The Iranian foreign minister made the announcement from South Africa, where he took part in a ministerial meeting of the BRICS economic bloc thecradle.co/article-view/2…
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian revealed on 1 June that Iran’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be completed in July. thecradle.co/article-view/2…
“We will become a full-fledged member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in July when the next summit of the association is to take place,” he told reporters on Thursday, according to Iran’s state-run Tasnim News Agency. thecradle.co/article-view/2…
The SCO is a Eurasian cooperation bloc created in 2001 by Russia, China, and several former Soviet states in Central Asia. thecradle.co/article-view/2…
A UN human rights panel has issued a damning report that blames the US and seven other nations for the C.I.A.’s “torture & cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” of a Saudi prisoner who now awaits a death penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay. nytimes.com/2023/06/04/us/…
The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention also named as responsible the UAE, where the prisoner, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was captured in 2002, & Afghanistan, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Romania & Thailand, nytimes.com/2023/06/04/us/…
UN Chief Leaves Child Rights Violators Off ‘List of Shame’
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reported Omits Israeli Forces, Ignores Ukraine, Ethiopia, Mozambique hrw.org/news/2022/07/1…
In his new annual report on children & armed conflict, UN Secretary-General reported that Israeli security forces killed 78 Palestinian children & injured 982 in 2021, more casualties caused by any other armed force or group in the 21 conflict countries covered in his review.
Despite this, Guterres failed to include Israeli forces in his annual “list of shame” for violations against children in armed conflict. hrw.org/news/2022/07/1…
Terrorists in Idleb prevent students from reaching Saraqib corridor to take exams sana.sy/en/?p=310075
Terrorist groups prevented students in the areas of the terrorists’ control in Idleb from reaching Saraqib corridor in Idleb southern countryside to take their basic and secondary education certificates exams. sana.sy/en/?p=310075
“The terrorists prevented the students from reaching Saraqib corridor and heading to the safe areas to take their exams this year,” Idleb Education Director Nader Abdo told SANA reporter. sana.sy/en/?p=310075
Pakistani aid for quake-affected arrives Lattakia province
A new humanitarian and relief aid shipment provided by Pakistani government arrived in Lattakia port over the past two days. sana.sy/en/?p=310040
Deputy Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Damascus Safdar Ali Khan said, in a press statement, about 63 containers weighing about 1,300 tons were unloaded on Saturday, including relief materials, foodstuffs, baby milk, generators & lighting devices.
Ali Khan added that the Pakistani government sent 9 planes, from the first moments of the earthquake, which have respectively arrived at Damascus International Airport carrying relief materials, sana.sy/en/?p=310040
Rights of Palestinian refugees non-negotiable, Sabbagh says
Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Bassam Sabbagh, has affirmed that preserving the Palestinian refugees’ rights is non-negotiable issue. sana.sy/en/?p=309997
Sabbagh stressed Syria’s firm stance in support of the Palestinian people’s struggle to restore their occupied territories and all legitimate rights in accordance with international law and UN resolutions. sana.sy/en/?p=309997
“The Palestinian Cause remains Syria’s main national issue, as it has not and will not spare any effort to stand by the brotherly Palestinian people to restore their occupied lands and all legitimate rights,
-Sabbagh- sana.sy/en/?p=309997
Syria wins a silver medal in the World Championship of Martial Arts in the sport of Unifight in Russia sana.sy/en/?p=309994
The Syrian national team player for martial arts in unifight sports, Adnan Abdul Qadir al-Aloush, won the silver medal in the World Junior Martial Arts Championship in unifight which was held in the Russian capital, Moscow, sana.sy/en/?p=309994
with the participation of 223 male and female players from eleven countries. sana.sy/en/?p=309994