The Secretary General introduced a "Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism" in January 2016. The General Assembly took up the plan on February 12, 2016. The genocidal Assad regime's contribution was to blame the democratic state of Israel of supporting terrorism and religious discrimination, and to ridicule the very idea of the "rule of law." In its words:
"My delegation stresses that efforts of preventing violent extremism will not succeed unless the international community put an end to the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan and other occupied Arab territories, and stop the violent extremism and terrorism perpetrated by Israeli settlers against the Arab citizens living under occupation. The Israeli violent extremism is backed by the extreme Israeli governments that refused and rejected international legitimacy resolutions, and seeks to create, in the occupied territories, a one religion state that excludes the followers of other faiths...The Secretary-General repeats in his plan the term 'rule of law' in an exaggerated manner in order to create the impression that this term is one of the pillars of the United Nations enshrined in the Charter, although ... there is no agreed definition for this term, and that there is a split in the positions of Member States on 'rule of law'..."