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سورية تدعو لعقد قمة عربية طارئة مخصصة لمعالجة الأزمة السورية والنظر في تداعياتها السلبية على الوضع العربي
Syria Calls for an Emergency Arab Summit to Tackle the Syrian Crisis and Consider its Negative Repercussions on the Arab Situation
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/11/13/381267.htm
Nov 13, 2011
DAMASCUS, (SANA)-An official source in the name of the Syrian Arab Republic on Sunday said taking into consideration that the repercussions of the Syrian crisis could affect the national security and cause grave damage to the joint Arab action, the Syrian leadership proposed an urgent call for holding an emergency Arab summit to tackle the Syrian crisis and look into its negative repercussions on the Arab situation.
The leadership also suggested that the Arab League (AL) Ministerial Committee is welcomed to come to Syria before November 16, accompanied by whoever it finds suitable of civilian and military observers and experts from the Committee's member countries and of Arab media with the aim of directly inspecting what is taking place on the ground and supervising the implementation of the Arab Initiative in cooperation with the Syrian government and the authorities concerned.
The AL General Secretariat, foremost the Secretary General, is called upon to make quick move to put these propositions into effect.
The official source said these suggestions came with disregard to engaging in a futile debate about the reliability and legality of the AL Ministerial Council's decision issued on November 12 and how much the decision complies with the objectives and principles of the Arab League Charter which Syria was one of the countries that composed it and on which the League was founded.
The source added that Syria, after its approval on November 2 on the Arab work plan agreed on with the Syrian government, still considers it an appropriate frame to resolve the Syrian crisis away from any foreign interference despite all of the shortcomings and gaps it had and despite its lack of the tangible mechanisms that need to be agreed upon between the Syrian government and the Arab Committee to implement the work plan.
Lebanese President Sulaiman warns against Syria isolation
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November 13, 2011 01:12 PM (Last updated: November 13, 2011 06:42 PM)
BEIRUT: President Michel Sulaiman warned Sunday that isolating Syria could lead to foreign intervention and urged President Bashar Assad to implement the Arab League initiative to end the crisis after the organization voted Saturday to suspend Syria’s membership.
“Isolation carries dangers and it is possible it could lead to foreign intervention, but in return, the Syrian government should implement all reforms,” Sulaiman told reporters during an official visit to the northern coastal city of Tripoli.
“In terms of isolating Syria, Lebanon is against it because the people [are the] ones who pay for it and [isolation] severs means for dialogue and no Syrian citizen should feel that they are not Arab,” Sulaiman added.
The Arab League voted Saturday to suspend Syria’s membership at the organization. The suspension, which will take effect on Nov. 16, was approved by 18 member states. Syria, Lebanon and Yemen voted against the motion while Iraq abstained.
As well as imposing economic sanctions, the Arab League said the suspension would remain in force until Damascus abided in full with the initiative it signed up to on Nov. 2.
The Arab League deal called on Damascus to withdraw the Syrian Army from the streets; free political prisoners, grant reporters access to the country and launch dialogue with the opposition.
Speaking to a local television station earlier Sunday, Sulaiman urged his Syrian counterpart to implement the Arab initiative in order to end the crisis in Syria, where the U.N. says over 3,500 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in a crackdown by Damascus since Mid-March.
“[I] urge Syrian President Bashar Assad to implement the provisions of the Arab League initiative,” Sulaiman told MTV television station.
Commenting on Lebanon’s decision to vote against the Arab League decision, Sulaiman said Lebanon had supported Arab League decision “in principle” but that it opposed isolating the Arab country.
“We did not stand in opposition to the Arab League’s resolution but we are against isolating a country in absolute terms,” Sulaiman said.
Responding to questions by reporters later in the day in Tripoli, Sulaiman said Lebanon supported democracy, “be it in Syria or other [countries] but it is not favorable to achieve political objectives via violent means to implement the Arab League initiative,” he said.
Sulaiman also reiterated his call on the Syrian government to swiftly implement the needed reforms and launch dialogue with the opposition.
Foreign Affairs Minister Adnan Mansour’s vote against the Arab league plan, which also urged member states to withdraw their ambassadors to Syria, sent shockwaves throughout the country, prompting harsh criticism by March 14 coalition lawmakers, many of whom described the move as opposing “Arab consensus.”
Shortly after the Arab League announcement Saturday, Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri described Lebanon’s stance as “shameful.”
“It is shameful. I hope the Syrian people know that this government doesn’t represent the Lebanese will,” Hariri said during a live Q&A session on the popular micro-blogging site Twitter.
ميقاتي: لبنان متمسك بالحلول التي تحفظ وحدة الدول العربية وشعوبها
Mikati: Lebanon adheres to the solutions that preserve the unity of the Arab countries and their peoples
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/13/381294.htm
November 13, 2011
Beirut, (SANA) -
Lebanese FM: Lebanon Rejects AL Decision, Prepared in Advance, Contains Dangerous Articles
http://sana.sy/eng/22/2011/11/13/381182.htm
Nov 13, 2011
BEIRUT, (SANA) - Lebanese Foreign and Expatriates Minister Adnan Mansour underlined during an Arab League (AL) session on Syria held on Saturday Lebanon's rejection of the decision to suspend Syria's membership in the AL.
Mansour warned in his interposition that this step would further complicate things and will not lead to security and stability in the region.
He cautioned that the second and third items of the draft decision included a dangerous precedent which has serious repercussions on the international level and the economic and political levels and they undermine the bases of the joint Arab action and peace in the region, as they also put the credibility of the AL into question.
In this framework, Mansour pointed out that the AL "is called upon help Syria get out of the crisis and maintain its unity, sovereignty and security as well as the security and stability of the region, but not to drag it to those who are lurking for it."
He warned of the repercussions of allowing more agitation on everyone and of not taking a firm stance against what is being hatched against Syria from inside and outside including the tendentious instigation and media campaigns that exceeded all limits.
He pointed out that there was an intention by some sides to suspend Syria's membership in the AL since its first meeting on Syria.
The Lebanese Minister underlined that the security and stability of the region is linked to the stability and security of Syria, warning of the development of the situation in a way that does not cope with the interests of the region, the AL or the Arab nation.
In statements to the Lebanese al-Manar TV Channel after the AL Council's meeting, Mansour highlighted that the decision was not surprising, having been prepared in advance and coinciding with the report of the AL General Secretariat.
He clarified that the decision was directly taken without the General Secretariat report being reviewed or discussed, underlining that more interpositions on the decision were not allowed during the meeting.
He continued to say that Lebanon and Yemen rejected the decision as the Iraqi representative abstained, yet the decision was taken immediately and the session was closed.
Mansour pointed out that Lebanon rejected the decision after reviewing its provisions "containing dangerous articles that allow foreign interference in Syria's internal affairs," considering that the item related to AL Secretary General's contacting the relevant international organizations, including the UN, means opening the way for Arab files to take its route to the UN and then towards foreign interference in the Syrian and Arab affairs.
حركة أمل: سورية تواجه مؤامرة أمريكية غربية خبيثة
Amal: Syria is facing a U.S. plot Western malicious
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/13/381098.htm
November 13, 2011
Beirut, (SANA) -
Amal stressed that Syria faces a U.S. plot aimed at Western vicious strife within.
The member of the Presidency of the Movement, Khalil Hamdan, in a speech yesterday that the plot comes as Syria is the spearhead of the opposition in the face of the Zionist enemy and it is the basis to support the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon.
With regard to the Lebanese situation, Hamdan said that the dialogue is the way the real start in the treatment of crises inside Lebanon in the face of the challenges surrounding the region and aimed at unity, especially that the plan Alaalh to occupy the region and disbursed to confront the Zionist enemy are the same that would re-shuffle the cards reviewed in the order of priorities.
The Hamdan We see through this plan to target Iran through its threat to American and Zionist under the umbrella of the report of the International Energy Agency, as we see once again inciting resistance in Lebanon through some Lebanese political forces, but a popular choice and the official is the option of the army and the people and the resistance.
(Pro-Syria) Lebanese Figures Denounce Arab League's Decisions against Syria (Hizb al-Tawhid, Hizballah, Talal Arslan)
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/11/13/381345.htm
Nov 13, 2011
Nasrallah: US Pressures on Syria to Accept What it Hadn't Accepted Before
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/11/12/381029.htm
Nov 12, 2011
BERUT, SANA_ Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that America wants to subdue Iran and Syria, trying to drag Iran into direct negotiations with it and Syria to accept what it hadn't accepted in the past and this is the real aim.
In a televised speech on Friday marking the Martyr's Day, Nasrallah warned that any war against Iran and Syria will negatively affect the entire region, saying" This is not a threat but real calculations."
Nasrallah indicated that some Lebanese sides have bet on the regional developments with hopes and illusions of a near fall of Syria's regime.
He told those sides "Leave aside this bet because it will be lost as your previous wagers… Don't waste your time because the regional situation is currently at the interest of the region's people and the resistance is now at its best,"
Sayyed Nasrallah considered the US withdrawal from Iraq as a huge defeat of the US project in the region, adding that the defeated U.S. is trying to withdraw from Iraq under a political and media covering fire.
He stressed that the US is trying to punish Syria and Iran for rejecting the occupation of Iraq and foiling the US project in the region.
Nasrallah underlined the importance of adhering to the option of resistance, the popular will and the army for being the real factors of power for Lebanon in the face of any possible Israeli aggression.
14 آذار تحول طرابلس وعكار إلى «شمالستان»
Lebanon's March 14 turned Tripoli and Akkar to «Shamaalstan» (northern statelet)
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02/11/2011
Recurity information and information revealed about the involvement of Lebanese parties in the plan of sabotage against Syria from the city of Tripoli and the Akkar region, where the leaders of the Future Movement and the Islamic Group and some extremist groups, the Palestinian cooperation logistics with the Lebanese Forces movement intensive to turn the north Lebanese stronghold of the Chambers of processes responsible for the smuggling of weapons and militants to Syria.
The plan was developed to provide money, support and cover to turn the north to the platform supporting the Lebanese gangs sabotage in Syria, in the moves being organized periodically. The aim to create an environment conducive to declare an Islamic emirate north or to call Shamaalstan long relationship.
Sources indicate that the facts relating to the smuggling of weapons are many and large, what is happening not just smuggling and infiltration by smugglers and arms dealers, the profit motive, but is a business organizer-led March 14 at the behest of direct Arab and international forces hostile to Syria.
Has delivered security services arrested were involved in smuggling to Syria under the guise of arms dealers most recently announced by an official source at the Directorate General of Public Security for his arrest on charges of smuggling weapons Reserve between Lebanon and Syria is the Syrian writer Ammar Omar.
And narrated the source story getaway writer «which is active in the group collect funds from expatriate Syrians in one of the Gulf States on the method of collecting donations, and then come to Lebanon where they buy small arms with ammunition of all kinds from the black market and take them to the border area overlapping in the occupied Syrian-Lebanese , in the Bekaa, and handing them over to smugglers working to transfer directly into areas where events Syrian security at home ».
He added: «turn off after the General Security Ammar writer accused red-handed on the signal the military prosecution office, and Okhaddah for investigation and admitted the charges against him, said the military judiciary to prosecute other members of the group that violates the Lebanese law and tamper security of the homeland».
And information security sources revealed that the follow-up to the men of arms smuggling to the rail inside the Syrian embrace and enjoy the auspices of the Future Movement and the Lebanese Forces, has been providing protection to persons involved in these processes belong to the March 14 forces.
Future Movement is responsible for organizing some of the movements and events in conjunction with the Islamic Group and a number of extremist groups in the north. The information operations rooms belonging to the Syrian oppositions exist in the heart of media institutions and Hariri Forces. The Syrian opposition spokesmen romp freely in Lebanon and give statements and talk through the media by their respective political and partisan.
On the other hand adopt owned media of the future and the forces and the Islamic Group incendiary not been to a professional nothing about the Syrian situation, turning the air to a space open to groups of speakers for March 14 specialists incitement directed to the Syrian people, including some elders extremists who claim to fighting and strife on the basis of sectarian and doctrinal to the semi-permanent guests through these means.
March 14 leaders aspire to provide a safe haven for terrorists fleeing and convert some of the sites adjacent to the Syrian border to the spots from which the attacks and the military. This is a serious threat to Lebanon's security, therefore, warned some of the information and reports from the militias of the future and its partners from the extremists convert it again to civil conflict armed in the heart of the north Lebanese teeming with militants who belong to groups of several Lebanese involved in the Syrian groups to gangs of terrorists, Syrians, who fled to the bosom of the March 14 forces and formed nests of organizing sabotage operations inside Syria.
Some fear that turns north to the base of extremist fugitives gathered the remnants of Syria was bouncing them on the inside Lebanese in Syria after failing to do Amarthm in Lebanon, taking advantage of the precarious security situation and the worsening political contradictions.
14 آذار تتلقى صفعة جديدة من القمة الروحية وبيان المطارنة الموارنة
March 14 get a slap of a new spiritual summit and the statement of the Maronite Bishops
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29/09/2011
Turned the attention of the Lebanese from New York, where he concluded the Prime Minister Najib Mikati, a visit to it after chairing the meeting of the UN Security Council and a round of talks with the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon and foreign ministers from several Arab and foreign countries, to Beirut, to regain the momentum of activity gradually and centered on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and dialogue and appointments, add oil to a file, which again raised Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called on him to walk towards implementation and delivery not claim that this region is disputed.
At the time remained the echoes of rounds of the Maronite Patriarch Bisharah Butrus al-Ra'i to areas and positions of the spiritual summit in Dar Al-Fatwa present on the stage of political consultations, the Council of Maronite Bishops call following the monthly meeting, set the position of the words of Patriarch al-Ra'i thus precluding the interpretations and controversies, emphasized that al-Ra'i visit to France, served as an occasion to exchange views with senior officials and witness of the truth, courage and boldness to ask the international community to ensure the implementation of Security Council resolutions.
As pointed out pursuit for a summit spiritual in the Middle East, explained that the Patriarchate has become a key partner in the formation of the Lebanese homeland is what has been working to establish this historical role and seeks to activate faithful to its history, carrier, are the home and all his sons but they are the region Eastern, which is linked to the fate of Lebanon their own destiny.
So looking forward to political circles courses expected to be issued for Cabinet meeting next Wednesday under the chairmanship of President Michel Suleiman at the Baabda Palace, in the light of information indicating the possibility of the issuance of a new batch of appointments.
In this atmosphere, the sources observed well-informed political direction of the Lebanese political situation towards the preponderance of the front median line in the light of, inter data began Taatzar features visible through the movement of a new positioning of the parties to strengthen the middle position of government.
In this context, revealed sources from the meetings convened by the President of the National Struggle Front MP Walid Jumblatt, with a number of staff and representatives of the March 14 forces, most recently at the home of one of the characters, during which confirm the importance of strengthening the state average to form a touchstone in the critical phase with the region.
The sources said that Jumblatt's allies demand there yesterday with 14 March in most positions. Thus Jumblatt lurching between 8 and 14 March and the middle according to the balance of power and the winds of the region. With the knowledge that the opposition silk has recently received several setbacks due to the positions of the Mufti and the Patriarch and the private spiritual summit statement and the statement of the Patriarchs, which adopted the positions of al-Ra'i.
Rai blasts local daily over book claims, says all lies
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Nov-13/153915-rai-blasts-local-daily-over-book-claims-says-all-lies.ashx
November 13, 2011 03:23 PM
By Thomas El Basha
BEIRUT: Maronite Patriarch Rai voiced outrage and blasted Ad-Diyar newspaper over the weekend after it published excerpts from a book claiming he had been blackmailed by Syria with a series of “illicit recordings” while still a bishop under his predecessor Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir.
The local newspaper, which said it had published the controversial excerpts Saturday in order to warn the prelate, threatened Sunday to release the recordings mentioned in Antoine Basbous’ book should Rai continue “offending” the newspaper.
“These are lies and aim to mislead the public,” Rai said Saturday, referring to the Ad-Diyar article quoting the excerpts from the book by Basbous, who the paper said had been a former member of the Lebanese Forces but now a close advisor to Paris.
In the book excerpts, Basbous tries to address what he sees as a shift in the Maronite Church’s policies following the election of Rai to the top post of the influential establishment earlier this year.
Basbous alleges that the late Ghazhi Kanaan, who was a leading Syrian security official in Lebanon during the Syrian presence in the country, had sought allies at the Maronite Church to oppose then Patriarch Sfeir for his firm stances against Damascus and had found a willing ally in Rai.
The book claims Rai had greeted Kanaan on several occasions at the archbishopric in Amshit near Jbeil, where on one occasion eavesdropping devices had been planted.
Basbous goes on to claim that Rai had met Kanaan following a summons to Anjar and that during the meeting the Syrian official blackmailed the bishop with “illicit recordings” from the archbishopric in Jbeil. Rai was so distraught by the episode that he did not leave his abode for three days, Basbous said, suggesting that the contents of the recordings were undoubtedly very damaging to the bishop.
In response to the article, Rai denied Saturday having met Kanaan in Anjar, reiterating that “such talk is all lies.”
The religious leader acknowledged that Kanaan had visited him at the offices of the archbishopric in Jbeil, “but the next day I notified Patriarch Sfeir and the bishops. I also informed the three heads [president, Parliament speaker and prime minister] at that time about the details of the meeting. The story ended there.”
In the strongly worded rebuke to Ad-Diyar, Rai asked: “How can a newspaper allow itself to issue such an [article]? Has it no dignity?”
“How can we read this paper after today?” Rai, who had met with Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun, asked.
“My lord I was shocked. I will not respond anymore to them and I will not read them [either],” Rai added.
On Sunday Ad-Diyar said it was willing to send Rai the recordings mentioned in the excerpts of the book it published over the weekend but warned it would be forced to release the recording should he continued to “offend” the paper.
"We say to the patriarch that we will not release the contents of the recordings no matter what. Instead we will send it to him in a sealed envelope. But if he decides to continue offending Ad-Diyar, then, for the sake of our credibility and as Christians testifying on rightful matters, we would be forced to release the tape,” the paper said in its editorial opening Sunday.
"Once more, we advise you to prosecute the French publication house and the author before the book reaches the Lebanese market,” it added.
シリアで弾圧 アラブ連盟再協議 (The Arab League convenes again as Syria suppresses oppositions)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20111112/t10013913981000.html
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11月12日 8時36分
シリアでは、アサド政権による激しい弾圧が続いており、アラブ諸国で作る「アラブ連盟」は、１２日にも再び緊急の会合を開いて対応を協議することになりました。
シリアでは、アサド政権が、今月初め、中東・アフリカのアラブ諸国で作る「アラブ連盟」の調停を受け入れ、反政府デモへの暴力の停止を約束したにもかかわらず、弾圧はその後も激しさを増しています。人権団体によりますと、シリアでは、アラブ連盟が、先月、調停に乗り出したあと、政権側の弾圧によっておよそ７００人が死亡し、この２日間も幼い子供を含む５０人以上が死亡したということです。シリアの国民の間では、国際社会の保護を求める声が、再び高まっており、調停役を担うアラブ連盟は、１２日にも緊急の会合を開いて再び対応を協議することになりました。会合を前にシリア内外の反体制派はアラブ連盟に対して、市民の保護と、シリアへの監視団の派遣、それにアサド政権をアラブ連盟の資格停止処分にすることなどを求めており、アラブ連盟がどのような打開策を打ち出すのか注目されます。
アラブ連盟 シリアに制裁措置 (The Arab League sanctions Syria)
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11月13日 4時0分
反政府デモへの激しい弾圧を続けるシリアのアサド政権に対し、アラブ諸国でつくる「アラブ連盟」は、弾圧をやめるまで、連盟への参加資格を停止するなどとした制裁措置を決め、アサド政権に対する圧力をさらに強化しました。
アラブ連盟は、１２日、緊急の外相会議を開き、シリアへの対応を協議しました。シリアのアサド政権は今月初め、アラブ連盟との間で軍を撤退させることなどで合意したにもかかわらず、その後も弾圧をやめず、死者は３５００人以上に上るとみられています。こうした事態を受け、アラブ連盟は１２日の協議で、合意の実施期限となっている１６日以降、シリアに制裁措置を課すことを賛成多数で決めました。制裁措置には、連盟の活動に参加する資格を停止することや、シリアに駐在するアラブ諸国の大使の召還を促すこと、さらに経済的な制裁を課すことなどが含まれています。これに対し、協議に参加したシリアの代表は「きょうの決定を拒否し、シリアはアサド大統領のもとより強くなる」などと強く反発しています。欧米の各国に続いてアラブ諸国も、アサド政権への圧力を強化したことで、シリアは国際社会でさらに孤立を深めることになりますが、今回の制裁措置によって弾圧が収まるのか、見通しは立っていません。
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