Equipo Nizkor - UNSC S/2016/689 - List provided by Syria of the victims of the chemical attacks launched by terrorist groups against the Awamid area of old Aleppo.

United Nations
Security Council

S/2016/689

Distr.: General
10 August 2016
English
Original: Arabic

Identical letters dated 8 August 2016 from the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council

On instructions from my Government, and further to our previous letters and to the statement concerning the criminal acts perpetrated by armed terrorist groups in Syria with the support of States from the region and beyond, particularly Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, that the Permanent Representative of Syria delivered at the Security Council meeting held on 25 July 2016, I hereby transmit to you a list of the names of the persons killed or injured by shells containing poison gases that armed terrorist gangs fired at the Awamid area of old Aleppo.

Names of the dead:

1. Ibrahim Hasan Awad, 35 years of age
2. Muhammad Ahmad Ibish, 35 years of age
3. Hamzah Muhammad al-Faraj
4. Yahya Abdulkarim Hamawi, 44 years of age
5. Ra'id Talib Qal'aji, 26 years of age
6. Muhid Fadil al-Zaybaq, 22 years of age

Names of the injured:

1. Mahmud Abdulqadir Dashan, 26 years of age
2. Mahmud Ahmad Kurdi, 23 years of age
3. Mahmud Abdullah Mulays, 35 years of age
4. Yusuf Umar Hammadah, 47 years of age
5. Salah Mustafa al-Salih, 35 years of age
6. Muhammad Abdu Hamati, 50 years of age
7. Abdullah Muhammad Tijan, 32 years of age
8. Nadir Muhammad Subhi al-Yusif, 46 years of age
9. Ahmad Habi
10. Ali Hasan al-Hasan, 22 years of age
11. Khalid Mayyar Misri, 52 years of age
12. Khalid Muhammad Miqrash, 52 years of age
13. Jum'ah Abdulqadir Ka'ud, 36 years of age
14. Ramzi Shaykhu Uthman, 35 years of age

The Government of the Syrian Arab Republic once again calls on the Security Council to condemn these crimes. It also calls on the Security Council to take measures immediately in respect of those States that support armed terrorist groups in Syria on the basis of the Security Council resolutions concerning counter-terrorism, in particular, resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001), 2170 (2014), 2178 (2014), 2199 (2015) and 2253 (2015), which reaffirm that States Members of the United Nations must not provide any form of support to terrorist groups or the members thereof.

I should be grateful if the present letter could be issued as a document of the Security Council.

(Signed) Bashar Ja'afari
Ambassador
Permanent Representative

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List provided by Syria of the victims of the chemical attacks launched by terrorist groups against the Awamid area of old Aleppo