UN encouraging terrorists, their backers: Syria
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A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on Feb. 21, 2016 shows a Syrian woman with her wounded child at a hospital in Damascus.
Syria has written to the United Nations, complaining that its silence on the bloody acts of terrorism in the country serves to encourage both the terrorists and their patrons.
Syria’s Foreign and Expatriates Ministry forwarded separate letters to the world body’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council on Monday, the official SANA news agency reported.
The ministry pointed to terrorist bombing by ISIL that targeted Damascus suburbs and a residential neighborhood in Homs last Sunday, respectively killing 83 and 46 civilians and injuring hundreds.
The ministry said that the Security Council’s continuing silence and its failure to condemn terrorist acts encourages terrorists and their supporters and funders to continue committing terrorist acts, SANA reported.
"It encourages ISIL and its sponsors – particularly the Turkish and Saudi regimes – to continue committing massacres against the Syrian people,” the news agency said.
The silence “also encourages terrorist groups outside Syria that are carrying out attacks in other states in the region and the world,” it added.
The Syrian government "demands that the Security Council and the UN secretary general condemn these terrorist crimes immediately and sternly."
Syria further called on the Security Council to take "immediate deterrent and punitive measures against the states that support and fund terrorism, particularly Saudi Arabia and Turkey.”
Turkey and Saudi Arabia have been offering safe passage as well as financial and ideological support to terrorists fighting the Syrian government and people.
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