Nebenzia has defended Syria’s government and the ongoing anti-terrorism operation in Eastern Ghouta, asserting that it has “every right to try and remove the threat to the safety of its citizens.”
READ MORE: US prepared to act on Syria if UN Security Council won’t – Haley
“According to information at our disposal, on March 5, Al-Nusra militants used chorine substance in Eastern Ghouta, which injured 30 civilians. All this is done to prepare the grounds for unilateral military actions against sovereign Syria,” Nebenzia stated.
“The suburbs of Damascus cannot remain a hotbed of terrorism. And it is being used for continued attempts by terrorists to undermine the cessation of hostilities.”
The ongoing operation in the Damascus suburbs does not violate resolution 2401, which allows the continuation of the battle against terrorists, the diplomat stressed. The terrorists, unlike Moscow and Damascus, do, in fact, frequently attack hospitals and other civilian facilities, and the attacks are well-documented, he added.
“Since the resolution was passed, more than 100 people died from this and a considerably higher number were wounded. More than one hospital…was shelled,” Nebenzia said. “These were true hospitals, genuine hospitals, not headquarters of fighters which they very frequently claim to be hospitals.”
The militants also are preventing the civilians from leaving the combat zone, raining mortar and sniper fire on them.
“They [militants] are constantly striking humanitarian corridors and checkpoints, including during the humanitarian pauses,”Nebenzia stated. “They intensified the use of tunnels in order to provoke the Syrian military and the exits of those tunnels are in the areas of public buildings, first and foremost mosques, hospitals and markets.”
The Russian diplomat pointed out that the conflict in Syria, and in Eastern Ghouta in particular, is used by western countries only to “produce endless accusations against Russia,” while “doing nothing” to improve the situation in Syria.
“What’s being done – is a political issue, caused not that much by concerns about the humanitarian needs of the Syrians,”Nebenzia said.
and from Sputnik News
The United States presented a new UN draft resolution on Syria on Monday calling for a 30-day cessation of hostilities in the Damascus suburb of East Ghouta less than a month after the previous resolution demanding ceasefire across all the Syrian territory was unanimously passed by the UN Security Council.
“We have drafted a new ceasefire resolution that provides no room for evasion,” US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said in reference to Syrian army’s operation against the terrorists in East Ghouta that keep launching attacks on Damascus despite the ongoing ceasefire.
“It is simple, straightforward and binding. It will take effect immediately upon adoption by this Council. It contains no counterterrorism loopholes for Assad, Iran and the Russians to hide behind, she stressed when presenting the resolution, saying that the previous one had “failed.”
Russian UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya fired back at the statement by Haley, stressing that Damascus has “every right to try and remove the threat to the safety of its citizens,” referring to the terrorists who entrenched themselves in East Ghouta as to the “hotbed of terrorism.”The UN Resolution 2401 that was unanimously passed by the Security Council on February 24 called on the parties to the Syrian conflict to stop all hostilities and adhere to a humanitarian pause across Syria in order to ensure the safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid, as well as medical evacuation of those injured.
Chemical Weapons Use in Eastern Ghouta
Haley also said that Washington will act in Syria regarding the chemical weapons use if the UN Security Council doesn’t.
“We also warn any nation that is determined to impose its will through chemical attacks and inhuman suffering, most especially the outlaw Syrian regime, the United States remains prepared to act if we must,” Haley said.
Vasily Nebenzya said that the Nusra Front* militants used chemical weapons in East Ghouta, injuring 30 civilians.
“This was done in order to prepare the ground for unilateral military actions against sovereign Syria,” Nebenzya said in reference to the attempts to put the blame on the Syrian government for the chemical weapons use in the country.
After the alleged use of chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta in January, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Damascus could be using chemical weapons; he also said that Russia is responsible for the victims because of its engagement in Syria.The Russian Foreign Ministry then said Washington was spreading mass propaganda against Moscow in an attempt to demonize the Syrian government and subsequently topple it, underscoring that the information on the chemical attacks used by the United States was uncorroborated.
Damascus has repeatedly stated that it had got rid of its chemical weapons stockpiles, which was confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in 2016.
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Russia and Syria should propose a UN resolution to boot the U.S. out of Syria immediately since they are there illegally with zero permission. It must also be noted that the U.S. is aiding the terrorists. Read this propaganda article in Fox News about a Syrian family from Michigan caught in the crossfire but who believe Assad is the problem, not the U.S. and Israel.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/03/12/american-family-trapped-amid-assad-s-brutal-attacks.html This is the only kind of article the propaganda organ Fox News would publish about Syria.
Cometh Haley, Cometh the Hour
Nikki Haley is an anti-Semite. She is pushing for Israelis to die in a war of her making. Her lies, deliberate untruths and fabrications at the UN delivered with a withering and toxic level of vindictiveness are a sure-fire way to ignite war in the Israeli hinterland. Israeli Minister of Defense Lieberman will have nightmares of countless killer “Halley Comets” screaming brightly through night skies, inundating his not-so-perfect Iron Dome system. Has he given her free rein to say what she wants? What about Israeli casualties of Haley’s drum-beat for war? Does anyone is Israel care? You can be sure by her noxious narrative at the UN, Haley doesn’t care. Her performance at the UN is that of a warmonger with the foul mouth of a fishmonger who likes to carp. A ham actor – “overacting inferior performer”. The only good that can be said about her is “Good riddance” when she goes. And for the peace of the world the sooner the better. This woman ain’t Ruth citizens of Israel, she is Ruth-less and Truth-less. Vasily Nebenzya of Russia put this loose-cannon diplomat on the mat and exposed her for the fraud she is. Muslims look and listen to her and experience ‘fauda,’ Arabic for chaos. And NASA said Halley’s Comet wasn’t projected to return until 2061 … boy did they get it wrong!
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