Khaddam: Powell knows who is in the hole… The Syrian initiative to remove weapons of destruction is in the Security Council before the Libyan one.

publisher: القبس AL Qabas

Publishing date: 2003-12-28

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
WhatsApp

Received Iraqi intellectuals and reaffirmed Iraq’s commitment to independence and liberation. / Syrian Initiative to Eliminate Weapons of Mass Destruction Was Submitted to the Security Council Before the Libyan One

Damascus – AFP: Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam announced yesterday, after meeting with a delegation of Iraqi writers in Damascus, that Iraqis are “committed to their independence, sovereignty, and liberation from the American occupation.”

Khaddam made these remarks after receiving over 70 Iraqi writers, intellectuals, and poets, led by Mansour Abdulaziz al-Hadithi.

In response to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s call for North Korea, Syria, and Iran to follow Libya’s example and declare an end to their weapons of mass destruction programs, Khaddam stated, “This initiative has been with the Security Council for some time, long before it was proposed by Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, and we, along with Arab countries, will continue to pursue it both inside and outside the Security Council.”

On another note, when asked about the possibility of resuming negotiations with Israel, Khaddam said, “We have a clear policy: we want peace, the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions, and respect for international legitimacy. The problem is not with us; it lies with the Israelis.”

Regarding reports of an American missile strike on the Syrian area of al-Yarubiyah, near the border with Iraq, Khaddam said, “I have no information.”

When asked to comment on U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s call for Syria to “get out of the hole,” Khaddam replied, “I believe everyone knows who is in the hole right now.”

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
WhatsApp

Recent Articles


Khaddam’s memoirs… “letters of love and threats” between Reagan and Assad… America withdraws from Lebanon, Israel retreats, and Syria “is isolated”

2024-10-28

Damascus releases the American pilot amidst shuttle tours of White House envoy Rumsfeld…and Washington foils a secret visit by Hikmat Al-Shihabi In the midst of the U.S.-Syrian military exchanges in Lebanon, President Hafez al-Assad’s illness, Colonel Rifaat’s ambitions for power, and the intensifying Iran-Iraq war, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam met with U.S. Ambassador […]

Khaddam’s memoirs…an American-Syrian clash in Lebanon…and Reagan’s envoy requests a meeting with Rifaat al-Assad after “Mr. President” fell ill

2024-10-27

Khaddam threatens Washington’s ambassador with “immediate expulsion”… and exchange of Syrian-American bombing President Ronald Reagan attempted to contain the crisis with President Hafez al-Assad following the bombing of the “Marines” and the shelling, sending his special envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, to Damascus on November 20, 1983. Rumsfeld, a former Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford, […]

Khaddam’s memoirs…the Marine bombing before the Lebanese Geneva dialogue…and America accuses Iran of working “behind the lines” of Syria

2024-10-26

Washington accuses Tehran of being behind the Beirut attacks and criticizes Damascus for “facilitating the Iranian role” Robert McFarlane, Deputy National Security Advisor in the United States, returned to Damascus on September 7, reiterating previous statements about the necessity of a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon to coincide with the Israeli withdrawal. On the 22nd of […]