Al-Zou’bi: Syria will not hold dialogue with terrorists

DAMASCUS,(ST)-Information Minister Omran al-Zou’bi said that the Syrian government will hold dialogue with the Syrians who were not partners in the bloodshed  and have not been party to the aggression against Syria.

”Dialogue is conducted among politicians, not among state and terrorists who blew up car bombs and killed people,” the information minister stressed.

In an interview with RT TV channel on Wednesday, al-Zou’bi said that those who are supporting al-Qaeda are not party in the dialogue, regardless of  their nationalities whether they are Syrians or not.”

“The Syrian government did not expect the UN, Russia, the US or any other country concerned to call for dialogue among Syria and terrorist organizations”, al-Zou’bi added.

Dialogue will be held among the state political leaderships and the Syrian people who overwhelmingly rally around the state on one hand, and the national opposition on the other, al-Zoubi pointed out, adding that  holding dialogue with extremist terrorist organizations such as the ‘Free army’, ‘Jabhat al-Nusra’ or the ‘Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’ is illogical thing.

Syria is the key part in launching the idea of a Syrian national dialogue and has expressed readiness and disposition to go to Geneva without preconditions, al-Zou’bi reiterated, referring that Geneva conference is “a political course” that requires the presence of two sides.

”The ball now is in the court of the others who do not want to go to Geneva and are laying down preconditions in principles,” al-Zou’bi stated, pointing out that it is clear now that there are regional countries which refuse to respond to the international efforts for holding Geneva conference and are trying to obstruct it through political pressure and by sending more terrorists, weapons and funds to impede the convention.

The Information Minister confirmed that the Syrian government has joined the convention that bans manufacturing, producing, stockpiling and using chemical weapons and is now a member of the Organization of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which came in response to the Russian initiative.

Al-Zou’bi concluded by expressing the Syrian government’s full intention to close the file of chemical weapons, adding that “the Syrian government, as President Bashar al-Assad said, will fulfill all its obligations as it has always done, and that there won’t be any obstruction or trouble in this regard.”

I. Abdulkareem