Assad Appeals to African Summit for Help to End Conflict
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Syrian President Bashar Assad has appealed to the leaders of a five-nation economic forum to intervene to stop the violence in Syria and encourage dialogue in his country's two-year conflict.
Assad said Syria is being subjected to "acts of terrorism backed by Arab, regional and Western nations" — a reference to the Western-backed opposition fighting his regime.
His appeal came in a letter sent to the BRICS forum of emerging market powers. The World Bank says these countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — are driving global economic growth.
Assad's letter was published by Syria's state media on Tuesday.
Syria's crisis began in March 2011 with protests demanding Assad's ouster. Following a harsh government crackdown, the uprising steadily grew more violent until it became a full-fledged civil war.
Assad said in his letter that “the Syrian people are looking forward to work with BRICS countries as moderate forces seeking to spread peace, security and cooperation between the states away from hegemony and dictates.”
His appeal came a day after Syria's opposition took over the country's seat for the first time at an Arab summit Tuesday.
The opposition's ascension to representing the country at the summit in Qatar, a key backer of the those fighting to topple Assad, demonstrated the extent of the regime's isolation two years into a ferocious civil war that the U.N. says has killed an estimated 70,000 people.
In Damascus, the government on Tuesday blasted the Arab League's decision, portraying it as a selling-out of Arab identity to please Israel and the United States.
"The shameful decisions it (Arab League) has taken against the Syrian people since the beginning of the crisis and until now have sustained our conviction that it has exchanged its Arab identity with a Zionist-American one," said an editorial in the Al-Thawra newspaper, a government mouthpiece.
27 March 2013, 12:11
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What a pathetic loser...I don't know why all dictators live in a Lala Land. I'm not sure if they are trying to fool the public or just themselves!
27 March 2013, 15:54
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and... what's your point? That makes Assad in a better position? The argument: "If someone else is stupid then its ok for me to be stupid" is not an argument...please stop using it!
27 March 2013, 16:55
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Lebneneh- I can't remember the last time I did not hear that response from a Lebanese.
"This guy is murdered 70,000 people and should be prosecuted- oh yeah! That guy oppresses more people so the first guy should be forgiven" It's ludicrous!
27 March 2013, 21:40
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FT that is pathetic attempt at plugging in Israel as a defense when they have nothing to do with this article. I never said as you claim so now you are resorting to lies. Please do provide a link to one of my comments that states the lie you just fabricated.
27 March 2013, 12:17
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Appealing to African dictatorships.... LOL
If I were desperate, I'd do it too.
27 March 2013, 13:59
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the irony is that all Arab countries that are judging syria are dictators...is their any freedom in ksa qatar kuwait bahrein etc..can anyone exercise their own free opinion?! we are all with democracy let it be for them all.
27 March 2013, 14:19
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no one knows more about spreading violence, hegemony and dictates all over the region, fostering training and exporting terrorists and protecting the zionist entity's borders than assad, it's an existential ideology philosophy put in place by his father and they will defend it to the death regardless or the rhetoric.
27 March 2013, 15:00
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my friend SANA
I guess you have a temprory amnesia, weren't 17 out of 19 terrorist who bombed 9/11 were from your beloved S. Arabia, or The Qataris who spend millions to kill fellow Arabs,
These dictators don't export terrorist ha
27 March 2013, 15:36
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my friend abe, cute name, first how did S Arabia become "my beloved" ya moron i am a lebanese christian and have suffered at the hands of arab sponsored terrorists of every nationality, ideology and persuasion, usually entering through syria (get a map), more than anyone else. secondly the 19 terrorists were not trained and deployed by the syrians but most of the rest were, and don't be so stupid as to bring up the dead argument of the u.s. trained ones they are a fraction of the whole. you see my friend terrorism did not start in 2001 and the 19 you refer to hated the arab dictators more that they hated the u.s. except maybe the qaddafis, saddams and assads of the region. now my friend abe go read a book something useful and enlightening like "where's waldo" it'll open your "mind" to a whole new universe, maybe then you can start pretending to be clever.
27 March 2013, 14:27
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next he will appeal to Mars...this is, after all, as he claims, a "universal conspiracy"...
27 March 2013, 15:13
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Next to appeal to is the world dental organization.
no such thing as being too desperate in his eyes...
27 March 2013, 15:22
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When a dictator appeals to another small dictator, it is true sign of how small these murderers really are... They want to intimidate their populations through mass killings, but in the end, they are clinging to a vanishing story. It is the end of their era, only they won't give in, until its too late.... What a pathetic killer, loser and dictator.... Bashar you will not be missed, may your body rot soon, like your brains....
27 March 2013, 16:19
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Sana Hilwa
thanks you for your complimants, but my friend It wasn't me who sold their soul to the Isrealis during the civil war, it wasn't me who massacred all those palastinians in sabra and shatila, it wasn't me who sold there soul to the Syrians and their allies in the Civil war.
When you have no backbone and sell your mother for a gouroush than you deserve anything you get from anybody.
Now go learn some geo politics of that region and we'll talk
27 March 2013, 21:02
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That's why Lebanon is what is today because sheeps like you and her are so naive and stupid
27 March 2013, 17:10
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"go learn some geo politics of that region.." WAHAHAGHAHA I'm sorry my friend abe but I overestimated yer mental capacity and I apologize. "where's waldo" is beyond your understanding, I wouldn't want you to spend the next two month looking for waldo then throwing away the book in frustration, a coloring pad would be more your speed and a box of crayons just five colors to start with so you don't get overwhelmed. but seriously the reality is unlike assad's father we didn't sell anything to the israelis we bought weapons from them to defend our country and families kinda what khomeini did in the 80s. massacres were mutual, an ugly part of lebanon's history but no one massacred more palestinians and lebanese than the syrian regime. third strike, assad's interference in 1973 ultimately led to 1975 and the syrians were behind the palestinian factions and their allies even participated along side them then offered a deal to frangieh and the lebanese front under a fake peace keeping banner
27 March 2013, 18:48
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Assad will soon appeal to the falkland islands to help stop the foreign interference in syria. Amazing how the tables turn. His family interfered in lebanon for decades. now it is pay back time. All islamist thugs in the region are in syria.
27 March 2013, 19:39
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Isn't it amazing how they all want to cry and play like they are the biggest victims when the shoe is on the other foot? I wonder if he ever stops and thinks about what he has done and how everything that is happening now is directly attributed to his actions since he assumed power. To be “democratically” voted in with a 99% majority after his father’s death. To continue to kill and murder people the same way his father did. To continue to oppress people.to meddle in other countries' affairs and impose his will on them. Yeah, he is a victim indeed.
27 March 2013, 21:08
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how come bashar need brics? he always claimed that his army had all in control as did M8 sheep.... or is he in a bad position?
