Syria Accuses France and the US of “Inducing Terrorists”

Published in El Periodico
(Spain) on 1 October 2012
by Idoya Noain (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Krystal Miller. Edited by .

Edited by Laurence Bouvard

The Syrian minister of foreign affairs has used a speech before the United Nations to play down reports against the regime’s repression.

On the same day that the death of 95 people in Syria was reported, including 12 children, the Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Walid al-Moallem, made his speech before the U.N. General Assembly in order to reiterate the complaints of Bashar al-Assad’s regime which played down the government’s violent repression as merely a response to “organized terrorism” supported by foreign forces.

In particular, Moallem has described calls for Assad’s resignation as a “flagrant interference in internal affairs” and has accused two members of the Security Council—the United States and France—as well as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, of “inducing and supporting terrorism with money, weapons, and foreign fighters.”

Without mentioning the nearly 30,000 deaths since the government issued the repression of the protests through a change of regime 18 months ago, Moallem informed them that “under the pretext of humanitarian intervention, the enforcing internal issues and unilateral economic sanctions are intervening without legal and moral foundation.

Moallem spoke about “new colonial policies,” insulted the refugee crisis as an invention and framed the spreading of the anti-Islam video as a campaign of “unprecedented media provocation.”


El ministro de Exteriores sirio utiliza su discurso ante la ONU para minimizar las denuncias contra la represión del régimen

El mismo día en que se ha denunciado la muerte en Siria de 95 personas, incluyendo 12 niños, el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores sirio, Walis al-Moallem, ha utilizado este lunes su discurso ante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas para reiterar las denuncias del régimen de Bashar el Asad que minimizan la represión violenta del Gobierno como respuesta a "terrorismo organizado" apoyado por fuerzas extranjeras.

En concreto, Moallem ha calificado las llamadas que piden la dimisión de Asad como "flagrante interferencia en asuntos internos" y ha acusado a dos miembros del Consejo de Seguridad, Estados Unidos y Francia, así como a Catar, Arabia Saudí y Turquía, de "alentar y mantener claramente el terrorismo con dinero, armas y combatientes extranjeros".

Sin hacer mención a los cerca de 30.000 muertos desde que hace 18 meses el Gobierno inició la represión de las protestas por un cambio de régimen, Moallem ha denunciado que "bajo el pretexto de intervención humanitaria están interviniendo en asuntos internos e imponiendo sanciones económicas unilaterales sin base legal ni moral".

Moallem ha hablado de "nuevas políticas coloniales", ha denostado como una invención la crisis de refugiados y ha enmarcado la propagación del vídeo islamófobo en una campaña de "provocación mediática sin precedentes".
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