Syrian Officials Meet WIDF Delegation, Call for Unifying Efforts to Support Just Causes

 DAMASCUS, (ST) – Members of the delegation of Women International Democratic Federation (WIDF), visiting Syria, have voiced their solidarity with the Syrian people, particularly women, in defense of their homeland.

Assistant Secretary of the Baath Arab Socialist Party Hilal Hilal on Monday met members of the delegation and discussed with them ways of consolidating communications between the Baath Party and the Federation to exchange views on common issues in the service of justice and peace in the world and in the confrontation of aggression and modern colonialism.

Hilal briefed the guest delegation on the role played by Syrian women in confronting the terrorist war waged against Syria by takfiri terrorist groups backed by regional and international parties.    

The delegation, which comprised women from Brazil, Greece, Turkey, India, Lebanon and Jordan, have visited Syria to know the reality of events in the country and to support the Syrians who defend the independence of their country’s decision.

Members of the delegation reviewed the activities held by women organizations in their countries in support for Syria. They also asked for more facts and information about the crimes being committed by the armed terrorist groups nationwide.

They stressed that the world public opinion is eager to know more facts about what is going on in Syria as the anti-Syria misleading media campaign has begun to retreat.

Supporting just causes

The People’s Assembly (PA) Speaker Mohammad Jihad al-Lahham also held talks with the women delegation in which he called for unifying the stances of freedom-loving peoples, international parliaments and vocational unions to support people’s just causes and right of self-determination and to reject the attempts of colonialist powers to dominate the resources of these peoples.

Al-Laham explained to the delegation the organized terrorism Syria has been facing at the hands of the US and Western-backed and regionally-funded terrorist takfiri groups. He said that this terrorist campaign aimed to justify a US military aggression against Syria

The PA Speaker referred to the package of social, political and economic reforms announced by the Syrian government to embody the Syrian people’s aspirations, but the anti-Syria media campaign and the US and Western threats have proved that these countries’ claims of defending democracy, freedom and human rights were only lies.

“The real objective of the aggression was to force Syria to surrender to foreign dictates and give up its national stances on just Arab causes.

For her part, President of WIDF Marcia Campos affirmed that the federation stands against the intervention of imperialist countries, especially the U.S, in the affairs of sovereign states and it rejects foreign threats of using force against these countries.

“The Federation realizes that what is going on in Syria is international organized terrorism and it understands the Syrian people’s right to defend their land,” said Campos, pointing out that members of the Federation have come to Syria to say that they won’t keep silent about any aggression targeting peoples.

Women, children major victims of Western sanctions

Faisal al-Mikdad, the Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister, during his meeting with the WIDF delegation stressed that the West’s sanctions on Syria are unfair as they mainly affect women, children and vulnerable categories in society. 

Al-Mikdad explained the suffering of Syrian women under the crisis as a result of the terrorist aggression on Syria, pointing out that the crisis has damaged the achievements attained by the Syrian women over tens of years.

The deputy minister said that from the very beginning of the crisis, the Syrian state has announced that it believes in political solution and that it is ready to take part in Geneva Conference without preconditions or foreign dictates in order to help the Syrians engage in dialogue on the present and the future of their homeland.

For her part, Campos reiterated that the WIDF condemns any foreign interference in Syria’s internal affairs and will keep struggling to prevent any aggression against the Syrian state.

She affirmed the solidarity of WIDF, which represents millions of women from all parts of the worlds, with the Syrian people in the confrontation of the global conspiracy hatched against their country.

H. Mustafa