Is the UN cleaning their meeting records?
There were news reports today that Syria had admitted that Israel had bombed a nuclear facility last month in northern Syria.
YNET News reported:
Syrian officials have admitted that the site attacked by the Israeli air force last month was a nuclear facility, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday.Here is the original document from that meeting at the United Nations this morning:
According to the newspaper, three Israeli diplomats present at a recent United Nations Disarmament Commission meeting overheard the Syrian representative clearly say that Israel's attack targeted a nuclear facility.
The Israeli delegation to the talks, headed by Miriam Ziv, the Foreign Ministry's deputy director general for strategic affairs, accused Syria of smuggling mass amounts of weapons into Lebanon in violation of the UN Security Council's resolution. In response a Syrian representative said Israel was the aggressor and mentioned its attack on a "nuclear facility."
Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja'afari also took part in the meeting.
According to foreign sources, Israel launched the attack on the suspected nuclear site near Dayr az-Zwar in northern Syria a few days after a shipment of nuclear material arrived there from North Korea.
Until now Syria has vehemently denied the existence of a nuclear project in its territory, claiming the site in Dayr az-Zwar was actually an agricultural research facility.
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Here is the original text:
Moreover, Israel was the fourth largest exporter of weapons of mass destruction and a violator of other nations’ airspace, and it had taken action against nuclear facilities, including the 6 July attack in Syria. He vowed that whenever a right of reply was exercised, Syria would expose the underlying goals of the Zionist entity.Now, take a look at the latest text of that same document:
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Here is the latest rewrite of United Nations record General Assembly GA/DIS/3345 :
Moreover, the entity that was the fourth largest exporter of lethal weapons in the world, that which violated the airspace of sovereign States and carried out military aggression against them, as had happened on 6 September against Syria, such an entity, with all those characteristics and more, had no right to go on lying without shame.MORE... Dan Riehl is also reporting on this.
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ReplyDeletehi GP.. haven't read all the links as yet,
but here is what FoxNews reported..
Syrian Official Says Israeli Airstrike Hit Nuke Facility
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,302656,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/ywkmeo
By James Rosen
October 17, 2007
"Israel was the fourth-largest exporter of weapons of mass destruction and a violator of other nations' airspace, and it had taken action against nuclear facilities, including the 6 July attack in Syria," Syrian representative Bassam Darwish is quoted in the document as saying.
Diplomats familiar with the document cannot explain why July 6 was invoked, instead of Sept. 6, the date both countries say an incident occurred. A State Department source tells FOX News the best explanation is that Darwish misspoke.
The document, released by the General Assembly's Department of Public Information, recounted Tuesday's proceedings at the annual gathering of the U.N.'s Disarmament and International Security Committee.
What is clear is that this is the first time Syria has acknowledged its nuclear efforts.
Click here to view the document posted on the U.N. Web Site.
One U.S. delegate told colleagues he could not believe his ears when the Syrian diplomat made his statement and that the resulting document was close to verbatim, and another source told FOX News the document reinforces what people heard [the Syrian representative] say in the actual debate.
Syria already has disowned the remarks, adding "such facilities do not exist in Syria."
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, SANA, quoting an unnamed Foreign Ministry source, said the U.N. press release misquoted the diplomat and that Syria had made it clear that there are no such facilities in Syria.
Syrian President Bashar Assad said earlier this month that the target is an "unused military building."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
links @ link..
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ReplyDeleteoh yeah, like Israel is going to risk everything to bomb a fruit truck, or was that an agricultural research facility, or a (fill in the blank)?? pffft!!
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Syrian president tells BBC Israeli warplanes struck "unused military building" last month
so what was it Syria..
1) an unused military building
2)an agricultural research facility
3) a fruit truck
4) a nuclear facitlity
5) a bubble factory
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Thanks for the links bg.
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