Syria
did not sent a letter of apology to Turkey after its shelling killed five
people in Turkish territories, Syria's ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar
Jaafari, told Lebanon daily El Nashra , broadcaster al-Manar reported on its
website today.
"The
Syrian government is working on investigating the accident and not on
apologizing," Ambassador Jaafari reportedly said, although Turkey's Deputy
Prime Minister Beşir Atalay stated yesterday that Syria had admitted its
shelling and apologized.
"We
have waited one year and eight months for the Turkish government to present an
apology for its acts in Syria. It is a tragic development that a Turkish woman
was killed with her three children, and we sympathize with that because she was
an innocent Turkish citizen," Jaafari said.
He also
stressed that those who fired the shells remain unknown, but that "in the
region there are many groups that are interested in creating conflict between
Syria and Turkey."
"We
have not heard from the Turkish side any sympathy or solidarity with the
innocent Syrian citizens who were killed in the terror explosions of Aleppo.
Therefore, we must be fair in our approach," Jaafari also said.
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