Syria‘s permanent delegate to the United Nations, Dr. Bashar Jaafari, affirmed that Syria fights terrorism on its soil and will continue to confront the Turkish aggression supporting terrorism, protect its children, defend its unity, adhere to its sovereignty, and its independent national decision, calling on the Security Council to assume its responsibilities and put an end to the adventures of the Erdogan regime that threaten regional and international peace and security.
Al-Jaafari called, during an emergency session of the Security Council today, on the situation in Idlib, which called for this session to answer questions about the presence of Turkish forces on Syrian soil and whether this was a military aggression and an act of occupation or not.
And did the Turkish regime seek to impose Turkish practices in the Syrian territories it occupies, change the names of its squares and its streets to Turkish names, impose Turkish curricula on our children and plunder our wealth, resources, and effects, legitimate actions under international law and its subsidiary laws or not … Have the approaches of Security Council members on combating terrorism changed? And the maintenance of international peace and security, or is there still a balance of credibility that the member states that entrusted the Council with responsibilities under the Charter can rely on..
Al-Jaafari said that the guarantors of the Astana track, “Russia, Iran and Turkey“, agreed in the fourth round of their meetings in the Kazakh capital at the beginning of May 2017 to establish the de-escalation areas in Syria as a temporary measure for a period of six months, and the guarantors, including the Turkish regime, stressed their strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of the Arab Republic The Syrians and to continue to fight the terrorist organizations “ISIS”, “Jabhat al-Nusra” and “Fatah al-Sham” and all the individuals, groups and entities associated with al-Qaeda or “ISIS” as they were classified by the Security Council inside and outside the de-escalation areas and take measures to ensure a cease-fire Fire by all parties.
Al-Jaafari pointed out that during the fourth round of the Astana process, it was agreed that the guarantor countries should take steps until the date of July 4, 2017 to separate “armed opposition groups” from terrorist groups, indicating that on May 3, 2017, Syria announced its support for the Russian initiative on de-escalation zones with a view to Injecting the blood of the Syrian people and enabling them to restore their normal life as much as possible while affirming at the same time their continuation in their war against terrorism represented by ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra and the terrorist organizations associated with them.
Al-Jaafari indicated that the Sochi Agreement on Idlib on the 17th of September 2018 stressed the necessity of the Turkish regime’s commitment to withdraw armed groups and terrorist organizations, including the “Jabhat al-Nusra” organization and its related entities from Idlib Governorate and parts of Aleppo and Hama countryside and disarm them by October 15 2018 and the restoration of traffic on the international roads “M4” and “M5” by the end of 2018, indicating that Syria welcomed this initiative, which is temporarily and temporarily nature in nature, which was the result of extensive consultations between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Federation, while reaffirming its commitment to struggle of terrorism until the liberation of every inch of its territory, whether military or operations through local reconciliations.
Al-Jaafari indicated that despite the demands of Syria, its friends and other countries for the Turkish regime to implement its obligations within the time limits set by the Astana understandings and the Sochi Agreement, Erdogan’s regime, which is outside the international legitimacy, disavowed its obligations and used with its terrorist organizations agreements to de-escalate to enhance their capabilities and presence in the Syrian regions bordering Turkey mainly.
And to try to impose a terrorist reality and give it the nature of sustainability at the expense of the suffering of our people in Idlib, Aleppo and rural Lattakia and protectors from the crimes of terrorist organizations that affected civilians and humanitarian workers and everyone who dared to reject the practices of these organizations, indicating that our people in the northwestern regions of Syria carried out protests and demonstrations in opposition to practices The terrorist organizations affiliated with the Turkish regime and those behind them, such as coercion, looting, killing, kidnapping, detention, torture, rape, imposition of the tribute, looting of agricultural crops, theft of antiquities, human trafficking, looting and sale of humanitarian aid.
Al-Jaafari pointed out that Erdogan‘s regime has transformed the Turkish observation points inside the Syrian territories that were intended to impose control on terrorist activity and prevent them from continuing their terrorist crimes and stave off attacks on the sites of the Syrian Arab Army and centers of Russian forces to operating rooms and points of support and support for terrorist organizations and the best evidence of This is the killing of Turkish soldiers away from these points where they were supporting the terrorists.
Al-Jaafari stressed that Syria, based on its national and constitutional duty and based on Security Council resolutions on combating terrorism and implementing the Astana understandings and the Sochi Agreement, began in cooperation with its allies a delicate military operation aimed at ridding our people in Aleppo, Idlib and their neighborhoods of criminalizing terrorist organizations and restoring state and law authority to those areas it controlled The terrorist “Al-Nusra Front” organization with elements of the “ISIS” terrorist organization and organizations loyal to them ,
Noting that the operations of the Syrian Arab Army and its allies have succeeded so far in liberating large areas and more than 140 towns and villages from the control of cannibals and herds of international terrorism.
Al-Jaafari reaffirmed Syria‘s rejection of the practices of the Turkish regime and the acts of aggression committed against the Syrians in support of terrorism in order to achieve its illusions in reviving the former Ottoman Sultanate, and also its refusal to promote the Turkish regime that its aggressive actions against Syria come in implementation of the Adana agreement concluded between the two countries in 1998 or other weak pretexts .
It is Erdogan‘s regime that violated the Adana Agreement and its obligations under the Astana understandings and the Sochi Agreement and struck wall wide the principles of good-neighborliness and Security Council resolutions relevant to fighting terrorism.
Al-Jaafari indicated that the Erdogan regime had worked for years to recruit, support, train and arm thousands of terrorists, including foreigners, who came from more than a hundred countries according to United Nations reports, and their intelligence services received them in Turkish airports and facilitated their infiltration across the common border with Syria.
It planned their crimes and provided them with years of military, political and media support before working to unify them and integrate them with its forces in its aggression against both northeast and northwestern Syria and transfer numbers of them to Libya and the Horn of Africa.
Al-Jaafari made it clear that Erdogan, who got rid of the leadership of the Turkish army since 2016 on the pretext of an alleged coup attempt, turned this army into an arm of the terrorist Brotherhood alongside terrorist groups in Syria and Libya, in violation of international law, the provisions of the Charter, Security Council resolutions and the Sochi Agreement.
He also turned the humanitarian crossings referred to by Council Resolution 2504 and what preceded it into a corridor for the introduction of thousands of its soldiers and military mechanisms, and before them tens of thousands of foreign terrorists and various types of weapons and ammunition, including chemical weapons.
Al-Jaafari stressed that Syria fights terrorism on its soil and not on the territory of any other country, and it will continue to confront by all legitimate means the Turkish aggression supporting terrorism, protecting its children, defending its unity, and upholding its sovereignty and its independent national decision.
Calling on the Security Council to assume its responsibilities in accordance with the provisions of international law and the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations and an end to the adventures of the Erdogan regime that threaten regional and international peace and security.
Source : Sana
