The Syrian Coalition welcomes the decision to establish an independent institution for the missing

ARK News… The Syrian National Coalition highly valued the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, which provides for the establishment of an independent institution concerned with the missing in Syria to reveal their fate, stressing its cooperation and full support for any effort to release Syrian detainees and the forcibly disappeared in the prisons of the Assad regime.

The National Coalition stressed the necessity of linking this mechanism to the file of the forcibly disappeared persons and their release, which is stipulated in Resolution 2254, and also linking it to the accountability file, due to the violence, torture and brutal violations that the Syrian detainees were subjected to in the prisons of the Assad regime, which international human rights organizations described as "human slaughterhouses".

It made it clear that the file of the Syrian detainees is a non-negotiable file, and we refuse that the Assad regime use it as a card for political blackmail and obtaining gains, and we call for intensifying serious efforts to release the detainees, and not be satisfied with revealing their fate.

The National Coalition urged to have a deterrent mechanism that obliges the Assad regime to cooperate with the institution concerned with missing persons, especially since it was clear that the regime has performed during the past years in obstructing the work of independent international commissions, specifically including those related to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

It pointed out that the demand for the release of detainees and forcibly disappeared persons in the prisons of the Assad regime is an old and renewed demand, as the number of documented detainees exceeds 250,000 according to human rights statistics (the Syrian Network for Human Rights), especially since the Assad regime is still using detention and kidnapping as a tool of oppression and restriction of freedom. The opinion.

The National Coalition thanked everyone who contributed and worked for the issuance of this important decision, and calls for intensified international efforts to end the Syrian tragedy caused by the Assad regime and its allies, support the accountability file, and achieve the political transition in accordance with Resolution 2254.

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