The UN representatives are negotiating with Syrian terrorists, Foreign Policy learned

Representatives of the United Nations are negotiating with the leaders of the Jebhat al-Nusra terrorist group (Victory Front), which is considered the cell of the Al-Qaeda international network in Syria, writes Foreign Policy .

"The UN, who has long been the target of al -Qaeda, from time to time, from time to time supports informal contacts with the Syrian division of a terrorist organization, hoping to convince the militants to allow humanitarian workers to provide assistance to the civilian population in the controlled opposition of the territory," the UN representatives quoted in the article quoted from whom it publishes. Inopressa .

Contacts with the leaders of Jebhat Anga, which were not previously reported, are mainly informal in nature and sometimes consist of no more than in negotiations of UN officers engaged in assistance to the victims, with militants on a certain checkpoint, the publication of Foreign Policy, designated as exclusive material. “We are not discussing the details,” the publication quotes an unassumed high -ranking representative of the UN. “This is not talking to the eye, they are usually conducted by phone or through Skype.”

The UN officials say that they simply have no other choice: the organization turned to the Syrian government for permission for humanitarian employees to go through the territory held by the President Bashar Assad, but such permits, even if Damascus gives them, will not matter if "Jabhat An-Nusra" and other armed groups will not give the same guarantees.

At the same time, Jebhat Anga-Nusra militants did not basically attacked the UN employees providing assistance to the victims, and the humanitarian convoys of this organization, said the author of the article by Colum Lynch.

Experts and observers noticed pragmatism in the actions of "Jebhat al-Nusra"

The extremist group "Jebhat al-Nusra" is not yet loved by the UN; they do not believe it and consider it to the United States, "said Aaron Zelin, an employee of the Washington Institute of Middle Eastern Policy. “But they are a pragmatic organization and understand that humanitarian aid from the outside will help more than anything that they themselves can do,” the expert explained.

This group was “ousted from the cities for organizing the courts over people, and now they are trying to imagine themselves as more moderate defenders of the Syrian people, and not ... as a Caliphate of the VII century with dragon laws - at least not now,” notes the columnist of the English -language edition in Beirut by The Now Lebanon. It is given in the publication.

Recall that in early January, the Permanent Representative of Syria at the UN in a letter to Council accused the power of Saudi Arabia of relations with Al-Qaeda and the support of Jebhat al-Nusra in Syria, which the UN itself considers a terrorist group. As early as May 2013, the United States included the “black list” of the terrorists of Abu Muhammad al-Javlani, the leader of “Jebhat al-Nusra”, who then announced that his ultimate goal is to overthrow the Assad regime and establish the Sharia law throughout the country.

Also in the hands of "Jebhat al-Nusra" there have been 12 nuns from the Syrian Christian city of Maalyul for several months, in exchange for which the group recently demanded to free 500 of their militants in Syria and Lebanon.

However, in recent years, the UN and independent assistance agencies have been forced to coexist with other Al-Qaeda divisions. For example, in Somalia, some organizations at the UN paid duties by the ASh-Shabab group in exchange for free passage to starving civilians during the famine of 2011 in the country, Foreign Policy notes.