Assad calls for leaving Arab countries to manage their issues
DAMASCUS, Syria (North Press) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in a speech during the 32nd session of the Arab Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, called on Friday on the Arab League to leave Arab countries to manage their own internal affairs and prevent foreign intervention in their issues.
It is the first time al-Assad has addressed the bloc since Syria was suspended from the Arab League in 2011 following his brutality and suppression on his own people.
Al-Assad said, “We are in front of a historic opportunity to rearrange our affairs with the least amount of foreign intervention,” according to state-run SANA News Agency.
He stressed that “this requires us to reposition ourselves in this world in order to be an active part and invest in the new positive environments created by reconciliations that that have started before the summit till today.”
He noted that it is “An opportunity to inculcate Arab culture in the face of the coming dissolution with modern liberalism, which targets the innate affiliations of man and strips him of his morals and identity, as well as to identify the Arabic identity and its cultural dimension.”
He added that the Arab League has to address cracks that have emerged over the last decade, and the most important thing is to let the people manage their internal affairs and avoid foreign intervention in their affair.
Al-Assad hoped the Summit would be a starting point for the Arab action, solidarity among Arab states to achieve peace, prosperity and development in the region instead of war and destruction, according to SANA.
The Syrian president continued saying, “We should discuss major titles that threat our future and cause our crises in order for us and for the next generations not to be dragged into addressing results rather than reasons.”
On May 7, Arab foreign ministers of the Arab League agreed on Syria’s official return to its seat in the Arab League after more than 10 years of suspension.