Syria accuses US of double-standard in fighting terrorism

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Syria's Deputy Prime Minister Walid Al-Moualem, has accused the United States of using double-standard policy in fighting terrorism at a high-level, reports Xinhua.
Al-Moualem made the accusation during a debate on Tuesday in New York.
He said that there had not been any serious move to implement the United Nations Security Council resolution decided in August to cut financial sources to extremist groups in Syria and Iraq.
He said that some of the regional states were still providing all kinds of support to these terrorist organisations.
``What we see on the part of the U.S. administration is a double standard policy and alliances to score certain political agendas, particularly through supporting with money, weapons and training of groups they call moderate,” he said.
``This is a real recipe for the increase of violence and terrorism, shedding of Syrian blood, prolonging of the Syrian crisis and demolishing of the political solution at its basis," he added.
Al-Moualem, who is also Syria’s Foreign Minister, called for serious and effective actions to eliminate the ISIS and other terrorist groups in and out of Syria.
``Fighting terrorism is achievable through actual implementation of resolutions, and it is certainly possible through military strikes.
``We have also to drain the resources of terrorism. Striking terrorism militarily while some states are continuing their support of terrorist groups, this will create a whirlpool of which the international community will not exit in decades," he added.
Al-Moualem said that government was ready and even striving for a political solution in Syria.
He said that there was ongoing dialogue with all honourable national opposition members opposing terrorism in Syria, and among Syrians themselves and on Syrian territory.
Al-Moualem said any dialogue must be based on the respect of the will of the Syrian people as government was open to a political solution in Syria.
He warned that the dialogue would only be with real opposition that seeks the prosperity, stability and security of Syria, an opposition that ``does not depend on the outside and does not speak on behalf of that outside.’’

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