Moallem: Jordan Supports Terrorists, Lacks Independent Decision-Making

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The Syrian Deputy Prime Minster, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem said that Damascus has condemned the terrorist crime committed against the Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kasasbeh and it has invited the Jordanian government to coordinate with Syria for combating terrorism despite that it already knows that Jordan does not have an independent will to take such a decision, SANA reported.

In a joint press conference on Monday in Damascus with his Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makei, Moallem added that Jordan is part of the process of sending terrorists through its borders to Syria after training them in camps on its territories under the supervision of the USA, as it fights the terrorist ISIL for its own reasons while it does not fight al-Nusra Front on its borders.

Minister al-Moallem said: ”In our cooperation with the international organizations, particularly the humanitarian ones, we seek to highlight the necessity of not politicizing the aid and we exert all possible efforts to deliver aid to all the areas which are in need for it.

“We will not allow violating our national sovereignty and we do not need ground forces to fight ISIL as the Syrian Arab Army is fulfilling this mission bravely," the Foreign Minister said.

Al-Moallem stressed that Syria’s priority is to counter terrorism and to make local reconciliations as a means for reaching a political solution.

He said that Syria responds to any initiative that is based on the priority of drying up the sources of terrorism and that stresses the inter-Syrian dialogue.

Al-Moallem added, ”De Mistura’s initiative has focused on Aleppo city but not on the countryside of Aleppo and our welcome comes as a desire to achieve the unity and stability of Aleppo as well as restoring normal life to it.”

Makei in turn said, ”We stress our support to Syria and we call upon the international community to work on combating terrorism and solving the crisis in Syria peacefully."

”Belarus has a conviction that Syria is able to get out of the crisis stronger than before, and our country has great aspirations for the possibility of bilateral cooperation,” Makei added.

The Belarusian Minister stressed that Belarus is ready for providing help and contributing to developing the Syrian economic potentials, and the mutual agreements signed today will expand the multiple communication between the two countries.

”We seek to double trade exchange with Syria,” Makei said, stressing that Belarus rejects all forms of foreign meddling in any state’s internal affairs.

The Belarusian Foreign Minister said : ”It is nonsense to differentiate between 'a good terrorist' and 'a bad terrorist' and the Syrian government is on the top of those fighting terrorism in all its forms.