U.S., Russia endorse political solution in Syria<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12 January 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n
www.thehindu.com\/news\/international<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senior officials from the United States and Russia, during their talks with Lakhdar Brahimi \u2014 the United nations and Arab League envoy on Syria \u2014 have endorsed the six-month old Geneva Communiqu\u00e9 as the touchstone for the resolution of the Syrian conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meeting in Geneva on Friday, the trio, which apart from Mr. Brahimi, included Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia\u2019s West Asia envoy; and William Burns, the Deputy Secretary of State of the United States, agreed that there was no military solution to the Syrian situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn our view, there is no military solution for this conflict,\u201d said Mr. Brahimi during a media conference. The Geneva plan calls for the establishment of a transitional governing body in Syria, in which members of Syrian government and the opposition are represented. Significantly, the plan does not call for the exit of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Geneva communiqu\u00e9 was issued after a meeting of the \u2018action group\u2019 for Syria, which comprised the Secretaries-General of the U.N. and the Arab League; the Foreign Ministers of the five permanent members of the Security Council, the Foreign Minister of Turkey, the foreign policy chief of the European Union and top diplomats from Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the agreement on common principles, contradictory signals were emerging from the U.S., which, contrary to the spirit of the Geneva Communiqu\u00e9, expressed its discomfort with the possibility of Mr. Assad continuing in office during the transitional phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia calls for \u2018transition process\u2019 in Syria<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Moscow reiterates only Syrians themselves can decide their fate<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12 January 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n
www.gulfnews.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moscow: Russia called Saturday for the launch of a political transition process in Syria, a day after peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met with diplomats from Moscow and Washington in a bid to resolve the nearly two-year-old conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Moscow also reiterated its long-held position that only Syrians themselves could decide their fate without outside interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn our opinion, the priority task is to immediately stop any violence and bloodshed as well as provide Syrians including internally displaced persons and refugees with humanitarian aid,\u201d the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt the same time it is necessary to secure the launch of a political transition process in Syria aimed at enshrining in law guaranteed and equal rights of all ethnic-confessional groups of this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs in the past, we firmly support a premise that issues of Syria\u2019s future should be solved by Syrians themselves, without outside interference and the imposition of ready-made recipes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UN-Arab League special envoy Brahimi on Friday met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns in Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The discussions took place a day after Syria accused Brahimi of \u201cflagrant bias\u201d, casting doubt on whether he could stay on as international mediator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the statement, Moscow stressed its \u201cunchanged\u201d support for Brahimi\u2019s peace mission, adding that it would support further trilateral talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia also reiterated its support for a transition plan that was agreed in Geneva on June 30, 2012, but has since split world powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe proceed from the fact that this consensus-based document remains fully relevant as the only platform to overcome the protracted crisis in Syria,\u201d the foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ribal Al-Assad, Direktor der ODFS, kommentierte die Geschichte mit folgenden Worten:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I welcome endorsement of the Geneva Communiqu\u00e9 as the basis for the resolution of the Syrian conflict by the United States and Russia. There is no military solution to the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I call on the UN, US, Russia, EU and Canada to bring together all the Syrian opposition groups onto one platform so they become a genuinely inclusive opposition, which works towards a diplomatic solution based on the Geneva Communiqu\u00e9, which is based on the principles of the Kofi Annan Plan, which are to de-escalate the violence and have a ceasefire leading to a peaceful Syrian led transition through dialogue and negotiation.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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