Italian MP Urges His Government to Restore Diplomatic Ties with Syria

ROME, (ST) – Member of the Italian Parliament Manlio Di Stefano has urged his country’s government to restore diplomatic ties with Syria, to reconsider its anti-Syria stances and to pressure the countries which finance and support terrorism to stop their destructive polices.

Di Stefano’s remarks were made in a written inquiry he submitted to Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni.

 “Since 2011, Syria has been facing a proxy war the fuel of whish has been terrorists coming from 89 countries. Those terrorists have caused a state of chaos and led to the growing of terrorist organizations like ISIS and al-Nousra Front, which is al-Qaeda arm in Syria, and all this is done with the help of confirmed logistic, financial and media support by some countries,” according to Di Stefano.

He pointed out that the Turkish intelligence is also involved in facilitating the infiltration of terrorists into Syria across its borders and in helping ISIS sell the oil stolen from Syrian and Iraq as to get additional financial resources.

“Jordan is also facilitating the entry of terrorists to the Syrian territories while Israel keeps hospitalizing the terrorists injured in Syria and providing them with logistic support,” he noted.

Di Stefano clarified that the US-led anti-ISIS Coalition has proved to be ineffective and it didn’t take any action to stop the ISIS control over the cities of Palmyra in Syria and al-Ramadi in Iraq which means that this coalition is satisfied with ISIS’s acts.

He said that the so-called Syrian “opposition coalition” is torn by internal divisions and hit by financial scandals and that this coalition doesn’t have the least popularity inside Syria, stressing that the also so-called “Free Syrian Army” is part and partial of the terrorist organizations.

The written inquiry was signed by a number of Italian opposition figures representing one of the strongest opposition parties in Italy.

Hamda Mustafa