Collective Security and Unity against Terrorism

 His Excellency President Bashar Hafez Al-Assad was very clear and definite in underscoring that the states which continue to support terrorism in Syria have tried to destroy all aspects of life within it.  The killing, which targeted Syrians from all walks of life without discrimination or exception was concurrent with the systematic destruction of our infrastructure, which took decades to build and consumed the efforts, money, sweat and blood of generations of Syrians, underlined H.E. President Al-Assad in his recent inauguration landmark speech.

“We also warned, from the very beginning, all those we engaged with that what was happening would not stop at Syria’s borders. It would spread because terrorism doesn’t recognize national borders. Isn’t what we are seeing today in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and all the countries that have been struck by the malady of the fake spring tangible evidence of the credibility of our repeated warnings?” added the voice of logic and reason.

Soon we shall see Arab and regional countries that have supported terrorism also paying a painful price. Many of them will understand, though too late, that the battles fought by the Syrian people in defense of their homeland transcend our national borders. It is actually in defense of many other nations that, sooner or later, will suffer from the same terrorism, either as a result of the shortsightedness of their leaders and their absolute ignorance of the real interests of their nations, or due to their lack of understanding of our region and how to deal with its people, added H.E. President l-Assad, who by all accounts, deserves the Nobel for Peace in recognition for his non-stop efforts and fight against the scorpion of terrorism.

The Syrians have indeed taken the decision to proceed on two parallel tracks: striking terrorism mercilessly on the one hand, and facilitating local reconciliations for those who were misled and wanted to abandon their wrong path on the other. Syria for ever extends its hands for every collaboration and cooperation as to unanimously fight the cancer of terror. Hopefully, the latest US and some Arab countries’ strikes against terrorism in tandem with those carried out by the Syrian Air defenses would initiate a new chapter of collective security and unity against all and every form of terror.

Dr. Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim