December 17, 2024

The Syrian Negotiating Commission delegation held a meeting yesterday, Monday, with the EU Chargé d’Affaires in Syria, Mr. Michael Unmacht, in Damascus, and discussed the latest current developments in Syria, the EU’s positions, and the political process during the transitional period.

The delegation stressed that the Syrians have overthrown the criminal regime and won at this stage, and have shown exceptional discipline and rejection of violence, revenge, and chaos, and that they are determined to achieve all the goals of their revolution in freedom, justice, equality, and a state of citizenship.

The delegation stressed the need to send urgent humanitarian and relief aid to the Syrians, pointing out the importance of the European Union institutions concerned with this matter moving in order to provide aid to the Syrians and extend a helping hand to them to help them overcome this critical period after the regime fell and fled, leaving Syria in a collapsed economic and service situation.

The delegation of the Commission indicated that the Syrians are continuing their struggle in the files of accountability, questioning and transitional justice, and will continue to work to hold accountable all those who committed violations, war crimes or crimes against humanity against the Syrian people from the symbols of the defunct criminal regime, and expressed their hope that the European Union will contribute to providing facilities for the Syrians in order to reach transitional justice and real trials for all criminals, given the importance of this matter for the Syrians, and to ensure that no crimes like those committed by the regime are repeated in the future.

Discussions took place between the two sides about the necessity of implementing UN Security Council Resolution No. 2254, and implementing the articles it includes and agreed upon away from any role for the defunct regime, and that with the fall of the criminal regime, the implementation of Resolution 2254 has become limited to the components of the revolutionary forces that represent the political, civil and military parties from the components of the Syrian people and all its spectrums, without the presence of representation for the defunct regime by virtue of its demise, meaning that there is no party capable of obstructing its implementation, and it is in the interest of the Syrian people and the revolutionary forces to accomplish it in the shortest possible time.

The delegation welcomed the active role of the European Union, the United Nations and the international community in facilitating and easing dialogue between all Syrian parties, and contributing to the stability of Syria after five decades of destruction, corruption, marginalization, violence and systematic crime practiced by the former regime against the Syrians.