Day: June 23, 2021

Riyadh, President of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) Dr. Awwad bin Saleh Al-Awwad has met with Chief of the Middle East and North Africa Section at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Mohammed Ali Al-Nsour and officials of the Office of the High Commissioner.

During the meeting, Dr. Al-Awwad reviewed the most prominent reforms and developments in the field of human rights in Saudi Arabia. He pointed out that those reforms and developments and the period during which they were achieved reflect the leadership’s determination to move forward towards everything that would promote and protect human rights.

The meeting reviewed aspects of cooperation within the framework of the memorandum of understanding for technical cooperation signed between the HRC and OHCHR. It also discussed ways to activate a number of items included in the memorandum, and cooperation between the two sides to achieve common goals.

Source: Saudi Press Agency

Moscow, Russian President, Vladimir Putin affirmed that Russia will continue to support Syria in combating terrorism till eliminating it completely, as well as, it will continue to exert efforts to resolve the international issues through dialogue, underlining the importance of UN role as a basis for the international relations system.

In a speech at the opening of the IX Moscow Conference on International Security on Wednesday, Putin said that the international security and law system are crumbling and the geopolitical turmoil, threat of terrorism and mass destruction weapons are increasing, in addition to that attempts to use force to achieve personal interests and enhance private security at the expense of others’ security continue.

He noted that these challenges require concerting efforts of all countries for the joint action on the basis of international law and UN charter to prevent outbreak of a new world war.

The Russian President indicated that Russia does not impose its will on other countries, asserting that it will exert all efforts to calm down the conflicts and resolve the international problems through dialogue.

He added that most of the Syrian territories have been liberated from terrorist organizations, saying that Russia will continue to back Syria to face terrorism until eliminating it, as well he affirmed Russia’s keenness on its relations with the neighboring countries to achieve their security and prosperity.

In turn, Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu said that “Moscow conference will open new prospects for resolving the international issues, asserting the importance of international cooperation in this regard, instead of imposing sanctions that destabilize security.

Source: Syria Arab News Agency

Paris, Participants in the symposium held by the Syrian-French Friendship Association stressed the necessity of holding accountable those who were involved in the terrorist war on Syria, lifting the Western unfair siege on the Syrian people and reconstructing what have been destroyed by that terrorist war.

In his speech during the Symposium which was held on Zoom website under the motto “Syria.. the bets and lessons from a war without borders,” Michel Rimbaud, French diplomat and former Ambassador called to reconstruct what have been destroyed by terrorism in Syria.

Rimbaud called also for holding accountable those who were involved in the aggression on Syria, conspired against it as well as the mass media which fabricated the facts to the public opinion, indicating that the war in Syria is a war between the Syrian State on the one hand and the terrorists backed by foreign parties on the other hand, in addition to the hostility of some countries on it.

Africa Asia Journal’s editor-in-chief Majed Niemeh stressed that the unfair siege imposed by the US and France failed to achieve its goals, pointing out to the western countries attempt to undermine the Syrian State and that those countries have supported the terrorist organizations for this purpose.

For his part, Strategic expert in the International policies Bernard Corneau described the unjust sanctions imposed on the Syrian people by the West and regional countries as a “crime against humanity.”

Corneau indicated to the Turkish role in supporting terrorism in Syria, expressing condemnation over the Turkish occupation to Syrian territories and calling for punishing the countries which support terrorism.

Researcher in the Arab Affairs Faisal Jaloul said that the aim behind the terrorist war on Syria is partitioning it in order to remap the region with the aim of liquidating the Palestinian cause in serving the Israeli occupation entity, which has miserably failed.

Source: Syria Arab News Agency