Syrian Government Doing its Best to Achieve Stability in Aleppo

DAMASCUS-An official source at Foreign and Expatriates Ministry affirmed on Wednesday the Syrian government’s keenness on achieving stability in the city of Aleppo and delivering humanitarian aid to the city’s neighborhoods, SANA reported.

In a statement to SANA, the source said that the Syrian government is doing its best in order to stabilize the situation in Aleppo city, noting that it has been arranged to transport civilians as well as the injured persons with no restrictions, with ensuring the exit of gunmen with their arms without hindrance from the eastern parts of the city.

 “In order to improve the situation in the city, units of the Syrian Arab Army are implementing cessation of hostilities for specified periods, and vehicles were equipped to transport the wounded and civilians from the area of hostilities, in addition to the delivery of humanitarian aid,” the source added.

The source said that units of the Syrian army have withdrawn in some parts to allow the gunmen to leave the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo via two passages.

The source confirmed that the amnesty decree issued by President Bashar Al-Assad is still valid.

The source concluded by stating that under these circumstances, Arab, Western, regional countries who are keen on stability in Aleppo city should take real political steps ,no t resort to political procrastination.

Foreign Ministry: EU Lacks the Least Bit of Credibility when Talking about Humanitarian Situation in Syria

In a related context , The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry affirmed that the European Union lacks the least bit of credibility when talking about humanitarian situation in Syria, and that its persistence in following the policies of some of its hard-line members like France deprives it of having any positive role in the region and the world, according to the state news agency.

In a statement to SANA, an official source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that Syria watched disparagingly the statement issued by the European Union foreign ministers, and that Syria believes that misguiding public opinion and twisting fact isn’t becoming of some EU states which expressed more than once and on several occasions the ineffectiveness of the course followed by the EU regarding Syria.

The source added that the EU’s statements should have been in line with its claims about fighting terrorism and with international law instead of appointing itself a defender of terrorist groups and shedding crocodile tears over the suffering of civilians in Aleppo at a time when the Syrian Arab Army and its allies are working to save these civilians and return security, stability, and normal life to Aleppo.

The source asserted that the EU lacks the least bit of credibility when talking about humanitarian situation in Syria because it is a partner in making Syrians suffer due to its support for terrorism and due to the sanctions it imposed on Syrian citizens.

The source concluded by saying that the EU’s persistence in following the policies of some of its hard-line members like France in pursuit of financial temptations from the Arab Gulf is an offense to all the EU states as it makes it subservient to others’ policies and deprives it of having any positive role in the region and the world.