Al-Jafari: UNSC Failure on Syria Resolution Is Victory of the Syrian Diplomacy
Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jafari said the UN Security Council’s failure to issue a resolution against Syria is a victory of the Syrian diplomacy which restored balance to the Council and ended its unipolarity.
“I believe that the Syrian triumph has also a pan-Arab dimension as the Syrian diplomacy has blocked the possibility of using the Council negatively against Arab issues,” said al-Jafari in an interview with the El-Nashra website.
“The other important thing” Syria’s Ambassador added “was Russia-China double veto against the resolution which was a unique case.”
Asked on the possibility of a new potential action at the Security Council against Syria, al-Jafari said that in terms of measures the resolution was already terminated and can not be resubmitted in its former language. “They have to start from point zero if they want to submit any new draft resolution.”
He added that some European countries seek to include other European countries and their leaderships in a way that contradicts with their strategic interests regarding the Arab world and toward Syria and the region’s countries. “Unfortunately, those countries have waged a diplomatic and political war on my country, and therefore they have to bear the results of their policies.”
Answering a question on the file the Syrian government submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on the attacks of the armed terrorist groups on the Syrian army and the state institutions, the Ambassador said that Syria has informed the UN Secretary General of all the details on the civilian and military victims who fell since the beginning of the events.
“Those details were delivered to the Secretary General in six separate letters…I also met with him several times and explained to him the situation in Syria,” al-Jafari added.
He regretted the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s lagging in fully conveying these details in his update to the Security Council, noting that even his advisors have not delivered these details to the Council.
Al-Jafari highly appreciated the role Russia plays regarding Syria, highlighting the friendship relations and the mutual respect between the two countries.
“We are working at the UN to prevent war and find peaceful settlements for disputes and conflicts…Our role as diplomats is to build bridges to settle disputes and not to inflame them,” the Syrian Ambassador concluded.
