Deputy FM: Attacking Syria Endangers World Peace, Security
DAMASCUS- Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al- Miqdad has warned against any US strike on Syria, saying the move would be dangerous to the world.
“The war, the US intends to wage against Syria is a dangerous war and it threatens the peace and security of the world,” al- Miqdad said in an interview with the Syrian “al-Ekhbaria” TV channel late on Friday.
According to Press TV, the Deputy Foreign Minister also urged the US Congress to be wise in its deliberations on the US administration-proposed resolution to attack Syria.
“US President Barack Obama must not forget that America has become isolated,” said al-Miqdad in reference to the reluctance of some of the United States’ closest allies to participate in Washington’s plans for attacking Syria.
In the latest manifestation of opposition to US plans for attacking Syria, world leaders at the G20 summit in Russia ended the event while being deeply divided regarding Syria.
At the end of the two-day summit of the developed and developing economies in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country and a great majority of the world leaders who attended the summit opposed a unilateral military aggression against Syria.
The Obama administration has been campaigning for strikes against Syria since August 21, when the armed groups operating inside Syria, and the foreign-backed opposition claimed that over a thousand people were killed in an alleged chemical attack on the outskirts of Damascus and blamed the government forces for the attack.
The Syrian government categorically rejected the accusation.
Ever since the unsubstantiated allegation was made, media outlets have been reporting US plans for likely “surgical” attacks, which would be in the form of “cruise-missile strikes,” and “could rely on US destroyers in the Mediterranean Sea.” The Pentagon has more recently said it is also considering using “Air Force bombers” in the strikes against Syria.
Obama has sought authorization for strikes on Syria from a skeptical Congress.
H. Mustafa