Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (Fateh Aktas / Anatolia)
announced the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey LavrovToday, Wednesday, the preparations for a meeting of the two foreign ministers TurkeyMevlut Cavusoglu, andSyrian regime Faisal Al-Miqdad, mediated by Russia.
Lavrov said, during a press conference on the results of the work of Russian diplomats in 2022, that “Turkey supports Normalization of relations with the Syrian regimeHe pointed out that Ankara had requested Moscow’s help in this, according to Russian media.
The Russian minister said that the United States “understands the need to interact with the legitimate government in Syria, represented by a person Bashar al-Assad“, according to his description.
For his part, a high-ranking Turkish security official revealed his country’s readiness to bring all issues to the table for dialogue with the Syrian regime, including the complete or partial withdrawal of Turkish forces from Syria.
The official told BBC Turk, today, Wednesday, that the military operations that began in Syria were in coordination with Russia, and the observation points in Idlib came in accordance with the agreements reached by Ankara with Moscow and Tehran.
He added, “There are no red lines and preconditions on the table today,” stressing that negotiation is possible on any issue, “including the total or partial withdrawal of Turkish forces from Syria.”
Last Thursday, the Turkish Foreign Minister suggested that the meeting with the Syrian regime’s foreign minister would be in early February.
Cavusoglu said, “We said before that there are some proposals for a meeting next week, but it does not suit us. It may be at the beginning of February, and we are working on setting a date.”
The Syrian Network: Normalization with the regime encourages it to commit violations
On the other hand, the “Syrian Network for Human Rights” condemned attempts to normalize relations with the Syrian regime, and considered it “exonerating this regime of its grave violations once morest the Syrian people, without regard for its involvement in committing crimes once morest humanity and war crimes once morest the Syrian people and state.”
In its annual report issued today in Paris, the network stated, “Normalization with the Syrian regime is a flagrant violation of the rights of millions of Syrian people,” and monitored the most prominent human rights violations by the parties to the conflict and the controlling forces in Syria in 2022, that the civilian death toll for the past year It reached 1057 people, including 251 children and 94 women, in addition to 133 people who died due to torture, noting that “2221 people were arbitrarily arrested, while regarding 75 thousand people were added to the register of displaced persons inside Syria.”
The report believes that “the root of the Syrian problem is tyranny, and the rejection of any democratic transfer of power outside the rule of the Assad family,” stressing that it is not possible to stop the violations in Syria without achieving a political solution.
He pointed out that “the paralysis of the political solution in Geneva led to the emergence of attempts to restore relations with the Syrian regime, regardless of its involvement in committing crimes once morest humanity and war crimes once morest the Syrian people and state,” considering that “any countries that restore their relations with the Syrian regime are considered supportive of it, Because it is still continuing to commit crimes once morest humanity once morest the Syrian people, and this makes it an accomplice in these crimes.”
In this context, the director of the network, Fadl Abdel-Ghani, told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the inability of the international community to find political solutions to the situation in Syria “does not justify any country taking the initiative to normalize its relations with a regime that is fully implicated in crimes once morest its people, because rewarding a criminal for His crimes will make him persist in them, and underestimate the proposed solutions, as long as the international community does not hold him accountable for what his hands have committed, but rather rewards him for that.
Abdul-Ghani touched on the path of holding human rights violators accountable in Syria, noting that the steps taken in this path “are still less than the desired limits to deter the perpetrators of violations and hold them accountable.”
The network urges the international community to “take action to establish alliances to support the Syrian people, increase the doses of support provided at the relief level, stop any forced return of Syrian refugees, because conditions in Syria are still not safe, and press for a political transition that guarantees the automatic return of millions of refugees.” .