Qatar has called for ensuring accountability for crimes committed in Syria and prosecute those responsible in the national judicial systems in some third country.
This came in the speech delivered by HE Sheikha Alia Ahmed bint Saif al-Thani, the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations, at a  meeting entitled ‘First Cracks in the Syrian Impunity Wall: National Prosecutions Underway in the Courts of Third Party States for Serious Crimes committed in Syria’ held here on Wednesday. 
Organised by the Permanent Missions of the State of Qatar and Liechtenstein to the United Nations, the event aimed at promoting understanding of the judicial developments and their legal underpinnings as well as prospects and challenges that states face in widening these efforts.
Sheikha Alia highlighted Qatar’s role in international efforts to combat impunity for the perpetrators of terrible crimes that violate international humanitarian law.
She stressed that the time has come to ensure accountability for the crimes committed in Syria, and work on other ways to achieve justice in the absence of accountability.
She explained that the meeting aimed at identifying  the ongoing efforts to investigate the egregious crimes committed in Syria and prosecute those responsible in the national judicial systems in some third countries, according to the principle of universal jurisdiction, which involved international instruments on mass atrocities.
Taking part in sponsorship of the event held at United Nations Headquarters in New York, were France, Germany, Sweden, the Syrian Network for Human Rights. It was attended by a large number of representatives of the member-states of the United Nations.