Thomson ReutersBritain’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond arrives to attend a cabinet meeting at Number 10 Downing Street in LondonPARIS (Reuters) – Britain has said Russia’s military build-up in Syria reinforces President Bashar al-Assad and increases Moscow’s “moral responsibility in the crimes committed by the regime“. Also, based on a poll conducted by the CNN news channel, the popularity of the US President Barack Obama among American people stands at only 45 percent.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad should take part in talks on Syrian settlement, Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner told German radio station Bayerischer Rundfunk.
The softening of Cameron’s line on Assad mirrors the position of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said Thursday that there could be no solution without the Syrian president and talks would also have to include Russian Federation and Iran. And he can take seriously a crisis that is making a mockery of his, and the world’s, commitment to the principle that we have a responsibility to protect our fellow human beings in a tragic situation such as the one that has befallen Syria.
“If we were to say to the Syrians that the future of Syria lies in Assad, then we’ll expose ourselves to failure,” he said. “We urgently need a joint initiative to secure the possibility of maintaining Syria as a unified and secular state”, Steinmeier said.
“There has always been the idea that there will be a political transition and there are differing views between members of the worldwide community… what the steps are in the process”. To achieve this goal, the government of the United States approved a USD-500-million budget.
The relocations are just a fraction of the 500,000 migrants who have come to Europe’s shores so far this year and the estimated four million camped on Syria’s borders.
“And we know that well-spent long-term aid works wonders”.
“Russia’s involvement [in negotiations with Iran over their nuclear program] has been said to be very positive by all of those negotiating that agreement”. But as long as the world’s powers continue to search for solutions to Syria that do not set forth an inclusive political system, ignore human rights, and lack fair distribution of wealth and power, the refugees will continue to flow, and extremism will continue to thrive.
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The ABC quoted Bishop as telling reporters of the “fear” among some countries that “if the Assad regime were either removed or collapsed, it would create a vacuum, and one might find that it was filled by an even more diabolical presence than the Assad regime”. “Australia’s view is that all options should be considered”, Bishop said. The new U.S. approach could bring Russian Federation together with countries such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar that support Syrian opposition groups against Assad.
