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Geneva II – Syrian Foreign Minister: “The West Publicly Claims to Be Fighting Terrorism, Whilst It Is Covertly Nourishing It.”
Montreux, (SANA) - The international conference
on Syria, Geneva2, kicked off on Wednesday morning with the
participation of Syria’s official delegation, headed by Deputy Premier,
Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem.
Minister al-Moallem said at the opening session of the conference:
Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Syrian Arab
Republic, SYRIAN – steeped in history for seven thousand years. ARAB –
proud of its steadfast pan-Arab heritage despite the deliberate acts of
aggression of supposed brotherly Arabs. REPUBLIC – a civil state that
some, sitting in this room, have tried to return to medieval times.
Never have I been in a more difficult position; my delegation and I
carry the weight of three years of hardship endured by my fellow
countrymen – the blood of our martyrs, the tears of our bereaved, the
anguish of families waiting for news of a loved one – kidnapped or
missing, the cries of our children whose tender fingers were the targets
of mortar shelling into their classrooms, the hopes of an entire
generation destroyed before their very eyes, the courage of mothers and
fathers who have sent all their sons to defend our country, the
heartbreak of families whose homes have been destroyed and are now
displaced or refugees.
My delegation and I also carry the hope of a nation
for the years to come – the right of every child to safely go to school
again, the right of women to leave their homes without fear of being
kidnapped, killed or raped; the dream of our youth to fulfill their vast
potential; the return of security so that every man can leave his
family safe in the knowledge that he will return.
Finally, today, the moment of truth; the truth that
many have systematically tried to bury in a series of campaigns of
misinformation, deception and fabrication leading to killing and
terror. A truth that refused to be buried, a truth clear for all to see
– the delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic representing the Syrian
people, the government, the state, the Army and the President – Bashar
al-Assad.
It is regrettable, Ladies and Gentlemen, that seated
amongst us today in this room, are representatives of countries that
have the blood of Syrians on their hands, countries that have exported
terrorism along with clemency for the perpetrators, as if it was their
God given right to determine who will go to heaven and who will go to
hell. Countries that have prevented believers from visiting holy places
of worship whilst abetting, financing and supporting terrorists.
Countries that gave themselves the authority to grant and deny
legitimacy to others as they saw fit, never looking at their own archaic
glasshouses before throwing stones at acclaimed fortified towers.
Countries that shamelessly lecture us in democracy, in development and
in progress whilst drowning in their own ignorance and medieval norms.
Countries that have become accustomed to being entirely owned by kings
and princes who have the sole right to distribute their national wealth
granting their associates whilst denying those who fall out of favor.
They lectured Syria – a distinguished, virtuous,
sovereign state, they lectured her on honour whilst they themselves were
immersed in the mud of enslavement, infanticide and other medieval
practices. After all their efforts and subsequent failures, their masks
fell from their quivering faces, to reveal their perverse ambitions. A
desire to destabilize and destroy Syria by exporting their national
product: terrorism. They used their petrodollars to buy weapons,
recruit mercenaries and saturate airtime covering up their mindless
brutality with lies under the guise of the so-called “ Syrian revolution
that will fulfill the aspirations of the Syrian people.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, how is what has happened and
continues to plague Syria, meeting these aspirations? How can a
Chechen, Afghani, Saudi, Turkish or even French and English terrorists
deliver on the aspirations of the Syrian people, and with what? An
Islamic state that knows nothing of Islam except perverse Wahhabism? Who
declared anyway that the Syrian people aspire to live thousands of
years in the past?
In Syria, Ladies and Gentlemen, the wombs of pregnant
women are butchered and their foetuses killed; women are raped, dead or
alive, in practices so heinous, so vile and repulsive that they can
only be attributed to their perverse doctrine. In Syria, Ladies and
Gentlemen, men are slaughtered in front of their children in the name of
this revolution; worse still, this is done whilst the children of these
foreign perpetrators sing and dance. In Syria, how can so-called
revolutionaries cannibalize a man’s heart and claim to promote freedom,
democracy and a better life?
Under the pretext of the “Great Syrian Revolution,”
civilians, clergymen, women and children are killed, victims are
indiscriminately blown up in streets and buildings regardless of their
political views or ideologies; books and libraries are burned, graves
are dug up and artifacts stolen. In the name of the revolution,
children are killed in their schools and students in their universities,
women are extorted in the name of jihad al-nikah and other forms,
mosques are shelled whilst worshipers kneel at prayer, heads are severed
and hung in the streets, people are burned alive in a true holocaust
that history and many countries will deny without being accused of
anti-Semitism.
In the name of a revolution, “to free the oppressed
Syrian people from the regime and to spread democracy,” does a father
blow himself up with his wife and children to prevent foreign intruders
from entering his home? Most of us in this room are fathers – I ask you
then, what would compel a man to kill his own family to protect them
from freedom fighting monsters. This is what happened in Adra, a place
that most of you have not heard of but where the same alien monsters
attacked: killing, looting, beheading, slaughtering, raping and burning
people alive. You have heard nothing of this brutality for sure, yet
you have heard of other places where the same heinous crimes were
committed and where the same blood soaked finger was pointed at the
Syrian Army and government. And when these flagrant lies were no longer
credible, they stopped spinning their web of deceit.
This is what their masters ordered them to do, these
countries that spearheaded the war against Syria, trying to increase
their influence in the region with bribes and money, exporting human
monsters fully soaked in abhorrent Wahabi ideology, all at the expense
of Syrian blood. From this stage, loud and clear, you know as well as I
do that they will not stop in Syria, even if some sitting in this room
refuse to acknowledge or consider themselves immune.
Ladies and Gentlemen, everything you have heard would
not have been possible, had our border sharing countries been good
neighbours during these challenging years. Unfortunately they were far
from it; with backstabbers to the North, silent bystanders to the truth
in the West, a weak South accustomed to doing the bidding of others, or
the tired and exhausted East still reeling from the plots to destroy it
along with Syria.
Indeed, this misery and destruction, wich has
engulfed Syria, has been made possible by the decision of Erdogan’s
government to invite and host these criminal terrorists before they
entered into Syria. Clearly, oblivious to the fact that magic
eventually turns on the magician, it is now beginning to taste the sour
seed it has sown. For terrorism knows no religion, and is loyal only
unto itself. Erdogan’s government has recklessly morphed from a zero
problems with its neighbours policy to zero foreign policy and
international diplomacy altogether, crucially leaving it with zero
credibility.
Nevertheless, it continued on the same atrocious path
falsely believing that the dream of Sayyid Qutb and Mohammad Abdel
Wahab before him was finally being realized. They wreaked havoc from
Tunisia, to Libya, to Egypt and then to Syria, determined to achieve an
illusion that only exists in their sick minds. Despite the fact that it
has proven to be a failure, they nevertheless are still determined to
pursue it. Logically speaking, this can only be described as stupidity,
because if you don’t learn from history, you will lose sight of the
present; and history tells us: if your neighbor’s house is on fire, it
is impossible for you to remain safe.
Some neighbours started fires within Syria whilst
others recruited terrorists from around the globe – and here we are
confronted with shockingly farcical double standards: 83 nationalities
are fighting in Syria – nobody denounces this, nobody condemns it,
nobody reconsiders their position – and they impertinently continue to
call it a glorious SYRIAN Revolution! While when a few scores of young
resistant fighters supported the Syrian Army in a few places, all hell
broke loose and it suddenly became foreign intervention! Demands were
made for the departure of foreign troops and the protection of Syrian
sovereignty and for it not to be violated. Here I affirm, Syria – the
sovereign and independent state, will continue to do whatever it takes
to defend herself with whatever means it deems necessary, without paying
the least bit of attention to any uproar, denunciations, statements or
positions expressed by others. These have been and always will be
Syria’s sovereign decisions.
Despite all of this, the Syrian people remained
steadfast; and the response was to impose sanctions on our food, our
bread and our children’s milk. To starve the population, pushing them
into sickness and death under the injustice of these sanctions. At the
same time, factories were looted and burned, crippling our food and
pharmaceutical industries; hospitals and healthcare centers were
destroyed; our railroads and electricity lines sabotaged, and even our
places of worship – Christian and Muslim – were not spared their
terrorism.
When all of this failed, America threatened to strike
Syria, fabricating with her allies, Western and Arab, the story about
the use of chemical weapons, which failed to convince even their own
public, let alone ours. Countries that celebrate democracy, freedom and
human rights regrettably only choose to speak the language of blood,
war, colonialism and hegemony. Democracy is imposed with fire, freedom
with warplanes and human rights by human killing, because they have
become accustomed to the world doing their bidding: if they want
something, it will happen; if they don’t, it won’t. They have
heedlessly forgotten that the perpetrators who blew themselves up in New
York follow the same doctrine and come from the same source as those
blowing themselves up in Syria. They have heedlessly forgotten that the
terrorist that was in America yesterday is in Syria today, and who
knows where he will be tomorrow. What is certain, however, is that he
will not stop here. Afghanistan is an ideal lesson for anyone who wants
to learn – anyone! Unfortunately, most do not want to learn; neither
America nor some of the ‘civilized’ western countries that follow its
lead, starting from the city of lights to the kingdom over which “the
sun never set,” in the past; despite the fact that they have all felt
the bitter taste of terrorism in the past.
And then suddenly they became “Friends of Syria.”
Four of these ‘friends’ are autocratic, oppressive monarchies that know
nothing of a civil state or democracy, whilst others are the same
colonial powers which occupied, pillaged and partitioned Syria less than
one hundred years ago. These so called ‘friends’ are now convening
conferences to publicly declare their friendship with the Syrian people,
whilst covertly facilitating their hardship and destroying their
livelihoods. They openly express their outrage over the humanitarian
plight of Syrians whilst deceiving the international community of their
complicity. If you were truly concerned about the humanitarian
situation in Syria, you would remove your strangle hold on her economy
by lifting the sanctions and the embargo, and by partnering with her
government in tightening security by fighting the influx of weapons and
terrorists. Only then can we assure you that we will be well as we once
were, without your deep concern for our wellbeing.
Some of you may be asking yourselves: Are foreigners
the sole manufacturers of the happenings in Syria? No Ladies and
Gentlemen, Syrians amongst us here, having been legitimized by foreign
agendas, have played a contributing role as facilitators and
implementers. They did this at the expense of Syrian blood and the
people whose aspirations they claim to represent, whilst they themselves
were divided hundreds of times and their leaders on the ground were
fleeing far and wide. They sold themselves to Israel becoming her eyes
on the ground, and her fingers on the trigger for Syria’s destruction;
and when they failed, Israel intervened directly to reduce the
capabilities of the Syrian Army and thus ensuring the continued
implementation of her decades old plan for Syria.
Our people were being slaughtered while they were
living in five star hotels; they opposed from abroad, met abroad
betraying Syria and selling themselves to the highest foreign bidder.
And yet, they still claim to speak in the name of the Syrian people! No,
Ladies and Gentlemen, anyone wishing to speak on behalf of the Syrian
people cannot be a traitor to their cause and an agent for their
enemies. Those wishing to speak on behalf of the people of Syria should
do so from within her borders: living in her destroyed houses, sending
their children to her schools in the morning not knowing if they will
return safe from mortar shelling, tolerating the freezing cold winters
because of the shortage in heating oil and queuing for hours to buy
bread for their families because sanctions have prevented us from
importing wheat when we were once exporters. Anyone wanting to speak in
the name of the Syrian people should first endure three years of
terrorism, confronting it head on, and then come here and speak on
behalf of the Syrian people.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the Syrian Arab Republic – people and state, has
fulfilled its duties. It has welcomed hundreds of international
journalists and facilitated their mobility, security and access; and
they in turn have reflected the stark and horrific realities they
witnessed to their audiences, realities that have perplexed many Western
media organisations who couldn’t bear their propaganda and narrative
being exposed and contradicted. The examples are too many to count. We
allowed international aid and relief organizations into the country,
but the clandestine agents of certain parties sitting here, obstructed
them from reaching those in dire need of aid. They came under terrorist
attack several times, whilst we, as a state, did our duty in protecting
them and facilitating their work. We issued numerous amnesties and
released thousands of prisoners, some even members of armed groups, at
the anger and dismay of their victim’s families; these families though,
like the rest of us, ultimately accepted that Syria’s interests come
before anything else, and hence we must conceal our wounds and rise
above hatred and rancor.
What have you done, you who claim to speak on behalf
of the Syrian people. Where is your vision for this great country? Where
are your ideas or your political manifesto? Who are your agents of
change on the ground other than your armed criminal gangs? I am certain
that you have nothing and this is only too apparent in the areas that
your mercenaries have occupied or to use your words “liberated.”
In these areas, have you freed the population or have
you hijacked their moderate culture to enforce your radical and
oppressive practices? Have you implemented your development agenda by
building schools and health centres? No, you have destroyed them and
allowed polio to return after it had previously been eradicated in
Syria. Have you protected Syria’s artifacts and museums? No, you have
looted our national sites for your personal profit. Have you
demonstrated your commitment to justice and human rights? No, you have
enforced public executions and beheadings. In short, you have done
nothing at all except muster the disgrace and shame of begging America
to strike Syria. Even the opposition, over which you are the
self-appointed masters and guardians, do not acknowledge you or the
methods in which you manage your own affairs, let alone the affairs of a
country.
A country they want to homogenize; not in the
sectarian, ethnic or religious sense, but rather in a warped ideological
sense. Anyone against them, whether Christian or Muslim, is an
infidel; they killed Muslims of all sects and targeted Syrian Christians
with severity. Even nuns and bishops were targeted, kidnapping them
after they attacked Ma’loula, the last community that still speaks the
language of Jesus Christ. They did all this to force Syrian Christians
to flee their country. But little did they know, that in Syria we are
one. When Christianity is attacked all Syrians are Christians, when
mosques are targeted all Syrians are Muslims. Every Syrian is from
Raqqa, Lattakia, Sweida, Homs or the bleeding Aleppo when any one of
these places is targeted. Their abhorrent attempts to sow sectarian and
religious sedition will never be embraced by any levelheaded Syrian.
In short, Ladies and Gentlemen, your “glorious Syrian revolution” has
left no mortal sin uncommitted.
There is another side to this dark gloomy picture. A
light at the end of the tunnel shinning through the Syrian people’s
determination and steadfastness, the Syrian Army’s courage in protecting
our citizens and the Syrian state’s resilience and perseverance.
During everything that has happened, there are states that have shown us
true friendship, honest states that stood on the side of right against
wrong, even when the wrong was clear for all to see. On behalf of the
Syrian people and state, I would like to thank Russia and China for
respecting Syria’s sovereignty and independence. Russia has been a true
champion on the international stage strongly defending, not only with
words but also with deeds, the founding principles of the United Nations
of respecting the sovereignty of states. Similarly China, the BRICS
countries, Iran, Iraq and other Arab and Muslim countries, in addition
to African and Latin American countries, have also genuinely safeguarded
the aspirations of the Syrian people and not the ambitions of other
governments for Syria.
Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Syrian people, like
other people of the region, aspire to more freedom, justice and human
rights; they aspire to more plurality and democracy, to a better Syria, a
safe, prosperous and healthy Syria. They aspire to building strong
institutions not destroying them, to safeguarding our national artifacts
and heritage sites not looting and demolishing them. They aspire to a
strong national army, which protects our honour, our people and our
national wealth, an army that defends Syria’s borders, her sovereignty
and independence. They do not, Ladies and Gentlemen, aspire to a
mercenary army ‘Free’ to kidnap civilians for ransom or to use them as
human shields, ‘Free’ to steal humanitarian aid, extort the poor and
illegally trade in the organs of living women and children, ‘Free’ to
canibalise human hearts and livers, barbequing heads, recruiting child
soldiers and raping women. All of this is done with the might of arms;
arms provided by countries, represented here, who claim to be
championing “moderate groups”. Tell us, for God’s sake, where is the
moderation in everything I have described?
Where are these vague moderate groups that you are
hiding behind? Are they the same old groups that continue to be
supported militarily and publicly by the West, that have undergone an
even uglier face-lift in the hope of convincing us that they are
fighting terrorism? We all know that no matter how hard their
propaganda machine tries to polish their image under the name of
moderation, their extremism and terrorism is one and the same. They
know, as we all do, that under the pretext of supporting these groups,
al-Qaeda and its affiliates are being armed in Syria, Iraq and other
countries in the region.
This is the reality, Ladies and Gentlemen, so wake up
to the undeniable reality that the West is supporting some Arab
countries to supply lethal weapons to al-Qaeda. The West publically
claims to be fighting terrorism, whilst in fact it is covertly
nourishing it. Anyone who cannot see this truth is either ignorantly
blind or willfully so in order to finish what they have begun.
Is this the Syria that you want? The loss of
thousands of martyrs and our once cherished safety and national security
replaced with apocalyptic devastation. Are these the aspirations of the
Syrian people that you wanted to fulfill? No, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Syria will not remain so, and that is why we are here. Despite all that
has been done by some, we have come to save Syria: to stop the
beheadings, to stop the cannibalizing and the butchering. We have come
to help mothers and children return to the homes they were driven out of
by terrorists. We have come to protect the civil and open-minded
nature of the state, to stop the march of the Tatars and the Mongols
across our region. We have come to prevent the collapse of the entire
Middle East, to protect civilization, culture and diversity, and to
preserve the dialogue of civilizations in the birthplace of religions.
We have come to protect tolerant Islam that has been distorted, and to
protect the Christians of the Levant. We are here to tell our Syrian
expatriates, to return to their home country because they will always be
foreigners anywhere else, and regardless of our differences we are all
still brothers and sisters.
We have come to stop terrorism as other countries
that have experienced its bitter taste have done, whilst affirming
loudly and consistently that a dialogue between Syrians is the only
solution; but as with other countries that have been struck by
terrorism, we have a constitutional duty to defend our citizens and we
shall continue to strike terrorism that attacks Syrians regardless of
their political affiliations. We have come to hold those accountable,
for as long as particular countries continue to support terrorism, this
conference will bear no fruit. Political pluralism and terrorism cannot
coexist in the same landscape. Politics can only prosper by fighting
terrorism; it cannot grow in its shadow.
We are here as representatives of the Syrian people
and the state; but let it be clear to all, – and experience is the best
proof – that nobody has the authority to grant or withdraw legitimacy
from a president, a government, a constitution, a law or anything else
in Syria except Syrians themselves; this is their constitutional right
and duty. Therefore, whatever agreement is reached here will be subject
to a national referendum. We are tasked with conveying our people’s
desires, not with determining their destiny; those who want to listen to
the will of the Syrian people should not appoint themselves as their
spokesperson. Syrians alone have the right to choose their government,
their parliament and their constitution; everything else is just talk
and has no significance.
Finally, to all those here and everyone watching
around the world: in Syria we are fighting terrorism, terrorism which
has destroyed and continues to destroy; terrorism which since the 1980’s
Syria has been calling, on deaf ears, for a unified front to defeat
it. Terrorism has struck in America, France, Britain, Russia, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan; the list goes on and it continues to spread. Let
us all cooperate to fight it, let’s work hand in hand to stop its
black, horrifying and obscurantist ideology. Then, let us as Syrians
stand united to focus on Syria and start rebuilding its social fabric
and material structures. As I said, dialogue is the foundation to this
process, and despite our gratitude to the host country, we affirm that
the real dialogue between Syrians should in fact be on Syrian soil and
under Syrian skies. Exactly one year ago, the Syrian government put
forward its vision for a political solution; think of how much innocent
blood we would have saved had some countries resorted to reason instead
of terrorism and destruction. For a whole year, we have been calling
for dialogue, but terrorism continued to strike at the Syrian state, her
people and institutions.
Today, in this gathering of Arab and Western powers,
we are presented with a simple choice: we can choose to fight terrorism
and extremism together and to start a new political process, or you can
continue to support terrorism in Syria. Let us reject and isolate the
black hands and the false faces, which publicly smile but covertly feed
terrorist ideology, striking Syria today, but ultimately spreading to
infect us all. This is the moment of truth and destiny; let us rise to
the challenge.
Thank you .
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