steps aiming to thwart the conference on Syria.
The source said that if the conference isn’t held, then the international sides seeking to topple the Syrian state will blame Russia to justify taking actions behind its back and circumventing the Security Council, which is why Russia must prevent any actions that may harm its efforts.
The source said that Russia is convinced that Arab Gulf countries are responsible for all this, with the US and western countries agreeing with them.
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