A/HRC/RES/32/25
Expressing full support for the efforts of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General
for Syria, with a view to full implementation of the Syrian political process that establishes
credible, inclusive and non-sectarian governance, in accordance with the Geneva
communiqué and consistent with Security Council resolutions 2254 (2015) of 18 December
2015 and 2258 (2015) of 22 December 2015, urging the Special Envoy to continue to push
the parties to negotiate a political transition, demanding that all parties to the cessation of
hostilities in the Syrian Arab Republic fulfil their commitments, and urging all Member
States, especially the members of the International Syria Support Group, to use their
influence with the parties to the cessation of hostilities to ensure fulfilment of those
commitments and the full implementation of those resolutions, to support efforts to create
conditions for a durable and lasting ceasefire, which is essential to achieving a political
solution to the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic and to bringing to an end the
systematic, widespread and gross violations and abuses of human rights and violations of
international humanitarian law,
Acknowledging the ongoing efforts by human rights defenders active in the Syrian
Arab Republic to document violations and abuses of international human rights law and
violations of international humanitarian law, despite grave risks,
1.
Welcomes the statement of the International Syria Support Group of 17 May
2016 in Vienna, including its request that the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for
Syria facilitate agreements between the Syrian parties for the release of detainees and its
call for any party holding detainees to protect the health and safety of those in their
custody;
2.
Stresses the importance of achieving a full cessation of hostilities in the
Syrian Arab Republic, demands that all parties to the cessation of hostilities in the Syrian
Arab Republic fulfil their commitments, and urges all Member States, especially the
members of the International Syria Support Group, to use their influence with the parties to
the cessation of hostilities to ensure fulfilment of those commitments, and to support efforts
to create conditions for a durable and lasting ceasefire, which is essential to achieving a
political solution to the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic and to bringing to an end the
systematic, widespread and gross violations and abuses of human rights and violations of
humanitarian law;
3.
Welcomes the work of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry
on the Syrian Arab Republic to investigate all alleged violations and abuses of international
human rights law since March 2011 in the Syrian Arab Republic, to establish the facts and
circumstances and to support efforts to ensure that perpetrators of abuses and violations,
including those who may be responsible for crimes against humanity, are held accountable,
and notes the importance of the work of the Commission of Inquiry and the information it
has collected in support of future accountability efforts, in particular the information on
those who have allegedly violated international law;
4.
Demands that the Syrian authorities cooperate fully with the Human Rights
Council and the Commission of Inquiry by granting it immediate, full and unfettered access
throughout the Syrian Arab Republic;
5.
Strongly condemns the continued systematic, widespread and gross violations
and abuses of human rights and all violations of international humanitarian law by the
Syrian authorities and affiliated militias, including foreign terrorist fighters and those
foreign organizations fighting on behalf of the Syrian authorities, in particular Hizbullah,
and expresses deep concern that their involvement further exacerbates the deteriorating
situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, including the human rights and humanitarian
situation, which has a serious negative impact on the region;
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