Bassam Sabbah, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic, addresses the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations (New York, 19 - 26 September 2023).

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Syrian Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Bassam Sabbah reaffirmed his country’s “legitimate right to restore the entire occupied Syrian Golan up to the line of June 4, 1967, no matter how long it takes.”

Syrian diplomat Sabbah today (26 Sep) spoke at the General Assembly’s annual general debate.

He stressed that Syria will “exercise its legitimate right to defend its land and people by all necessary means, and to ensure that the Israeli occupation authorities are held accountable for all their crimes, with no impunity.”

The Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs condemned in the “strongest terms all these Israeli crimes and attacks, it equally denounces the continued support for such practices or silence about them by some countries that declare themselves protectors of international humanitarian law and human rights law, which makes them complicit with the perpetrators of these crimes, and clearly demonstrates the double standards they practice.”

Sabbah said, “The continued Israeli occupation of Arab lands and its brutal practices are consistent with the destructive role played by some countries on Syrian lands, as the United States and Türkiye continue to violate Syria’s sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, by insisting on the continuation of their illegal military presence on Syrian lands and supporting separatist militias and terrorist organizations.”

The Syrian Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs also reaffirmed his country’s support for “the right of the Russian Federation to defend itself and protect its national security in response to aggressive Western policies. In doing so, it is not only defending itself but also the right of all of us to reject the logic of Western and unipolar hegemony.”
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