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What now for Syria?
Topic Started: Aug 2 2012, 05:23 PM (226 Views)
Mobson
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As President Putin on his first visit in seven years, enjoys our hospitality at the Olympics, Un-Arab League special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan has announced he is stepping down from that post at the end of this month. He says the increasing militarisation and lack of unity at the UN are hindering his task. "It is impossible for me or anyone to compel the Syrian government, and also the opposition, to take the steps to bring about the political process.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Mr Annan said the increasing militarisation of the Syrian conflict and the "clear lack of unity" in the Security Council had "fundamentally changed the circumstances for the effective exercise of my role". Syria can still be saved from the worst calamity - if the international community can show the courage and leadership necessary to compromise on their partial interests for the sake of the Syrian people - for the men, women and children who have already suffered far too much."

For some time now we have been seeing terrible images of death and destruction between the supporters of Assad against his people, whilst the superpowers refuse to find a solution.
But what is the solution?
Edited by Mobson, Aug 2 2012, 08:55 PM.
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Mobson
Aug 2 2012, 05:23 PM
As President Putin on his first visit in seven years, enjoys our hospitality at the Olympics, Un-Arab League special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan has announced he is stepping down from that post at the end of this month. He says the increasing militarisation and lack of unity at the UN are hindering his task. "It is impossible for me or anyone to compel the Syrian government, and also the opposition, to take the steps to bring about the political process.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Mr Annan said the increasing militarisation of the Syrian conflict and the "clear lack of unity" in the Security Council had "fundamentally changed the circumstances for the effective exercise of my role". Syria can still be saved from the worst calamity - if the international community can show the courage and leadership necessary to compromise on their partial interests for the sake of the Syrian people - for the men, women and children who have already suffered far too much."

For some time now we have been seeing terrible images of death and destruction between the supporters of Assad against his people, whilst the superpowers refuse to find a solution.
But what is the solution?

As far as blaming Russia goes...it was the West's blatant twisting of the UN Libyan agreement into an illegal 'regime change' policy, their supply of heavy weapons and foreign troops to aid the 'rebels', etc. that is preventing their co-operation.

The 'terrible images' are happening from both sides.

Sadly, there isn't a 'clean solution'.
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madfor4
Aug 3 2012, 06:30 AM
The 'terrible images' are happening from both sides.

And in the meantime innocent people are being slaughtered.
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Mobson
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Russia definitely has an interest in keeping President Assad in power; apart from the fact that it supplies major weaponry that is obviously being used on his people, the alternative power, the opposition, who are an unknown quantity as far as Putin and the rest of the major powers are concerned, which makes for a continuing and worrying instability within this region.
Edited by Mobson, Aug 3 2012, 02:08 PM.
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Jordan have just confirmed that the Syrian Prime minister and his family have fled Syria after he had been dismissed from the Assad's government....
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madfor4

The UK initially supplied body armour and telecommunications equipment to help the rebels in Libya which was followed by 'advisors' and 'SAS'.

'Mission Creep' again?
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