The Syrian delegation walked out Tuesday of a UN emergency session discussing the situation in Syria.

The Syrian delegation walked out Tuesday of a UN emergency session discussing the situation in Syria, after Syrian Representative to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva Faysal Al-Hamwi dubbed the meeting futile and assured it only aimed at igniting terrorism and politicize the situation of human rights.

“Seeing that the actual goal behind this session is to ignite terrorism, extending the crisis in my country through the support it will present to the armed groups, and flagrantly politicizing the humanitarian situation, the Syrian delegation announces its withdrawal from this futile session, and its denial to the legitimacy of this meeting as well as its spiteful and biased decisions,” Al-Hamwi said.

In this context, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey filed a resolution calling the Syrian government to stop the human rights violations and to allow the access of relief agencies.

In parallel, High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay emphasized that “fighting must end so help can be delivered to civilians”.

“There must be an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to end the fighting and bombardments," said Pillay, adding that “she had received reports of a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation and serious rights abuses.”

Accusing the Syrian army of all the crimes committed , Pillay continued: “the Syrian army has reportedly used tanks, mortars, rockets and artillery to cordon off cities, and shelled densely populated neighborhoods in what appears to be an indiscriminate attack on civilian areas.”