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2.
Calls upon all parties to the conflict and Member States, especially members
of the International Syria Support Group, to renew their efforts to create conditions,
including a comprehensive nationwide ceasefire, that support meaningful negotiations for a
political solution to the Syrian conflict, under the auspices of the Special Envoy of the
Secretary-General for Syria and his office in Geneva, as only a durable and inclusive
political solution to the conflict can bring an end to the systematic, widespread and gross
violations and abuses of international human rights law and violations of international
humanitarian law;
3.
Welcomes the work and the important role played by the Independent
International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, established by the
Human Rights Council in its resolution S-17/1 of 23 August 2011, in supporting essential
accountability efforts by investigating 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 all perpetrators of abuses and violations,
including those who may be responsible for crimes against humanity, are identified and
held accountable;
4.
Demands that the Syrian authorities cooperate fully with the Human Rights
Council and the Commission of Inquiry by granting the Commission immediate, full and
unfettered access throughout the Syrian Arab Republic;
5.
Strongly condemns all violations and abuses of international human rights
law and all violations of international humanitarian law committed by all parties to the
conflict, including the continued systematic, widespread and gross violations and abuses of
human rights and all violations of international humanitarian law by the Syrian regime and
its affiliated State and non-State actors, including foreign terrorist fighters and those foreign
organizations fighting on behalf of the Syrian authorities, 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;
6.
Demands that all parties to the conflict comply with their respective
obligations under international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and
that the Syrian authorities immediately end the use of prohibited weapons and munitions,
the indiscriminate use of heavy weapons in populated areas, barrel bombs, aerial
bombardment, incendiary weapons, ballistic missiles and cluster bombs;
7.
Expresses deep concern at the deliberate use of starvation of civilians as a
method of warfare, and encourages the Commission of Inquiry to include in future
investigations violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian
law related to the use of starvation of civilians;
8.
Also expresses deep concern about the grave humanitarian situation in the
Syrian Arab Republic and at the plight of the 11.7 million people in need of full, timely,
immediate, unhindered and safe humanitarian assistance, including the more than 5 million
Syrians whose needs are particularly acute and the more than 1 million people who remain
in hard-to-reach areas, where freedom of movement and access to humanitarian aid and
services remain very restricted, including in camps for internally displaced persons;
9.
Strongly condemns the Syrian authorities’ continued and deliberate
obstruction of life-saving humanitarian assistance to those most in need, including the
removal of humanitarian aid from United Nations-approved convoys, including medical aid
and supplies intended to reach desperate populations deprived of vital necessities;
10.
Demands that the Syrian authorities and their allies facilitate, and all other
parties to the conflict do not hinder, the full, timely, immediate and safe humanitarian
access of the United Nations and other humanitarian actors to all areas, and that they ensure
that the delivery of unrestricted humanitarian aid reaches all those in need, for as long as it
is needed, including in hard-to-reach areas, in accordance with relevant Security Council
resolutions, and calls upon Member States to fully fund the United Nations appeals;
11.
Strongly condemns all attacks against the civilian population and civilian
objects, such as schools, medical units, medical personnel, patients and transport and
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