
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad attends a regional meeting in Amman, Jordan, on May 1, 2023. Photo: AFP.
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Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad attends a regional meeting in Amman, Jordan, on May 1, 2023. Photo: AFP.
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has stressed that US and Turkish illegal military presence in the Arab country will eventually end.
Speaking at a conference in Damascus on Monday, Mekdad said âTurkey knows that its withdrawal [from Syrian territories] is the sole way to restore ties between the two countries.â
Turkey deployed forces in Syria in October 2019 in violation of the Arab countryâs territorial integrity.
Ankara-backed militants were deployed to northeastern Syria after Turkish military forces launched a long-threatened cross-border invasion in a declared attempt to push militants of the Kurdish Peopleâs Protection Units (YPG) away from border areas.
Ankara views the US-backed YPG as a terrorist organization tied to the homegrown Kurdistan Workersâ Party (PKK), which has been seeking an autonomous Kurdish region in Turkey since 1984.
Also on Monday, Mekdad said âThe US occupation of northeastern Syria, its act of plundering of its wealth, and its support of the separatist terrorist groups will end thanks to the struggle of our heroic people in Dayr al-Zawr and Hasakah, along with the Syrian Arab Army.â
Under the pretext of fighting Daesh,The US also deployed forces and military equipment in Syria in 2014 without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.
The US military claims its presence in Syria is aimed at preventing the oilfields in the area from falling into the hands of Daesh.
Damascus, however, maintains the deployment is meant to plunder the countryâs natural resources. Former President Donald Trump of the United States admitted on several occasions that US forces were in the Arab country for its oil wealth.
Touching on Syriaâs future after its return to the Arab League, Mekdad said âWe have never been outside the scope of joint Arab action.â
He stressed that the US and Israel are âmistakenâ if they think that they can separate Syria from the Arab world.
Mekdad also noted that Damascus seeks to strengthen its ties with Latin American nations, âbut the economic sanctions imposed on us and on some of those countries hinder that.â
(PressTV)
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