World Peace Council condemns Israel's policy

Damascus -- Secretary-General of the World Peace Council Anathasios Pafilis stressed the importance of achieving peace in the Middle East, describing the region as one of the world’s most conflict prone zone.

The meetings of the executive committee of the World Peace Council kicked off in Damascus on Friday, with the participation of delegations from 40 countries.

Speaking in the opening ceremony of the council's executive committee meetings, Pafilis said, “The Palestinian cause became more complicated under Israel's genocidal policy.”

He affirmed that world peace council considers the Palestinian struggle as a top priority.

Pafilis underlined the necessity of Israel's withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories, including the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, establishing an independent Palestinian state with Beit-ul-Moqaddas as capital, the return of Palestinian refugees, and the release of Arab detainees from the Zionist regime’s jails.

The Council's Chairperson, Sorko Goms, in his address said, “Israel's brutal acts against the Palestinians and its attack on Gaza are crimes against humanity”, voicing the council's solidarity with just causes in the region.

She criticized interference in sovereign states’ internal affairs in the name of democracy and freedom.

Qoms also called for freeing the world from weapons of mass destruction by implementing the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and supporting states that seek to acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

For his part, Head of Pro-Peace Movement's National Council in Syria, Ahmad Al-Hassan said: “The world public opinion and peoples of the region aspire for translating words about peace and freezing settlement-building, especially in Beit-ul-Moqaddas, into clear-cut, tangible steps on the ground under the current U.S. administration”.

(Source: sns.sy)

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