With
Turkey Shell
Statement
Stalled, Syria
Writes to
UNSC, Russia
Counter-Proposes
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 4 --
With the UN
Security
Council
proposed press
statement on
the shell on
Turkey draft
by Azerbaijan
stalled,
Syria's
Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari has
written to the
Council;
the letter is
below
Russia
has
proposed its
own press
statement.
Meanwhile the
Council was
meeting on
Thursday
morning, being
briefed about
Sudan by Haile
Menkerios and
Herve Ladsous,
the UN
official who
refuses to
answer
Inner City
Press
questions.
When
at 5:35 pm on
Wednesday
Security
Council
president
Rosenthal read
out a press
statement on
the killing of
four UN
Peacekeepers
in Darfur, he
did not answer
a
Press
questions
about Darfur
but on Turkey
said yes the
Council might
issue a
statement, we
are waiting to
hear from the
Turkish
Ambassador.
Inner
City Press
conveyed this
to joint UN
and Arab
League envoy
Lakhdar
Brahimi, what
Rosenthal had
said about a
Council
statement.
Brahimi
replied, "On
Turkey? That's
good."
Syria's
Permanent
Representative
Bashar
Ja'afari on
the other
hand, when
Inner City
Press told him
Rosenthal said
we are waiting
to hear from
Turkey,
replied "But
that is not
sufficient,
Turkey is
shelling
us."
Here
is the text of
the Syrian
letter:
"The
competent
Syrian
authorities
confirmed that
they are
seriously
investigating
the source of
the fire which
led to the
death of a
Turkish
citizen and
her children.
Deepest
condolences of
the
Government
Syrian Arab
Republic were
presented to
the families
of the
martyrs and to
the friendly
and brotherly
people of
Turkey. In
cases
of border
incidents that
happen between
any two
neighboring
countries,
states and
governments
should act
wisely,
rationally and
responsibly,
particularly
given the
special and
delicate
situation on
the
Syrian-Turkish
borders, where
there are
undisciplined
armed
terrorist
groups
spreading on
those borders
which have
different
agendas and
identities.
Those groups
pose a threat
to the
security of
Syria, also to
regional
security of
the countries
of the region.
The
Syrian-Turkish
borders are
long borders,
and exploited
in the
smuggling of
arms,
ammunition and
armed
terrorists who
committed
massacres in
Syria, most
recently of
which the
massacre in
Aleppo
committed by
al-Qaeda that
claimed the
lives of a
number of
civilian
martyrs. Syria
bases its
behavior with
neighboring
countries to
the
rules of good
neighborliness
and respect
for national
sovereignties
of states, and
it invites, in
return, those
states to
respect the
national
sovereignty of
Syria, and to
cooperate in
border control
and
prevention of
the
infiltration
of insurgents
and
terrorists,
according to
what Syria has
always done.
"We
also point out
that at seven
o'clock in the
evening of
Wednesday 3
October 2012,
Turkish troops
had launched
artillery
shells towards
the south of
the village of
Tal Abiad in
the Syrian
territory, and
stopped at
midnight.
Turkish
troops, then,
resumed
artillery
shelling
until seven
o'clock of
Thursday
morning, 4
October 2012,
injuring two
Syrian army
officers,
while our
forces
practiced
self-restrain
and
did not
respond to
this Turkish
artillery
shelling.
"The
Government of
the Syrian
Arab Republic
calls for the
need of
cooperation
from Turkish
government in
borders
control for
the
benefit of the
two parties,
within the
framework of
respect for
national
sovereignty
and good
neighborly
relations."
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