Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem said "The Arab League (AL) decision on suspending Syria's membership and the other provisions it has included constitute a very dangerous step on the present and future of the joint Arab action and on the goals and role of the AL."
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Speaking at a press conference held in Damascus on Monday, al-Moallem added "After Syria agreed on the Arab initiative, an unprecedented media escalation started and the armed operations were accelerated on the ground…The US statements constituted a provocation for the foreign interference in Syria without any response from the Arab League,"
Al-Moallem said "The AL decision shouldn't have been taken in respect to the events taking place on the ground…Syria proposed holding an emergency summit to address the current crisis and its repercussions and it welcomed the visit of the committee…Syria is currently passing through a crisis and it pays the price for its firm stances and honest Arabism "
"We are determined to carry out the Arab work plan as it comes in line with the plan of the Syrian leadership on stopping the violence…The Arab work plan must be accompanied by monitoring the borders by the neighboring countries to prevent weapons smuggling and to stop financing the armed terrorist groups," he added.
He went on saying "Syria has always dealt with the reform and dialogue files, in addition to stopping the bloodshed of the Syrian citizens with complete openness as it recognizes the size of the conspiracy on one hand and it also realizes the importance of its people's unity in all of their spectrums to face this conspiracy."
"The Syrian leadership considers that the dialogue held in an atmosphere of civil peace is the basis for a dignified life it wants for the Syrians…On this basis, Syria deals with complete openness with any brotherly or friendly efforts which contribute to activating dialogue and supporting the reform process." Al-Moallem clarified.
The Minister added:" We are committed to the joint Arab action since Syria is the beating heart of Arabism and there would be no joint Arab action without it. He stressed that the Libyan scenario not to repeat in Syria and there isn't any justification to be repeated.
Minister al-Moallem said " Syria can't give up the joint Arab action because it is a founder of the AL as it can't abandon its pan-Arab role pertaining the Palestinian cause where it offered material and human sacrifices and lost the occupied Golan for that, inquiring what the others offered for that.
He said the state duty is to defend civilians and confront the armed groups.
" Our relationship with Iran is firm and strategic and not at the expense of our relationship with any Arab country," the Minister said, adding" There is no limits for booting our relationship with Russia to be a model of the strategic relations at all levels,"
He went on to say " We believe in the joint Arab action to contribute to the solution but the solution is a Syrian one,"
" We were truthful in implementing the Arab work plan but the others intentions were not sincere," he said, adding that" the most important thing is to stop the media instigation which we don't know its source, "
Al-Moallem said: "The Arab economic sanctions against Syria are shameful and unprecedented action by the Arab League."
Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Minister stressed on the solid relation with Russia. "Syria's cooperation with Russia have no limits". He said
Also assured that Iran is a strategic partner and a strong country which can be threaten by war.
In a related context, An official source in the name of the Syrian Arab Republic on Sunday said taking into consideration that the repercussions of the Syrian crisis could affect the national security and cause grave damage to the joint Arab action, the Syrian leadership proposed an urgent call for holding an emergency Arab summit to tackle the Syrian crisis and look into its negative repercussions on the Arab situation.
The leadership also suggested that the Arab League (AL) Ministerial Committee is welcomed to come to Syria before November 16, accompanied by whoever it finds suitable of civilian and military observers and experts from the Committee's member countries and of Arab media with the aim of directly inspecting what is taking place on the ground and supervising the implementation of the Arab Initiative in cooperation with the Syrian government and the authorities concerned.
The AL General Secretariat, foremost the Secretary General, is called upon to make quick move to put these propositions into effect.
The official source said these suggestions came with disregard to engaging in a futile debate about the reliability and legality of the AL Ministerial Council's decision issued on November 12 and how much the decision complies with the objectives and principles of the Arab League Charter which Syria was one of the countries that composed it and on which the League was founded.
The source added that Syria, after its approval on November 2 on the Arab work plan agreed on with the Syrian government, still considers it an appropriate frame to resolve the Syrian crisis away from any foreign interference despite all of the shortcomings and gaps it had and despite its lack of the tangible mechanisms that need to be agreed upon between the Syrian government and the Arab Committee to implement the work plan.
