Eduardo González
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has spoken this Wednesday about the situation in Syria with his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Faisal bin Farhan; Jordan, Ayman Safadi; Qatar, Sheikh Mohamed Bin Abdelrahmán Al Thani, and Turkey, Hakan Fidan.
“I have spoken with my counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar and Turkey about the situation in Syria and the Middle East,” Albares said on social media. “I have conveyed to them that the future of Syria must be peaceful, inclusive and respectful of minorities and human rights,” he continued. “Its territorial integrity must be guaranteed,” he added.
The four countries are part of the Arab-Islamic Contact Group on Gaza, with whom Albares himself has already met in Madrid on two occasions, on May 28, on the occasion of the recognition of the State of Palestine by Spain, and on September 13, during the “Madrid Meeting: for the implementation of two States,” in which the European Union, the Contact Group and the European countries that have recognized the State of Palestine participated.
Last Sunday, after the overthrow of Bashar al Assad’s regime at the hands of insurgents led by the Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) group, heir to Al Qaeda in Syria, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on “all parties in Syria, in the region and in the international community” to allow “a peaceful and inclusive political transition, according to the terms of resolution 2254 of the United Nations Security Council, which guarantees the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.”
Albares himself also insisted before the media on the need for Syria to remain “peaceful and stable” and for the Syrian people to decide “who and how they want to be governed,” all within “the territorial integrity of the country.” “We must avoid a balkanization of different regions of Syria in the hands of different groups,” he warned in statements to TVE.
