KUWAIT EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT THE MISSING FROM SYRIA'S TURMOIL

  • 19/03/2022

Kuwait City: Kuwait expressed severe concern on Friday regarding the fate of all individuals who have gone missing as a result of the Syrian conflict. This was said in a speech given by Kuwait's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim, before to the 49th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which took place from February 28 to April 1. According to international law and UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2474, parties to an armed conflict bear the primary responsibility to take all possible measures to determine the fate of people reported missing as a result of hostilities, as well as to communicate with families during the search, Al-Ghunaim added. 


Kuwait asks the UN Secretary General to halt the practise of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance of tens of thousands of individuals, and to respond to the urgent pleas of families across Syria seeking to learn the fate and whereabouts of the missing, he confirmed. Kuwait urges all parties to the conflict to take all appropriate measures to pay close attention to situations of children reported missing as a result of the armed conflict in Syria, as well as to take suitable measures to seek for and identify these children. According to the Geneva Communique of 2012 and UN Security Council Resolution 2254, Kuwait remains firmly persuaded that there can be no military solution to the Syrian problem and that the only conceivable solution is a political one that meets the aspirations of the Syrian people. Kuwait further encouraged the UN Human Rights Council to intervene to prevent similar humanitarian disasters, stressing its desire for everyone's collaboration with the work of the UN Secretary General's Envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, aimed at achieving peace in this country. 

They are very worried about the suffering of millions of Syrians as a result of displacement and seeking asylum in other countries, he said, as the Syrian crisis enters its 11th year. Al-Ghunaim said that Kuwait has had a humanitarian obligation to Syria since the beginning of the conflict, hosting the first donor conference and participating in multiple subsequent conferences, when it made pledges totaling USD 1.7 billion. He reaffirmed Kuwait's support for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' demand to ensure that the greatest amount of humanitarian aid possible addresses the needs of civilians across Syria. 

Kuwait expects that the UN Security Council would achieve an agreement on the renewal of Resolution 2585, which governs the entry of humanitarian supplies into Syria, in July of next year. In the same context, Kuwait expressed concern about the ramifications of Syria's health-care system collapse and the decline in the number of hospitals and health-care centres as a result of armed attacks on them, at a time when a large proportion of the health-care workforce is migrating abroad in search of a safe haven. According to him, the loss of fundamental infrastructure in Syria has exacerbated the economic situation and pushed humanitarian needs to their greatest levels since the conflict began.

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