UN General Assembly
2013

in Geneva between the United States and the Russian Federation. We welcome Security Council resolution 2118 (2013) of 27 September, which calls on all parties concerned to take serious and concrete steps to address the Syrian crisis and its repercussions, particularly paragraphs 16 and 17 related to the transitional period and the implementation of the Geneva communiqué (S/2012/523, annex). All of these efforts should be complemented by an integrated political process so as to meet the aspirations of the Syrian people to democracy and political pluralism. We call on the United Nations and the international community to shoulder their responsibilities by taking the appropriate deterrent measures to halt the serious violations of human rights to which the Syrian people have been subject, and to put an end to the crimes of genocide being perpetrated with all kinds of lethal weapons, which have claimed more than 100,000 martyrs, injured many more, and created millions of refugees and internally displaced persons. I will not speak at further length, but I would like to assure the Assembly that the Kingdom of Bahrain,