Al-Shaybani said during a speech in the Russian capital, Moscow: ‘The continuous Israeli intervention complicates the situation in Sweida, and the state is responsible for minorities, not any external party.’ He added, ‘Israeli aggressions exacerbate the suffering of civilians and disrupt the reconstruction process. Syria cannot proceed with building and stability under Israeli attacks.’ The Syrian Foreign Minister affirmed, ‘and represent all the Syrian people in parliament,’ indicating that ‘the Syrian state is responsible for everyone, and any manipulation with this issue will lead to chaos again.’ Earlier, the official spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, confirmed that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaybani in Moscow today, Thursday. Zakharova told Sputnik: ‘On July 31st, Sergey Lavrov and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic, Asaad Al-Shaybani.’ Over the past two weeks, the province of Sweida in southern Syria has witnessed a deterioration in humanitarian conditions due to security tensions and clashes that erupted between the city’s residents, tribal members, and armed factions, followed by escalation due to government intervention and Israeli bombing.
