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Damascus, SANA- Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Dr. Faisal Mikdad, renewed that no solution (for the crisis in Syria) can lead to a required result unless it takes combating terrorism its major priority.
Talking at a forum organized by al-Ba’ath Party in Damascus Sunday, Mikdad stressed that there is no “Moderate terrorism” and ” Takfiri or Extremist terrorism”, while the fact is whoever holds weapon and fights the state is a terrorist and should be fought.
On the initiatives for solving the crisis in Syria, Deputy Foreign Minister said.. Syria supports Russian President Vladimir Putin’s initiative to form a regional coalition for fighting terrorism and it is ready to be a major factor in it, since the objective of this initiative is to find out solutions not creating problems.
Mikdad indicated that Syria talked about the difficulty of joining some, who were major parts in supporting and sponsoring terrorism, to the coalition, adding that we had to believe that some of those may retreat by logic and find out that the dangers of terrorism may reach his own lands.
On the mission of UN envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura, Mikdad said Syria has not closed the door in front of discussing all ideas and suggestions proposed by de Mistura, but, adding Mikdad, we were always affirming that no solution to the crisis in Syria without dialogue among the Syrians and under a Syrian leadership and “he had to take this fact into consideration.”
“If the international community wants to reach an outcome concerning the crisis in Syria, it should apply all UN relevant resolutions and force Syria’s neighboring countries, particularly Turkey and Jordan, to respect these resolutions,” Mikdad said.
He pointed out to the need for putting the Turkish regime on the list of countries which support terrorism as it has allowed thousands of killers, from more than 100 states, as included in UN reports, to pass into Syria, offering them the haven and treatment.
Mikdad said there is no “organic correlation” between the possibility of solving the crisis in Syria and the Iranian nuclear deal, but the deal may add “comfortable atmospheres on the active sides to reach a conviction in the possibility of solving such crises with diplomatic means.”
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