Eleven Muslim and Arab nations on Friday strongly condemned Israeli airstrikes concentrating on the Abu al-Duhur navy air base in northwestern Syria, warning that the assaults mark a harmful escalation that threatens regional stability and violates Syria’s sovereignty.
In a joint assertion issued Aug. 21, the overseas ministers of Türkiye, Algeria, Indonesia, Palestine, Qatar, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritania, Pakistan, Somalia and Saudi Arabia denounced the strikes as a transparent violation of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political unity of the Syrian Arab Republic.
The ministers voiced deep concern over Israel’s continued concentrating on and destruction of Syrian territory and infrastructure.
They warned that such assaults threat undermining Syria’s ongoing efforts to revive safety, rebuild nationwide establishments and handle the humanitarian penalties of years of battle.
The assertion additionally cautioned that continued Israeli violations of Syrian sovereignty and territorial integrity may gasoline additional escalation, destabilize regional peace and safety and erode respect for worldwide regulation and the rules of the United Nations Constitution.
The overseas ministers known as on the worldwide group to take a agency, clear and principled stance in opposition to the persevering with assaults on Syria and take concrete motion in accordance with worldwide regulation and the U.N. Constitution.
Additionally they urged steps to finish the violations, guarantee full compliance with the 1974 Settlement on Disengagement and safe the withdrawal of Israeli forces from territories they occupy, saying such measures are obligatory to forestall additional escalation and safeguard regional peace and stability.
The ministers reaffirmed their help for Syria’s sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and political unity, whereas rejecting any try to undermine them.
