Damascus: The US presence in Syria is illegal and must end immediately. The Syrian foreign minister stressed in an interview that the US presence in Syria was illegal and should end immediately.
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad said Western countries were trying to deliver humanitarian aid to terrorist groups and stressed the need for aid to arrive through Damascus.
“The main goal for the West is to deliver aid to terrorist elements such as Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS and the White Hats,” he told the Rashtoudi news network.
“If the United States is honest about humanitarian aid, Syria is ready to import it through Damascus and not through the Turkish border or any other border,” Meqdad added.
“The United States does not care about the life of the Syrian people, and the reason for this is its insistence on not lifting the pressure on Syria, and Washington is blocking the arrival of a piece of bread to the Syrians through sanctions, even if it can,” the Syrian foreign minister said.
“The US presence in Syria is illegal and condemned and must end immediately,” he said.
Regarding the recent meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden, Meqdad also said that the agenda that Biden came up with was not successful because the US side is not honest about security and strategic cooperation, as well as Syria.
The Syrian foreign minister reiterated Damascus’ high confidence in Russia and said it believed President Putin had informed his American counterpart about steps the United States should take to end its presence in Syria, stop interfering in its internal affairs and end its support for terrorist groups. Is.
Meanwhile, Joey Hood, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs, said yesterday that the United States intends to maintain a military presence in northeastern Syria.
The US official claimed that the US presence in northeastern Syria was aimed at fighting the terrorist group ISIS.
