Syria Urges UN's Action against Terrorism after Aleppo Tragedy

Rasa - Damascus strongly denounced a deadly terrorist bomb attack on buses carrying people from two Syrian town in Idlib province, calling on the United Nations to hold responsible the countries that fund terrorists and provide them with weapons and ammunition.

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Date: 17 April 2017 - 21:51

RNA - Foreign and Expatriates Ministry on Sunday called for unifying efforts of the international community to fight terrorism in coordination and full cooperation with the Syrian government, condemning the terrorist attack on Fua'a and Kafraya citizens and bringing supporters of terrorism to justice, SANA reported.

“In a heinous, criminal act which was planned to kill the largest number of children and women, terrorists detonated on Saturday a car bomb in an area that gathers buses and ambulances in Al-Rashideen region in West Aleppo to transport nearly 5,000 citizens from the terror-besieged towns of Fua'a and Kafraya,” the Ministry said in two letters sent to the UN Secretary General and President of the UN Security Council.

It added that the coward attack claimed the lives of more than 120 children and women and injured hundreds, and caused massive material damage to the cars and buses.

The Ministry stressing that the people of the two towns have suffered daily from a severe siege, starvation and shelling that did not stop, imposed by the terrorist groups for more than four consecutive years.

It affirmed that the terrorist bombing attack that targeted the people of Fua'a and Kafraya coincides with a feverish campaign of armed terrorist groups that unveils their bankruptcy in front of the success of the national reconciliation being carried out in an attempt to make the agreement of the four cities a failure.

The Ministry said “this coward attack comes as a response by the terrorists and their masters to the achievements made by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies and their success in confronting the terrorist organizations of Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS and their affiliated entities in many Syrian areas.”

“The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic reiterates the urgent need to unify the efforts of the international community to combat terrorism in full coordination and cooperation with the Syrian government and to stop attempts of misleading and ignoring the fact of the priority of combating terrorism to restore security and stability in Syria and the region as a whole,” the Ministry added.

The Ministry concluded its letters by calling on the UN to condemn this criminal attack, punish their perpetrators and bring the governments that support terrorist organizations, on top of them, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, France, the US and Britain to justice, and force them carry out UN relevant resolutions, particularly no. 1267, 1373, 2170, 2178, 2199 and 2253.

At least 125 people, including women and children, have been killed and hundreds more wounded in a suicide bombing near Aleppo that struck a bus convoy evacuating people from besieged towns of Fua'a and Kafraya in Idlib province.

A Syrian bus convoy transporting the residents of two Shiite-populated towns in Idlib being evacuated in a deal between warring parties hit by a huge blast. The explosion hit al-Rashideen district on the Western outskirts of Aleppo as buses were stopping at a checkpoint on Saturday afternoon.

A delay in the agreement reportedly left thousands of evacuated people stranded at two transit points on Aleppo’s outskirts since late Friday. The buses were waiting to take people who were evacuated from Fua'a and Kafraya from militant-held territory into the government-controlled city.

According to latest reports, terrorists reportedly loaded the car in which they hid the bomb with children’s food supplies to sneak it into the area.

The Syrian Army and militant groups had agreed to allow over 3,500 militants leave four towns Northwest of Damascus in return for the evacuation of 8,000 civilians from Fua'a and Kafraya in the Northwestern Province of Idlib in several phases.

Based on an agreement concluded in late March between the Damascus officials and gunmen, around 3,800 fighters and their family members are to leave the towns of Madhaya, Baqin, al-Zabadani and al-Jabal al-Sharqi for militant-held region in Idlib via four passageways.

In return, 8,000 residents of Fua'a and Kafraya will leave their towns for government-controlled regions in Aleppo province.

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