Garcia: Brazil Worried Over Politicization of Human Rights as Excuse to Military Intervention in Syria
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Oct 08, 2011
BRASILIA, (SANA) – Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Brazil Marco Aurelio Garcia on Friday said that Brazil is worried over the politicization of the issue of human rights in Syria.
He announced that his country rejects using the issue of human rights as an excuse to justify a military intervention in Syria as it happened in Libya.
He stressed that Brazil will keep open channels with the Syrian government, indicating that Brazil is content with the Russian and Chinese veto over the draft law on Syria at the Security Council.
مسؤول روسي: لا حلول وسط بين موسكو وواشنطن وبروكسل في الشأن السوري .. وروسيا وحدها القادرة على الوساطة بين الأطراف
Russian official: No compromises between Moscow and Washington and Brussels in Syrian affairs .. And Russia alone are capable of mediating between the parties
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07.10.2011 22:53
The Chief of the Department of Foreign Relations of the Russian Federation Andrei Pakalnov that there is no compromise in the near future between the Europeans and the Americans on the one hand, and the Russians and Chinese on the other hand on the draft resolution in Syrian affairs, confirmed that Russia has the most likely to play a mediating role between the government and the opposition.
Calling Assad 'illegitimate' is the wrong way - Russia's deputy foreign minister
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Oct 8, 2011 12:25 Moscow Time
Referring to the Syrian President Bashar Assad as 'illegitimate' won't help in resolving the crisis in the country and will just put Syria on the brink of a civil war, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said addressing The Dialogue of Civilizationsforum in Rhodes, Greece.
'Promoting democracy is one thing, while toppling the regime is another', Mr. Bogdanov said. He added, however, that Russia is not opposing the UNSC resolution on Syria and is ready to continue the talks on the issue with the western partners.
The Russian diplomat also said that Russia plans two meeting with the Syrian delegation in Moscow this month.
Bogdanov stressed that Russia insists on a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Syria, through reforms demanded by the society. (TASS)
So-called revolutionary forces in Syria inspired by US - expert
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Kudashkina Ekaterina
Oct 8, 2011 10:17 Moscow Time
Interview with Vyacheslav Matuzov, President of the Russian Society for the Promotion of Friendship and Business Ties with Arab Countries.
I've been talking to various analysts. Some of them were telling me that Russia's and China's use of the veto power in the UN is a large mistake because the Arab street and the Arab community tend to see it as a support for Mr. Assad's regime. Do you agree with this stance?
When I heard words that were pronounced by the American representative in the UN and the Security Council, Suzanne Rice, I was surprised by non-diplomatic language the American representative in the UN used, when she characterized the position of other colleagues in the UN Security Council. She used accusations and blaming. They cannot use such words because it's an independent position of the Russian Federation, independent from the American policy, independent from the American point of view.
And when it was repeated by the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, on the same theme and Hillary Clinton even forgot she doesn't represent the opinion of the Syrian people, so she blamed the Russian Federation and China in the name of the Syrian people. I was astonished by such lack of diplomacy and political conscience in American diplomatic circles. It was not a diplomatic way to deal with other colleagues during the discussion of hard issues on the international level. I think that the US leadership feel themselves comfortable in the unilateral world. They consider that they give orders to other heads of state to get rid of their posts as the president of this or that state.
It is unacceptable from moral, political and from juridical point of view. It is unacceptable because the world opinion is not the American opinion. There are states that are against American policy towards Syria – India, China, the African continent, Brazil – so we can say that the western position, authorized by the Americans, is not acceptable for others. Dictate can be feared in Tunisia, in Libya but not in Russia. I think they make a big mistake using this language.
I see that Syria is a very complicate problem and Russia is not inclined to support opposition leaders not because they are against the Syrian leadership or the government but because any interference from outside into Syria's internal affairs is unacceptable from the legal point of view. It was absolutely clear from the words of Vitaly Churkin, Russia's representative in the UN – and I fully support his position, which was pronounced in his speech during the discussion.
Mr. Matuzov, how justified is the statement that this position of Russia and China undermined their positions in the Middle East?
I can say that it's undermining American geopolitical policy and I can say that this policy is to be regarded more thoroughly than the Syrian government's position. America proclaimed the necessity to reconstruct fully and completely the Middle East, to construct on the ruined states a new political-geographical map of a big and new Near East. We heard it from Condoleezza Rice in the days of George W. Bush. But neoconservative thinkers that was explained by Francis Fukuyama in his very well-known article about the neoconservative moment where he described the position of American neoconservative forces towards the Middle East and the US's international policy. I think those are the ideas that were plainly and very obviously explained in Democratic Realism, an article in The National Interest magazine.
I think it's absolutely unacceptable for any other political establishment in any country – in Russia, in China and even in developing countries of the third world. I think it's an egoistic, unilateral position that can be rejected on the level of the UN. I think it's the main point of contradictions between Russia and the US, which explains that neoconservative forces in the US are again facing the world after they lost presidential elections in the US, when Barack Obama was elected the president of the US and his speech in Cairo addressed the Islamic world.
Now, a new neoconservative wave in the American international policy is fixed on the so-called Arab revolutions, but they are known in the Arab world as coups d'état and maybe in the Islamic world too, because they have spread to such countries of the region as Iran and I don't exclude that even a member of the UN will in the end of this geopolitical operation of the US undergo the same restructuring of its territorial integrity.
As far as I understand you have been to Syria recently. What are your impressions?
There were 24 Russian political analysts, journalists and public figures that visited Syria on the invitation of the Syrian government. They gave us an opportunity to see some cities that were very widely known from world press – Hama, Homs, Latakia. We visited those cities and I can say that we didn't' notice any ruins in the streets. None of the houses were destroyed, only governmental centers were destroyed –the main police department and some others. All villas, all cottages were absolutely untouched.
So I can say that the so-called revolutionary forces in Syria are inspired by the position of the US and their declaration to support them, the demands to throw over the Syrian government. Among those forces we also see some terroristic organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood that were killing people. The latest case of their killing was (note: a son of) the great Mufti of Syria, who was killed by unknown people belonging to this organization.
I can say that hundreds of police officers and servicemen were killed by the so-called "peaceful demonstrators." It is not a peaceful demonstration and Russia understands that. When they called on the Syrian government to calm down and treat demonstrators in a peaceful way, the same thing was told to the opposition leaders, but the US rejected such kind of approach and demanded Russia to support their position and to throw over the legal Syrian government. It's unacceptable from any point of view – moral, legal and political.
Syria mulls joining Customs Union
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Mamonov Roman, Naowaf Ibrahim
Oct 8, 2011 19:18 Moscow Time
Interview with Assistant Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Fattah Ammoura
Moscow is kickstarting Days of Syrian Culture Monday. The opening closely follows a visit by Assistant Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Fattah Ammoura.
He was speaking in an exclusive interview with The Voice of Russia.
What were the agenda and the outcome of your Moscow talks?
The agenda was focused on plans for Syria to join the Customs Union that already embraces Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. I hope this third round of talks about the matter will prove conclusive, allowing Syria to enter the Union and enjoy the benefits of free trade within it. The Syrian side also praised Russia and China for vetoing the Western-tabled Security Council resolution on Syria. It sees this veto as a milestone marking the end of an era in which the West profligately sucked resources from the developing world.
What if any is Syrian action to counter the Western slander against Syria?
Syrian diplomats are knocking on all doors for friendship, understanding and support. They find these in Russia, China and countries in Asia and Latin America. These countries tell the world the truth about Syria. The Western networks do not, and often serve their paymasters by spreading lies about my country.
Is there any progress on plans to secure international help for upgrading the port facilities in Tartus?
The issue will be under discussion during a Moscow visit by my country's Finance Minister in the coming days. All aspects of the Tartus project will be looked into, including joint operation of the port.
Will there be reciprocal Russian visits to Syria at the same level?
A regular dialogue between the two countries is an absolute must, and it is already under way. Delegations have been shuttling back and fourth for many weeks. A deputy Russian FM, who visited Syria recently, proved a fluent speaker of Arabic. We were on the same length with him on all important international issues, as well as the chosen communication medium. We both saw the truth about Syria eye to eye.
U.S. urges Moscow to join ban on arms to Syria
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Oct 8, 2011 07:03 Moscow Time
The U.S. State Department urges Moscow to join the ban on arms shipments to Syria. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said Friday that Moscow should take more serious steps to exert pressure on official Damascus.
Previously, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the Syrian leadership must undertake sweeping reforms in country, and failing to do so – it will have to step down.
At the same time the Russian leader stressed that this decision is not up to NATO or separate European countries, but only the people and authorities of Syria. (IF)
الخارجية تستدعي القائم بالأعمال النمساوي وتبلغه احتجاج سورية الشديد على ما تعرضت له السفارة السورية في فيينا
Foreign Ministry Summons Austrian Chargé d'affaires, Relays Syria's Strong Objection to What Happened to Syrian Embassy in Vienna
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/10/08/374219.htm
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/10/08/374218.htm
Oct 08, 2011
DAMASCUS, (SANA) – Assistant Foreign and Expatriates Minister Ahmad Arnous on Saturday summoned the Austrian chargé d'affaires in Damascus and relayed to him Syria's strong objection to what happened to the Syria Embassy in Vienna on Friday night.
Arnous said that Syria condemns this criminal act and holds the Austrian authorities responsible for any shortcomings in protecting according to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
The Syrian Embassy in Vienna was attacked at a late time on Friday night by a number of people who broke down the main door, entered it and vandalized its contents.
Seven arrested in Syrian embassy protest in London
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2011.10.08
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LONDON — Police said Saturday they had arrested seven protesters outside the Syrian embassy in London, including three men who climbed onto the roof of the building and waved the Kurdish flag.
The trio were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage after mounting the roof of the entrance of the embassy, where they waved the red, white and green Kurdish flag with a sun emblem on it, according to television pictures.
They did not breach the security of the building, a police spokesman said.
Three other men and a woman were also held for criminal damage as about 50-60 people joined a protest outside the embassy, he added.
The demonstration coincided with a mass rally in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. About 50,000 people gathered for the funeral of Meshaal Tamo, a Kurdish opposition figure killed on Friday.
Syrian security forces killed at least two mourners and wounded several others when they fired on the crowd in the city of Qamishli, activists said.
A demonstration was also held at the Syrian embassy in Vienna, where 11 people were arrested for invading the building and protesting on the embassy balcony overnight, Austrian police said.
وزير الإعلام يبحث مع نظيره البوليفي إقامة شراكة إعلامية تتصدى للحرب الإعلامية التي تتعرض لها سورية
Information Minister, Bolivian Communications Minister Discuss Establishing Media Partnership
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http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/10/08/374207.htm
Oct 08, 2011
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