Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Vienna, SANA- Syria has once again condemned in the strongest terms the repeated Israeli aggression on its territories, which clearly violates international resolutions and charters, and threatens international peace and security, as the world has recently witnessed a shameful use of modern technologies by “Israel” to become a deadly tool for spreading killing and destruction.
Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, Ambassador Hassan Khaddour said that Syria condemns the continued aggression by Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people, the illegal and inhumane siege on the Gaza Strip, crimes of genocide and forced displacement against the Palestinians in clear violation of international law, international humanitarian law, the decisions of the International Court of Justice, and other relevant international resolutions.
Khaddour was speaking at the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
He added that Syria also condemns the barbaric and persistent Israeli aggression against Lebanon, which has led to the destruction of the infrastructure and the displacement, killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.
Khaddour went on by saying that Syria calls on the international community to put an end to the Israeli aggression against Syria, Palestine and Lebanon, hold the occupation accountable for its crimes and ensure that it does not escape punishment.
The ambassador stressed that Syria seeks to cooperate in the field of combating organized crime in all its forms through joining most of the relevant international agreements and participating in international conferences and meetings organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
The ambassador noted that despite the harsh conditions left behind by the war on Syria and the disastrous repercussions of the illegal unilateral coercive measures imposed for many years by the United States and Western countries on the country, Syria is making great efforts within its available and limited capabilities to confront several forms of organized crime, most notably combating organized terrorism, drug smuggling crimes, and human trafficking and smuggling.
The ambassador expressed hope that the United Nations Office
will provide logistical and material support to the criminal justice agencies concerned with combating organized crime in it due to the major challenges that Syria has been facing.
Shaza Qreima
