Syrian Deputy PM: Climate to Reach Political Solution Matured, All Should Sit to Dialog Table

Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Leader of the opposition People’s Will Party, Dr.Qadri Jamil, stressed the importance of finding international accord to solve the crisis in Syria.

In an interview with the Syrian TV aired on Wednesday, Jamil referred to attempts to revive Geneva Statement which was the first step for the needed international accord to achieve a breakthrough in the international relations.

Dr. Jamil added that the Americans today think deeply in other substitutes and options not in the interest of the Syrian people but due to the fiscal cliff that the US is facing as a reflection of the great economic crisis of capitalism.

He stressed that the US is the leader of intervention in Syria and the regional powers are subordinate and tools which are not independent and have no opinion.

“The Russian stance has become firmer as it is a reflection of a wider ring of the BRIC countries and the medium-sized countries which impose a new international climate that will be seen in the next two years but we should not allow the Americans and the westerners to burn Syria from inside and we should be smarter than the opponent through finding a political solution,” he added.

“The objective climate to reach a political solution to the crisis has matured and all sides should sit to the dialog table to discuss means of reaching compromises and solutions that serve the national higher interests,” Dr. Jamil said .

He pointed out that the rejection of violence and foreign interference are not preconditions for dialogue but they are public principles for this dialogue, and what will be agreed upon at the end through dialogue will be subjected to the judgment of the Syrian people who will decide what they need through the ballot boxes.

He expressed rejection of making any amendment on Geneva Statement, but what is required to be interpreted, particularly regarding the issue of the transition phase.

Dr. Jamil stressed that the US will not abandon its support to the gunmen in Syria even if dialogue has been held as it want to exploit them to put pressure on the dialogue table as well as it will not abandon protecting the regional powers which arm the terrorist groups in Syria.

He called for accelerating dialogue as it will gradually ease violence.

Jamil said that what is required today is Syria out of the crisis and here comes the importance of a national unity government and transitional solutions that can make positive changes. Turning to the economic situation in Syria, he noted that it is difficult, but the crisis recedes.

“We are in an exceptional situation similar to that of war, which requires treatment with current circumstances through special laws for fighting corruption as the corrupted persons are more dangerous than armed terrorists and sometimes they are more harmful, “he said.

Jamil added that Syria was able to break the blockade imposed and find gaps in it and this would clearly appear in the coming weeks through gradual positive changes. He recalled, in this regard, that the unjust unilateral Western sanctions have contributed to the deterioration of the economic situation of the Syrian people.

Jamil concluded by saying that this year will be the year of the political process in Syria, but the beginning of this process does not mean the end of violence, but the gradual reduction of violence to reach the dialogue and the political process.