President of the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC), Salem Al-Meslet, held a number of meetings on the sidelines of the 20th version of the Doha Forum which concluded on Sunday. He stressed that the Syrian people still aspire to achieve freedom, dignity and democracy, calling on everyone to push the political process forward so as to implement all relevant UN resolutions on Syria.
Al-Meslet met with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah Al Saud, the Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Najla Mangoush, the Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein, and Egyptian Ambassador to Doha Amr El-Sherbini.
Al-Meslet also met with a number of senior Turkish officials, including Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Turkish presidential spokesperson Dr. Ibrahim Kalin, and Turkish Ambassador to Doha Mustafa Kokso.
Moreover, Al-Meslet met with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova, US Senator Lindsey Graham, former US envoys to Syria James Jeffrey and Joel Rayburn, French Ambassador to Doha Jean-Baptiste Faivre, and British Ambassador to Doha John Wilkes.
Al-Meslet also met with the former President of the Syrian Negotiations Commission Riad Hijab, former SOC’s President Muaz Al-Khatib, the Director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies Dr. Sultan Barakat, members of the Syrian community in Doha, and directors of international and Arab research centers.
Al-Meslet stressed the need to focus on the root causes of the continued suffering of the Syrian people as well as the importance of taking real steps to revitalize the political process, strip the Assad regime of legitimacy and expel its representative from the United Nations.
(Source: SOC’s Media Department)
