DAMASCUS, (SANA) – Minister of Information Omran
al-Zoubi held the countries that are arming the ‘opposition’ responsible for the
crime committed in Khan al-Asal in Aleppo countryside.
In a statement to the
journalists on Tuesday, Minister al-Zoubi said that the terrorists’ firing of a
rocket with chemical substances from Da’el area in al-Neirab on Khan al-Asal is
a “dangerous escalation”.
He stressed that the governments
of Erdogan and Qatar bear legal, moral and political responsibility for the
crime which claimed the lives of 25 persons and wounded over 100, the majority
of them are in critical condition.
Al-Zoubi said that the crime is
a first impact of the Arab League’s decision on the Ministerial Level. “Whoever
got involved and announced direct and public military support to the terrorists,
whether he was an emir, a minister or a prime minister, must be held to account
for the crime,” he stressed.
The Minister indicated that that
the terrorists used an internationally-banned weapon, calling upon the
international community and the countries which are funding and arming the
terrorists to assume their responsibility for this crime.
Al-Zoubi said that using this
banned weapon is considered as a “dangerous shift in the course of what is
taking place in Syria on the security and military levels”.
He added that the Syrian
government has the right to act in accordance with the international law and
file a lawsuit against the countries which are arming the opposition with
internationally-banned weapons as to face the risks of providing such weapons to
Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization.
He pointed out that the toxic
gases and materials involved in the rocket cause immediate fainting, quiver and
death, stressing that this type of weapons usually come under the category of
“lethal and internationally-banned weapons”.
Minsiter al-Zoubi reiterated
that “This shift in the type and manner of arming the terrorists embodied in
using weapons imported from outside Syria across the border with some
neighboring countries means that all allegations made by some countries, such as
France, UK, Qatar and Turkey on providing logistic and “non-lethal” weapons to
the armed terrorist groups in Syria are mere talk to sell the media.”
He stressed that the terrorist
crime committed in Aleppo is “an exceptional case, compared to the events in the
world at least over the last fifty years, that an internationally-banned weapon
being used publically in this manner and from an area where Western and Turkish
intelligence, among others are operating, along with the Jabhat al-Nusra members
among other armed terrorist groups.”
He lashed out at “the false
logic” of Europeans and Americans when they talk about the existence of chemical
weapons in Syria that are being prepared to be used by the Syrian military
leaderships, stressing that this “horrible crime is a clear indisputable
evidence on terrorists using such internationally-banned weapons.”
The Information Minister
affirmed that the Syrian armed forces can never use any internationally banned
or prohibited weapons, if it possess any, and that Syria is always committed to
the agreements and protocols it signed in this regard.
He said that resolutions the
Arab Ministerial Council came out with on “arming the opposition” is “an attempt
to provide a cover, legitimacy and legality to a standing reality” since arms
supplies to the terrorist groups are coming from various countries paid by the
Qatari government.
Al-Zoubi stressed that the
situation on the ground is good and going well as planned for in terms of
confrontation with the terrorist groups and that the morale of the armed forces
are at their best contrary to the lies circulated by the media around the clock.
He pointed out that a number of
terrorists, as shown in a filmed video, recently conducted tests under the name
“Gale” in which they used chemical materials and toxic gases on rats treating to
launch chemical attacks.
The armed forces restored
security and stability to parts of Khan al-Asal area last November.
Deputy Foreign Minister: Syria
Committed to Defending Its People
Later, Deputy Foreign and
Expatriates Minister, Faisal al-Mikdad, said this new crime in Khan al-Asal adds
to the record of the terrorist groups that are backed by some countries in the
Gulf and the West and Turkey in particular, “which we hold responsible for the
crimes against the civilians and the destruction taking place in Syria.”
“We warned throughout the past
months of the allegations circulated by some countries and parties on the
possibility of us using chemical weapons, and we stressed that in case Syria
possessed any such weapons, it wouldn’t use them against its civilians under any
circumstances,” al-Mikdad pointed out.
He stressed that Syria is
committed to its right to defend its people and combat terrorism and its
supporters, calling upon the international community to put an end to the
interference of the US, France, Britain and Gulf states in the Syrian affairs
and their training and arming of terrorists as this would reflect negatively on
the region and the countries backing terrorism.
M. Nassr/ H. Said
Mikdad: Crime in Khan al-Asal Adds to
Record of Terrorist Groups Supported by Arab Gulf Countries, West and
Turkey
Mar 19, 2013
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DAMASCUS, (SANA)
– Deputy Foreign an Expatriates Minister Dr. Fayssal Mikdad affirmed that
the crime committed against civilians by the armed terrorist groups who launched
a missile which produced gases in the area adds up to these groups which are
supported by some countries in the Arab Gulf, the West and particularly Turkey
which is responsible for the crimes committed against civilians and the
destruction taking place in Syria.
In statements to journalists following his
meeting on Tuesday with ambassadors in Damascus and representatives of
international organizations operating in Syria, Mikdad said that this criminal
acts proves the correctness of the analysis made by Syria which states that all
the propaganda used in past weeks which made false accusations against the
Syrian government were in preparation for committing this crime.
He said that the explosion of the missile
martyred over 21 civilians and 10 Syrian soldiers who were near the site, adding
that citizens who inhaled the gases resulting from the explosion passed out
immediately and were rushed to hospitals in Aleppo city.
Mikdad affirmed that Syria will defend its
people, continue its war against terrorist, and resume work to end the violence
and the attacks committed by terrorist groups and those who arm, support, fund,
harbor and send into Syria.
He called on the international community to be
vigilant, because the threat posed by terrorist group won’t affect only Syria;
rather it’s a prelude that will affect the entire region and the whole
world.
“Encouraging terrorism and supporting it in
Syria contradicts international law and Security Council resolutions,” Mikdad
said, adding that Syria will send a letter to the Security Council requesting it
shoulder its responsibly and put an end to the crimes of terrorists and those
who support them.
Answering journalists’ questions, Mikdad noted
that Syria warned long ago that the allegations on the possibility of using
chemical weapons were meant to assist terrorists when they launch their
missiles, which is exactly the scenario which was implemented on Tuesday before
the convening of the Arab Summit and other international activities in order to
mislead world public opinion.
He said that the countries that claimed Syria
could use these weapons against its own people were in fact preparing the
terrorist group to launch such attacks, pointing out that the authorities are
examining the explosion site, the soil there and the patients who are suffering
from the results of this criminal acts, and that the results will be presented
to the concerned sides.
Responding to a question on the allegations
that the Syrian Army launched the missile, Mikdad said that the missile was
launched from an area controlled by terrorists and it fell near a Syrian Army
location in area under the control of the Army and supporters who are not
influenced by the terrorist groups, reiterating that Syria would never use such
weapons if it possessed any against its own people and forces.
He said that the international community now
knows through reports the true intentions of the terrorist groups and witnessed
the tests they conducted on such weapons, particularly after the terrorists
seized a factory for making chlorine and possibly used materials from it to
produce such a weapon.
Answering a question on media leaks saying
that Britain made a decision to transport troops from Afghanistan to the area
for the purpose of intervention in Syria, Mikdad said that if such a decision
was true, then it’s wrong to consider it or the arming of the opposition by some
EU countries including France and Britain to be new decisions, because these
countries have been arming the opposition and terrorist groups since the events
began, in addition to participating in their operations, planning and executing
and the murder of Syrians.
“Syria holds these countries since the first
hours of violence responsible for complicity in murdering Syrians and shedding
their blood,” he said.
Mikdad called upon the UN and the
international community to put an end to the interference by the US, France,
Britain and certain involved Arab Gulf countries in Syrian affairs and to the
training and arming of terrorists, because this will have negative repercussions
on the region and on countries which support terrorism under different
justifications which only elicit sarcasm from Syrians and more self-confidence
in confronting these countries which want to return Syria to the ages of
colonialism, affirming that the steadfast Syrian people will thwart this
conspiracy.
In response to the opposition’s political
statements, Mikdad said that the political program for resolving the crisis by
ending all forms of violence concurrently and by going to the dialogue table
which is open to all those who wish to end this crisis through dialogue
constitute the answer to all these questions.
H. Sabbagh
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