AMMAN — Minister
of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs Ayman Al-Safadi on Monday urged the
international community to help stabilize Syria, adding that the conflicts and
delusions that feed terrorism must be abolished.
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The foreign
minister’s comments came during a ministerial conference in Romeinvolving the 83-member
coalition on defeating Daesh, hosted by the Italian Minister of Foreign and
International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio, and the US Secretary of State
Antony Blinken.
The
conference aimed at boosting the coordination among coalition members in
countering Daesh, maintaining stability in liberated areas in Syria and Iraq,
and addressing increasing threats by Daesh affiliated groups in African.
During the
conference, Safadi stressed that the ministerial meeting is a message from the
global coalition that it can completely eradicate Daesh and other terrorist
groups.
The
coalition had succeeded in obliterating Daesh’s dominance in Syria and Iraq,
Safadi said, reiterating the importance of boosting intelligence cooperation to
counter threats challenging the security of countries.
During the
conference, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also pressed US allies to
bring back citizens arrested overseas for joining Daesh, warning that they
could not be held indefinitely in Syria, according to AFP news service.
About 10,000
suspected Daesh fighters are being held in northern Syria by Western-allied
Kurdish fighters, according to US estimates.
"This
situation is simply untenable. It just can't persist indefinitely,"
Blinken said.
"The
United States continues to urge countries — including coalition partners — to
repatriate, rehabilitate and, where applicable, prosecute their citizens,"
he said.
According to a Human Rights Watch report in March, the Kurdish-led Syrian
Democratic Forces are holding more than 63,000 women and children of suspected
Daesh fighters from more than 60 countries in two camps surrounded by barbed
wire.
In a joint statement, the coalition voiced "grave concern" over
the plight of prisoners in Syria and said it was important to find "a
comprehensive and long-term solution ," according to AFP.
Blinken added
that the United States was offering another $436 million, mostly through
international organizations, to care for Syrians displaced in the decade-old war
including by supporting COVID vaccination.
A
focus on Africa
Daesh has lost almost all of its territory in Syria and Iraq, but the
extremists are exerting growing force in Africa including in the Sahel, where
France is winding down a military campaign, and in Mozambique, AFP has
reported.
During the
conference, Safadi also echoed His Majesty King Abdullah, by saying “Daesh was
defeated but is not yet destroyed. It still represents a security and cultural
threat to the world.”
A battle was
launched to rip off Daesh’s mask, which it uses in the name of religion, adding
“the terrorist group certainly does not represent … the Islamic religion or its
values of peace and mutual respect,” the minister said.
Jordan will
continue working with the global coalition members and will put forth all
possible efforts to achieve sustainable victory over terrorism wherever it arises,
the minister added.
Italian
Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told reporters that his country feared Daesh
could "regain strength and that is why we must not lower our guard."
"We
must step up the action undertaken by the coalition, not by shifting our focus
but by increasing the regions in which we operate — not just the Middle East
but Africa," he said.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the coalition "can and must
work more closely together with African countries, and I think the participants
here are in agreement about that."
The Central African Republic and Mauritania joined the coalition with the
Rome meeting while Italy invited other African nations including Ghana as
observers, according to AFP.
Blinken also announced that the United States was designating Ousmane
Illiassou Djibo, a Niger-born Daesh leader based in Mali, as a "specially
designated global terrorist", making any transactions with him a crime
under US law.
The coalition's ministers were meeting
for the first time in person since February 2019, with diplomacy hampered by
the coronavirus pandemic.
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