مشروع قرار الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة حول سورية وفق آخر صيغة وزعت على الدول الأعضاء استعداداً لطرحه على التصويت الخميس 15 مايو 2013. النص الكامل هنا.
Sixty-seventh
session
Agenda
item 33
Prevention
of armed conflict
Australia,
Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia,
Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, Estonia, France, Finland, Germany, Grenada,
Hungary, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, Panama, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Saudi
Arabia, Slovenia, Somalia, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab
Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
United States of America and Yemen: draft resolution
The
situation in the Syrian Arab Republic
The
General Assembly,
Recalling
its
resolutions 66/176 of 19 December 2011, 66/253 A of 16 February 2012,
66/253 B of 3 August 2012, and 67/183 of 20 December 2012 and Human
Rights Council resolutions S-16/1 of 29 April 2011, S-17/1 of 23
August 2011,1 S-18/1 of 2 December 2011,2 19/1 of 1 March 2012,3
19/22 of 23 March 2012,3 S-19/1 of 1 June 2012,4 20/22 of 6 July
2012,5 21/26 of 28 September 20126 and 22/24 of 22 March 2013,
Recalling
also Security
Council resolutions 2042 (2012) of 14 April 2012 and 2043 (2012) of
21 April 2012,
Recalling
further all
resolutions of the League of Arab States relating to the situation in
the Syrian Arab Republic, in particular resolution 7595 of 6 March
2013, in which the League reviewed the very serious situation in the
Syrian Arab Republic due to the escalating violence and killings in
most of the Syrian territory, and the continuation of grave
violations of human rights by the Syrian authorities using heavy
weapons, warplanes and Scud missiles to bomb neighbourhoods and
populated areas, which has seriously increased the number of victims,
caused human displacement inside the Syrian Arab Republic and an
influx of thousands of Syrians to the neighbouring countries fleeing
violence, which targets children and women who have been subjected to
frightful massacres, threatening thus to lead to the collapse of the
Syrian State, and endangers the security, peace and stability of the
region,
Recalling
Organization
of Islamic Cooperation resolution 2/4-EX (IS) of 15August 2012 on the
situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, in which the Organization
called for the immediate implementation of the transitional plan and
the development of a peaceful mechanism that would allow the building
of a new Syrian State based on pluralism and a democratic and
civilian system, where there would be equality on the basis of law,
citizenship and fundamental freedoms,
Expressing
grave concern at
the continuing escalation of violence in the Syrian Arab Republic, in
particular the continued widespread and systematic gross violations
and abuses of human rights and violations of international
humanitarian law, including those involving the continued use of
heavy weapons and aerial bombardments, such as the indiscriminate use
of ballistic missiles and cluster munitions, by the Syrian
authorities against the Syrian population, and the failure of the
Government of the Syrian Arab Republic to protect its population,
Expressing
outrage at
the rapidly increasing death toll of at least 70,000 casualties in
the Syrian Arab Republic, as reported by the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights on 12 February 2013,7
Recalling
the
statements made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights before the Human Rights Council and the Security Council that
crimes against humanity are likely to have been committed in the
Syrian Arab Republic, stressing that the Syrian authorities have
failed to prosecute such serious violations, and noting the repeated
encouragement by the High Commissioner to the Security Council to
refer the situation to the International Criminal Court,
Welcoming
the
extension of the mandate of the independent international commission
of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, and deeply regretting the
lack of cooperation of the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic
with the commission, in particular the persistent denial of access of
its members to the Syrian Arab Republic,
Expressing
concern at
the occurrence of grave violations against children in the Syrian
Arab Republic, that children were among the victims of military
operations carried out by Government forces, including the Syrian
armed forces, intelligence forces and shabbiha
militias,
and that children were victims of killing and maiming, arbitrary
arrest, detention, torture, ill-treatment and sexual violence, and
were used as human shields and recruited and used in the conduct of
hostilities in violation of international law, welcoming the intent
of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children
and Armed Conflict to pay a second visit to the region, demanding
that all parties grant her full and unfettered access to all areas in
the Syrian Arab Republic, and calling on neighbouring countries to
provide her with all necessary assistance,
Expressing
concern at
the vulnerable situation of women in the Syrian Arab Republic,
including being subjected to discrimination, sexual and other
physical abuse, violation of their privacy and arbitrary arrest and
detention in raids, including to force their male relatives to
surrender, recalling that such acts of sexual and gender-based
violence could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity,
underlining the importance of preventing all sexual violence and
violence based on gender, and welcoming the intent of the Special
Representative of the Secretary- General on Sexual Violence in
Conflict to visit the Syrian Arab Republic to investigate these
violations and abuses,
Deploring
the
failure of the Syrian authorities to release all arbitrarily detained
persons and grant access to detention centres to relevant
humanitarian organizations with a view to ensuring the humane
treatment of detainees,
Deploring
also
the further deterioration of the humanitarian situation and the
failure to ensure the safe and timely provision of humanitarian
assistance to all areas affected by the fighting,
Expressing
deep concern at
the more than one million refugees and millions of internally
displaced persons who have fled as a result of the extreme violence,
Welcoming
the
efforts by neighbouring countries and other countries in the region
to host Syrian refugees while acknowledging the socioeconomic
consequences of the presence of large-scale refugee populations in
these countries, notably Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, and
calling upon Member States, based on burden-sharing principles, to
host the Syrian refugees in coordination with the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
Welcoming
also the
contributions to humanitarian efforts already provided by Member
States, notably by regional countries, and recalling the urgent need
to provide financial support to the Syrian humanitarian response plan
and the regional refugee response,
Expressing
its determination to
seek ways and means to provide protection to the Syrian civilian
population,
Expressing
grave concern at
the threat by the Syrian authorities to use chemical or biological
weapons and at allegations of reported use of such weapons, and
welcoming the decision of the Secretary-General to investigate all
allegations of their use in the Syrian Arab Republic,
Stressing
that
rapid progress on a political transition represents the best
opportunity to resolve the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic
peacefully, reaffirming its support for the engagement of the
Secretary-General, the Joint Special Representative of the United
Nations and the League of Arab States and all diplomatic efforts
aimed at reaching a political solution to the crisis, reaffirming
also the role of regional and subregional organizations in the
maintenance of international peace and security as set out in Chapter
VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, and welcoming the relevant
resolutions of the League of Arab States to address the situation in
the Syrian Arab Republic,
Recalling
all
meetings of the Group of Friends of the Syrian people, in particular
the fourth Ministerial Meeting, held in Marrakech, Morocco, on 12
December 2012, where the participants acknowledged the National
Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as the
legitimate representative of the Syrian people,
Reaffirming
its
strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and
territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic and to the
principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling
that
all Members of the United Nations shall refrain in their
international relations from the threat or use of force against the
territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in
any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United
Nations,
Reaffirming
the
purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights8 and relevant international
human rights law, including the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights,9 and recalling the obligation of the Syrian Arab
Republic to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms,
International
humanitarian law and human rights
1. Strongly
condemns the
continued escalation in the use by the Syrian authorities of heavy
weapons, including indiscriminate shelling from tanks and aircraft,
and the use of ballistic missiles and other indiscriminate weapons
against population centres, as well as the use of cluster munitions;
2. Strongly
condemns all
violations of international humanitarian law and the continued
widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights and
fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities and the
Government-affiliated shabbiha
militias,
such as those involving the use of heavy weapons, aerial bombardments
and other force against civilians, attacks on schools, hospitals and
places of worship, massacres, arbitrary executions, extrajudicial
killings, the killing and persecution of protestors, human rights
defenders and journalists, arbitrary detention, enforced
disappearances, violations of the right of the child, including the
recruitment and use of children in the conduct of hostilities in
violation of international law, unlawful interference with access to
medical treatment, failure to respect and protect medical personnel,
torture, systematic sexual violence, including rape in detention, and
ill-treatment, including against children, as well as any human
rights abuses or violations of international humanitarian law by
anti-Government armed groups;
3. Condemns
all
violence, irrespective of where it comes from, and calls upon all
parties to immediately put an end to all forms of violence, including
terrorist acts and acts of violence or intimidation that may foment
sectarian tensions, and to comply strictly with their obligations
under international law, including international humanitarian law;
4. Demands
that
all parties immediately put an end to all violations of international
humanitarian law, including those involving attacks against
civilians, also demands that the Syrian authorities immediately end
all violations of international human rights law and meet their
responsibility to protect the population and comply fully with their
obligations under applicable international law, including
international law applicable to the rights and protection of women
and girls, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, calls upon
all parties to the conflict to issue clear orders against sexual
violence through their respective chains of command and to undertake
investigations to hold perpetrators of sexual violence to account,
also calls upon all parties to facilitate the immediate access for
survivors of sexual violence to available services, and urges donors
to support services that address the health, psychosocial and
protection needs of survivors;
5. Demands
that
the Syrian authorities immediately release all persons arbitrarily
detained, including the members of the Syrian Centre for Media and
Freedom of Expression, publish a list of all detention facilities,
ensure that conditions of detention comply with applicable
international law, and immediately allow access of independent
monitors to all detention facilities;
6. Strongly
condemns the
shelling as well as the shooting by the Syrian armed forces into
neighbouring countries, which led to casualties and injuries of the
civilians of those countries as well as of Syrian refugees,
underlines that such incidents violated international law, stresses
the grave threat of the crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic on the
security of its neighbours and on regional peace and stability, as
well as its grave implications for international peace and security,
and calls upon the Syrian Government to respect the sovereignty of
neighbouring States and meet its international obligations in this
regard;
7. Demands
that
the Syrian authorities grant the independent international commission
of inquiry and individuals working on its behalf immediate, full and
unfettered entry and access to all areas of the Syrian Arab Republic,
and also demands that all parties cooperate fully with the commission
of inquiry in the performance of its mandate to investigate all
alleged violations of international human rights law since March
2011, as well as with other United Nations special procedures, and
invites the commission of inquiry to brief the General Assembly on
the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic;
8. Stresses
again the
importance of ensuring accountability and the need to end impunity
and hold to account all those responsible for serious violations of
international humanitarian law and serious violations and abuses of
international human rights law, including those that may amount to
war crimes and crimes against humanity, as recommended by the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;
9. Encourages
the
Security Council to consider appropriate measures in this regard;
10. Underlines
the
importance that the Syrian people, on the basis of broad, inclusive
and credible consultations, should determine, within the framework
provided by international law and based upon the complementarity
principle, the domestic process and mechanisms to achieve
reconciliation, truth and accountability for gross violations, as
well as reparations and effective remedies for the victims;
11.
Demands
that
the Syrian authorities strictly observe their obligations under
international law with respect to chemical and biological weapons,
including Security Council resolution 1540 (2004) and the Protocol
for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or
Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at
Geneva on 17 June 1925,10 and also demands that the Syrian
authorities refrain from using or transferring to non-State actors
any chemical and biological weapons or any related material, and that
the Syrian authorities meet their obligations to account for and to
secure all chemical and biological weapons and any related material;
12. Also
demands that
the Syrian authorities grant full and unfettered access to the
investigation of the Secretary-General into all alleged uses of
chemical weapons, and calls upon all parties to cooperate with the
investigation;
Humanitarian
situation
13.
Deplores
the
deteriorating humanitarian situation and the failure to ensure the
safe and timely provision of humanitarian assistance to all areas
affected by the fighting;
14. Reiterates
its call upon the
Syrian authorities to immediately and fully implement the agreed
humanitarian response plan, and for all parties to the conflict to
grant immediate, safe, full and unimpeded access of humanitarian
personnel to all populations in need of assistance in all parts of
the Syrian Arab Republic, in particular to medical facilities, and
calls upon those parties to cooperate fully with the United Nations
and relevant humanitarian organizations to facilitate the provision
of humanitarian assistance through the most effective routes;
15. Demands
that
the Syrian authorities facilitate the access of humanitarian
organizations to all people in need through the most effective
routes, including by providing authorization for cross-border
humanitarian operations as an urgent priority, and encourages all
parties in the Syrian Arab Republic to facilitate the delivery of
assistance in areas under their control, including across conflict
lines, in order to implement fully the humanitarian response plan;
16.
Strongly
condemns all
attacks and threats of violence against humanitarian and medical
personnel and against medical facilities and vehicles, in violation
of international law, and the use of medical civilian facilities,
including hospitals, for armed purposes, and calls for all medical
facilities to be free of weapons, including heavy weapons, consistent
with applicable international law;
17. Condemns
all
attacks on, detentions of and threats of violence against United
Nations personnel, and calls upon all parties in this regard to
respect the human rights, privileges and immunities of United Nations
and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment of the
mandate of a United Nations operation;
18.
Expresses
grave concern at
the increasing numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons
as a result of the ongoing violence, which could undermine the
capacities of the neighbouring countries to provide Syrian refugees
with adequate humanitarian needs;
19. Reiterates
its appreciation of
the significant efforts that have been made by neighbouring countries
and the countries of the region to assist those who have fled across
the borders of the Syrian Arab Republic as a consequence of the
violence, and urges all relevant United Nations agencies, in
particular the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, and other donors and humanitarian actors to provide urgent
and coordinated support to Syrian refugees and their host countries;
20. Welcomes
the
hosting by the Government of Kuwait on 30 January of the pledging
conference for the United Nations Joint Appeal;
21.
Requests
the
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced
persons, in cooperation with the Secretariat, to submit a written
report to the General Assembly, within 90 days on the very dire
situation of internally displaced persons in the Syrian Arab Republic
in terms of safety and their basic rights and livelihoods, and to
provide recommendations with a view to meeting assistance and
protection needs and strengthening the effectiveness of the
international response to displacement;
22. Urges
the
international community to provide urgent financial support to the
host countries to enable them to respond to the growing humanitarian
needs of Syrian refugees and affected communities, and to consider
addressing the refugee issue through appropriate means and measures,
in accordance with the principle of burden-sharing;
23. Urges
all
donors to provide expeditiously financial support in the context of
the humanitarian response plan and the regional refugee response plan
to United Nations and international humanitarian organizations, as
well as the host countries, so that they can implement more actively
the humanitarian response plan inside the country;
24. Calls
upon Member
States to provide all support to the Syrian people, and encourages
Member States to contribute to the United Nations humanitarian
response efforts;
Political
transition
25.
Reiterates
its call for an
inclusive Syrian-led political transition to a democratic,
pluralistic political system, in which citizens are equal regardless
of their affiliations, ethnicities or beliefs, including through the
commencement of a serious political dialogue between credible,
empowered and mutually acceptable interlocutors representing the
Syrian authorities and the Syrian opposition;
26.
Welcomes
the
establishment of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and
Opposition Forces on 11 November 2012 in Doha as effective
representative interlocutors needed for a political transition, as
well as its commitment, expressed in its communiqués dated 15 and 23
February and 20 April 2013, to the principle of a political
transition leading to a civil, democratic and pluralistic Syrian Arab
Republic, where all citizens are equal regardless of gender, religion
or ethnicity, and notes the wide international acknowledgement,
notably at the fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends of
the Syrian people, of the Coalition as the legitimate representative
of the Syrian people;
27.
Welcomes
the
efforts of the League of Arab States towards a political resolution
of the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, and its relevant
resolutions in this regard;
28. Reaffirms
its
support for the mission of the Joint Special Representative of the
United Nations and the League of Arab States, and demands in this
regard that all Syrian parties work with his office to implement
rapidly the transition plan set forth in the final communiqué issued
by the Action Group for Syria on 30 June 2012, in a way that assures
the safety of all in an atmosphere of stability and calm, provides
for clear and irreversible steps in the transition according to a
fixed time frame and establishes a consensus transitional governing
body with full executive powers to which all functions of the
presidency and Government are transferred,
including
those pertaining to military, security and intelligence issues, as
well as a review of the constitution on the basis of an inclusive
national dialogue and free and fair multiparty elections held in the
framework of this new constitutional order;
29. Requests
the
Secretary-General to provide support and assistance for the
implementation of the transition plan set forth in the final
communiqué of the Action Group for Syria, and encourages Member
States to provide active diplomatic support in this regard;
30. Requests
that
the Secretary-General, working in close coordination with
international financial institutions, relevant regional and
international organizations, including the League of Arab States,
other relevant international actors and Syrian representatives,
initiate planning to provide support and assistance to Syrian-led
transition and be granted appropriate resources in this regard;
31.
Requests
the
Secretary-General to report within 30 days on the implementation of
the present resolution.
