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Terrorist groups must be "crushed" in NW Syria: Chinese envoy
February 07, 2020
UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese UN envoy on Thursday stressed that the terrorist groups in northwest Syria must be "resolutely crushed" in accordance with relevant Security Council resolutions and international law.
Addressing the Security Council, Wu Haitao, China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, said the complex situation in northwest Syria is both a security issue and a humanitarian issue, traceable to the root of the terrorist forces' control of the Idlib area.
"The listed terrorist organizations must be resolutely crushed in accordance with council resolutions and international law by unified standards," he said.
In this regard, he proposed that weapons collected in the course of combating terrorist organizations should be investigated for the origin, and the channels for supplying weapons to terrorist organizations should be cut off.
For foreign terrorist fighters, a database should be established to lay the foundation for addressing this problem, and the measures should be taken to prevent them from fleeing to other countries and regions to continue their criminal activities. ■
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