Mounzer Suleiman: US is Out for Syria's Role, Regional Policy

May 07, 2011

Washington, (SANA)-Director of the Center for American and Arab Studies in Washington Mounzer Suleiman said that the US is out for Syria's role and regional policy.

In a televised statement, Suleiman said that Washington is not interested in the Syrian internal policy, but Syria's role and position related to the files of Palestine, Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli conflict is the target, in light of the clear calls for Syria to renounce backing resistance.

Suleiman said the US sanctions on Syria seek to put immense political and psychological pressure on it to alter its foreign policy.

Suleiman noted that the US stance regarding the events in Syria welcomes the threat of sanctions that the EU brandishes, pointing out that previous sanctions against Syria proved futile.

Suleiman added that some reforms have been set in motion in Syria in response to public demands, clarifying that the resort to the security solution came because some protests turned violent and some parties which oppose Syria's regional policy and national position interfered.

Suleiman said that severing diplomatic relations and summoning the ambassador is the most that the US can do, which, he says, will achieve nothing, because reform is an internal will.

''Not all protestors are gangs necessarily, but protests have turned violent in a way that threatens civil peace as illustrated in some repugnant slogans,'' he concluded.

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