Syria Calls UN Human Rights Report Biased
March 12, 2013 Prensa Latina http://www.plenglish.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=1199641&Itemid=1 Damascus, Mar 12 (Prensa Latina) Syria called the report submitted in Geneva by the International Commission on Human Rights Inquiry biassed and with errors, and criticized ignoring the government data on terrorist attacks of mercenary gangs operating here. During discussion of the report in the Swiss city, the Syrian delegate to the UN Human Rights Council, Dr. Faisal al-Hamwi, criticized the Commission for repeatedly neglecting a proper reading of the complex geopolitical situation in the region, quoted Tuesday the national press. In his opinion, the entity has been carried away by the current of a nasty sectarian and ethnic inciting campaign the Syrian society rejects. While the Commission has acknowledged having interviewed hundreds of members of the so-called opposition inside and outside the country, it avoided doing the same with people who support the authorities, making the evidence presented unilateral and doubtful to determine the facts, he stressed. The Syrian diplomat questioned that the Commission confirm that some states provide financial and material support to armed groups, but avoided mentioning their names when they are well known, with Qatar at the head, he said. The Commission agreed on the current operations of smuggling large amounts of weapons across the Syrian boundaries but refrained from naming Turkey as responsible, which country fully opened its borders to the passage of mercenaries and established bases for them in its, he emphasized. Similarly, al-Hamwi denounced that the entity referred to the deterioration economic and humanitarian situation and the destruction of infrastructure, but ignored mentioning the terrorist attacks of groups affiliated to al-Qaeda network, as Front-Nusra against hospitals, railways, burning crops, sabotage on power plants, schools, universities and other infrastructure, cited the media. For this and other reasons, Damascus Rate the Commission reports of lacking professionalism and credibility, he remarked.