Damascus-SANA
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr. Faisal Miqdad, affirmed that the Syrian policy’s priorities are fixed in terms of refusing to interfere in its internal affairs, support the Palestinian cause, and work to liberate the occupied Arab lands, pointing out that when Syria’s enemies failed to undermine it and diverted it from its principled positions, they resorted to the terrorist war against it.
Miqdad said in an interview with Al-Souria channel tonight that Syria's positions have been firm and principled for a long time in continuing to support the Palestinian cause and working to liberate the occupied Arab lands in the Syrian Golan, southern Lebanon and Palestine. Hostility has an influence on Syria's policy and diverted it from its approach, but when all these methods failed, they resorted to terrorism, which they supported and financed with billions of dollars.
Al-Miqdad indicated that the Western plan aimed to break up Syria and end its role, which stood in the way of the West's attempts to create a new reality that would serve its interests and the entity of the Israeli occupation. Northwest Syria and the American occupation from the northeast and from the Al-Tanf region.
Miqdad stressed that all the occupied areas will return to the authority of the Syrian state, and the separatist “Qasd” militia must realize that the American occupier will leave our land and will abandon them.
Regarding the US State Department’s announcement of granting a license to carry out economic activities in northeastern and northwestern Syria, Miqdad said that successive American administrations were behind the terrorist war that Syria has been subjected to for eleven years until now, pointing out that Washington and its Western tools provide aid to terrorist organizations in these areas is Which led to the destruction of the Syrian economic potential and the looting of the country’s wealth of cotton, oil, wheat and antiquities. Also, their approach to imposing unilateral coercive measures led to the destruction of the infrastructure in Syria and the martyrdom of many citizens because they refused to participate in these American and Western plans.
Miqdad indicated that the Turkish regime continues to support terrorist organizations in Syria in violation of the Astana understandings, and it must stop this support and withdraw from all the Syrian lands it occupies and stop its crime of plundering the Euphrates River by seizing most of the water that is supposed to flow into the river inside Syrian territory in violation International Law and the Charter of the United Nations.
Miqdad stressed that the repeated Israeli attacks on Syrian territory have not and will not be able to protect Israel's partners and agents from terrorist organizations, nor will they succeed in distracting the Syrian Arab Army from eradicating terrorists and Israel's other tools, stressing that Syria will not hesitate to exercise its right to defend its land and its people in all the ways guaranteed by the Charter of the United Nations and the provisions of international law.
Miqdad expressed Syria's condemnation of the Israeli occupation forces' continued attacks on the Palestinian people and their incursions into Palestinian cities and towns, demolishing Palestinian homes, bulldozing their lands, uprooting their trees, displacing them from their areas, seizing their lands to establish thousands of settlement units, and the settlers' gangs continuing to violate the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque by protecting the occupation forces once again. Syria stands by the people The Palestinian people have their right to freedom and independence, ending the Israeli occupation and establishing their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.
And regarding the statements of the European Union Commissioner for Foreign and Security Policy Josep Borrell about the Union’s lack of contribution to the reconstruction process in Syria and the lifting of sanctions only in the event of the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2254, Miqdad said: “The European Union institution lacks the least degree of independence and has accepted for itself to be subservient and implementer of American policies. What has lost its identity and the union must not distort the UN resolution, which affirms that the Syrians are the ones who determine the future of their country themselves without any external interference and that terrorist organizations are outside any political process, and we call on the West to implement it in cooperation with us, but they do not want that because they want more hegemony and control in the region.
Miqdad affirmed Syria's keenness to enhance joint Arab action and achieve Arab solidarity to serve the interests of the Arab peoples, indicating that there is communication with most Arab countries, but the United States is trying to obstruct this by putting pressure on the countries that communicate with Syria.
Al-Miqdad said, "Syria wants to activate the enormous energies of the Arab peoples in the matter of development and in the face of common challenges, and if the Israeli enemy is our enemy all, then coordination must take place between all of us in order to unite our forces and remove the imminent danger from all Arab countries."