Shaaban: Foreign Powers Required to Halt Terrorism Support to Solve Crisis in Syria

Damascus – The decision to return to Geneva to take part in the second round of Geneva2 talks has not been made yet waiting for the directives of President Basher Al-Assad in this respect, said Presidential Political and Media Advisor Bouthaina Shaaban.

Interviewed by the Syrian TV on Wednesday, Shaaban said that since they have returned from Geneva, members of the Syrian official delegation have been working to evaluate the first round of the talks, brief the political leadership on the details of talks and to prepare for the next round.

“Decision regarding the delegation’s return hasn’t been made yet waiting for the directives of the political leadership,” Shaaban said.

“We hope to see a national opposition that is keen to maintain Syria’s safety and national interests and keen to stop bloodshed,” Shaaban added, pointing out that expanding the “coalition” and increase its delegates will be of no value.

The presidential advisor pointed out that the Geneva1 communiqué provided for having agreements on all decisions. “We won’t agree on any step that doesn’t take the requirements of our state and people into consideration.”

“What is more important to us in Geneva 2 is to stop terrorism and end the suffering of the Syrian people,” the presidential advisor said.

Shaaban clarified that the crisis in Syria was caused by regional and international factors that aimed at interfering in Syria’s affairs from the very beginning when the Turkish government built tents on its lands even before a single displacement case happened and when Qatar, through the Arab League, proposed anti Syria decisions and later on called for internationalizing the crisis.”

“The foreign powers are required to halt financing, arming and supporting the terrorists in Syria, because solving the crisis depends mainly on the international and regional will to stop supporting terrorism and interfering in Syria’s affairs, Shaaban said.

On the U.S. recent decision to resume military support to the terrorists in Syria, Shaaban said “this decision has complicated the crisis at a time when the American administration should work to continue the political track it adopted along with Russia.”

Shaaban clarified that the decision proved that the U.S. administration “keeps working to achieve the Israeli occupation entity’s goals in fragmenting the region on ethnic and sectarian basis aiming to justify Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”

She urged the United States to pressure Saudi Arabia to stop supporting, financing and arming the terrorists in Syria, particularly as the US president plans to visit the kingdom next month.

The Presidential advisor pointed out that the West has invented the term “armed opposition” at a time any of the Western states, which claim democracy, doesn’t accept any kind of opposition carrying weapons against the state to destroy its infrastructure, hospitals and oil pipelines.

“These hypocrite countries implement in Syria what they don’t accept in their countries,” she stressed.

She pointed out that events in Syria, Afghanistan and the Ukraine are related to each other, because there is a blatant systematic U.S. interference which contradicts international legitimacy and sovereignty of states.

She stressed that what the Arab countries has experienced was “absolutely not an Arab spring, but a bloody winter”, called for by Bernard Henry Levi, known to be the servant of Zionism.

H. Mustafa