Wednesday, 22 June 2016

Qatar emphasizes on ensuring accountability for the crimes committed in Syria

NEW YORK (Ina) - the initiative of the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations, thePermanent delegation of Liechtenstein to the United Nations, a meeting under the title "signs of cracks in the wall of impunity in Syria: prosecutions ongoing at the national level in third parties for serious crimes committed in Syria. "  was 
co-sponsored the meeting held Wednesday (June 22, 2016), the United Nations headquarters in New York, France, Germany, Sweden, and the network of the Syrian human rights while attended by a large number of representatives of the Member States of the United Nations.  
She stressed Ambassador Sheikha Alia Ahmed bin Saif Al second, the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations in a speech that opened the meeting, Qatar 's role in international efforts to combat impunity for the perpetrators of terrible crimes that violate international humanitarian law andinternational human rights 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 very meeting is to identify the ongoing efforts to investigate the egregious crimes committed in Syria and prosecute them in the national judicial systems in some third countries, according to the principle of universal jurisdiction implied by the international instruments on mass atrocities.  
the meeting to highlight the efforts of some countries to achieve justice and to prosecute individuals involved in committing atrocious crimes in Syria by the national judiciary in third countries.

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