Brahimi's Successor Should Be Appointed after Consulting with Syria: Envoy
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari said that the appointment of an alternate UN-Arab League Special Envoy for Syria should be made after consulting with Damascus.
“Syria does not care about the name of the new envoy the UN intends to send to it; rather it cares about the significance and content, and in the end, any replacement of Lakhdar Brahimi should be assigned after consulting with the Syrian government,” Jaafari told al-Mayadin TV on Friday.
Pointing to certain Arab countries’ recent draft resolutions submitted to the Security Council and the UN General Assembly, Jaafari said such moves are part of the Western-led attempts to undermine the forthcoming presidential election in Syria.
The Syrian official also slammed what he called hypocrisy at the Security Council, “with Britain drafting a resolution on the humanitarian issue in Syria alongside some western countries and some states that are Arabic in name only.”
Jaafari accused Western states of fueling the crisis in Syria, and said that they are “finally acknowledging the presence of terrorists in Syria to keep up with reality, but this is merely a tactical step, not a strategic step.”
He noted that the US is not part of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and therefore has no right to lecture anyone about this issue.
Jaafari said that the Western countries' actions prove that they do not want the crisis in Syria to end, as they want to create a constitutional vacuum in it which they can exploit and exert pressure on Syria.
He also accused the UN General Secretariat of distorting facts by falsifying over the situation in Syria, and supplying the Security Council with “misleading and incorrect data.”
"The public opinion mistakenly believes that the UN is a legal body that protects rights and preserves international security and peace and a charity that loves the poor and helps people, but this is no longer applicable to reality at all, because the United States operates on the basis that the UN is its political arm which it uses to score points for its personal interests," he said.
