Turkey’s foreign minister meets Syrian opposition

3 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, held a meeting on Tuesday with the president of the opposition National Coalition for the Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (CNFORS), Salem al-Meslet, and the president of the Syrian Turkmen Assembly. , Abdul Rahman Mustafa.

“We reiterate our support for the opposition and the Syrian people in accordance with resolution 2254 of the United Nations Security Council,” the Turkish Foreign Minister stated in a post on his official Twitter profile in the framework of the meeting, which The president of the Syrian Negotiation Commission, Badr Jamus, also attended.

Mustafa stressed on Twitter that the meeting was held in a “friendly atmosphere”, while Al Meslet conveyed to Cavusoglu his discomfort at the “criminal regime” of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

The Turkish Foreign Minister’s appointment with the Syrian opposition comes after Defense Minister Hulusi Akar met with his Syrian and Russian counterparts in a sign of a possible rapprochement between Ankara and Damascus.

The meeting, held in Moscow and which caused unrest among the Syrian population in the north of the country, is the first of its kind since the war in Syria broke out in 2011 and served to address the Syrian crisis in a sample of a possible strengthening of the bilateral relations, damaged by the conflict and Turkey’s support for various rebel groups.

Apart from this, the day before, the various United Nations agencies, including the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), asked the Security Council to expand resolution 2642 on humanitarian aid for northwestern Syria, since which expires on January 10.

“Unlike previous resolutions that extended cross-border operations by 12 months, the latest action taken by the Council only granted a six-month authorization. This led to additional logistical and operational challenges, increased operating costs and reduced partner capacity. humanitarian aid to help those in need,” they recalled in a joint statement.