S/RES/2393 (2017)
United Nations
Security Council
Distr.: General
19 December 2017
Resolution 2393 (2017)
Adopted by the Security Council at its 8141st meeting, on
19 December 2017
The Security Council,
Recalling its resolutions 2042 (2012), 2043 (2012), 2118 (2013), 2139 (2014),
2165 (2014), 2175 (2014), 2191 (2014), 2209 (2015), 2235 (2015), 2254 (2015), 2258
(2015), 2268 (2016), 2286 (2016), 2332 (2016) and 2336 (2016), and its Presidential
Statements of 3 August 2011 (S/PRST/2011/16), 21 March 2012 (S/PRST/2012/6),
5 April 2012 (S/PRST/2012/10), 2 October 2013 (S/PRST/2013/15), 24 April 2015
(S/PRST/2015/10) and 17 August 2015 (S/PRST/2015/15),
Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and
territorial integrity of Syria, and to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations,
Expressing outrage at the unacceptable level of violence and the killing of well
over a quarter of a million people, including tens of thousands of child casualties, as
a result of the Syrian conflict,
Gravely distressed by the continued severity of the devastating humanitarian
situation in Syria, and by the fact that urgent humanitarian assistance, including
medical assistance, is now required by more than 13.1 million people in Syria, of
whom 6.1 million are internally displaced, 2.9 million are living in hard -to-reach
areas, including Palestinian refugees, and hundreds of thousands of civilians are
trapped in besieged areas,
Gravely concerned at the insufficient implementation of its resolutions 2139
(2014), 2165 (2014), 2191 (2014), 2258 (2015) and 2332 (2016) and recalling in this
regard the legal obligations of all parties under international humanitarian law and
international human rights law, as well as all the relevant decisions of the Security
Council, including by ceasing all attacks against civilians and civilian objects,
including those involving attacks on schools, medical facilities and the deliberate
interruptions of water supply, the indiscriminate use of weapons, including artillery,
barrel bombs and air strikes, indiscriminate shelling by mortars, car bombs, suicide
attacks and tunnel bombs, as well as the use of starvation of civilians as a method of
combat, including by the besiegement of populated areas, and the widespread use of
torture, ill-treatment, arbitrary executions, extrajudicial killings, enforced
disappearances, sexual and gender-based violence, as well as all grave violations and
abuses committed against children,
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