That will exclude Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaida’s Syrian affiliate, which are both banned by the UN. A unified military command of all parties engaged in Syria should be set up to tackle the threat head on if the political process envisaged by Russian Federation is acceptable to all.
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It failed to breach the divide over Assad, however, and Iran’s deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian went further by saying only the Syrian president could decide on whether to contest future polls.
“Yesterday France has known what we have been living in Syria over the past five years”, Assad added, according to worldwide Business Times. “The answer is no”.
Maleh was detained by the Syrian government several times for opposing the regime and expressing, through his writing, the urgency of a dramatic political change in Syria when Assad took power after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad.
Rehman Chishti MP is Member of Parliament for Gillingham and Rainham and a former advisor to Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. But we will only be safe in the longer term if we can replace that ungoverned space with a proper Syrian government. As part of a US-led coalition, the country has also been conducting air raids against what it alleges to be Daesh positions in the violence-scarred Arab country.
Russian Federation has for weeks been carrying out air strikes in Syria in support of Assad’s forces.
Evan Barrett, an advisor to the US-based Coalition for a Democratic Syria, said Russian Federation seeks to persuade Western states to re-classify a few Syrian rebel groups as terrorists in a bid to bolster Assad’s government.
“We are realistic… There is a lot still to be worked out”, the source said. “Unfortunately, European officials did not listen”, he said, in comments to the delegation broadcast by France´s Europe 1 radio.
The militancy in the Arab country has intensified due to the activities of militants groups, including Daesh which has overrun about a third of Syria, where it is tyrannizing the civilian population.
Damascus considers all its opponents – including peaceful activists and non-Islamist groups – as “terrorists”.
Unless world powers can offer the Syrian people a few kind of incentive, it is unclear how the plan would work, said Anthony Cordesman, a security and defense scholar at the Center for Strategic and worldwide Studies in Washington.
Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesThe horrific attacks on Paris dominated the conversation in Vienna.
Also Sunday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem stressed that eliminating terrorism is a necessity to preserve global stability and peace and is “a basic introduction for any political solution for the current crisis in Syria”.
At least 15 others were injured in the attack.
G20 states should be ready to help poorer countries financially to raise their security standards, and to assist those – like Tunisia – whose tourist industries have suffered a slump in business as a result of terrorism, he said.
In fact, the President of Syria was not even mentioned in the Vienna communiqué and nothing was said on whether or not he would run in the next presidential elections, scheduled now for June 2017 instead of summer of 2021.
The ferocious attacks have been widely condemned across the world.
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The top Sunni Muslim religious authority in Saudi Arabia, the council of senior ulemas, said the attacks which also wounded 300 people were “contrary to Islam and its principles”.
