Εμφάνιση αναρτήσεων με ετικέτα Bashar Assad. Εμφάνιση όλων των αναρτήσεων
Εμφάνιση αναρτήσεων με ετικέτα Bashar Assad. Εμφάνιση όλων των αναρτήσεων
Πέμπτη, Μαρτίου 31, 2016
Επίθεση Άσαντ κατά Ερντογάν για «υποστήριξη της τρομοκρατίας»
Κυριακή, Φεβρουαρίου 21, 2016
Έτοιμος για εκεχειρία δηλώνει ο Άσαντ
Σάββατο, Ιανουαρίου 09, 2016
Έτοιμος να μετάσχει στις ειρηνευτικές συνομιλίες της Γενεύης ο Άσαντ
Πέμπτη, Οκτωβρίου 02, 2014
Turkish government gets OK for military operations in Syria, Iraq. The mandate to begin tomorrow will last for one year.
The motion, based on Article 92 of the Turkish Constitution, received 298 votes in favor and 98 against.
Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) lawmakers voted in favor of the motion while the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the People’s Democracy Party (HDP) voted against the mandate.
- The Iraq-Syria motion gives a green light for the use of Turkish troops in Iraq and Syria, as well as for foreign forces to be deployed on Turkish military bases and to transit through Turkish territory in operations against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants. The mandate to begin tomorrow will last for one year. The government merged two existing motions on Syria and Iraq into one, arguing that the threats and risks posed by terrorist organizations are using both countries’ territories.
“The threat against Turkey has gained a new dimension. It’s our obligation to take measures against this threat and to protect our citizens in the frame of international law,” Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz told Parliament. Yılmaz cited the efforts of the international coalition to battle against extremist jihadists in Syria and underlined that Turkey was also part of these efforts.
But just hours before the parliamentary session, Yılmaz stressed that the adoption of the motion did not mean that Turkey would take immediate steps in line with the scope of the motion. The three priorities Turkey has already outlined are to establish safe havens inside Syria to provide humanitarian assistance to Syrians in their own country, establish no-fly zones for the protection of these zones and train and provide logistics to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Turkey. Turkey is yet to decide what measures it will take in this framework but it has made it clear that all such potential measures to be carried out with the participation of coalition forces should also target the Syrian government.
‘Assad is the main source of unrest’
“The main source of ISIL is the Syrian regime,” Yılmaz said, adding that Damascus had increased its oppression against dissidents in the country, committing massacres against its own citizens in various ways. “The developments in Iraq have proven that there is a need of a holistic and comprehensive strategy to respond to the regional clashes and humanitarian tragedy. The region will be dragged into further conflict in the event the international community does not take a decisive step,” he added.
Mehmet Şandır, a deputy parliamentary group leader of the MHP, stressed that they were voting in favor of the motion because of their sensitivity to national causes and security while adding that that did not mean that it approved the ruling party’s foreign policy line. “If there is a possibility of an attack against our country, we should take measures to defend our country,” Şandır said.
CHP: Motion is a battle cry
Akif Hamzaçebi, deputy parliamentary group leader of the CHP, described the motion as a “battle cry” and stressed that it was not aimed at fighting against ISIL but the Bashar al-Assad regime, which could drag Turkey into war with Syria. “Where is ISIL in this motion? Mr. President was caught red-handed yesterday with his address to Parliament as he outlined that their main objective was to topple the regime,” Hamzaçebi said. “We simply do not want to draw Turkey into this fire.”
Faruk Loğoğlu, speaking on behalf of the CHP, termed the point Turkey arrived at a crossroads that would negatively affect the future of Turkey and the region. “This motion is the result of an adventurous foreign policy. And we should all vote against it,” Loğoğlu said.
HDP: Gov’t still supporting ISIL
Ertuğrul Kürkçü, a lawmaker from the HDP, argued that the Turkish government did have any concerns over ISIL’s existence in Iraq and Syria and that the motion was just an attempt to show off on behalf of Turkey for its regional ambitions. “You were bystanders to the ISIL massacres. You had no such issue until Barack Obama targeted ISIL,” Kürkçü said. “You were the ones who supported ISIL, and you are still supporting it.”
Linking the ongoing Kurdish resolution process to the clashes between ISIL and the Syrian Kurds’ Democratic Union Party (PYD) in the Kobane region of northern Syria, Kürkçü said, “If Kobane fails, the resolution process will also fail.”
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-government-gets-ok-for-military-operations-in-syria-iraq.aspx?pageID=238&nID=72482&NewsCatID=338
2/10/14
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Παρασκευή, Ιουλίου 04, 2014
Secret UK plan to "train 100,000 Syria rebels" exposed. (at bases in Turkey and Jordan)
The alleged proposal, put forward two years ago, was the idea of General David Richards, then chief of Britain's defense, according to the BBC.
The secret "extract, equip, train" proposal was considered by Prime Minister David Cameron and the National Security Council, as well as U.S. officials, the BBC said, citing Whitehall sources.
As part of Richards’ proposal, the “substantial army” of moderate Syrian rebels would have been trained at bases in Turkey and Jordan.
The United Nations says some 10.8 million people in Syria need assistance, of which 4.7 million are in hard-to-reach areas, while another three million have fled during the three-year uprising against Assad.
Some believe the opportunity to carry out such an initiative has been missed.
- Professor Michael Clarke, of the Royal United Services Institute think tank, told the BBC: "We have missed the opportunity to train an anti-Assad force that would have real influence in Syria when he is removed, as he will be.
"I think there was an opportunity two or three years ago to have become involved in a reasonably positive way, but it was dangerous and swimming against the broader tide of history… and the costs and the uncertainties were very high."
- Some 400 British nationals are thought to be fighting in Syria, in what could constitute a crime under UK terrorism legislation.
Last Update: Friday, 4 July 2014 KSA 09:08 - GMT 06:08
[english.alarabiya.net]
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Τετάρτη, Ιουνίου 04, 2014
Kerry urges Assad's allies to end Syria war
His remarks during a surprise trip to Beirut came ahead of the publication of official results from the election, dubbed a "disgrace" by Washington.
Kerry also announced US$290 million in humanitarian aid for Syria and neighbouring countries hosting refugees, key among them Lebanon.
Assad is expected to win in a poll that was not even held in the roughly 60 percent of the country out of government control.
"With respect to the elections that took place, the so-called elections, the elections are non-elections," Kerry told journalists in the Lebanese capital.
"The elections are a great big zero. They're meaningless, and they're meaningless because you can't have an election where millions of your people don't even have an ability to vote, where they don't have an ability to contest the election, and they have no choice."
He said that "nothing has changed" as a result of the poll, adding: "The conflict is the same, the terror is the same, the killing is the same."
Syrian state media has trumpeted a high turnout, with pro-government newspaper Al-Watan saying "millions" had cast ballots and estimating 70 per cent participation in some provinces, a figure dismissed by activists who charged that people voted out of fear rather than conviction.
Nationwide violence, however, killed 209 people on polling day, including 71 civilians, a monitoring group said.
- Despite the criticism from Kerry and other senior American officials, Syrian opposition activists have slammed Washington for failing to take more decisive action on the years-long conflict.
Kerry urged key backers of the Syrian president to end the war.
- "I particularly call on those nations directly supporting the Assad regime ... I call on them -- Iran, Russia, and I call on Hezbollah, based right here in Lebanon -- to engage in the legitimate effort to bring this war to an end."
Russia earlier called for the speedy appointment of a new UN envoy after Lakhdar Brahimi, who brokered two rounds of abortive peace talks between the Syrian regime and the opposition, stepped down over the weekend saying his mediation had reached a stalemate.
- Brahimi had infuriated Damascus by criticising Tuesday's election as an obstacle to his peace efforts.
"Today, I am pleased to announce on behalf of the American people and on behalf of President Obama another US$290 million in humanitarian assistance for those affected by the conflict, both inside Syria and the communities throughout the region where they have taken refuge," he said.
"With the newest contribution that I've announced today, the United States has now committed more than US$2 billion to support refugees and the nations that have opened their doors to them," he added.
"A large portion of the assistance that I just announced today, US$51 million, will go directly to refugees in Lebanon and the communities that I just mentioned that host them here," he said.
- At more than one million, Lebanon hosts the highest number of Syria's nearly three million refugees.
A peaceful revolt demanding political change broke out in Syria in March 2011, but the crackdown by the Assad regime was so brutal that protesters later took up arms.
The war that ensued has killed more than 162,000 people and forced nearly half the population to flee their homes.
- AFP
channelnewsasia.com
4/6/14
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Τρίτη, Ιουνίου 03, 2014
Syria hails big turnout in presidential poll
Syrians are voting in a presidential election which the incumbent Bashar al-Assad is widely expected to win.
State television said on Tuesday that voting had been extended for five hours "because of the massive influx of voters". Polls will now close at 9pm GMT.
- Voting is only taking place in government-controlled territories, meaning those displaced by fighting or living in rebel-held areas will not be able to take part.
The US called the election a disgrace, saying Assad "has no more credibility today than he did yesterday."
- The election is Syria's first in nearly 50 years. Assad and his father Hafez have renewed their mandates in referendums.
Syrian television showed Assad casting his ballot at a school in the Damascus neighbourhood of al-Maliki. He was accompanied by his wife, Asma.
Assad faces two practically unknown competitors - Maher al-Hajjad and Hassan al-Nuri.
Nuri, who studied in the US and speaks English, told the AFP news agency he expected to come second after Assad.
Both he and Hajjar have only lightly criticised Assad's rule, for fear of being linked to an opposition that has been branded "terrorist" by the regime. The two men are, instead, focusing on corruption and economic policy.
The vote takes place as the war continues, with the air force bombarding rebel areas in Aleppo and fierce fighting in Hama, Damascus, Idlib and Daraa.
More than 15 million Syrians will be able to cast their vote in 11,000 ballot boxes distributed in more than 9,000 offices, which will be open from 7am to 7pm local time.- Observers from countries allied to the regime - North Korea, Iran and Russia - are supervising the election, while a security plan has reportedly been put in place in Syrian cities to prevent possible attacks against voters and polling stations.
3/6/14
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Πέμπτη, Ιανουαρίου 23, 2014
Syrian opposition insists Assad should go as past
GENEVA, January 23, 23:49 /ITAR-TASS/. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should go as his government is in the past, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces leader Ahmad al-Jarba said at a press conference in Geneva on Thursday, January 23.
“We have started to look into the future without him. Assad and all of his regime is in the past now. Nobody should have any doubt that the head of the regime is finished. This regime is dead,” Jarba said, adding, “If Assad were able to rule Syria, we wouldn’t have been here today,” Jarba said.
He said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had assured the Syrian opposition that Moscow was not holding on to Assad and that Syrians themselves should decide the fate of their country.
“This is the basis of our negotiations and we will demand it,” he said.
Jarba said that the Syrian opposition could end the talks in Geneva at any moment. “Our delegation will decide how long the talks will go. We are authorised to stop them at any moment,” he said.
Monzer Akbik, chief of staff in the Syrian National Coalition, said the inter-Syrian talks would begin on January 24 at about 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. Both sides will meet at the same table.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/716013
23/1/14
--“We have started to look into the future without him. Assad and all of his regime is in the past now. Nobody should have any doubt that the head of the regime is finished. This regime is dead,” Jarba said, adding, “If Assad were able to rule Syria, we wouldn’t have been here today,” Jarba said.
He said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had assured the Syrian opposition that Moscow was not holding on to Assad and that Syrians themselves should decide the fate of their country.
- “We met Lavrov in Paris last week and he confirmed to me that Russia is not holding on to Assad,” Jarba said.
- He said Lavrov had told him the solution should be negotiated “between Syrians themselves through a political process.”
“This is the basis of our negotiations and we will demand it,” he said.
Jarba said that the Syrian opposition could end the talks in Geneva at any moment. “Our delegation will decide how long the talks will go. We are authorised to stop them at any moment,” he said.
Monzer Akbik, chief of staff in the Syrian National Coalition, said the inter-Syrian talks would begin on January 24 at about 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. Both sides will meet at the same table.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/716013
23/1/14
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Participation du vice-Premier ministre et ministre des Affaires étrangères E. Vénizélos à la conférence Genève II sur la Syrie (Montreux, 22.01.2014). -MAE Hellénique
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Τετάρτη, Ιανουαρίου 22, 2014
Syrian peace talks stuck over Assad's future
The dispute over Assad cast a pall over the start of an international peace conference that aims to map out a transitional government and ultimately a democratic election for the war-torn Middle East nation.
While diplomats sparred against a pristine Alpine backdrop, Syrian forces and opposition fighters clashed across a wide area from Aleppo and Idlib in the north to Daraa in the south, where the uprising against Assad began three years ago, activists and state media said.
The US and the Syrian opposition opened the conference by saying the Syrian leader lost his legitimacy when he crushed a once-peaceful protest movement. In a strong riposte, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem countered that terrorists and foreign meddling had ripped his country apart. He refused to give up the podium despite requests from the UN chief.
"You live in New York. I live in Syria," he angrily told UN chief Ban Ki-moon. "I have the right to give the Syrian version here in this forum. After three years of suffering, this is my right."
Less than three hours into the peace talks in the Swiss city of Montreux, the two sides seemed impossibly far apart.
"We really need to deal with reality," said US secretary of state John Kerry. "There is no way — no way possible in the imagination — that the man who has led the brutal response to his own people could regain the legitimacy to govern. One man and those who have supported him can no longer hold an entire nation and a region hostage."
The Syrian opposition leader, —Amhad al-Jarba of the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition — had wavered up to the last-minute on whether to attend peace talks that have been largely opposed by rebel brigades in Syria. He insisted Wednesday that the whole point of the peace conference was to create a transitional government without Assad.
Al-Moallem insisted that no one except Syrians could remove Assad. He also accused the West and neighboring countries — notably Saudi Arabia, which he did not name — of funneling money, weapons and foreign fighters to the rebellion.
"The West claims to fight terrorism publically while they feed it secretly," he said. "Syrians here in this hall participated in all that has happened, they implemented, facilitated the bloodshed and all at the expense of the Syrian people they claim to represent."
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki later criticized the Syrian government's rhetoric as "inflammatory" and al-Jarba's chief of staff called it a false distraction.
"All of what they say is lies," Jarba's chief of staff, Monzer Akbik, told The Associated Press. "The Syrian people are fighting al-Qaida in the North and it was the regime that brought al-Qaida in."
At least 130,000 people have been killing in the fighting that began with a peaceful uprising in March 2011 against Assad's rule, according to activists, who are the only ones still keeping count after the UN abandoned its efforts. The fighting has forced millions of Syrians to flee their homes.
The question of Assad's future goes to the heart of the peace conference with the stated goal of a transitional government for Syria. Notably absent was Iran, which along with Russia has been Assad's most forceful supporter.
Ban invited, then disinvited Iran at the last minute, after the Syrian opposition threatened to back out of the peace talks less than 48 hours before their scheduled start.
Both Assad's delegates and the Syrian National Coalition claimed to speak for the Syrian people.
Al-Jarba, the coalition's chief, said any discussion of Assad's continued hold on power would effectively end the talks before they have begun. He said a transitional government "is the only topic for us."
Saudi foreign minister Saud al-Faisal, whose government has funneled millions to the rebels, said "it goes without saying that Assad has no role in Syria's future." He also called on foreign forces to withdraw from Syria, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah militias.
AL-Moallem, the Syrian foreign minister, said only Syrians had the right to decide upon their government, a pointed jab at the myriad of countries involved in the Syrian conflict, which has become a proxy war between regional powers Iran and Saudi Arabia, and taken on post-Cold War overtones with Russia and the United States backing opposite sides. His criticism also hit the opposition coalition, which is based in Turkey and is largely made up of exiles with little sway on events inside Syria.
Syrian state television aired his speech in full, but then cut away to archive footage of car bombs and sectarian attacks during speeches by al-Jarba and the Turkish foreign minister — keeping their discourse in the background.
Diplomats have played down expectations for the Swiss peace talks, although they have said repeatedly they are the only hope for ending Syria's civil war. But Assad's forces have gained ground in recent months, and the man whose family has led Syria since 1970 has tried to portray the rebellion as driven by foreign terrorists who are trying to create an al-Qaida-inspired haven.
The president of Iran, which was invited at the last minute then abruptly disinvited after the opposition threatened to back out, said the peace talks were unlikely to succeed. Iran has given Assad billions in aid, including weapons and Shiite fighters.
"Considering all signs, I don't have much hope that this meeting can succeed in fighting terrorism, because some countries sponsoring terrorism are taking part. Also I don't think it will succeed in establishing peace and stability because the countries that created the instability are taking part," said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Later this week in Geneva, Syria's warring sides will sit down for their first face-to-face meeting since the conflict erupted.
"I pray that the Lord touches everyone's hearts so that they do everything in their power to urgently end the violence, in the interests of the poor Syrian people," said Pope Francis, who also sent a delegation.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Syrian-peace-talks-stuck-over-Assads-future/articleshow/29211443.cms
22/1/14
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Participation du vice-Premier ministre et ministre des Affaires étrangères E. Vénizélos à la conférence Genève II sur la Syrie (Montreux, 22.01.2014). -MAE Hellénique
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