Iran Press/ Middle East: In 2014, The UN Security Council adopted resolution No. 2165 which allows the humanitarian convoys, headed for Syria, to cross borders. It is extended every year and its mechanism is still in effect.
In reaction to the vetoed draft resolution which called for new border crossings, Syrian UN mission criticized the political hypocrisy when some Security Council members talk about a humanitarian crisis in Syria while they launch an aggression on its people.
Acting Charge de-Affairs of Syria’s permanent mission to the UN Louay Fallouh said the top political and moral hypocrisy is that when some sides at UN Security Council talk about a humanitarian crisis in Syria while they launch aggression and impose a siege on its people.
He made the remarks during a UN Security Council session following a veto used by Russia and China against a draft resolution, submitted by Germany, Belgium, and Kuwait about transporting humanitarian aid to Syria which exploits the situation in the country and violates its sovereignty.
He said that Syria thanks the countries that foiled the draft resolution submitted by the so-called “humanitarian co-penholders”, a step that preserves principles of the international law and UN convention.
Fallouh added that the draft resolution submitted by the so-called “humanitarian co-penholders” about Syria depended on a marketing campaign in which representatives of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) manipulated with the numbers and statements.
He wondered how some Security Council member states and the so-called “humanitarian co-penholders” remain silent towards the US occupation forces’ looting of the Syrian gas and oil.
He also called for immediately lifting the unilateral, coercive economic measures imposed on the Syrian people.
In the meantime, UN special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, affirmed the need for the political solution to the crisis in Syria according to UN Security Council resolution No. 2254 which calls for respecting Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, according to SANA.
“It was not possible to hold sessions within the 2nd round of the committee of discussing the constitution in Geneva in late November because of disagreement on the agenda,” Pedersen said in a briefing to the UN Security Council, hoping a date for the coming round would be fixed.
He stressed that the work of the committee of discussing the constitution should be under the leadership of Syria totally, based on principles that call for respecting Syria’s sovereignty in line with UN resolution No. 2254.
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