{"id":6448,"date":"2013-11-17T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/?p=6448"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:17:29","slug":"brussels-ribal-al-assad-discusses-the-conflict-in-syria-with-senior-estonian-mep-tunne-kelam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/brussels-ribal-al-assad-discusses-the-conflict-in-syria-with-senior-estonian-mep-tunne-kelam\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels: Ribal Al-Assad discusses the conflict in Syria with senior Estonian MEP Tunne Kelam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ribal Al-Assad, Director of the ODFS, this week met once again with Mr Tunne Kelam MEP, Member of the European Parliament&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a leading campaigner against communism and helped to lead Estonia to independence and freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They had a comprehensive discussion about ending the ongoing situation in Syria and the developments since their last meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was a part of a series of meetings that Ribal had with senior members of the European Parliament from across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commentando l'incontro, Ribal ha detto:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was delighted to meet Mr. Kelam again, in our meeting I stressed the need for the E.U. to put it&#8217;s full weight behind a peaceful solution to the crisis in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c8 imperativo che l'UE, insieme alla comunit\u00e0 internazionale, si unisca per aiutare la Siria a liberarsi degli islamisti che non condividono i nostri valori universali e non desiderano la democrazia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c8 evidente da tempo che cercano solo di sostituire una dittatura con una teocrazia, il loro obiettivo assoluto \u00e8 avere uno stato di califfato islamico sotto la legge della Sharia e questo non si pu\u00f2 permettere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Questi estremisti hanno invocato la jihad contro chiunque non condivida la loro ideologia perversa e hanno ucciso e commesso molti massacri contro civili di tutte le religioni, sette e gruppi etnici.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L'UE e la comunit\u00e0 internazionale non devono permettere che la Siria \u2013 con il suo bellissimo mosaico \u2013 diventi vittima della violenza settaria e dell'ideologia perversa degli islamisti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come ho detto molte volte, l'unico modo per raggiungere una pace duratura in Siria \u00e8 perseguire una soluzione pacifica e diplomatica che includa tutti coloro che hanno una genuina fede nella libert\u00e0 e nella democrazia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c8 imperativo che la comunit\u00e0 internazionale, compresa l'UE, applichi tutto il suo peso a sostegno di questo obiettivo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to continuing to work with Mr. Kelam and the European Parliament to achieve this.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ribal Al-Assad, Director of the ODFS, this week met once again with Mr Tunne Kelam MEP, Member of the European Parliament&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Committee. He was a leading campaigner against communism and helped to lead Estonia to independence and freedom. They had a comprehensive discussion about ending the ongoing situation in Syria and the developments [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetings-political-engagements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6451,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/revisions\/6451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}