Alwaght-Greek Parliament member Ioannis Sachinidis says the Western media has contributed a lot to distortion of facts and disinformation on Syria.
Speaking on Saturday in Damascus where he held talks with Speaker of the Syrian People’s Assembly, Mohammad Jihad al-Laham, Sachinidis who is a member of the Golden Dawn Party said he toured Old Damascus on Friday where he saw people going on with their day to day life activities. He noted that the impression he had gave him proof that the Western media has contributed a lot to distortion of facts and disinformation on Syria.
Sachinidis said it is important that Syria and Greece have a joint plan to face the common threat of terrorism, which has been spreading all the way into Europe. The Greek delegation’s visit aims at getting to know the real picture of what is happening in Syria to convey it to the Parliament and media back in Greece, said Sachinidis.
The Greek parliamentarian pointed out that parties, individuals and countries involved in supporting terrorism in Syria must be clearly identified and that financing terrorism must be stopped.
Al-Laham reminded of Syria’s repeated warning, since the very beginning of the regionally and internationally fuelled terror war waged on it, of the dangerous cross -border movement of terrorism.
Al-Laham used the opportunity of the meeting to call on the European parliaments to exercise pressure on their governments to take a firm stand against the Turkish regime that stands as the main facilitator of this cross-border movement of terrorists into Syria and beyond to Europe.
The European states, he said, also need to change their policies and stop providing cover and support to the armed terrorist organizations that is being done under false pretensions.
Continuing this support constitutes a blatant violation of all the international laws and conventions, he added.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. According to a February report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, the conflict has claimed the lives of over 470,000 people, injured 1.9 million others, and displaced nearly half of the country’s pre-war population of about 23 million within or beyond its borders.
Syria blames the Western countries especially the United States and its regional allies including the Israeli regime, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar of funding and arming terrorist groups operating inside the country.
