“Experts, officials and observers believe weapons are being smuggled into Syrian territory from bordering States, including Lebanon,” Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari said.
He made the complaint in a letter sent last week to the UN Security Council and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Ja’afari also said there had been multiple “confiscations of weapons, explosives and explosive devices smuggled from Lebanon to Syria by certain Lebanese political forces linked to terrorist groups funded and armed from abroad.”
He gave no details about which countries or “Lebanese political forces” were arming and funding the terrorist groups.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia are reportedly arming the terrorist groups in Syria, but they do not share a border with the country.
Syria’s northern neighbor Turkey has hosted the Syrian Free Army forces but denies arming it.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011 and many people, including security forces, have lost their lives in the violence.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing the protesters. But Damascus blames ”outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
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