Qatar calls on UNSC to intervene in Aleppo

New York: Qatar has demanded that the UN Security Council immediately intervene to protect civilians in Aleppo and other Syrian cities, stressing that the current situation in Syria poses the biggest threat to the international community.
This came in a statement delivered by Ambassador H E Sheikha Alia Ahmed bint Saif Al Thani, the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations, during the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian cause.
She said that in light of the continued failure to find a final and fast solution to the Syrian crisis and the insistence of the Syrian regime to continue its flagrant violations of the international law, the situation in the Middle East will deteriorate more, warning of more serious consequences to Syria’s sovereignty and its territorial integrity as well as the unity of its people, and the security and stability of the region and the world.
She continued to say that despite the international community’s efforts, represented by the International Syria Support Group, in order to reach a cessation agreement of hostilities which was approved by the Security Council in its resolution 2268, the Syrian regime continues its violations and attacks against civilians and civilian targets, use of indiscriminate weapons, massacres, obstruction of humanitarian convoys, preventing basic needs to enter the besieged areas and the adoption of the policy of forced migration and demographic change.
Ambassador Alia added that the Syrian regime relies more than ever on the current division in the Security Council to continue its violations of international humanitarian law against civilians in Syria without worrying about the grave consequences of its policy.
She also criticised the international community for its handling of the Syrian crisis, saying that this humanitarian disaster that shocked the conscience of mankind was not enough to make it move to stop the bloodshed and protect civilians in Syria. Ambassador Alia stressed in the statement the need for the Security Council to bear its responsibility set up by the UN Charter to take quick and effective action to intervene to stop abuses and to ensure the accountability of those responsible.