Zyuganov on President al-Assad's visit to Moscow: relations are on concrete basis
Syria-Russia, Politics, 1/19/2005

Russian Communist Party Leader Gennadii Zyuganov said Tuesday peace in the Middle East will not be achieved as Israel still occupies the Syrian Golan.

"We can't talk about any peace process as the Israeli aggression still poses a threat on South Lebanon, and peace will not be comprehensive in the region without reaching a fair solution to the Palestinian issue," Zyuganov told SANA in Moscow.

He added that the Syrian policy owns credibility in the international and regional arenas as well as having a firm and independent foreign policy and works for the liberation of all the occupied Arab lands.

He described the upcoming visit of President Bashar al-Assad to Moscow as an important event not only regarding the Russian-Syria relations, but it also gains importance due to the international ongoing situation.

He added the friendship relations which link the Syrian and Russian people are based on concrete basis, saying that both countries have great capabilities to enhance trade and economic relations between them.

"Pressures on Syria are baseless, they were fabricated as a result of Syria's adherence to the Arab just causes and its principled stances vis-a-vis peace process and the Palestinian cause," the Russian Party Leader added.

On Iraq, he said that the ongoing events refer that the US had failed in gaining targets it was dreaming of when it occupied Iraq.

Chairman of the Middle East and Africa Studies Center at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Academy Vladimir Dantsov, for his part, also stressed that Peace in the Middle East will not be achieved unless Israel withdraws from all occupied Arab lands to the line of June 4th, 1967.

Dantsov added that President Bashar al-Assad's expected visit to Moscow will contribute to deepening dialogue, to a great deal, between Moscow and Damascus on the joint steps that should be taken to activate efforts aiming at reaching a solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict.

"Peace would not be concrete if it was not just and comprehensive.. it would be impossible if the Syrian role was neglected," the Russian analyst concluded.

President Bashar al-Assad is scheduled to pay a state visit to Russia from Jan 24 to 27.SANA

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