Syria Deputy PM Says Regime to Call for Ceasefire at Geneva Talks
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Syrian government believes the civil war ravaging the country has reached a stalemate and would call for a ceasefire if long-stalled peace talks in Geneva were to take place, the deputy prime minister told Britain's Guardian on Thursday.
"Neither the armed opposition nor the regime is capable of defeating the other side," Qadri Jamil told the newspaper.
When asked what his government would propose at the stalled Geneva-2 summit, he replied: "An end to external intervention, a ceasefire and the launching of a peaceful political process in a way that the Syrian people can enjoy self-determination without outside intervention and in a democratic way."
Jamil stressed that his comments represented the government's position.
The United States and Russia have been trying to bring together members of President Bashar Assad's government and rebel representatives for a Geneva conference following the failure of a first round of talks in June.
The rebels boycotted the initial summit and are refusing to attend Geneva-2 unless Assad resigns.
Jamil insisted that Assad was not about to quit, saying: "Let nobody have any fear that the regime in its present form will continue."
He called on the international community to "get off our shoulders" and allow the government to implement "progressive reforms."
The deputy prime minister also revealed that the war had so far cost the Syrian economy around $100 billion (74 billion euros).
Jamil, who is a member of a small secular party, was recruited to the government last year in order to break the Ba'ath party monopoly.
20 September 2013, 00:04
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What defines a terrorist?Just because you bomb innocent people with sophisticated machinery and high tech airplanes instead of an IED,that doesn't make you a less of a terrorist. Lets not kid ourselves, no one can claim that he is on a higher pedestal.
20 September 2013, 00:18
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So based on your definition, can we agree that both parties in this dirty war more or less fit the bill?
20 September 2013, 00:54
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Who mentioned HA?I was referring to the Syrian intelligence who I can assure you have done the most grotesque acts for decades in Syria and Lebanon, those acts are as bad as the heart eating act that you seem to always refer to. And HA isn't an innocent puppy, what they did in may 7 is unforgivable, lets not kid ourselves.
20 September 2013, 01:06
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Oh they just killed 50 or so Lebanese and terrorised a whole nation, nothing happened at all. The problem with you people ks that you will make any excuse to defend your beloved party, be it 14 or 8. And don't be naive and believe for a second that HA won the war. Half the country was destroyed and thousands dead.
And again back to my original point of the Syrian intelligence, they are not a shred better then the terrorist you mention and they have been terrorising Syrians and Lebanese for decades but I guess that's ok since you will make any excuse to defend your group after all what happened in may 7? Nothing right?!!
20 September 2013, 01:28
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The Syrian government is the first one to fire bullets. When Syrians, emboldened by the famous "Arab Spring" found the courage to demand change and the end of 50 years of dictatorship and demanded the resignation of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian Army was deployed to quell the uprising, and soldiers fired on demonstrators across the country. These are historical FACTS! Had Bashar acted democratically and opened a dialogue with the people representatives, the result would be different.
Today, Bashar and Co. are reaping bitter fruits that their own seeding. When the protests became an armed rebellion in response to letting the military loose on people, a bunch of rotten apples mingled with the healthy ones.
Tough luck. Wala ceasefire, wala ballout. It will take a couple of centuries for Syria to become what it could have been.
20 September 2013, 02:16
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No, indeed. A free democratic Syria, like a free democratic Lebanon are today inconceivable. As long as people join political parties instead of rallying under one flag, there will be no nation.
"Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful."
"Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening."
"Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking."
"Pity the nation divided into into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation"
20 September 2013, 02:17
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Are the Russian project, the Iranian project, the Zanzibar project any better? We're still, as we've always been, puppets of different masters.
20 September 2013, 02:40
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"When asked what his government would propose at the stalled Geneva-2 summit, he replied: "An end to external intervention, a ceasefire and the launching of a peaceful political process in a way that the Syrian people can enjoy self-determination without outside intervention and in a democratic way."
ROTFLMAO!!! Bwaaahahahaha!
"External intervention" = anyone against the Assad status quo.
"Peaceful political process" = 99.99% voting Assad out of fear, like during the past 50 years and like Saddam's Iraq.
"In a democratic way" = my way or the highway.
Had you spoken to the people who wanted change, you wouldn't be in this mess, fool. Now instead of a messy democratic process, you have a bloody process period.
20 September 2013, 03:19
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Well, the alternative to Syria Baath is the culture of Jihad Nukah of Saudi-inspired Tunisian-practice among Tunisian girls in Syria: This is what the Tunisian Interior minister said:وذكر الوزير، خلال جلسة مساءلة أمام المجلس التأسيسي (البرلمان) نقلها التلفزيون الرسمي مباشرة، أنه "يتداول عليهن (جنسيا) عشرون وثلاثون ومئة (مقاتل)، ويرجعن إلينا يحملن ثمرة الاتصالات الجنسية باسم جهاد النكاح، ونحن ساكتون ومكتوفو الأيدي"
20 September 2013, 15:19
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putin1, lol, I read that as well. Women 'performing their jihadi duties' of satisfying the jihadis all came back pregnant without the slightest clue as to who the father is. That doesn't matter much though I suppose since their fate is all but certain.
I also remember the fatwa supporting sodomy/homosexuality in the case of jihad since it clerics believed jihad is 'the pinnacle of Islam' and everything that is in support of it is allowed. Kinda pathetic if you ask me.
20 September 2013, 07:53
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Oh how the times have changed. The govt said they would not stop fighting until the terrorist are defeated. They must have gotten a sniff of the weapons about to come in to the rebels.
20 September 2013, 09:46
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Putin1: There are millions of Syria, don't tell me that the choice these people have are either the sick sadistic Baath regime or the crazies of Al qaida. I am sure the majority of the Syrians are moderates who are capable of forming and want a normal government
20 September 2013, 11:47
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stalemate? don't they boast to be the strongest? even with hezbis they cannot crush a revolt? LOL.....
