Al-Jafari To UNSC: Syria’s Sovereignty, Independence Integrity a Red Line, AL’s Decisions A Flagrant Interference
He stressed that Syria rejects any decision outside the framework of the Arab Work Plan it agreed upon and the protocol signed with the Arab League.
Syria's Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jafari stressed Tuesday's that "Syria's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity are red line."
Speaking during a Security Council session on the Syrian crisis, al-Jafari said that "the Syrian patriotism rejects foreign interference and stresses on standing united in face of sedition and division, renouncing violence and not resorting to arms while demanding reform."
Stating that "today Syria is facing decisive challenges in its history," the Syrian official clarified that "Syrian people have all over the years been able to solve their internal problems and crises by themselves and will never accept any form of foreign interference in their homeland Syria."
Al-Jafari recalled how in the late 50s and the beginning of the 60s "Syrians were happy to donate our pocket money to help the Arab liberation movements in the Gulf against the British colonialism."
"That was before the oil boom, when Arabism was different in its concept from the way some look at it today," he noted.
He said that "the Arab people would have wished that the presence of the Arab League (AL) Secretary General and the Chairman of the current session of the AL Council to the Security Council would have been to demand the Security Council to shoulder its responsibilities to end the "Israeli" occupation of the Arab territories and to halt the "Israeli" escalated acts of killing and settlement activities."
"It is so strange to see some of the AL members restoring to the Security Council against Syria that has always been ready to sacrifice the dearest for the sake of defending the Arab issues," al-Jafari added.
He considered that the Arab League's recent decision to head to the Security Council is a kind of circumventing the success of the Arab monitoring mission and an attempt to pass over its report because it came contrary to the plot of some Arab and non-Arab parties who falsely claim keenness on the Arab role in resolving the crisis in Syria.
"The AL decision meets the plans and interests of the non-Arab countries that are aimed at destroying Syria and disrupting its security and stability because Syria rejects to be a subordinate country or a country of incomplete sovereignty and insists on the independence of its decision and on preserving its people's interests and security."
"Syria considers the decision made at the AL Council's recent meeting a violation of Syria's national sovereignty, a flagrant interference in its internal affairs and a gross transgression of the goals for which the AL was founded and of the eighth provision of its charter," said al-Jafari.
The representative of Syria blasted the strange contradiction when some Oligarchy States present draft resolutions for democracy, human rights, power rotation while they themselves don't have even a constitution, or electoral system and never practice democracy.
"The wild tendency of some Western countries to interfere in our internal and external affairs by all means is not new or accidental, but it is a systematic and continued approach since Sykes-Picot agreement in 1916 and Balfour Declaration in 1917, and through the unlimited support to Israel in its aggressive polices and its occupation of the Arab territories," said al-Jafari.
'' Bin Jessem, the Qatari Premier, talks to you to inform you of what the League of Arab States, decided; such a League, however, does not exist without Syria; and we would never allow any body to take a decision about our future in our absence or on our behalf.'' underscored al-Jafari.
Source: SANA, Edited by moqawama.org
