QNA
Geneva
The Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations at Geneva, in collaboration with the permanent missions of France, Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States, and the organisation - No Peace Without Justice - organised yesterday an event “under the title “Syria after tyranny: the achievement of a democratic and
multi-parties future”.
The event was held on the sidelines of a Human Rights Council session. The participants included Hisham Marwa, deputy chairman of the Syrian National Coalition; Hussein al-Sabbag, secretary general of the European - Syrian Democratic Forum; Imad al-Din Rashid, head of the political office of the National Syrian movement; Basma Kodmani of the Arab initiative for reform; Amir Kazkaz from centre documenting violations in Syria; and Alison Smith, legal adviser to “No Peace without Justice”. Marwa was the
keynote speaker.
The event highlighted ways to obtain victims’ rights, accountability mechanisms, the role of civic participation as prerequisites to ensure the establishment of a fair democracy in Syria to break the tyranny of extremism and dictatorship, with the need to remind the international community that in order to reach a lasting political solution to the war in Syria, obstacles to accountability must be overcome and to hold accountable all who are responsible for their crimes.
Speaking at the event, Mohannad al-Hammadi, acting charge d’affaires of the Qatar’s Permanent Mission to UN, confirmed the full confidence in the ability of Syrian people to victory and get rid of the authoritarian Assad regime which has persistently continued in its crimes and violations of all the rights of the Syrian people, and that there would not be fear for the future of Syria after the demise of tyranny and the removal of the Assad regime.
Al-Hammadi expressed Qatar’s belief in the ability and seriousness of Syrians who will work on the leadership of the transitional political process, and eliminate all extremist and terrorist groups backed by the regime.