Zakharova: Hostile illegal measures against Syria increase Syrian people’s determination to defy challenges

Moscow (ST): The spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova affirmed that the international conference on Syrian refugees return, which concluded its activities in Damascus yesterday, constitutes the prelude for the start of an organized work with the international community with the aim of implementing the UNSC resolution No. 2254.

In the weekly conference she held in Moscow today, Zakharova said that the Syrian government started to implement settlement steps on a large scale and at the same time continues to confront the remains of international terrorism and the plans of the occupiers of Syrian territories, especially the American troops that continue their provocative acts through supporting separatist trends to hinder the liberation of the occupied territories and prevent the return of the Syrian refugees.

Zakharova added that in the forefront of these steps is the return of the Syrian refugees, who were forced to leave their homes as a result of the terrorist war in search of a safe refuge abroad, noting that implementing this task requires huge resources for ensuring housing, work, schools and hospitals and the Syrian government is carrying out all these tasks at the time the states hostile to Syria are pressing ahead with tightening the noose on it economically.

Zakarova went on to say that the unilateral coercive measures being imposed on Syria were intensified from time to time under fake pretexts such as “defending Syrian people”, especially the so-called Caesar Act which aims at preventing international commercial dealing with Syria and imposing a financial and economic blockade on it.

Zakharova stressed that these hostile illegal measures increase the determination of the Syrian people to defy challenges and exert more efforts for reconstruction, calling on the international community to contribute to the reconstruction process in Syria.

K.Q.