Although some did promise to assist us and provide technical equipment for border control, they have failed to come through on their promises. |
Every paragraph in this report deserves a comment to refute its contents. |
expressed on more than one occasion that those who committed this crime, whether Syrians or not, are traitors and they have to be put to justice. |
Frankly speaking, we would prefer to have the original copy like everybody else, |
I would like to confirm once again that Syria believes, strongly believes, that it is innocent and the committee has to look somewhere else to find those who committed this heinous crime. |
I'm sure Russia and others will not accept such an agenda because this is a United States agenda, |
If Israel wants to live in peace in the region, and it's clear it doesn't want to live in peace in the region, it wants to live with its expansion, with its settlements, with its occupation, something that not only Arabs and Palestinians would not accept, but everybody in the world will not accept. |
If we don't all have the spirit of compromise, ... then we shall lose the momentum, we shall lose the spirit of coming out with a document that unites the United Nations and unites all of us. |
Isn't this real political will? ... Syria is doing all it can do, but the problem is on the other side. They like to make accusations, not action. On the other side, there is no efforts whatsoever to stop these people. |
It is not a credible report, ... too much politics and less concrete actions. |
Our view is that bringing back our people to Lebanon is really sensitive, sensitive for our own people and for the Lebanese, |
Some quarters either on the basis of a suspect premeditated scheme or out of bad faith have used this crime in a despicable manner in order to fan the flames of hostility against Syria and increase accusations against it. |
Syria is innocent of this crime. Syria is ready and willing to put to trial any Syrian conclusively implicated in that crime. |
Syria is not incapable of establishing a resistance and deterrent balance that would force Israel to reconsider its calculations, |
Syria was showing great interest in this summit, the Syrian delegation in New York was following up political preparations for it, |