Syrian Reconciliation based on South Africa Experience made impossible by Foreign-Backed “Opposition”

nsnbc : The Syrian Minister for National Reconciliation Affairs Ali Haidar and the South African Ambassador to Syria Shaun Byneveldt discussed the whether and how Syria could benefit from South Africa’s experience with peace and reconciliation after the fall of South Africa’s Apartheid regime.

The Syrian government, Syrian political parties who reject violence and foreign interference as well as ethnic, religious and other civil society organizations have played active roles in the attempt to reconcile the population and bring about peace since 2012.

South African Ambassador to Syria Shaun Byneveldt and Syrian National Reconciliation Affairs Minister Ali Haidar.

South African Ambassador to Syria Shaun Byneveldt and Syrian National Reconciliation Affairs Minister Ali Haidar. Photo courtesy of SANA.

In a press conference following the meeting with the South African Ambassador, Haidar said that the two discussed on shared experiences, as South Africa also had gone through a protracted war, and that the consequences of it had  been mitigated by South Africa’s truth and reconciliation efforts led by figures like Nelson Mandela.

While praising such efforts, Haidar stressed that such efforts have been undertaken in the Damascus countryside in areas like Beit Sahem, Bablia and Yalda, and others, but that these efforts consistently had been targeted and stalled by militants with ties to foreign parties.

Haidar noted that the main problem is not to achieve reconciliation among the people of Syria but the combating of foreign-backed brigades such as Jabhat al-Nusrah or ISIS, who are tied to, financed, trained and armed by foreign parties whose agendas contradict the Syrian people’s aspirations for peace and reconciliation.

Haidar added that his Ministry will continue the national reconciliation project until reconciliation has been achieved. He added that no other project than a Syrian project could prevail in Syria.

In related developments, Syria’s Information Minister Omran Al-Zoubi noted that the United States, Turkey, France, and others continue to attempt to tout extremist terrorist organizations and those involved in bloodshed in Syria as “moderate opposition”.

Al-Zoubi underpinned Haidar’s statemented by saying that the “moderate opposition’s” interests are largely identical with those of the Turkish AKP government and the aspiration of others who are sponsoring both them as well as the “radicals” whom they allege to be fighting.

CH/L – nsnbc 12.03.2015

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