Deputy Foreign Minister, Bashar al-Jaafari, affirmed on Friday that the terrorist organizations and QSD militia , supported by the US occupation, continue to commit crimes and violations against children in Syria, including killing, kidnapping, recruitment and transferring children to conflict areas in the countries of the region in addition to burning and destructing schools and hospitals and preventing children from going to schools.
Al-Jaafari, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, said during an informal session of the UN Security Council via video conference held at the initiative of Russia and Kazakhstan on “Children in Armed Conflict” that the Syrian state, despite the huge pressures, exerts tremendous efforts to protect and care for the children who are found in the areas that have been liberated from terrorism or who reached to the state institutions.
Al-Jaafari pointed out that terrorism is considered one of the most dangerous threats that affects countries and communities and when it spread, the first affected ones will be the children.
He added that the most complicated image of this impact is in recruiting children by terrorists and illegitimate entities and making them participate in terrorist acts.
The Deputy Minister renewed Syria’s condemnation and absolute refusal of signing the so called “work plan” by the the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.
Source : SANA
