Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Geneva, SANA- The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution in which it renewed its condemnation of the settlement policies of the Israeli occupation in the occupied Syrian Golan and attempts to change the legal status and demographic situation and urban character therein.
The resolution issued by the Council at its fifty-fifth session condemned the policies of annexation and colonial settlement pursued by the Israeli occupation entity, stressing the need to allow the return of the displaced from the occupied Syrian Golan to their homes and the restoration of their property.
The Council expressed its dissatisfaction with the occupation authorities’ approval to begin construction work on the wind turbine scheme on agricultural lands owned by Syrian citizens, and called to immediately stop all procedures and all settlement plans in the occupied Syrian Golan.
The Council called on the occupation authorities to stop all their repressive measures against the people of the occupied Syrian Golan and to immediately release the detainees.
Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Office and other international organizations working in Geneva, Ambassador Haider Ali Ahmed, said in a speech before the Council “ This resolution addresses part of the consequences of the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan, occupied since 1967, and is based on a set of established principles in international law and its rules, including those related to the duties of the occupying power, and the principle of rejecting to acquire a territory by force.”.
He noted that the decision confirms the illegality of the measures taken by the occupying power to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan in violation of Security Council Resolution No. 497 of 1981, and a wide range of the basic rights of our people in the occupied Golan.
The Ambassador stressed that Western countries that reject the resolution are denying their responsibility to ensure the implementation of the clear principles of international law on which it is based, and showing again the extent of their hypocrisy and their view of human rights as a tool they use to target specific countries.
Hybah/Mhamad
