1. Committee: Security Council
Topic: Situation in Syria
Country: Angola
Delegate: Saqib Shaikh
The Syrian situation has been part of the Arab Spring as we all know that started from Tunisia,
swiping the whole Arab world and the Middle East. With Syria in the sixth year of a war that has
exacted a death toll of 470,000, left 860,000 living under siege and displaced half of the Syrian
population, including nearly 4.8 million refugees, many farmers in the country have “lost the
ability to cope”, and rising prices and scarcity of essential inputs such as fertilizers and seeds
have made it ever more difficult for them to maintain their livelihoods and feed the war-torn
country.
Moreover the Syrian government has chemical weapons and the Angola is concerned that these
weapons will fall into the wrong hands, or since the country is facing desperate times, that the
government will use weapons as a drastic measure. On chemical weapons, Acting High
Representative for Disarmament Affairs Kim Wonsoo and Virginia Gamba, the head of the Joint
Investigative Mechanism (JIM), briefed Council members on 27 October. The JIM’s four reports
have concluded that of the nine cases investigated, the Syrian regime used chlorine gas against
its own population in three cases and that ISIL used mustard gas in one case.
OCHA head Stephen O’Brien briefed the Council on 26 October and expressed his
“incandescent rage” at the unparalleled humanitarian catastrophe, saying that eastern Aleppo had
become a “kill zone”. He described leaflets that had been dropped over eastern Aleppo by
Russian and Syrian aircraft that read “This is your last hope….save yourselves. If you do not
leave these areas urgently, you will be annihilated…You know that everyone has given up on
you. They left you alone to face your doom and nobody will give you any help.” He exhorted all
Council members with operational military assets in Syria to halt the aerial bombardment of
civilian areas and to allow the UN to deliver humanitarian assistance to those in need. Finally, he
told the Council if it didn’t take action, if it didn’t take the right path, then there would be no
Syria to save, that would be the Council’s legacy and the shame of a generation.
The essential issue for the Council is to exert effective leadership in supporting a cessation of
hostilities and efforts to reach a political solution. It has been the subject of countless hours of
debate, discussion and negotiation. Yet, despite all the intensive and extensive efforts, the Syria
issue remains unresolved due to a lack of unity in the United Nations and because five
resolutions have been Vetoed by Russia and China.
The Syria conflict is intense, controversial, complex, and violent. Although different plans have
been tried and failed. Now is an important time for the international community to act and help
both sides come to an agreement that will lead to peace.
The recent increase in terrorist attacks, particularly in France, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt,
Mali and elsewhere, and the crisis of Syrian refugees and their global implications, has
contributed to the change of attitude of international community. Now we look forward and with
a sense of renewed hope, because of the apparent determination by the international community
to defeat terrorism and positive momentum for a political settlement to the conflict in Syria.

2. Angola suggests that the only solution to the current crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic is through
an inclusive and Syrian-led political process based on the Geneva Communiqué of 30 June 2012.
This states that:
1. Syria’s unity, independence, territorial integrity, and secular character are fundamental.
2. State institutions should remain intact.
3. The rights of all Syrians, regardless of ethnicity or religious denomination, must be
protected.
4. The immediate international control and destruction of chemical weapons and their
components of the Syrian Arab Republic should be ensured in the soonest and safest
manner.
5. It is imperative to accelerate all diplomatic efforts to end the war.
6. Humanitarian access will be ensured throughout the territory of Syria, and the
participants will increase support for internally displaced persons, refugees, and their host
countries.
7. All States shall refrain from providing any form of support to non-State actors that
attempt to develop, acquire, manufacture, possess, transport, transfer or use weapons of
mass destruction, including chemical weapons, and their means of delivery. Da’esh
(Islamic State), and other terrorist groups, as designated by the U.N. Security Council,
and further, as agreed by the participants, must be defeated.
And as a country that spent decades in the civil war we, Angola, support all efforts to end this
slaughter of the Syrian people and the war crimes that are happening there we are committed
to what the Human Rights Council and the Security Council sees as the proper solution to
this armed conflict that killed and sent innocents away from their home. We believe that The
Human rights Council and The Security Council should work on a solution that does not
implicate further violence, as some other member countries suggested using the military
action to support one side of the conflict, like in Libya. We suggest that the use of UN Peace
Forces with the help of the League of Arab States to provide relief to civilians and protect
their basic rights.
If we wait for perfect condition, we will never get done anything regarding Syria. The people
from Syria expect from us to do what we can do with what we have, wherever we are, less
than perfect service is always better than the best intention. We request all nation of the
world, do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the
place you can, at all the time you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can and
that is the crying need of the time. Are we ready to do our part of work to make this world
more peaceful happier and healthier place for our future generations? Then this is the time to
prove not by words but by actions that, we are sincere in solving the issue that is hanging like
sward of domicile on the head of world.