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STORY: UN / SYRIA JAAFARI
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LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 JANUARY 2020, NEW YORK CITY
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UNHQ exterior
03 JANUARY 2020, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Jaafari at stakeout
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations:
“The Syrian Government is determined not to give up its right and duty as a sovereign state to eliminate the last strongholds of terrorism. And everyone knows that those who control this area are the terrorists of Hay’at Tahrir As-Sham, or Jabhat Al-Nusra, which is designated as a terrorist entity by the Security Council. So, here we are not reinventing the wheel. We are talking about something concrete, something that the Security Council is aware of.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations:
“Of course the most heinous hypocrisy is that the Security Council today discusses the humanitarian situation in Syria at the request of governments occupying part of Syrian territory, namely speaking USA, Britain, and France - and Turkey of course - imposing unilateral coercive economic measures on the Syrian people, attempting to defend a terrorist organization in Idlib, and moreover ceasing Syrian oil like gangs and pirates and benefiting from its revenues with the separatist Kurdish groups in Syria. So, you see the list of crimes is rather long.”
5. Wide shot, Jaafari at stakeout
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations:
“The United Nations is a part – whether it wants to be or not in a direct or indirect way – and particularly OCHA and those who support this direction at the Security Council are a part of extending the crisis in Syria. They are also a part of those who are inciting terrorist organization not to halt their terrorist acts, not to participate in the national dialogue with the Syrian Government, and not to lay down the terrorist weapons they poses, which they are receiving in enormous amounts with Qatari, Saudi and Turkish funding – and also of course French and American.”
7. Wide shot, Jaafari at stakeout
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations:
“At a moment where everybody is seeking to ease tensions in the area not to increase tensions in the area, it is a pity to see the great power of the United States used to kill somebody the way gangs do it. This is why the Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the US criminal aggression which led to the martyrdom of Major General Soleimani and Al-Muhandis.”
9. Zoom out, Jaafari leaving stakeout
Syrian ambassador Bashar Ja’afari told reporters that his government is “determined not to give up its right and duty as a sovereign state to eliminate the last strongholds of terrorism.”
Speaking outside the Security Council today (03 Jan) as closed consultations took place in the Chamber at the request of the United Kingdom and France to discuss the situation in Idlib, Ja’afari said his country was combating “Hay’at Tahrir As-Sham, or Jabhat Al-Nusra, which is designated as a terrorist entity by the Security Council” in the Syrian province. He added, “here we are not reinventing the wheel. We are talking about something concrete, something that the Security Council is aware of.”
Ja’afari said some 800,000 Syrian civilians were hostage to the terrorist organizations in Idlib, adding that anyone speaking of three or four million were lying. He said it would have been better for those who called for the meeting today to deal responsibly with the dangerous situation in Idlib and to work for real cooperation with the Syrian and Government Governments to eliminate terrorism there instead of continuing to provide cover from Al-Nusra Front which is in control of Idlib.
SOUNDBITE (English) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations:
“Of course the most heinous hypocrisy is that the Security Council today discusses the humanitarian situation in Syria at the request of governments occupying part of Syrian territory, namely speaking USA, Britain, and France - and Turkey of course - imposing unilateral coercive economic measures on the Syrian people, attempting to defend a terrorist organization in Idlib, and moreover ceasing Syrian oil like gangs and pirates and benefiting from its revenues with the separatist Kurdish groups in Syria. So, you see the list of crimes is rather long.”
The Syrian ambassador said there was no justification for cross border humanitarian operations in his country which more than 95 percent of aid being delivered through cross-line operations within Syria. He said western powers created the cross-border operations to encourage terrorists in Syria and provide them with aid, while avoiding dealing with the Syria government.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations:
“The United Nations is a part – whether it wants to be or not in a direct or indirect way – and particularly OCHA and those who support this direction at the Security Council are a part of extending the crisis in Syria. They are also a part of those who are inciting terrorist organization not to halt their terrorist acts, not to participate in the national dialogue with the Syrian Government, and not to lay down the terrorist weapons they poses, which they are receiving in enormous amounts with Qatari, Saudi and Turkish funding – and also of course French and American.”
Asked about the killing of Iranian Major General Soleimani, Ja’afari said, “At a moment where everybody is seeking to ease tensions in the area not to increase tensions in the area, it is a pity to see the great power of the United States used to kill somebody the way gangs do it. This is why the Syrian Arab Republic condemns in the strongest terms the US criminal aggression which led to the martyrdom of Major General Soleimani and Al-Muhandis.”
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