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New York, SANA-Syria’s permanent envoy to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari called on Thursday for exerting efforts to confront the phenomenon of the youths’ joining the terrorist organizations, saying that the flagrant intervention of some countries in the affairs of others is the most noticeable reason behind this phenomenon under many pretexts.
“At this time when we meet here, hundreds of young men and women leave their families and go through open borders where they find many facilities through special intelligence apparatus to join terrorist organizations,” al-Jaafari said at an open session at Security Council on the international peace and security- the role of Youth in combating violent extremism.
“Our responsibility is to exert every possible effort to tackle the reasons behind the youths’ accession to the terrorist organizations and confront this phenomenon which is not new, yet, the new thing is the terrorist organizations, like ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra, attraction to the youths through different misleading means,” al-Jaafari said.
He added that reports affirm that the majority of the foreign terrorist fighters which join the terrorist organizations are aged between 15 and 35 years old, clarifying that the modern media technologies let us feel the suffering of families which lost their sons who have decided, at a minute of rashness, to join what was depicted to them as “a sacred duty.”
“Syria delegation stresses that the flagrant intervention of a number of countries in the internal affairs of the others under different pretext and titles, mainly democracy, freedom and protecting civilians is the reason behind extremism and hatred,” al-Jaafari said.
He added that there are millions of young men and women who are able to change the internet and social media from a tool to recruit terrorists into an active means to confront terrorism, extremism and spread values of amity and tolerance.
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