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SYRIA’S ambassador to the UN has hit back at Gulf Arab states after they equated Damascus and its allies with Islamic State.
Syrian permanent representative Bashar al-Jaafari spoke out against a Saudi Arabian-proposed resolution at the UN general assembly’s human rights council on Thursday which expressed “outrage” at “human rights violations” in the war against Isis and other terrorist groups.
The motion, sponsored by Qatar, said that the council “strongly condemns all attacks against the Syrian moderate opposition and calls for their immediate cessation” claiming they benefited Isis and the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front.
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