Damascus Confident About Regaining its Rights
15-July-2009
Damascus Confident About Regaining its Rights
15-July-2009
Syria has improved its relations with the United States thanks to its sound management of the region’s conflicts, a July 10 op-ed piece in the official Al-Baath newspaper said.
The article’s author, Muhammad Sharef al-Jauisi, said that the US had gained nothing by isolating Syria for the past four years. He added that Syria had important regional and international ties and was less affected than other countries by the worldwide financial crisis because of its independence.
The author said that the US was unable to create a rift between Lebanon and Syria because relations between the two countries were strong.
He said that Damascus had been able to overcome the most dangerous predicament in its history since independence in 1946.
Syria had managed the region’s conflicts successfully by supporting Lebanese and Palestinian resistance groups, which were able to change the rules of the military game with Iran and achieve honourable victory, Jauisi said.
In his message to President Barack Obama marking American Independence Day, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad emphasised dialogue between nations based on respect and mutual interests as well as the need to end all kinds of occupations, he said
He concluded that the Syrians’ openness to the US and Assad’s invitation to Obama to visit Syria spring from Damascus’s confidence that it can engage in dialogue to regain all its rights without giving up its regional alliances.
The article’s author, Muhammad Sharef al-Jauisi, said that the US had gained nothing by isolating Syria for the past four years. He added that Syria had important regional and international ties and was less affected than other countries by the worldwide financial crisis because of its independence.
The author said that the US was unable to create a rift between Lebanon and Syria because relations between the two countries were strong.
He said that Damascus had been able to overcome the most dangerous predicament in its history since independence in 1946.
Syria had managed the region’s conflicts successfully by supporting Lebanese and Palestinian resistance groups, which were able to change the rules of the military game with Iran and achieve honourable victory, Jauisi said.
In his message to President Barack Obama marking American Independence Day, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad emphasised dialogue between nations based on respect and mutual interests as well as the need to end all kinds of occupations, he said
He concluded that the Syrians’ openness to the US and Assad’s invitation to Obama to visit Syria spring from Damascus’s confidence that it can engage in dialogue to regain all its rights without giving up its regional alliances.
