Diplomats: The Security Council will issue a statement condemning the events of the Syrian coast

Diplomats said on Thursday that the United Nations Security Council approved a statement condemning the events in the Syrian coast region last week, and calls on the Syrian authorities to protect all Syrians, regardless of their race or their religion. The diplomats added that the statement, which was agreed upon unanimously, will be officially approved later today, Friday, and condemns violence in Latakia and Tartous in Syria.

According to Reuters, the Security Council statement calls on the Syrian authorities to hold the perpetrators of “mass killing.” It also calls on all countries to protect the sovereignty of Syria and its territorial integrity and refrain from any actions that may lead to destabilizing their stability

Russia strongly criticizes the Syrian leadership

Meanwhile, Reuters quoted two familiar sources as saying that Russia strongly criticized the Syrian authorities at a closed United Nations meeting this week, and compared the genocide in Rwanda and the events in the Syrian coast, which the Syrian government confirmed was against the remnants of the former regime.

Moscow’s criticism came at the closed meeting of the Security Council despite its efforts to retain two main military bases on the Syrian coast, which witnessed confrontations last week after a rebellion of the remnants of the former regime, and at least 800 people were killed, according to the latest documentation of the Syrian Network for Human Rights, on Tuesday.

Violence erupted on March 6 after an attack on the government security forces, and the fingers of which were accused of previous military figures loyal to the ousted Bashar al -Assad regime. The Kremlin, who supported Assad before being overthrown and his escape to Russia on December 8, called on Tuesday to survive a unified Syria, indicating that he was in contact with other countries about the matter.

But his comments on the closed UN Security Council on Monday, which he called in conjunction with the United States were more severe, highlighting the Moscow strategy while seeking to reaffirm its influence on the path of Syria. According to “Reuters” these comments were not previously published.

Two sources familiar with the meeting told the agency that the Russian envoy Vasily Nippinsia compared the killings in the Syrian coast and genocide in Rwanda in 1994 when the Tutsi and the moderate Hosh were subjected to systematic massacres at the hands of the Huto extremists led by the Rwandan army and a militia known as the Interhamoi. They quoted him saying before the attendees that “no one stopped killing” in Syria.

When asked if it resembles events in the Syrian coast by genocide in Rwanda, Nepinzia told Reuters: “I say what I want in closed consultations, based on the hypothesis that they are closed consultations and nothing comes out of them.” When asked about the reason for the reason for Russia, he is more severe in its statements in private conversations compared to public statements.

“They want to restore their influence in Syria and are looking for a way of enforcement. If they start criticizing the government publicly, this will not return to them in any way,” she added. “Russia also wants to be seen as a superpower, equal to the United States, and seeks to resolve crises in cooperation with the United States, and therefore working in particular with the United States on this issue gives it additional advantages,” she added.

The two sources said that Nippinsia criticized the Syrian government’s solution to the Syrian regime’s army and the massive reduction in the number of workers in the public sector, and warned of the possibility of repeating the “Iraq scenario”, which witnessed years of sectarian violence after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the dismantling of state institutions.

After the overthrow of Bashar al -Assad’s regime, the Syrian authorities integrated some foreign fighters into a new military structure. Critics say that the demobilization of public sector employees aimed to exclude those affiliated with the Assad sect, and that the national dialogue held last month was not everyone. Syrian President Ahmed Al -Sharaa told Reuters in an interview this week that his administration does not want to distribute positions on a sectarian basis, and that the expanded government scheduled to be announced this week may include Alawites. He said that he does not want to see a “break between Syria and Russia”, and that Damascus wants to preserve “deep strategic relations” with Moscow.

The two sources said that Russia said in the statement behind the closed doors that the movements of the new government had established a “corrupt basis” to move away from decades from the rule of the Assad family. Envoy envoys from the United States, France and China also affirmed closed briefing their concern about the presence of foreign fighters in Syria and the state of political transition in the country.

(Reuters, New Arab)