(14 Dec 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Aqaba, Jordan – 14 December 2024
1. Wide of briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hakan Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister:
“We all need an orderly and inclusive Syrian transition process, during this historical time transition state institutions must be preserved and if necessary reformed.“
3. Cutaway of audience
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bader Abdelatty, Egyptian Foreign Minister:
“We talked about the negative Israeli role in Syria, and the importance of halting the Israeli aggressions in Syria and the withdrawal from the buffer zone which it occupied in a flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement of 1974.”
5. Mid of journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Hakan Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister:
"We can never allow terrorism to take advantage of the transition period (in Syria), we have to coordinate our efforts and learn from the mistakes in the past. Any mistake would lead to irregular migration flow."
7. Wide pan from audience to speakers
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy:
"On Monday we will have a meeting with the foreign ministers of European Union where we will also discuss our engagement with Syria and other aspects around Syria and the build-up."
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ayman Safadi, Jordanian Foreign Minister:
"The Arab Committee meeting issued a statement in which we stressed the constants that we will follow in the approach we use with what is happening in Syria. I would like to begin by emphasizing that we all stand with Syria, with our Syrian brothers, in this reconstruction phase after years of killing, destruction and displacement, until the brotherly Syrian people achieve their aspirations to build a state that preserves the rights of all Syrians without exception. A state that respects its sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, so that the Syrians can live in the security, peace and stability that they all deserve."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Jordan hosted Saturday US, EU, Turkish and Arab diplomats on for high-level talks on Syria, a day after celebrations in Damascus and nationwide rejoicing at the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad.
A joint statement issued after the meeting calls for all parties to cease hostilities there and expresses support for a locally led transitional political process.
It called for preventing the reemergence of extremist groups in Syria and ensuring the security and safe destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles.
It also expressed full support for Syria’s territorial integrity.
“We all need an orderly and inclusive Syrian transition process," said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, adding that, "state institutions must be preserved and if necessary reformed.“
"We can never allow terrorism to take advantage of the transition period," he added at a briefing alongside other top diplomats who attended the talks.
A separate statement issued by Arab foreign ministers called for U.N.-supervised elections based on a new constitution approved by Syrians.
That statement also condemned Israel’s incursion into the buffer zone with Syria and adjacent sites over the past week as a “heinous occupation” and demands the withdrawal of Israeli forces.
Assad fled the country after a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, ending five decades of iron fisted rule.
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