Syria Welcomes Ki-moon’s Announcement Setting Date for Geneva-2 Conference

DAMASCUS, (ST)-   Syria welcomed UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s announcement which set January 22, 2014 as a date for holding the forthcoming Geneva-2 Conference, an official source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said on Wednesday.

“Syria confirms its participation in the conference with an official delegation representing the Syrian State and which to be supplied with President Bashar Al-Assad’s directives and the Syrian people’s requests, the top of which is the elimination of terrorism,” the source added.

Responding to statements made by the foreign ministers of France, Britain and some other countries as well as by their Arab tools on the exclusion of President al-Assad from the transitional era, the source said that the “foreign ministry wants to remind all those that the era of colonialism has gone forever, so they need to wake up from their illusions, otherwise there is no need for them to attend Geneva-2 conference.”

The sources added: “Our people won’t allow whosoever to steal their exclusive right to determine their future and chose their leadership, because Geneva-2 conference itself is based on serving the interests of the Syrian people not those of the parties which shed the Syrians’ blood.”

The source pointed that “the Syrian official delegation  is going to Geneva not to hand over authority to any party, but to share the making of Syria’s future with those who are keen to maintain the interests of the Syrian people and support the political solution.”

The Foreign ministry source stressed that “as for those paid-for Arab tools which were made by the intelligence bodies of the Colonialist West’s countries don’t deserve comment neither on their actions nor on their statements.”

“Thanks to their awareness, the Syrian people have boycotted those tools as they urged a U.S. military strike against Syria and participated in the shedding of the blood of the Syrians,” the source concluded.

H. Mustafa