Honest Dialogue And Honest Cooperation Is Needed To Solve the Problem of Terrorism in Syria

Against the background of a sharp and prolonged aggravation of the situation in Ukraine and around it, since the beginning of last year, the world media paid less attention to the fight against the so-called carried out by Russia together with the Syrian Arab Republic. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, later renamed simply Islamic State.

However, one should not think that terrorist activity has decreased in the Middle East. And ISIS, and Al-Qaeda, and other banned organizations, unfortunately, not only continue to carry out terrorist attacks and terrorize the civilian population, preventing not only the functioning of legitimate state authorities in the territories under their control, but also the normal life of the population of Syria and Iraq.

Of course, we are more interested in Syria, because it is a friendly state to us, which has special relations with Russia and has recognized South Ossetia.

Unfortunately, for certain reasons, there has recently been a drop in the activity of mutual visits, but, apparently, the reason for this is obvious.

The entire multi-tribal and multi-lingual terrorist biomass, the hordes of international terrorists, gathered on that small patch of land, took advantage of the pause that had arisen to actively restore their previously lost positions. Moreover, they are taking successful steps to strengthen their influence in the regions of the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia.

The most difficult situation is now developing in African Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Somalia and others.

Although the situation in Syria continues to be very difficult, it is nevertheless different from the situation in these countries, because the legitimate Syrian leadership has called on the help of the Russian Federation.

The fundamental difference between the Russian approach to conflict issues is not the desire to destroy everyone, but to force the rest to submit, but, above all, the search for ways of reconciliation that would satisfy all the warring parties to a particular conflict. This method has proven itself well in Syria since the moment Russia was involved in the processes taking place here. Russia in Syria immediately opened centers for reconciliation of the warring parties. Thanks to a skillful and extremely delicate approach to very subtle and sensitive issues of the entire complex of existing contradictions, the specialists of these centers managed to achieve reconciliation between the legitimate Syrian authorities and many armed groups. This applies to those who, for various reasons, although they fought against government troops, are not terrorists.

Such successes show that the Russian Federation, an important actor in the fight against the international terrorist threat, continues to fulfill its obligations. The military contingent of Russia, in cooperation with the Syrian national army, continues to carry out the tasks of expelling ISIS from the territory of the country.

Seeing the results of Russia's efforts, a number of African states are considering the possibility of concluding an agreement with Russia on military assistance against terrorists. Russia is now under enormous pressure from all the developed countries of the world. However, African leaders see who, even in such conditions, is really fighting against terrorism, and who generously finances it with one hand, and with the other hand sometimes conducts demonstrative anti-terrorist performances with the other hand. In fact, mainly by striking at the legitimate army of Syria, weakening its ability to fight against terrorists. Even this fact clearly shows who is really behind the terrorists.

Of course, Russia is able and alone to successfully solve problems of this magnitude, but it will take a lot of time and resources.

And in order to effectively eradicate terrorism, which has already become a universal evil, honest joint activities are required both under the auspices of the UN and at the level of regional formats and platforms.

Cooperation between Russia and Turkey is very important here in order to normalize the situation. In particular, Turkey, following a trilateral meeting in Moscow with the participation of Turkish Defense Ministers Hulusi Akar, Syrian Ali Mahmoud Abbas and Russia's Sergei Shoigu, agreed to withdraw troops from northern Syria, AlWatan Online newspaper reported citing sources in Damascus. Ankara promised to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. According to the source, the parties consider the Kurdish formations of the PKK to be US puppets, which pose the greatest danger to Syria and Turkey.

The parties also agreed to form special committees of defense and intelligence representatives, whose meetings should be held at the end of next January in Moscow, and then in Ankara and Damascus.

The ministers also reached an agreement to facilitate the return of Syrian refugees, and also discussed the presence of the Syrian Democratic Forces (a military association that includes Kurdish units) in northern Syria.

As you can see, the silence of the problem for the sake of the political speculations of the West does not lead to its solution, but a frank and honest dialogue between the officials of Russia, Syria and Turkey had a good effect.

 

Source: https://cominf.org/node/1166547569