Syria Accuses France and the US of “Inducing Terrorists”

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.”