Syrian ambassador Bashar Ja’afari said, “According to the article 51 of the Charter, my country has the right to defend itself with all legal tools. There is a military presence, a colonial presence, a US presence, in our country and we have the right to respond to that. She threatened us and we’re threatening her [Haley] from this rostrum because we have the right to defend ourselves according to article 51 of the Charter.”
The document that Jaafari referred to
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