Shara's message to the UN on the Israeli attack
Syria's Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara addressed a letter to the United Nations' Secretary General Kofi Annan and to the U.S. permanent representative at the UN who chairs the Security Council for this month, John Negroponte.
The letter asks the United Nations to hold an immediate session to discuss the Syrian compliant regarding the Israeli aggression this morning on the Syrian lands. "I would inform you that the Israeli warplanes on Sunday morning, Oct., 5, violated the Syrian and Lebanese airspaces and attacked a civilian site in Ein Saheb, northwest of Damascus, causing material damages,'' al- Shara said.
"The Syrian Government informs you with the Israeli clear violation of the Syrian and Lebanese airspaces and the aggression against the Syrian lands in an overt violation of the international laws, principles and charters."
"Syria asks the Security Council to hold an immediate session to discuss the attack by the Israeli warplanes on the Syrian lands and the necessary measures to be adopted by the Security Council to deter Israel from following an aggressive and provocative policy against Syria," al-Shara added.
"The Israeli government through its continuous aggression on the Palestinians and through its creating to expand the aggression to include Syria and Lebanon renewed the fact that it is a war government and not a peace one." "Syria is not incapable to create a resistance balance deterring Israel and obliging it to reconsider its stances."
"Syria has practiced the highest level of self-restraint realizing that Israel is trying to create pretexts here and there to export its internal crisis to the region and to escalate the situation." "Syria, being a current state member in the Security Council, trusts that the council is the most suitable frame work for facing and condemning this dangerous development and for deterring and preventing repetition of it because it threatens regional and international security and aggravates the deteriorating situation in the region leading into dire consequences that would be hard to control," al-Shara concluded.
