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New York, SANA-Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafari said on Tuesday that the Israeli continued occupation of the Syrian Golan and its looting of the natural resources in the occupied Palestinian lands and its direct intervention in escalating crisis in Syria through supporting terrorists in the disengagement zone in Golan undermine the agreement of disengagement and seriously pose a threat to stability and security in the region.
“Terrorism and extremism our region suffers from is the biggest obstacle in the face of development,” al-Jaafari said at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, affirming that terrorism is based on the idea of canceling the other and threatening the co-existence.
He added that terrorism poses an economic, social and environmental threat which is embodied by looting the natural resources and sabotaging infrastructure and this requires all countries to seriously deal with the obligations approved by the UN Security Council’ relevant revolutions on combating the financing of terrorists and terrorist organizations.
Al-Jaafari said that the unilateral, coercive economic measures imposed by the US and EU on Syria have directly affected the Syrian people and led to repercussions that included a lack in food and a deterioration in health care.
“According to those facts, applying the targets of sustainable development of 2030 plan mainly requires rejecting the unilateral, coercive economic measures and ending them immediately,” al-Jaafari added.
He went on to say that every country, including Syria, faces special challenges in its endeavors to achieve the sustainable development, so it is not possible to adopt one pattern in approaching these challenges.
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