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UN not genuinely interested in peace in Syria: Activist

Monday, 21 November 2016 5:00 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 21 November 2016 5:03 PM ]

Syrian pro-government forces walk around in the village of Minyan, west of Aleppo, after they retook the area from terrorists on November 12, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

A United Nations proposal concerning the establishment of an autonomous region run by foreign-backed Takfiri militants in the eastern part of the northwestern Syria city of Aleppo has drawn a lot of criticism.

A human rights activist believes the UN is not "genuinely" interested in peace in Syria, adding that it is looking for excuses to continue the war and break up the country.

“So the UN, if they were seriously considering peace, step one would be stop giving guns and money to terrorists but they have not done step A so they do not need to be talking about B, C or D,” Ryan Dawson told Press TV.

He also stated that giving away land to terrorist groups is “completely insane”, adding that many of these so-called moderate militants in Syria are on US State Department’s official terrorist watch list.

The activist further noted with Donald Trump being the US president elect, all aid to terrorist groups in Syria will be cut off and the United States will join Russia in the anti-terror fight.

“And of course the UN is in a panic because they have lost and without the US support, this war cannot be sustained, without the CIA support and without American bombardments the mercenary groups cannot win a protracted war in Syria and so they are going to plan B to break up the region and try and award pieces to different terrorist groups,” he said.

Dawson further mentioned any partition should come from within a country as Crimea voted on a popular referendum to rejoin Russia and break away from Ukraine but in Syria the people voted to retain President Bashar al-Assad.

He also opined that the United Nations partition plans have never worked well in the past, arguing that Syria does not need one.

Aleppo, once Syria’s second largest city, has been the scene of fighting between Syrian forces and terrorists. It has been divided over the past four years between Damascus forces in the west and terrorists in the east, making it a frontline battleground.

Backed by Russian air cover, the Syrian army in September launched operations to reunite the divided northwestern city.

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