Al-Zou’bi: Nature of Events in Syria No More Secret

Damascus – The nature of the ongoing events in Syria is no more secret as it has become clear to everyone, stressed Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, pointing out that the aggression on Syria, which has been completely uncovered, now needs to identify its elements and characteristics in order to show how sharp the contradictions among these elements are, whether in the military field or the political one.

In an article published by the local “al-Thawraa” Newspaper on Saturday, al-Zou’bi said that the scene in Syria is part of a bigger regional and Arab scene in which “tales about Arab spring and people’s revolutions were manifested.”

He added that these so-called “revolutions” have brought extremists to power in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

He clarified that the regional scene has increased suspicion among secular, leftist and nationalist powers, because of the emergence of  two kinds of foreign forces represented in  the radical extremist powers, namely the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey and in the international powers that perpetuated their views towards the region on the basis of preserving the security of Israel and dominating oil and gas in this region.

The minister said that the aggression on Syria has uncovered the political role and involvement of all concerned countries, political parties and alliances in what is happening in Syria. In addition, the aggression also unmasked the West’s disability, particularly the USA, to deal with facts and real events, because of not understanding the political, economic and cultural changes which have taken place in the Arab region throughout the last century.

Al-Zou’bi added that that aggression also has brought to the surface the state of awareness of the peoples and governments of the world and the region about what happened in Syria, particularly in terms of the deep relation between the opposition parties and the armed terrorist organizations.

He stressed that the enhancement of the Russian, Chinese and Iranian roles at the political, military and economic levels during the aggression on Syria, has formed the beginning of a new era of international and regional balances which will take place at the expense of the US role.

The Minister affirmed that the political solution to the crisis in Syria has been the option of the Syrian state from the very beginning of the aggression, but this solution needs the kind of politicians who believe in the state, the homeland and the people and who consider “the language of exaggeration and the call for attacking Syria as treason.”

“The political route needs Syrians who don’t fear dialogue with the state, but who seek direct dialogue,” al-Zou’bi concluded.

H. Mustafa