Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 December 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Situation in Syria: Discussion

9:00 am

Dr. Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun:

I am totally in favour of investigations on the condition they are unbiased, but this is not the case according to something the general secretary of the United Nations said. One morning he stated Saudi Arabia is killing in Yemen but that afternoon he withdrew the comment. I urge the committee to ask Kofi Annan, who was sent to Syria by the United Nations. I met him. He told me they could not make peace, but they made great war in Syria in which Russia and Iran are involved and Syria is their the playground. This was in 2013. I want an international committee, but it should have members such as this committee has and not a commission bought by money which will state there are chemical weapons.