HE Ali Khalfan Al Mansouri, Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations in Geneva, delivered a statement on Friday 2 March 2018, at the HRC’s urgent debate on the situation in Syria's Eastern Ghouta.  H.E stressed the international community’s legal and moral responsibility to protect civilians , civilian infrastructure and to ensure the implementation of Security Council resolution 2401 and relevant resolutions of international legitimacy.  H.E added that the convening of the urgent debate due to the significant deterioration of the human rights situation in Estern Ghouta would be a message in which the State of Qatar affirms that the suffering of the Syrian people and the crimes committed against them must not go unpunished.
"The Syrian regime, as it has been known, neither respected  the UNSC truce nor the truce announced by Russia and insisted upon a military approach," H.E. said.
HE Al Mansouri concluded by pointing that “the State of Qatar also affirms that the only way out of the current humanitarian disaster in Syria is through a political solution based on Geneva 1 communique and reaffirms the importance of prosecuting those responsible for human rights violations and war crimes   and holding them accountable.