During scores of meetings of the Security Council, directly or indirectly rel...

During scores of meetings of the Security Council, directly or indirectly related to Syria, I have never heard that one or more States with influence over the armed groups in Syria — some of which are members of the Council — has exercised any pressure on these terrorist armed groups to lift the blockade of a certain area in Syria or to stop the militarization of a hospital or a school in Syria, or to free religious leaders, priests, nuns and orphans who have been kidnapped for months or even years. I have not once heard that any of any States that exercises pressure on terrorist armed groups had pressed for the release of Syrian women and children who had been taken hostage, kidnapped and used as human shields, from Latakia to Deir ez-Zor, Al-Raqqa and Deraa. I have never heard of anybody who had pressured those terrorist armed groups to release women and children who were kidnapped after dozens and hundreds of them were slaughtered.