(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Al-Jaafari's remarks were made during a session of the UN General Assembly's Third Committee discussing a draft resolution on Syria in the framework of item 69 of the agenda titled 'The Promotion and Protection of Human Rights'.
He underscored that the Syrian people want to build a society where justice and equality prevail, but they want to do so away from the foreign interference of some countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia which know nothing of human rights.
Al-Jaafari highlighted how ruling in these two countries has been monopolized by a single family and how they lack the simplest right of equality between genders and between citizens and non-citizens, in addition to the absence of parliament and the smothering of the opposition by the authorities of the two countries.
He also referred to the fact that Qatar and the Saudi Arabia are not yet part of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which has become an international reference since 1976, nor are they part of the many international agreements related to the issues of the promotion and protection of human rights, whereas Syria has joined the Covenant since 1969 before Qatar gained its independence from the British occupation.
The Syrian envoy expressed great astonishment over justifying the crime and massacres committed by the armed terrorist groups against the Syrian people in the statement of the countries which submitted a draft resolution against Syria at the UN as "few separate violations".
"Are homicide, cutting off dead bodies, decapitation, displacing inhabitants on sectarian bases and killing entire families according to sectarian affiliations considered, according to those who submitted the draft resolution, minor violations that are not worth even reference?" asked al-Jaafari.
He added, "Does this mean that there is a legitimate terrorism that is represented by the acts of the armed terrorist groups holding Wahhabi, Takfiri and Salafi thinking…with Qatari, Saudi and Libyan funding and direct Turkish involvement and French and British sponsoring?"
Al-Jaafari wondered how the claim about protecting human rights in Syria goes in line with the imposition of packages of unilateral coercive economic and financial sanctions against the Syrian people by those who endorsed the draft resolution.
He expressed regret that the member countries of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation were among the first to impose such inhumane sanctions transgressing against the rights of the Syrian citizens.
"It's a shame that many of the financially rich countries in those two organizations have not offered a single dollar to help the Syrian people, while they are giving hundreds of millions of dollars to the mercenary terrorists and al-Qaeda members to shed blood in Syria and destroy the infrastructure of the Syrian state," he added.
The Syrian ambassador exposed the flagrant political hypocrisy of some countries in terms of adopting a Security Council resolution condemning the acts of the Takfiri and 'Jihadi' trends in Mali, while rushing to provide funds to send similar Takfiri, Wahhabi and 'Jihadi' groups to practice terrorism in Syria.
Al-Jaafari stressed that the Syrian people want to build a Syrian-made democracy based on a Syrian experience that meets the Syrians' needs and is led by them, but not a bloody, sectarian and Salafi democracy that is imposed from abroad through armed violence.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
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