وقالت إنه إذا كان يشير إلى حالة مواطن مزدوج الجنسية يحمل الجنسيتين السورية والكندية قبضت عليه السلطات الأمريكية في مطار نيويورك فإن الوفد السوري يود أن يذكر أن الشخص المعني قد عاد إلى سوريا بعد أن زار كندا، وهي البلد محل إقامته، ولم يتعرض إلى أي معاملة سيئة خلال إقامته في دمشق، حيث زاره ممثل سفارة كندا.
If the United States representative had meant to allude to the case of the citizen having double nationality (Syrian and Canadian) who had been arrested by United States authorities in a New York airport, her delegation wished to make it clear that the individual concerned, sent back to Syria while on his way to Canada, his country of residence, had not received any ill-treatment during his stay in Damascus, where he had been visited by a representative of the Canadian embassy.