Rabat – Morocco will continue to act to resolve peacefully the crisis in Syria, prospect it considers “a priority” of its action at the Security Council, said Saturday Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otmani.
The Kingdom, a non-permanent member of the Security Council, “will undertake to do everything, in concert with the international powers to stop violence and help the Syrian people,” said El Otmani during a press briefing after a meeting with President of the Syrian National Council (SNC) Bourhane Ghalioune.
The minister said Rabat conducts its diplomatic action “on the basis of the Arab League initiative, in consultation with all stakeholders and at all levels.”
The CNS delegation informed El Othmani of developments in the field and presented to him of a series of proposals to resolve the crisis, he said, stressing that Morocco will maintain contact with the Council’s members to “give more efficiency to its diplomatic in this issue,” in anticipation of the upcoming Arab summit in late March.
For Ghalioune, Morocco “plays an active role with regard to the esteem and consideration it enjoys in the Arab and international scenes,” in the service of joint Arab action to protect civilians and stop the violence in Syria, he said in a similar statement.
Internationally, Rabat is “well placed to develop international mechanisms to promote the resolution of this issue and end impunity,” he suggested, urging the “Friends of Syria” to “go beyond the statements of intent, communiqués and condemnations” against the “dramatic turn” of events in this country.
“We expect the Arab Group, with support from our brothers in Morocco and the international community to ensure that we have the means so that we can to stop the actions of the regime” of Damascus, said the CNS president.
“The facts are there to demonstrate that this regime, despite all the political initiatives of the Arab League and the Friends of Syria, continues to reject any prospect of solution,” he said.
In early February, Morocco had submitted a draft resolution at the Security Council demanding the “immediate end of all human rights violations” in Syria, a draft that was aborted because of the Sino-Russian veto.
The draft adopts the outline of a plan proposed by the Arab League in favor of a transition in Syria to end the year-long conflict that has claimed thousands of victims.
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