Mikdad: No Room for Double Standard Policies in Terrorism Fighting

BEIRUT- Syria has welcomed the Security Council Resolution 2170 and other previous resolutions on terrorism fighting, and announced its complete readiness to cooperate and coordinate with the international community and with every regional or international effort to fight terrorism, but affirmed, at the same time, that any anti-terror military operation on the Syrian land without cooperation with the Syrian government is an aggression on the sovereignty of the country, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Faysal al-Mikdad said in an article published on Saturday by the Lebanese “al-Binaa” newspaper.

Al-Mikdad reiterated that the process of terrorism fighting should be based on international law and on respecting countries’ sovereignty.

“No room for double standard policies in the area of terrorism fighting, because the countries financing terrorism, sheltering and arming terrorists are now well- known and some western officials have started to name them, without hesitation,” Mikdad stressed. He clarified that the implementation of the UNSC Resolution 2170 is closely associated with the commitment of western countries and their allies in the Gulf to halting the financing, the arming and the protecting of terrorists organizations and to stopping terrorism incitement by European leaders against Syria and Iraq.

The Syrian senior diplomat affirmed that Syria, who has been withstanding the global war over the past three years, is satisfied over witnessing an increasing international understanding and awareness about the terrorist war against Syria and Iraq and about the need to confront and control the spread of this “cancer” to other countries of the region, because the danger of terrorism will threaten all including the countries which financed, armed and harbored terrorists.

On the other hand, Mikdad told a Czech website that the terrorist war being waged on Syria will stop by the time the western governments ask Saudi Arabia to halt its financial and arms support for the terrorists and call on Turkey to stop making its lands a starting point for terrorist organizations to infiltrate into Syria.

“When thousands of European and American extremists travelled to Syria for training to kill in the country, European governments pretended that they don’t know what was going on, but when these extremists and terrorists began to return to their homelands, they felt panic and realized the threat pose by the terrorists on the West, Mikdad said.

H. Mustafa