Syria Slams AL’s Resolutions, Warns Countries Playing with Fire

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The Syrian government slammed Wednesday the Arab League's decisions, warning that they will have serious repercussions on the League's future as well as on the joint Arab action and Arab national security.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the government considered the AL resolution as "unprecedented" in the League's history "for it blatantly violates the AL Charter and its statutes and the rules of the joint Arab action."

The statement denounced the resolution for targeting "Syria's role, position and approach of resistance," lashing out at the AL resolutions "which have contributed to increasing the bloodshed in Syria."
"They also encourage terrorism and terrorists and hindering the latest real efforts exerted by the countries and parties which care for Syria to find a political solution," it added.

The statement decried the AL for having gone too far to "give Syria's seat at the Arab summit to an illegitimate party and raise a flag other than the Syrian national flag in a flagrant violation of the AL Charter and its statutes towards a founding member."

The government reiterated that the AL resolution is "a dangerous precedent that's destructive to the League making it lose the credibility it has left and taking it off its track."
It warned that the AL resolution constitutes "a threat to the Arab regime" as other countries will be targeted tomorrow in the same way Syria is being targeted now.
"Most dangerous about the AL approach is that it consolidated subordination and submission to the carrot-and-stick policy followed by some countries, particularly Qatar."
"With its resolution, the Doha Summit has encouraged the approach of violence, extremism and terrorism that poses a threaten not only to Syria but also to all of the Arab nation and the world as a whole," said the government.

It stressed that the AL resolution "provides a false cover to some countries which have publically announced their support to terrorism in Syria and offering of money and arms to the terrorist groups, including those with links to al-Qaeda."
"This leads to putting an end to any role the Arab League could play in solving the crisis in Syria by political means and makes the AL part of the crisis and not part of the solution," said the statement.

"Those countries which play with fire through arming, funding, training and harboring terrorists won't be safe when this fire stretches to them," it said, and noted that "it will continue work to establish security and stability, protect the homeland and Syrian citizens and combat terrorism in preservation of its independence, sovereignty and unity."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org