DAMASCUS -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday outlined a new peace initiative that includes “reconciliation with those who have not betrayed Syria”.
DAMASCUS -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday outlined a new peace initiative that includes “reconciliation with those who have not betrayed Syria”.
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"The first part of a political solution would require regional powers to stop funding and arming (the rebels) an end to terrorism and controlling the borders," he said.
According to the Syrian president, the government “has not found a partner” for a political solution to the crisis in the country but that does not mean that it is not interested in finding a solution.
He said the conflict was not one between the government and the opposition but between the "nation and its enemies.”
"The one thing that is sure that those who we face today are those who carry the al-Qaida ideology," Assad said, repeating previous assertions that "foreign terrorists" are behind the uprising in his country, AFP has reported.
He lamented the suffering of the people in the civil war and called his opponents “enemies of God and puppets of the West”.
Assad said the opposition against him was not a revolution, BBC has reported.
"That would need thinkers and be based on an idea. It needs leadership - who is the leader of this revolution,” the Syrian president said and assessed that rebels were “just a bunch of criminals”.
The UN estimates that more than 60,000 people have been killed in the uprising, which began in March 2011. Diplomatic efforts to end conflicts have not yielded results so far.
Since then opposition forces have gained control of swathes of territory in northern Syria and have formed the SNC, a more inclusive leadership that has been recognized by the U.S. and the EU, BBC says.
But rebel efforts to gain ground in and around major cities including Damascus have been met by stiff resistance and increasingly destructive air strikes.
UN and Arab League Envoy Lahdar Brahimi has been trying to implement a plan adopted at the international conference in June that envisages forming of a transitional government but does not clearly define Assad’s role.
Brahimi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said recently that a dialogue was the only option. NATO started deploying Patriot missiles in Turkey in order to help Turkish troops deter attacks from Syria.
Assad is failure, and a bad guy. His family was brought to power by CIA in 70's. Just think what kind of maniacs they supported in the region then? Saddam Hussein comes to mind...
Regime that allowed shooting at crowds of peaceful demonstrators does not have legitimacy, I agree.
This is precisely why we are all waiting for the "international community" (and here you, no doubt, mean West) to do something with Bahrain government. Those peaceful demonstrators only wanted elections, that's all...
But, who can mend the country? It's hard to see.
If "international community" made some bad choices with they support in the past , now they are making even worst choices.
Englishman has a point. Assad's rivals are 90% Jihadists. Same ones "international community" is supporting for past 3 decades.
Sure, some renegades, like Bin Laden lost the support, but generally speaking, arms, training, funding and other support was staunchly behind most radical islam.
I, however, am not so sure they can mend the country better.
(Sreten, 7 January 2013 10:02)
The Syrian army are destroying those Jihadist maniacs by the shed load,they are the same sort Clinton sent to Bosnia and they sent to Libya,thats how the Reich fights its wars,they use stupid people to do the fighting for them.
(Englishman, 6 January 2013 22:31)
According to the Syrian president, the government “has not found a partner” for a political solution to the crisis in the country but that does not mean that it is not interested in finding a solution.
B92
And you're not going to find one for the reason the West is against a negotiated settlement and from the very beginning they had only one clear goal in Syria, regime change,in order to install a puppet regime loyal to US/UK hegemony. Then it is war with Iran.
(Leonidas, 6 January 2013 16:55)
According to the Syrian president, the government “has not found a partner” for a political solution to the crisis in the country but that does not mean that it is not interested in finding a solution.
B92
And you're not going to find one for the reason the West is against a negotiated settlement and from the very beginning they had only one clear goal in Syria, regime change,in order to install a puppet regime loyal to US/UK hegemony. Then it is war with Iran.
(Leonidas, 6 January 2013 16:55)
The Syrian army are destroying those Jihadist maniacs by the shed load,they are the same sort Clinton sent to Bosnia and they sent to Libya,thats how the Reich fights its wars,they use stupid people to do the fighting for them.
(Englishman, 6 January 2013 22:31)
Assad is failure, and a bad guy. His family was brought to power by CIA in 70's. Just think what kind of maniacs they supported in the region then? Saddam Hussein comes to mind...
Regime that allowed shooting at crowds of peaceful demonstrators does not have legitimacy, I agree.
This is precisely why we are all waiting for the "international community" (and here you, no doubt, mean West) to do something with Bahrain government. Those peaceful demonstrators only wanted elections, that's all...
But, who can mend the country? It's hard to see.
If "international community" made some bad choices with they support in the past , now they are making even worst choices.
Englishman has a point. Assad's rivals are 90% Jihadists. Same ones "international community" is supporting for past 3 decades.
Sure, some renegades, like Bin Laden lost the support, but generally speaking, arms, training, funding and other support was staunchly behind most radical islam.
I, however, am not so sure they can mend the country better.
(Sreten, 7 January 2013 10:02)
The Syrian army are destroying those Jihadist maniacs by the shed load,they are the same sort Clinton sent to Bosnia and they sent to Libya,thats how the Reich fights its wars,they use stupid people to do the fighting for them.
(Englishman, 6 January 2013 22:31)
According to the Syrian president, the government “has not found a partner” for a political solution to the crisis in the country but that does not mean that it is not interested in finding a solution.
B92
And you're not going to find one for the reason the West is against a negotiated settlement and from the very beginning they had only one clear goal in Syria, regime change,in order to install a puppet regime loyal to US/UK hegemony. Then it is war with Iran.
(Leonidas, 6 January 2013 16:55)
Assad is failure, and a bad guy. His family was brought to power by CIA in 70's. Just think what kind of maniacs they supported in the region then? Saddam Hussein comes to mind...
Regime that allowed shooting at crowds of peaceful demonstrators does not have legitimacy, I agree.
This is precisely why we are all waiting for the "international community" (and here you, no doubt, mean West) to do something with Bahrain government. Those peaceful demonstrators only wanted elections, that's all...
But, who can mend the country? It's hard to see.
If "international community" made some bad choices with they support in the past , now they are making even worst choices.
Englishman has a point. Assad's rivals are 90% Jihadists. Same ones "international community" is supporting for past 3 decades.
Sure, some renegades, like Bin Laden lost the support, but generally speaking, arms, training, funding and other support was staunchly behind most radical islam.
I, however, am not so sure they can mend the country better.
(Sreten, 7 January 2013 10:02)