They recommend a “transitional government” and defend the country’s territorial integrity, after condemning Israel’s invasion of the demilitarized Golan zone.
The foreign ministers of eight Arab League member states, as well as top diplomatic officials from the European Union, the United States and Turkey, presented an eight-point document outlining their wishes this Saturday in the Jordanian city of Aqaba. and transfer their aid to the new authorities in Syria. Broadly speaking, the statement from the Aqaba meeting calls for the establishment of a “universal transitional administration with Syrian consensus” with the aim of implementing “the steps specified in Resolution 2254 to move from the transition phase to a new political system” with with a view to maintaining “free and fair elections in the country.
Hours earlier, Arab League foreign ministers had already requested the creation of a specific UN mission to coordinate a national transition process with the new Islamic authorities of the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al Sham after the fall of regime of former President Bashar. to Assad.
In this sense, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, confirmed this Saturday the start of contacts with the jihadist group, despite the fact that Washington has classified the organization as terrorist group. “Our message to the Syrian people is this: we want them to succeed and we are prepared to help them achieve it,” Blinken concluded. “This delicate phase requires a comprehensive national dialogue and the solidarity of the Syrian people with all its components, sects and political and social forces,” the statement said. The remaining requests are in line with the international consensus in recent days following the fall of the Al Assad dynasty last weekend: “absolute solidarity with the sister Syrian Arab Republic, in protecting its unity, territorial integrity, sovereignty, security and stability“.
The signatories also call for “the creation of political, living and security conditions for the voluntary return of refugees Syrians to their homeland and providing all necessary assistance for their return. A fundamental part of the text is the condemnation of the Israel’s entry into the demilitarized zone The country was marked by the 1974 agreement that ended the Arab-Israeli war. None of the signatories accept as valid the Israeli argument that this is an operation to guarantee border security: they condemn the Israeli entry and reaffirm the status of the Golan Heights as an occupied territory. In conclusion, the statement calls for “the reconstruction of Syria, a state in which there is no place for terrorism or extremism, nor for any violation of its sovereignty or attack on its territorial integrity by any party.”
Source: EITB
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