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Beirut – Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon Nabih Berri said that Syria is paying the price for being the crux of the resistance axis, and that the sources of terrorism must be dried up to help resolve the crisis in Syria.
In a speech on Sunday, Berri said that Syria is being subjected to terrorism from across the world, stressing the need to making combating terrorism the number one priority and working towards achieving a political solution for the crisis in Syria quickly.
The Speaker called for drying up the sources of funding and arming fterrorism, and also stressed that border-crossing terrorism is spreading across Arab countries, warning that the areas that some consider safe from terrorism are actually fulcrums or springboards for terrorists.
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“Australians for Reconciliation in Syria” (AMRIS) condemns Australian participation in an illegal war in Syria
Following a meeting in Melbourne Australia of “Australians for Reconciliation in Syria” (AMRIS) today, 3 September 2015, spokesperson David Macilwain said that AMRIS unequivocally condemns atrocities committed by ‘Islamic State’ in Syria.
AMRIS deplores, however, the decision by the Australian Government to follow the lead of the United States in taking military action against IS within the borders of Syria, one of the founding members of the United Nations, without the consent of the Syrian Government.
Mr Macilwain said, “Such action will do little to ‘degrade and destroy’ the terrorist group, whose control over territory has only continued to increase despite a year of US Coalition airstrikes. Furthermore there have been significant civilian casualties and damage as a result of those airstrikes, leading to further refugee flows.”
“While Australian involvement in the campaign in Syria will do little to change this situation, culpability for ‘collateral damage’ sustained within Syrian sovereign territory could bring us before the ICC,” added Mr Macilwain.
“Rather than looking for an alternative pretext that might be legal, such as the ‘responsibility to protect’ Iraqis, AMRIS proposes a clear alternative – cooperation with the Syrian Army in its fight against IS and other terrorist groups.”
“AMRIS also considers that if the Australian government is genuine in its desire and commitment to defeat IS, Al Qaeda and allied terrorist groups in Syria, and seeks to restore peace and security such that refugees can return, then it must be prepared to work in cooperation with the Syrian government and security forces. Such a commitment also entails the recognition of that government as legally constituted and representing the majority of the Syrian population, as mandated in the election of June 2014.”
Mr Macilwain further stated, “In the absence of such cooperation with the Syrian authorities, Australian military intervention in the Syrian conflict will be neither legal nor moral, regardless of the stated target and pretext. The consequences of such an illegal intervention, which under international law constitutes the ‘supreme crime’ of launching a war of aggression, would be both inconceivable and uncontrollable.”
“AMRIS demands that there must be a full disclosure of the objectives, conditions and limitations of this intervention, subject to a parliamentary debate and public scrutiny before this apparent decision to take us to war is finalised.”