Shaaban: All Talks About Changing Regime in Syria Destroy Country

Geneva (ST)-Presidential Political and Media Advisor Buthaina Shaaban said that the US decision to rearm the “opposition” contradicts the efforts exerted by Russia, the US, and the international community for launching the Geneva 2 conference.

In statements to reporters on Tuesday, Shaaban said that the US decision aims at hampering the political process, torpedoing Geneva  2 and putting pressure on the Syrian official delegation, pointing out that the US talks with Russia about Syria using a certain language and carries out actions that contradict its statements.

Shaaban refuted the US allegations on the so-called “non-lethal weapons”, stressing that all what is being sent to terrorists consists of lethal weapons which reach  the “Islamic State in Syria and the Levant” and “Jabhet al-Nusra”, adding “when these weapons cross the borders, none knows their destiny”.

“How do the Americans want to arm these organizations and simultaneously say that they desire a political process?” she wondered.

Shaaban outlined the contradictory statements of the US Secretary of State John Kerry, who, while talking about a political solution in Syria, was using in Paris and Doha an incomprehensible and unacceptable language that constitutes intervention in the Syrian affairs.

“Those who claim they are Syrians and keen on the Syrian people are supporting a decision to bring weapons into Syria to kill its people.  They defend the American decision which constitutes a blatant interference in the Syrian people’s affairs and causing their bloodshed,” Shaaban affirmed.

Shaaban described those who defend foreign intervention and war decisions in Syria as delegates of the Americans, the American decision, and the parties who shed the Syrian blood and threaten the lives and fate of the Syrian people.

Shaaban said that all talks that have been going on since three years about the need to “change the regime in Syria” aims primarily at destroying Syria and the Syrian people, not the “regime,” as all that they did was devastation of the Syrian establishments, hospitals, towns, villages and all properties.

The statement proposed by the Syrian official delegation to the UN Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is excerpted from the Geneva I statement, Shaaban clarified, stressing that the Syrian official delegation’s insistence on implementing the first article of the Geneva communiqué – relating to stopping violence and terrorism-  is based on its commitment to quash terrorism targeting the Syrians and claiming their lives.

Shaaban wonders “why do others jump to articles they pick and want to talk about before stopping terrorism, while the first Geneva communiqué zeroes in on creating a political environment suitable for launching a political process?”.

Shaaban asserted that the first point of agreement must be stopping bloodshed and terrorism in our country, confirming that the Syrian official delegation will continue working in Geneva until Friday whatever happens and will do its utmost to make this track beneficial for the Syrians, stop terrorism, and restore security and safety to Syria.

O. Al-Mohammad