Al-Mikdad Stresses Anti-Syria Global Alliance to Collapse Soon
DAMASCUS-The Syrian official delegation to Geneva2 Conference never bargains or adopts the “policy of working under the table” when the matter is connected with Syria’s destiny, stressed Deputy Foreign and Expatiates Minister Faysal Al-Mikdad.
Interview by the Syrian TV yesterday, al-Mikdad said that the Syrian people’s interests and views are the main focus of the Syrian leadership and foreign policy.
He clarified that the anti-Syria media campaigns, which proved to the whole world how stupid they had been, haven’t succeeded in misleading the Syrian people or the Syrian diplomacy and leadership.
He pointed out that the change made in some Arab countries after the eruption of the so-called “Arab Spring” aimed but to reach Syria, being the only resistant country in the Arab region against the Israeli schemes and the hegemony attempts led by the United States and implemented by Western colonialist countries, like France and Britain and their tools in the Arab region.
On Geneva 2 Conference, al-Mikdad said “we went to Geneva under a decision by President Bashar Al-Assad who has the final say in this respect. We carried clear instructions by President Al-Assad to make the talks a success, to end terrorism and bloodshed in Syria, to restore hope to the Syrians, to support our Army’s battle against terrorists and to put an end to the ongoing tragic events and the foreign intervention in Syria’s internal Affairs.”
He stressed that the other side “went to Geneva with only one agenda imagining and hallucinating that it was in Geneva to receive power, a thing that we haven’t offer or concede over the past years.”
Regarding the Russian stance on the crisis in Syria, al-Mikdad said “it has always been responsible and balanced with a major objective focusing mainly on restoring security and stability to Syria and on ending violence and terrorism in the country.”
The deputy foreign minister pointed out that the so-called “opposition” delegation has been subjected to direct dictates by their makers and masters in Istanbul, Doha, Tel Aviv, Washington, London and Paris.
Concerning the Saudi regime’s decision to punish those who volunteer to work for terrorist organization, al-Mikdad said:”It is a very late and small procedure. What is more important is to stop financing and arming the terrorists in Syria and to stop supporting and inciting world terrorism and the so-called “Islamic Front” which the Saudi regime established to kill innocent people in Syria.”
He pointed that the other Gulf States are different with Saudi Arabia on the way it deals with Syria, but they have no decision.
The deputy minister stressed that sooner or later the anti-Syria global alliance will collapse, because many European countries have begun to protest the stupid policies adopted by France and Britain against Syria.
The European Union should lift the economic sanctions imposed on the Syrian people if it is willing to keep its civilized and humanitarian face they always talk about, al-Mikdad said.
He added that these sanctions are responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria.
On the forthcoming second round of Geneva conference, al-Mikdad said “we will receive President Al-Assad’s directives to specify Syria’s stance on this round and we will announce this stance soon.”
He held the delegation of the so-called “opposition coalition” responsible for foiling the talks, because of their illusions that they came to Geneva to receive Damascus keys.
H. Mustafa