The nations making up the “Friends of Syria” group meeting in Tunisia are expected to call for the United Nations to send “peacekeeping” forces if and when the Assad regime agrees to a cease-fire.
The United States, European and Arab nations, almost 70 in all, are preparing to demand that Syrian President Bashar Assad agree to an immediate cease-fire and allow humanitarian aid into certain areas, or face unspecified punitive action which could include additional sanctions or direct support to the opposition forces.
The UN peacekeeping force, which UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon would recruit, is supposed to be billed as a “nonmilitary” operation, which seems highly unlikely given the war zone that certain areas of Syria have become. Assad is unlikely to agree to a ceasefire, but assuming he did, the plan calls for the UN to send forces with the permission of the ruling authority in Syria, whether it is Assad or a successor.
The other aspect of the plan is to directly intervene on the side of Syria’s opposition fighters. “We will also intensify our links with the opposition,” said British Foreign Secretary William Hague. “We will treat them and recognize them as a legitimate representative of the Syrian people.” Hague also said he was meeting with the opposition umbrella group, the Syrian National Council.
As the conference began on Friday, several hundred pro-Assad demonstrators protested outside the hotel, only to be driven away by police after 15 minutes. They carried signs criticizing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.
The meeting in Tunis was basically an effort to get around the established legal means of international intervention, which was blocked by Russia and China at the UN Security Council. Still, any kind of military intervention is likely to have terrible effects that would escalate the violence.
There are various options for intervention being considered, but U.S. officials have increasingly hinted at sending direct military support to Syria’s fragmented, violent, unreliable opposition. As Clinton said on Thursday, “There will be increasingly capable opposition forces,” she said. “They will, from somewhere, somehow, find the means to defend themselves as well as begin offensive measures.”
They’re no f-cking friends of Syria. With friends like those motherf-ckers, who needs enemies?
Please publish.
Assad would be crazy if he agrees to the so-called cease fire and lets the so-called UN peace keeping force in. Those sent in will not be peace keepers but saboteurs belonging to the enemies of Syrian people.
What is realy wrong with these war criminals hague/clintin/obama and allthe rest of these suchholes the least should have a place in hell that no one has ever gone.
Mind your f*cking business, Britain.
It seems that the meeting was a collosal failure for Clinton and company. The only agreement was on UN humanitarian mission, provided there is a cease fire, and provided that the Government agrees. Now, of course, this will not stop the interventionist troika — US, UK and France — from moving on their own to arm the up until now unknown groups. The people in London — the umbrella group — is not representing anyone really but themselves. But arming is going to get tough. Iraq is not exactly cooperating, and the increased bombing campaign in Iraq is a proof that "somebody" is trying to send a "message" to Iraqi government. Turkey is playing every side of the fence. It is "involved", but is carefully controlling the groups on its territory. Lebanon? Dicey. The increased fighting on borders indicates that Syria has the intelligence as to the routes of infiltration. If these routes dry up, supplies and ammunition will not last long.
These people do not give a shit about Syria. That disgusts me about Clinton & Hague. To them it is all romantic Great Game adventure, and the liberal progress they can bring to the savages.
This is what happened all the time during in the Great Game: http://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/0…
Cannot agree more. And when they come with their "progress", it is usually in the form of dividing and pitting people against each other, while extracting whatever is of value — and leaving it up to natives to duke it out. And all the horrible things that happen in the aftermath — like in Libya — is the fault of the natives. After all, what do you expect from the savages. At the same conference, Clinton stood up and declared that the rebels will be going on the offensive, and somehow, somewhere they will get weapons. She sounded more like a general in charge of the militants in Syria, then US Secretary of State. Considering that Syria is AT BEST split between Government supporters and opposition, it would be interesting to know who do these "Friends of Syria" support. And of the opposition, a vast majority of real opposition in Syria (easily over 99% of opposition) wants political reforms, change to the Constitution, and elections. The armed opposition BLOCKING REFERENDUM is easily less then 1% of population, and those supporting them in diaspora amount to no more then few dozen people. Perhaps, just for geopolitical fun.
While William Hague the british foreign minster wants to help Syrian people as a “common principals”, and Hillary Clinton call the Russia, China and their UN veto “Despicable”, one needs to know that: If Russia and China voted in favor of US and EU the NATO bombardments would have been started killing thousands of Syrian people by now and Turkey would started moving in with their army so as Israel. After all this has been a plan from 1990 when Paul Wolfwitz introduced the plan to Bill Clinton and later to George W. Bush whereby he started the Iraq war. Now that this plan is no longer effective and domed to be yet anther deceptive action by US and EU, now that people of Middle East recognizing the fact that all the bloodshed is about a falsified democracy orchestrated and presented by US and EU and that they are dealing with terrorists and those whom are bought by the west as their entities are behind all this, then it is time for Hillary Clinton and William Hague and rest of the US – EU democratic falsifiers start calling others with names and accusing them of everything, is like a child that lost its lollypop accusing the other child of stealing it not being able to prove that there was a lollypop to start with.
Now when they see the fact that their (US, EU & Saudis – UAE) intention is no longer effective and not working they are presenting a new yet more kind of a sophisticated fooling plan using the UN as their source of plan.., as if UN is the savior of their lost of respect among people and lost of their plan for occupying the entire Middle east. Historically from 1960s in Congo when the Swedish Dag Hamarsold, then secretary of UN give away the democratically elected president of Congo Patrice Lumomba to Mose Chombeh to be murdered, UN has become an instrument used and abused by US and EU; however, UN solders are from US, Sweden, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain and one or two other country then EU, though is shown that EU solders always taking side on behalf of their government protecting its interests then protecting the needy. This US and EU “New Plan” is simply a devious plan following the US and EU path in occupying the entire Middle east, or militarizing it totally.
I think I remember someing about this Dag Hammarskjold. Isn't he the guy whose helicopter was blown over the Congo sky?
These scumbags will not stop until they've either effed up the entire world or they're hanging from the end of ropes.
Flash:
Great Britain and various allies have suggested a peacekeeping mission to the United States to stop Abraham Lincoln from killing his own people.
They've also asked him to 'step down,' election be damned.
If Assad agreed or not, he's gone to be replaced by a puppet to Israel, the US and it's puppet NATO. They both want him out but for different reasons: Zionist Israel so they can expand their power unabated and the US and NATO to continue their goal of making all oil trades done only in dollars. Who's going to move first? Regardless, we've got Armaggedon at the door. Couple this with what's happening in Iran? I shudder to think. It's been said, the only thing new is the history you haven't read yet. Unfortunately when I turn on my computer I'm reading what I already knew. I've looked for an escape route and that's repentance to God. People that takes His offer of salvation have hope but others. John 3:16 and Romans 8
How about a UN peacekeping force between OWS and NY police?
Hunanitarian aid into Syria, like the one that went into Libya? The anti-Syrian terrorists, who include some reactionary Arab dictators, must be having wet dreams.
send clinton in, both sides will think Pandora is there to open her box