PROTECTING CHILDREN TOP PRIORITY: SYRIA ENVOY
Washington, 14 Dhulqadah 1435/9 Sepember 2014 (MINA) – Syria’s permanent envoy to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari said that since the beginning of the crisis in the country, Syria has taken all possible measures to protect children and issued many laws in this regards.
“The Syrian government issued a legislative decree on May 6th, 2013 for this purpose and took all possible means to avoid targeting the hospitals, schools and to overcome all forms of violence against Syrian children including sex violence and killing,” al-Jaafari said in a speech at a Security Council session titled “Children in the armed conflict.”
He added the terrorist organizations are training the children to carry weapons and feel hatred in the regions they have control on, after making a brainwash for them, Syria’ Sana quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.
He added “We haven’t seen any tangible step by the UN to protect the children or to uncover the violations against the Syrian children at the hands of terrorists”
Meanwhile, Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi said that the priorities of the new government are restoring security and stability to all of Syria through combating terrorism and carrying out reconstruction work and comprehensive development.
In an interview given to the Syrian TV on Sunday evening, Premier al-Halaqi said that the government will also work on improving living standards for citizens, securing their needs, preventing monopolies, and ensuring the flow of merchandize to local markets in appropriate prices.
Al-Halaqi stressed that the government will continue the measures of carrying out national reconciliation and will work on spreading it to new areas, adding that reconciliation requires the cooperation of all sides, popular, official, civil, and religious, to ensure its continuity as a preface to carry out reconstruction in the areas which witness successful reconciliations.
He stressed the importance of dealing with the issue of displaced people, and continuing the support of aid and relief work, in addition to providing makeshift housing centers in all areas and compensating for the damages caused to private properties.
“The government will work on supporting the public sector in addition to the agricultural and industrial sectors and micro and medium projects,” he said, adding that “fighting corruption, continuing administrative reform, and enhancing the principle of administrative decentralization will also be top priorities for the government.”
On the other hand, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stressed that the US is not serious in fighting the terrorist organization of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as (ISIL), to which it provided all forms of Support in Syria, indicating that “fighting terrorism and extremism requires international cooperation.”
“The US has not been serious in fighting ISIL, which roots in their double standards, the US supported ISIL back in Syria in different ways and now they cannot make a decision,” Zarif said in an interview with the Iranian TV aired on Sunday.
He highlighted the danger posed by this terrorist organization which threatened Iraq once and then it moved to Syria before it is back to Iraq again, warning that ISIS will soon pose a threat to the whole region. (T/R03/P3)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
