CAIRO, (ST)-Egypt has supported an inclusive political solution to the crisis in Syria that preserves Syria’s territorial integrity and the Syrian people’s right to determine their future through national dialogue to save the country from the terrorist organizations’ criminal and destructive acts, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri has underscored.
Egyptian media quoted Shukri as saying on Saturday during a press conference with his Spanish Counterpart Joseh Manuel that ” Egypt is working for political solution in Syria that is agreed on by the international community.”
He pointed out that his country shoulders its ethical responsibilities and works with its partners to solve the crisis in Syria radically by focusing on stopping the support provided by some countries to terrorist organizations.
Shukri announced that his country plus Spain and New Zealand will submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council on the situation in Syria. The draft is to focus on the humanitarian side of the Syrian issue in order to alleviate the suffering of the Syrians and on efforts to reach agreement by the Syrian parties to end the crisis through political solution supervised by the United Nations.
On Friday, the Egyptian delegation to the United Nations in Geneva, affirmed that political solution is the only option that ends the crisis and achieves peace and stability in Syria away from any sort of settlement that carries seeds of division within its folds. The delegation condemned the crimes being committed against the Syrians by terrorist organizations in Syria, particularly “Deash” and “Jabhat al-Nusra”.
Earlier this month, Egypt supported a Russian draft resolution on Syria at the Security Council that called for adopting the Russian- American agreement as a guide to deliver humanitarian aid, apply the cessation of hostilities and urge separating the so-called moderate opposition from Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization.
Hamda Mustafa