Ambassador Ali Ahmad: so-called “International Commission of Inquiry on Syria” became a tool for promoting terrorist groups

Geneva, SANA- Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Haydar Ali Ahmad, said that the so-called “The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria” continues its role as a tool for states sponsoring terrorism that fabricates lies and presents reports that have nothing to do with reality, stressing that it has become a tool to polish the image of terrorist groups and promote illegal structures which constitute direct support for these groups and direct involvement in threatening Syria’s territorial integrity. 

“The so-called Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria continues, as usual, performing its assigned political function as its reports affirm the goal that lies behind its foundation and reveals the poor and contradictory methodology that featured its reports since a decade,” Ali Ahmad said in a statement on Monday during the fifty-fifth session of the UN Human Rights Council. 

Ambassador Ahmad wondered whether that was the role expected from human rights mechanisms, saying “do not the crimes committed against Syria by the sponsoring states for that mandate deserve even a word of condemnation, is it not supposed to discuss responsibility about the acts of direct aggression by the Israeli occupation entity against residential neighborhoods and civil facilities, and the illegal Turkish-American military presence, supporting  terrorism, plundering natural resources, threatening  territorial integrity.” 

The Syrian diplomat added that Syria continues to work to ensure the voluntary return of all Syrian refugees to their homeland and calls for support and consideration of these efforts and to the immediate and unconditional end of the coercive measures imposed by the West that badly affect the lives of the Syrians.