By Vestnik Kavkaza
The international conference on the settlement of the situation in Syria continues in Switzerland. At yesterday's morning session the governmental delegation presented its declaration on settlement to the special envoy of the UN and LAS Brahimi. It states that support of terrorists in Syria by third countries is unacceptable. The opposition delegation didn’t like the document.
Foreign ministers of more than 40 countries are taking part in Geneva-2 along with delegations of the Syrian government and the opposition, but some of them don’t know much about the developments in Syria. Dmitry Sablin, member of the Council of Federation Committee on Defense and Security, who has recently returned from Syria, spoke about the real situation in the country: “I served in the army for 15 years, and I know what a war is. When I was going to Damascus, I expected to see a Grozny of 2001-2002. In fact it wasn’t so. There is life.”
Before the visit to Syria, Sablin was sure that “a civil war between Sunnis and Shiahs is taking place there, that there are problems, there the right and the guilty in both sides, and a political dialogue is needed.” However, when he talked to ministers and heads of all confessions (including Orthodox Christianity and Supreme Mufti) and common people, Sablin realized that international terrorist organizations are conducting a war against Syria.
“Even experts can’t tell how many soldiers of fortune from all over the world are there. Some say there are 30 thousand, others – 50 thousand. Supreme Mufti said that there are about 100 thousand people from 83 countries of the world. They arrive to Syria to tie contacts, communications, find out principles of cash-flows to use the information in the future. The mass media reports that heads of Special Services of the UK, France are concerned about the fact that terrorists begin to return; and our country is concerned as well. There are people who returned from Syria to Chechnya and Dagestan,” Sablin says.
Those who fought in Syria returned with new terrorism technologies. They use granite chips and other materials as damage agents in bombs, as modern equipment cannot identify them. “Representatives of Western Special Services contact with official Damascus and ask it to provide them with information on a quantity of terrorists, what they are and where they are,” Sablin states.
According to Sablin, information which was acute for Syria three years ago, when the war started, resembles him the situation in Ukraine today: “It is just the same thing; nothing changes.”
At the same time, Sablin was surprised with tolerance toward Orthodox Church and traditional Islam and mutual respect between religions: “We should learn the interrelations from the Syrians; it is acute for us, especially in republics of the North Caucasus.”
