New York, (IINA) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday lashed out at leaders for failure to stop the war machine in Syria, Anadolu Agency reported.
“Present in this hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of the Syria conflict against Syrian civilians,” the UN chief said at the opening of UN General Assembly. Ban stressed that there is no military solution in Syria, noting that many groups have killed many innocent people in the war-torn country but the Syrian regime has been the worst as it continues to barrel bomb civilians and “systematically torture thousands of detainees.”
“Powerful patrons that keep feeding the war machine also have blood on their hands,” he added. The Secretary General also addressed Tuesday’s airstrike on UN-Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy. Ban called it a “sickening, savage, and apparently deliberate attack” and urged world leaders to hold the perpetrators of the attack accountable for their crime.
The UN suspended aid convoys access to Syria after the strike. “I appeal to all those with influence to end the fighting and get talks started,” he said. “The future of Syria should not rest on the fate of a single man.” Addressing several other conflicts across the globe from Ukraine to Myanmar, Ban told leaders: “Serve your people. Do not subvert democracy; do not pilfer your country’s resources; do not imprison and torture your critics.”
Leaders from around the world are in New York for the 71st session of General Assembly with an emphasis on sustainable global development goals.
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