Damascus, SANA – Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem stressed that the seriousness of the US and its allies in combating terrorism entails to immediately halt supporting, financing and training the terrorist organizations and to stop facilitating their flow into the Syrian territories through coordination with the Syrian state.
In an interview with Russian RT TV channel, Minister al-Moallem said that if the US is serious in combating terrorism of the so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) and other organizations , It must start to move in the framework of the United Nations (UN) without excluding anyone including Russia, Iran and Syria.
“The move to establish an international alliance to face the terrorism of the ISIS is not debatable as a title… From decades , Syria called for holding an international conference on combating terrorism as it has realized the danger of terrorism… Since the beginning of the crisis, Syria said that terrorism will affect its supporters and funders and will spread outside the country to reach even Europe and the US,” al-Moallem said.
He added “We must distinguish between the international efforts in the framework of the Security Council’s resolution No. 2170 to combat the terrorism of the ISIS, Jabahat al-Nusra and other al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organizations, and the hidden intentions of the US and its allies as the members of this alliance are the same countries which have conspired against Syria for more than three years.”
Al-Moallem reiterated that the air strikes will not be fruitful without the coordination with the active forces on the ground or without a military action on the ground.
He criticized the US, saying that it is funny when the US says that it will not coordinate with the Syrian Government , and it will coordinate with the so-called “moderate opposition” as this opposition is killing the Syrians similar to what the ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra are doing, considering that the US talk about “moderate opposition ” is “funny”.