The UN efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in the Syrian Civil War have failed, but Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi is looking to start a more regional effort, keeping the West sidelined in a new committee of four.
In addition to Egypt, the committee will include Turkey (host of the rebel leadership), Saudi Arabia (which has openly armed the rebels) and Iran (a close ally of the regime). The Iranian government has been looking to join the peace effort, but NATO nations, particularly the US, had spurned any effort to include them.
The mission is hoping to secure support from Russia and China, which have both opposed NATO calls to invade Syria and impose a regime change. President Mursi will visit Russia and China as well as Iran, where he will attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit.
Western officials have yet to comment on the new negotiation effort, but the inclusion of Turkey and Saudi Arabia will make it virtually impossible for the major rebel factions to ignore.
Which one of the organizations mentioned in this article represent the "SYRIAN PEOPLE" Jason Ditz? I counted zero.
Since some have new 'faith' in this new outside effort to negotiate a "peace deal" among actors most, including Jason Ditz, know nothing about (and are not included), I will reiterate what Ditz's sacred cow Iran (a much less "free" society than Syria using any metric btw) has said over and over:
"Syria's future should be decided by the Syrian people".
Do others, including Jason Ditz, disagree? Perhaps AW.C can use the proceeds of this current fundraiser to send Jason Ditz to Syria so he can enter the nation with his picket sign and travel with the "freedom fighter" "rebels" so he can report the "facts on the ground" as well as tell them what they need to do to find "peace" and "freedom"…
Go get 'em….
LOL….
You're pissy at Jason Ditz, we get that. The rest is incoherent. Say what you have to say straight out.
The Saudis and Turks side with the rebels, the Iranians side with the govt (ie Assad), and Egypt appears to be neutral. Everyone is represented. Looks like a viable approach. What's the problem?
(Not to be coy, I suspect the problem is you've drunk the Kool-aid and are a full-on supporter of the rebels, and nothing but Assad's surrender will suit you. So what does the "C" stand for?)
The Syria and its feature should be decided by the MAJORITY of the Syrian people, not the FSA nor their affiliated barbarians from Saudi Arabia or those whom dress themselves as the Syrian Free Army begging on the internet for more money because they know that they are paid enough by Saudis and UAE, 50-70 million dollars, they know that they are not going to get paid more because the contract was about wining the war within few months not dragging the war or losing it.., they also know that this is stat departments orchestrated war by Hillary Clinton is a lost war.
There is no country in this world that would say that: thanks to US or EU and NATO military intervention now we are a democratic country. Look: Syrian war is a regional war and regional powers needs to be involved to solve it, Hillary Clinton doesn't speak Arabic nor Farsi nor Lebanese Arabic dialect nor she understand the Iranian or Arab culture, she dozen know what Syrian eat or what is in Syria or how many cultures is there and above all how people were and have been united until they (the west VULTUR CAPITALISM hand in hand with Saudis and Turks) decided to divid people by starting this war.
The only thing that is matter to her and her bosses is the interests of such system.., so if kingdom of England decides to joying in sending their pitiable busboy David Cameron to have a word here and there is because they want to have some of that cake called Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and rest of the world included. This has been a war of geopolitical interests of EU and US, there is no ethnics nor a civil war nor is about Assad or the Iranian regime, is always has been about US and EU interests, from Vietnam war in 60s to before that the Korean war and presents wars. Non of these wars have been about democracy but it has been about dividing nations, from 1990s these elements of wars have found a new way to do the same harm by the way of Religious and thats what they are doing now. If Assad goes then there should be a new dictatorial system hand picked by Saudis-US and EU, like in Afghanistan and thats what west is eager to implement in Syria, so what this going to bring for the Syrian people.., is Syria going to be a regional power and prospers as it has been thus far.., or a puppet regime to US and EU as Libyan government is. Therefore, West needs to pack and go home, let the problem in middle to the people of middle east to be solved by them, west have no right nor ever had any rights to organize any cop de etta in any part of the world, what they do in Syria is exactly what it is a cop de etta by the way of dividing people making sure that it is them that are killing each other while they (WESTREN VULTURE CAPITALISM) prepare for No fly zone.
Once again a Western power "acting as" a social democrats have come forward with it's meaning regarding what is not their problem wanting to solve a problem by sidelining the problem.
"France’s president urged the Syrian opposition movement on Monday to create a provisional government and vowed to extend official recognition once it was formed".
Look Hollande, there is no such terms or figures as oppositions, there are individuals who are against the rule of Assad and there are those whom have a personal problem with Assad, as you are, but that doesn't mean that there is a mass organized political parties which wanting to change the government of Syria, some of these opposition even would like to have Assad staying in power, but due to the Iranian and Countries of Non Alliance gathering in Iran, the West had to come up with something saying that this is what they support, an allied of the west government who been living in France all their life not knowing anything about Syria, those who are well taken care of by the French government for such time use, those who are by the French government taking upper hand ordering them to form a Provincial
Government, tell us Hollande, beside those whom your system selling weapons to are your Arab friends in the region. Leave the people of middle east alone, let people of middle east solve their problem and stay independent.