Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs Nasser Judeh, on Thursday, participated in the Friends of Syria meeting, which was held in New York on the sidelines of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly.

The meeting was held on a request by British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond to discuss the latest developments in Syria.

Judeh said that Jordan had warned of the repercussions of the absence of a political solution to the crisis in Syria since it began, its impact on the region and the expansion exceeding its borders.

He added that the absence of a political path changed the nature of the Syrian crisis, which began as a local unrest, then evolved into a popular revolution and then into a sectarian conflict, which led eventually to empowering extremism and the role of terrorist organizations.

The minister said that the control of a terrorist organization over vast areas in both Iraq and Syria, without any consideration of borders, necessitates the link between the situation in Syria and the whereabouts of the organization, and also requires an out-of-border war again this organization and its capabilities and infrastructure.

The quest to fight and eradicate this terrorist organization, in Syria, Iraq, or anywhere is completely separate from the political crisis in Syria, Judeh added.

The foreign minister stressed that the absence of a political solution in Syria, especially after the failure of the Geneva negotiations at the beginning of this year, has led to a painful reality and created a fertile ground for terrorist organizations and their poisoned ideology to exploit.

Therefore, the revival of the political process in Syria is an urgent necessity, he added.


*Petra