Speaking today during a visit to Moscow, Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil said that Syria is open to holding talks with rebels on any issue, including the possible removal of Bashar Assad from office.
“Any problems can be discussed during negotiations,” Jamil added, cautioning that demanding the ouster as a condition of even holding the talks was preventing them from progressing, and that getting both sides together should be the goal.
Russia warned the United States against invading Syria today, but also faulted the Assad regime for not doing more to end the civil war. Today’s Jamil comments may be an effort to placate Russia’s concerns.
Both regime and rebels have mostly abandoned the idea of peace talks in the past several weeks, endorsing the civil war in earnest. With the fighting going on and neither side making much progress, Russia in particular seems eager to negotiate some sort of settlement.
Now everything is on table, all options are considered, lets talk. Let see if these bandits from Washington to Paris and London would accept the notion and start talking, let see if US and EU still going to mumble about this or that is missing. In reality and in accordance with history of US and EU I don’t think that any positive words would be said by either side of Atlantic, yet they will say that: Assad must go first before and then we talk.., that is the history of hypocrisy of US and EU political elites no matter what they are called. Meanwhile and as many time before, the Syrian government have proposed peace talks knowing that they are winning over the sent Saudis and UAE barbarians and rebels without a cause.
US hypocrisy can even be worse than this. Remember the alleged reason of war against Afghanistan:
1. war will begin, when Bin Laden is not handed over
2. after Taliban were willing to take Bin Laden to an Afghan court, they said no
3. the same day Tali ban agreed to hand Bin Laden over even to a third country, the war began.
They did not want their agent Bin Laden, they wanted occupation.
I just wanted to say, that it can be dangerous to fulfill the wants of USA
Yeah…when the "rebels" started invading and terrorizing neighborhoods in Damascus and Aleppo, I think these issues needed to be addressed by force; as it was completely unacceptable by any reasonable standard in any society.
As a side note: it looks as though even a kool-aid drinker from the "Independent" has now realized what a brainwashed fool he has been all of this time up until only a few days ago…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-ea…
Or perhaps he was documenting the incursion of the almighty "rebels in the regime underground bunker…
If, and when, the 'rebels' (specifically in this context the FSA and SNC–which are only significant as they are officially recognized by the US State Department–not by the "Syrian People" as far as I know) 'officially' announce, once again, they have no interest in "talks" and/or "negotiations"…much less any desire to 'engage' in any sort of political "reconciliation"–I do look forward to any future 'articles' written by "both sides" to mention this and correctly describe the "rebels" as bad faith actors and 'terrorists' intent on imposing their will on the sovereign Nation known as Syria and it's "people". I will appreciate the "truth" from "both sides" moving forward if, and when, this turns out to be the case…again…
What was actually said by Mr. Qadri has essentially been Assad's position all along. There are tentative plans for Presidential elections in 2014. Assad will be on the ballot, and "opposition" candidates will be eligible to run. Nothing has changed here. Russia, China, and Iran all fully back this. It actually seems perfectly reasonable to me. I could not find an explicit condemnation of the Assad regime's handling of this 'situation' by Russian officials made yesterday–I simply cannot find this.
The "rebels" never supported 'talks' or 'negotiations' in any way, shape, or form. Many of the "rebels" are not even Syrian in the first place; however, that's somewhat of a separate issue. Claiming "the rebels" 'abandoned' "an idea of peace talks", an 'idea' these "rebels" never embraced in the first place, is not simply not accurate.
I look forward to the accurate reporting of the attempts to reach out by the Assad regime, and balks by the "rebels
http://rt.com/news/syria-election-opposition-boyc…
BTW…Assad doesn't seem adverse to 'reforms' or 'working with the (legitimate/peaceful) "opposition"–as this is already happening… despite the attempts by the "rebels" to sabotage this…
If someone has some sort of alternative reality to defend, I'm all ears…
I Suggest for Obama and the entire State Department to read RT report and see that Syrian people have voted for freedom, prosperity and democracy in Syria. Now go and read it and see the photo as an evidence to your warmongering statuesque.
http://rt.com/news/syria-election-opposition-boyc…
I assure you, they are all well aware of this event…
The people you mentioned understand, I'm sure, there is virtually no way they can get rid of Assad through "elections" and/or 'democracy' anytime in the near future–even if the UN 'observed' the 'election' and counted the every last vote cast (provided it was "fair" 'election' taking place in Syria with the votes being cast by the "Syrian people"). There are several components to this, and it's one of the primary reasons why 'we' are where 'we' are' today with this "situation" now…
As long as the NATO & the Gulf States continue to arm them, they won't be talking —and the US knows this, which is why they are insuring that the rebels are well armed. The Americans are NOT interested in a peacful resolution, but violent chaotic regime change.
http://press.org/events/syrian-support-group-pres…
Please don’t pledge to Antiwar.org, this website have become the supporter of FSA by running their ad for free, look at link that Ben..C representing, is the site where people are asked to give money and support FSA whom are at war with the Syrian people, they are mostly supported by the Saudis and UAE the Turkish government and in general NATO dictatorial regimes – countries, for last one and half year these people have refused all kind of notions regarding peace in Syria, their brutality is shown all over the world so as their brothers in wars the barbarians from Saudis and other part of the world. It is time for antiwar.org to stop such a free propaganda for a warmongering and street intellectuals in Washington.
Mojo, I understand the point you are trying to make but I will not be bullied into removing comments. All Ben did was publish a link. Our readers should be aware of the FSA so they can make a judgement. They could also read these:
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/08/04/turkey-providi… http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/08/06/when-proxy-war…
and many many more.
Why let humanitarian concerns get in the way of your arguments? Why is " the establishment of safe zones" " in order to mitigate the growing humanitarian" disaster so terrible? Are jets dropping bombs on your home?
And you and none of these brilliant antiwar.com supporters – which I was for years until last year – can ever explain how any president of any country could use jets and helicopter gunships to bomb and strafe his own cities? What would we think of Obama if he used jets to bomb lower Manhattan to kill the Occupy Wall Street movements? And why did Syrians simply protesting the sadistic policies of Assad get shot down by snipers? Assad created this rebel movement by his own utter brutality. It is absolutely sickening to read the support Assad gets from this website. I gave hundreds of dollars over the years long before "mojo" showed up.