Al-Moallem: Saudi Support for Terrorists Hampers Efforts to Resolve Syria Crisis

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Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem affirmed that the Saudi financial and military support to the terrorists in Syria will hamper international attempts to resolve the Syrian crisis.

Regarding tensions between Tehran and Riyadh, al-Moallem said that they will have an adverse impact on the Syrian crisis settlement, since the Saudis will enhance both military and financial support to terrorists and will attempt to disrupt the Geneva conference.

Relatively, the Syrian FM explained that, while pursuing an ambitious goal of reviving the Ottoman Empire and, therefore, letting terrorists pass through Turkish territory on the way to Syria, Turkey's leaders underestimate the possibility of the extremists' return to the country.

He further stated that Turkey opened a training camp for the terrorist groups and has been receiving money from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and some other countries to arm them and, subsequently, send to Syria.

"If these neighboring countries, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar implement the Security Council resolution to counter terrorism, 70 percent of our crisis will be finished and the 30 percent I promise you to end them before the end of this year," al-Moallem stressed.

With respect to the Geneva talks, the Syrian diplomat said: "the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura did not give us, during his visit to Damascus, the list of opposition delegation or the list of terrorist groups but he promised to send them immediately when he obtained them."

Furthermore, he pointed out that the military operation carried out by Russian warplanes against terrorists in Syria is more successful than the US steps in this regard, harboring hopes that "in the case of continued Syrian-Russian cooperation in the fight against terrorism, it will not be the best for us only but also as a self-defense for Russia."

Besides, al-Moallem affirmed that due to the coordination between Russian Air Force and Syrian Arab Army "we succeeded in achieving triumph in many areas in Syria".

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team