Opposition Popular Front for Change and Liberation Urges Unified Stance by National Forces to Enhance Unity, Prevent Foreign Intervention in Syria

 DAMASCUS, (ST) – A unified stance by all Syrian national forces is seen as the only way to enhance the national unity, stop bloodshed and prevent all forms of foreign intervention in Syria.

 A statement issued on Friday by the opposition’s Popular Front for Change and Liberation at the conclusion of its second conference, affirmed that there are some forces inside and outside Syria that hinder the attainment of a political solution and the finding of a secure way out of the crisis.

“The Syrian people should be unified to uproot the armed groups as they form the spearhead of American-Zionist-Arab reactionary scheme to fragment Syria,” the statement said, pointing out that the “Syrian Arab Army is the main guarantor of national unity and its weapon is the only legitimate weapon.”

In its statement, the Front urged all national forces to create an atmosphere of trust, decrease tension, move towards Geneva2, work to stop violence and launch a political process with a comprehensive national dialogue.

It called for lifting the siege imposed on the Syrian cities, particularly Aleppo, and for not targeting the main roads used to convey supplies and relief aid to the crisis-hit citizens.

Jamil: Preventing intervention will lead to a new Syria

During the opening ceremony of the conference, Dr. Qadri Jamil, the Front’s Presidency Member, stressed that the any foreign intervention against Syria will confiscate the right of the Syrians to self-determination.

“Preventing such intervention will lead to a new Syria and preserve the country’s national unity and territorial integrity, Jamil said.

He added that the emergence of Syrian national opposition forces and parties that reject violence and military intervention and call for peaceful political, economic and social change has affected the scheme prepared by the West to implement domination goals in Syria.

Jamil hailed the role played by Russia and China in dealing with the crisis in Syria and in the international policy aiming to stop the US domination schemes and at preserving international security and peace.

“The Syrians should be unified against the foreign invaders so as to protect Syria. They need to negotiate and launch dialogue which is the request of 90% of the Syrian people,” Jamil said.

He stressed that holding the Geneva II conference is inevitable and those rejecting the conference are the warmongers who refuse the political solution and support violence and foreign military intervention against the country.

Haidar:  Internal, regional and international conditions ripe for a political process

For his part, Ali Haidar, a member of the presidency of the Popular Front for Liberation and Change, said that the internal, regional and international conditions are ripe for a political process that gets Syria out of the crisis, pointing out that the participation of the front in an international conference on political solution is a national duty.

He affirmed that the Front is a national opposition party that works inside Syria to achieve a deep structural change in the country, urging the international community to prepare the objective environment for launching a political process for a Syrian reconciliation project on the Syrian land and based on national dialogue that takes the Syrian people’s demands into consideration.

Mohammad Reza Raouf Sheibani, the Iranian Ambassador in Syria, hailed the steadfastness of the Syrians and the resistance axis which have foiled the U.S.-western threats against Syria.

He said that the danger of the terrorists will soon threaten the terrorists’ supporters, calling upon the international community to assume its responsibility regarding terrorism and its backers.

He added that Syria will be the grave to the takfiri, terrorist and extremist forces and to the Zionist aspirations, pointing out that the key to solving the crisis is at the disposal of the Syrians through working to halt violence, start dialogue and attain a political solution that ends the crisis and leads to national reconciliation.

In turn, Vladimir Geltov, the Minister Plenipotentiary at the Russian Embassy in Damascus, said that holding the second conference of the Front indicates the will of the Syrians to carry out a comprehensive political process without foreign intervention, preconditions or dictates from foreign sides.

The Russian official stressed that Moscow rejects using the UN Security Council to cover the policy of regimes’ change, saying that Syria now needs international support to the political process instead of persisting in backing a destructive policy which profits only the terrorist and takfiri gangs.

H. Mustafa