Second round of Moscow Consultative meeting concludes deliberations with unanimous agreement on first item of “estimating the status quo”

Moscow, SANA- Delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic and the delegation of the opposition figures to Moscow second consultative meeting agreed on points about the item of “estimating the status quo.”

The points stipulate settling the crisis in Syria through political means, based on Geneva communique of June 30^th, 2012, and;

-Calling on the international community to practice immediate and serious pressures on Arab, regional and international powers which contribute to shedding the Syrian blood to carry out UN Security Council resolutions relevant to combating terrorism, halting acts of supporting terrorism, including training, funding and arming terrorists.

-Calling on the international community to immediately lift embargo and the economic, unilateral and coercive procedures imposed on the Syrian people and its institutions, asserting that any outcome of a political process should be based on national sovereignty and popular will.

-Any political process has to be done thorough concordance among the Syrians as a government, powers and parties which believe in the political solution, boosting national reconciliations, supporting the army and armed forces against terrorism and calling on the international community to help the Syrian refugees return home.

-Any political process should rely on the factors of preserving national sovereignty, Syria’s terrestrial integrity, keeping the state institutions , committing to liberating the occupied Syrian lands.

-According to the points, the political settlement will lead to intensifying and mobilizing the people’s energies against terrorism to defeat it, limiting the weapon to the hand of the state’s institutions, calling on the international community to support any agreement that will be reached about the comprehensive political solution of Moscow meetings to be later adopted in Geneva 3 conference.

In the evening session, delegation of the Syrian Arab republic distributed a paper of 12 items on mechanisms of combating terrorism in accordance with article II of the agenda.

The paper affirms condemning terrorist acts, implementing UNSC relevant resolutions and respecting national sovereignty in the framework of any international effort to fight terrorism.

The Second round of Moscow Consultative meeting concluded deliberations with unanimous agreement on the first item on “estimating the status quo”

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