Addressing the 55th session of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly on Monday, Syrias UN Ambassador Bashar al-Jaafari said Damascus considered voting in favor of the draft resolution submitted by the Saudi regime as a hostile act.
In November, Saudi Arabia submitted a draft resolution to the UN calling on the international community to condemn Syria for alleged human rights violations.
This is while Saudi Arabia is not a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and is itself under mounting international pressure over human rights violations at home and abroad.
Saudi Arabia routinely jails and tortures political dissidents inside the kingdom. In October, a 15-member hit squad murdered a Saudi dissident inside the kingdom's consulate in Turkeys Istanbul on orders from the Saudi state. The Riyadh regime has also come under massive criticism for its atrocities in a war it has been waging on Yemen since 2015.
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After getting exposed for the heinous murdering of #JKhashoggi and thousands of people in their own country, and in #Yemen and #Syria and many other countries, part of #US led coalition of terror, #Saudi regime presented a #UN resolution condemning Syrian gov human rights record.
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The Syrian envoy added that Israels support for such a voteuncovers the nature and identity of the draft and attests to the Saudi-Israeli alliance.
The diplomat said the content of the draft resolution is not balanced and is aimed at distorting facts and tarnishing the image of Syrias legitimate government and state institutions.
Jaafari said Saudi Arabia is supporting terrorism in an attempt to spread chaos and hinder the ongoing political process in Syria.
The Syrian official underlined that the Saudi regime does notpossess the moral or legal capacity to submit such draft resolutions.
Jaafari further criticized certain states, which are members of the US-led coalition purportedly fighting Takfiri terrorists in the Arab country, for backing the draft resolution.
The same coalition has been committing heinous crimes in Syria and violated human rights by targeting civilians and destroying their property, he said.
Jaafari further called on UN member states to remain vigilant in the face of attempts to politicize human rights mechanisms and use them to put pressure on some states.
Saudi Arabia stands accused of propping up terrorist groups wreaking havoc in Syria.
Wahhabism, the radical ideology dominating Saudi Arabia and freely preached by its clerics, fuels the ideological engine of terror organizations such as Daesh and Fateh al-Sham, al-Qaeda's Syrian branch formerly known as al-Nusra Front.
