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SYRIA'S
ASSAD, 'THE MAN WHO CAN DELIVER A MIDDLE EAST SOLUTION'
SYRIA'S envoy to the UNITED
NATIONS says it's time for the UNITED STATES and other WESTERN powers to accept
that President BASHAR AL-ASSAD is here to stay, and to abandon what he
suggested was a failed strategy of trying to split the MIDDLE EAST into
sectarian enclaves.
Speaking to Reuters on
the eve of the fourth anniversary of the SYRIAN war, ASSAD'S long-serving UN
ambassador BASHAR JA'AFARI said his president was ready to work with the UNITED
STATES and others to combat terrorism in the MIDDLE EAST.
More Background
Information on SYRIA :
ASSAD WINNING THE WAR
ASSAD FIRM IN THE
SADDLE (January 2013)
SYRIAN REGIME LIKELY
TO SURVIVE UPRAISE (June 2011)
THE SYRIAN EQUATION
ASSAD FIRMLY IN
CHARGE IN SYRIA (March 2012)
"We don't want any
vacuum in the country that would create chaos such as happened in LIBYA and IRAQ
and ... AFGHANISTAN," he said. "President ASSAD can deliver because
he is a strong president. He rules over a strong institution, which is the SYRIAN
army. He has resisted pressure for four years."
"He is the man who
can deliver any solution," he added.
WESTERN
STANCE ON SYRIA AND ASSAD ABOUT TO PIVOT?
BRITAIN and FRANCE have
rejected calls to restore ties with the ASSAD government. US officials say
there is no shift in their policy regarding ASSAD, even as their focus is
fighting ISLAMIC STATE, an AL QAEDA offshoot which is also an enemy of DAMASCUS.
"We have been open
for cooperation (with the US)," JA’AFARI said. "They don't want
it."
Some EUROPEAN UNION countries
that withdrew their ambassadors from SYRIA are saying privately it is time for
more communication with DAMASCUS, diplomats said in February.
Diplomats say the calls
have come from or would be supported by countries including SWEDEN, DENMARK,
ROMANIA, BULGARIA, AUSTRIA and SPAIN, as well as the CZECH REPUBLIC, which did
not withdraw its ambassador. NORWAY and SWITZERLAND, which are outside the EU,
are also supportive.
Such countries say that
the threat from ISLAMIC STATE has made ASSAD the lesser of two evils, seeing a
need to re-engage with DAMASCUS as a potential ally against the extremists,
according to the diplomats. US officials at the UNITED NATIONS did not have an
immediate comment on JA'AFARI'S latest statements.
Background
Information:
ISRAEL PREFERS THE
ASSAD REGIME TO CONTINUE, FOR IT IS A KNOWN ENTITY
Geopolitical Analysis
and Monitoring wrote in June 2012: ISRAEL’S INTERESTS
……..This is almost
certainly because the ISRAELI Prime Minister would, on balance, prefer the
Assad regime to continue; it is a known quantity and any new regime could
severely destabilize the effective balance-of-power between two uneasy
neighbors’………… read entire analysis at:
They noted recent
comments to the Security Council by WASHINGTON'S UN ambassador SAMANTHA POWER
rejecting the argument that countries should partner with DAMASCUS to more
effectively fight extremists.
The UNITED STATES and
other WESTERN powers have condemned ASSAD for widespread human rights
violations since the uprising against his government began in 2011.
But JA'AFARI insisted
that keeping ASSAD, who was re-elected last year in a poll his foes regard as
illegitimate, was the only path to peace and unity. JA'AFARI said that
"many EUROPEAN delegations" had visited DAMASCUS to ask for
strengthened anti-terrorism cooperation, without specifying which countries.
US CONCEPT OF TRAINING “MODERATE REBELS” IN SYRIA SEEMS SOMEWHAT LUDICROUS
"We are telling
everyone ... if you want this cooperation to be fruitful you need to get back
to SYRIA, to reopen your embassies."
Background
Information:
EX-CIA CHIEF: ASSAD
WIN MAY BE SYRIA'S BEST OPTION
Indicating that DAMASCUS wants
ASSAD restored to international political legitimacy in exchange for security
cooperation, JA'AFARI said that "the benefit of such cooperation should be
mutual ... not only unilateral."
He blasted US President BARACK
OBAMA'S strategy of training and arming what he described as "so-called
moderate" rebels, saying it had only served to deliver weapons into the
hands of ISLAMIC STATE. The training of rebels has proven difficult.
The HAZZM movement was
once central to a covert CIA operation to arm SYRIAN rebels, but the group's
collapse last week underlined the failure of efforts to unify ARAB and WESTERN
support for mainstream insurgents.
"This is not a SYRIAN
conflict," JA'AFARI said.
"It is an
international terror war waged against the SYRIAN government and the SYRIAN people,"
he added, referring to the tens of thousands of foreign fighters who have
joined ISLAMIC STATE and other jihadist group in the country.
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