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Damascus, SANA- Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari affirmed that Syria, based on its principled stances, supports Russia’s recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics, indicating that it had expressed its willingness two months ago to work on building relations with the two republics in the context of common interests.
Al-Jaafari said in an interview with Al-Suriya and Al-Ikhbariya channels on Tuesday “The events related to the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and Russia’s declaration of recognizing their independence from Ukraine has to do with geopolitics, and therefore everyone is concerned with this matter.”
“The question is whether or not the United States will succeed in imposing a unipolar regime on all countries of the world, including Russia and China. That is, the issue is related to geopolitics and not to politics in the simple sense of the word. Therefore, Syria is part of the scene, and China, Venezuela and Iran are part of this scene in the geopolitical sense,” al-Jaafari added.
Al-Jaafari indicated that President Bashar al-Assad received, two months ago, a delegation from the Russian State Duma headed by Dmitry Sablin, a member of the Duma from the Donetsk Republic. At that time, President al-Assad expressed Syria’s readiness to recognize the Republic of Donetsk, meaning that two months before the crisis there, there was an accurate Syrian reading in the geopolitical sense of the word.
He added that the principle for Syria is to confront Western policies with all those who are willing to do so in the interest of our peoples, nations and stability and for all peoples. Everyone, in the sense that our policy on this issue is principled, and we stand with Moscow in its justified and legitimate sense that its national security is at risk. In all the important historical stations in our contemporary history, there was a careful reading and events proved that our position is sound.
Al-Jaafari said that “the principle for Syria is to confront Western policies with all those who are willing to do so in the interest of our peoples, nations, stability and all peoples. Therefore, confronting the hegemony policies is required of everyone, meaning that our policy on this issue is principled, and we stand with Moscow in its justified and legitimate sense that its national security is at risk. All the important historical stations in our contemporary history were carefully read, and the events proved that our position is proper.”
He noted that the gap between Kiev and the Donetsk and Luhansk regions began after the events of 2014, when President Viktor Yanukovych was ruling Ukraine from the Donetsk region, where the so-called “Orange Revolution” took place with the arrangement and support of the Americans and Europeans, and President Yanukovych was forced out of Ukraine and took refuge in Russia and this pushed the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk to reject the new power which was brought by the West, and which is hostile to Moscow.
Al-Jaafari added that Russia’s national security, as President Vladimir Putin said, is a red line and that if Washington and the Europeans succeed in bringing Ukraine into NATO, then Moscow will be only two minutes away from nuclear missiles, and the expansion of “NATO” will threaten many countries.
Al-Jaafari stressed that Ukraine is one of the three most important countries for Russia’s security, and therefore whoever bears responsibility for the crisis in eastern Ukraine is the one who is approaching the red lines of important countries such as Russia, stressing that the West is the cause of the crisis by pushing Kiev to enter NATO.
For his part, political researcher Dr. Imad Fawzi Shuaibi said that after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the bipolar international system that was established after World War II ended. With its end, the state of unipolarity did not arise as portrayed by the United States, where the non-polar system arose, a system in which Washington is trying to dominate the Security Council, but so far no new international order has emerged.
Shuaibi added that there is a theory in the United States which says that if we want to reach China, let us start with Russia by inciting it in its geopolitical environment, and that is why they created the crisis in Ukraine.
Ruaa al-Jazaeri
