Al-Jaafari: Syria Facing Organized Terrorism Aiming to Undermine the State’s Political, Economic and Social Structure

MOSCOW-The second session of the currently-held Inter-Syrian Consultative Meeting between the Syrian government delegation and members of the Syrian opposition started in Moscow on Wednesday.

During the first session, head of the Syrian delegation Bashar al-Jaafari made a statement announcing the Syrian government’s agreement on the agenda of the meeting as proposed by Russian moderator Vitaly Naumkin.

Talking about the ongoing situation in Syria, al-Jaafari said that all have become aware that Syria is facing organized terrorism which commits horrible crimes against the people and the infrastructure of the country aiming to undermine the political, economic, social and cultural structure of the Syrian state.

He asked if there is anyone among the conferees who has different definition of what is going on in Syria, stressing that the crimes perpetrated by terrorists and mercenaries coming from all over the world have nothing to do with popular revolutions.

Al-Jaafari clarified that anybody who has doubts in this fact can follow up the western public opinion which is abundant of reports and information uncovering the anti-Syria policies of western governments even before the war on Syria has begun.

He stressed that the so-called “Syrian revolution was planned with the help of [Syria Program for Democracy] which is financed by one of the American intelligence-linked Non-Government Organizations.”

Al-Jaafari wondered why some Arab, regional and international governments haven’t yet blocked websites promoting and inciting terrorism and recruiting terrorists for fighting in Syria, despite the fact that they can do it in one move.

He also asked why the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, Israel, France, the United States and some other countries don’t commit themselves to Security Council’s resolutions 2170, 2178 and 2199 which call for preventing the recruitment, financing, training and sheltering of terrorists and for not to facilitate the terrorists’ infiltration into Syria and Iraq.

The Syrian diplomat stressed that the ongoing events in Syria serve the Israeli enemy first of all and that the Israeli cooperation with Jabhet al-Nousra terrorist group in the disengagement zone in the occupied Syrian Golan and in southern Syria raise questions about the identity of the operator who benefits from the events.

On Moscow Inter-Syrian Consultative meeting, al-Jaafari said “we are meeting today to serve the interests of the Syrian people and end their suffering.”

“The Syrian government is waiting for a clear stance by its partners in the opposition; a stance that expresses high level of national responsibility to work together as to hold the national dialogue which is the only way to reach a political solution that restores security and stability to Syria,” al-Jafari clarified.

He pointed out that “national belongingness necessitates for all of us to work sincerely to face the dangerous repercussions of the crisis on our homeland, so the exit may be through unifying our efforts to reach common elements that guarantee moving to political dialogue that achieves the aspirations of the Syrians in maintaining Syria’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, national unity and political independence away from foreign interference.”

Hamda Mustafa