At a press conferences in Syria’s capital of Damascus, the Chinese Special Envoy for Syria, Xie Xiaoyon, furthered China’s call for the unity and territorial integrity of Syria. He declared that China opposes as division of Syria’s territory as part of a political solution to end the seven year long conflict. In addition, he noted that the country has experienced a great degree of damage both in the way of its land and people, and therefore calls on the international community to step up and provide more assistance to the war torn Middle Eastern country.
Xinhuanet News reports:
DAMASCUS, July 26 (Xinhua) — China’s Special Envoy for Syria Xie Xiaoyan on Thursday renewed the Chinese government’s calls for respecting and preserving the unity of Syria.
Speaking at a press conference in the capital Damascus, the envoy said that the Chinese government has always called for preserving the territorial integrity of Syria.
Xie stressed that China rejects any fragmentation of Syria while supporting a political solution to the country’s over seven-year-long crisis.
“We always say that the sovereignty, independence and its territorial integrity of Syria must be respected and preserved,” he said.
The Chinese envoy said the prolonged crisis in Syria has created a tough humanitarian crisis, noting that the international community must do more to provide assistance to Syria.
He pointed out the fact that the crisis left “large destruction in Syria for both the country and the people,” urging “the international community must offer more assistance to Syria in order to enable it to overcome this severe crisis.”
Xie highlighted China’s willingness to participate in the reconstruction process with the international community, adding that China has held a reconstruction training course for Syrian officials, business people and scholars in Shanghai in May.
He underlined that the reconstruction work takes joint efforts of the international community and should be considered a comprehensive systematic project integrated with economic development, social progress, and real reconciliation.
“we care a lot about the reconstruction process after the war and we encourage the Chinese companies to participate in this process,” he said.
Xie also condemned the wide-scale offensive and bombings carried out by the Islamic State in Syria’s southern province of Sweida a day earlier, which left over 215 people killed and 180 others wounded.
He stressed that there should be a unity to confront terrorism.
Syria has to deal not just with terrorists and rebels, but with the state interests and interventions of a US led coalition together with Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc., and therefore has a multitude of factors to resolve in order to fully declare an end to the war in Syria and to oust national parties which hold no legitimate part of Syria’s restoration of peace and reconstruction. But Western intervention in the region continues to back terrorists and other factions which keep the conflicts stoked in order to prevent stability from returning, and therefore, obstructing the peace process by any means other than military in nature.
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