مسؤول سوري : دمشق تتعهد التعاون و نجاح المبادرة مسؤولية الجامعة العربية
Syrian official: Damascus undertake to cooperate and the success of the initiative is the responsibility of the Arab League
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=c870ebf338b0304c20b02abd402ef156&ar=736372528
Saturday - November 5 - 2011 - 1:31:45
A senior Syrian source said "The success of the agreement between the Arab League initiative and Damascus is the responsibility of Damascus and the League which have pledged to cooperate."
And the Lebanese newspaper (al-Akhbar) source said, "The Syrian government has given orders to the army to withdraw from the cities gradually, and entrusted with the security forces to maintain order and the police."
And about the question raised by the newspaper concerning the commitment of armed groups, the initiative he said the source, "we put it on the Arab Committee, and we asked: (if) we in the government decide on the army and bring them back to the barracks, are cessation of armed groups for the attack on security forces and the private and public property and citizens guaranteed?".
And the source added that "the members of the Committee did not provide any guarantee, and so this becomes a question in the custody of the Arab League which is responsible for the agreement and its success, but that did not stop us from the responsiveness and cooperation with members of the Committee of his good will and brotherhood."
But as for hot spots in Homs and Hama, Idlib, the source said: "The Syrian officials assert that" the situation is too bad, terrorist groups committed massacres, and the common atmosphere of terror, and we put this in front of the Arab League, and we attribute responsibility to those who stand behind those who commit crimes. "
And the subject of the release of detainees, according to the Arab initiative said official sources told the same newspaper, "The government will release successively all those who have not committed crimes, they will not hesitate to release all of proving his innocence, saying that what is transmitted in the satellite TV for arbitrary arrests is an exaggeration. "
And on the most important item in the Arab initiative on inclusive dialogue between the government and the opposition, the Syrian source told the newspaper itself by saying "We are with the dialogue, what was announced by the president and let him personally with many components of the Syrian people. Thus the dialogue was sponsored by the Vice President. Today, we have agreed with the Arab initiative, we emphasized our commitment to dialogue, but what we only need to appoint a negotiating team and the Arab League to take the rest (will form a group of oppositions). "
And the announcement of the National Council (SNC) rejected the Arab initiative and engage in dialogue with the Authority, the Syrian source said that "the issue here is a matter of the Arab Committee."
In response to a question of the newspaper, the Syrian authority's willingness to engage in a dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood, said the official "concerning the participation of what is called the Syrian National Council, they refuse dialogue and rejected the deal and initiative. They also remain in the memory of the Syrian people that the Muslim Brotherhood has a long history of terrorism, and today commit massacres in Homs that claimed the lives of dozens of victims of the security forces, and the people witnessed their murders. They also incite sectarian (tensions). They practice killings on the identity. Is it real in this matter that they behave as if they are interlocutors on behalf of the Syrian people without changing their terrorist behavior? And he added: "In any case, the problem will be those with the Arab League, and will not be their problem with the authority alone, especially if they were part of a delegation of the National Council. "
The daily says that "the concerned Arab committee began to communicate with a number of Arab capitals for the nomination of personalities who is to form a delegation of at least forty persons. The AL committe will visit Syria after the Eid holiday. The Syrian authorities have prepared a working program for this Committee which includes the mainly visit to the burning neighborhoods in Homs city, in addition to other areas of Syria. "
بمناسبة عيد الأضحى المبارك.. إخلاء سبيل 553 من الموقوفين الذين تورطوا بالأحداث ولم تتلطخ أيديهم بالدماء
On the occasion of Eid Al-Adha .. The release of 553 of those arrested who were involved with events on their hands with blood
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/11/05/380098.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/11/05/380103.htm
November 5, 2011
Damascus, (SANA) -
DAMASCUS, (SANA)_Marking Eid al-Adha, 553 detainees who were involved in the current events with no blood on their hands were released.
Also, 119 detainees were released lately.
Syria pledges to withdraw troops from the streets by Sunday under terms of Arab League peace deal
Syria has pledged to withdraw forces from its streets by Sunday under an Arab League-brokered "peace deal", despite opposition activists proclaiming that the regime's continued violence meant the accord was "already dead."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/8871110/Syria-pledges-to-withdraw-troops-from-the-streets-by-Sunday-under-terms-of-Arab-League-peace-deal.html
By Andrew Gilligan, Damascus
10:43PM GMT 04 Nov 2011
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Abdulfattah Ammura, the deputy foreign minister, insisted: "Syria means what it says and we will implement the Arab League agreement, every aspect of it. If we agree to something, we do it."
Pressed on when Syria would fulfil the deal, he said: "We are working on it. We will see it very shortly, hopefully before Eid [Sunday]."
The accord, agreed by Syria on Wednesday, commits the regime to pulling out tanks and other military vehicles, releasing political prisoners and allowing free access to international observers and journalists.
Even as Mr Ammura spoke, however, opposition activists said that regime forces killed at least 23 people on Friday in fresh violence across the country. About 40 civilians have now died since the deal was agreed. Activists in the front-line city of Homs, contacted by The Daily Telegraph, said the regime had intensified its assault on the city since signing the agreement.
"In the last three days there has been a major escalation in the level of violence in Homs," said one protest leader. "The Arab League initiative was born dead. It was never alive or meant to be alive. No opposition figures were involved in it."
Louay Safi, of the opposition Syrian National Council, demanded that the Arab League declare the regime "in violation of its commitments" and called for Syria's expulsion from the league if it did not stop the violence.
Activists said troops in Homs raked residential buildings with machinegun fire on Friday, killing six. There were mass demonstrations in the city, with protests also reported in the southern province of Daraa and in the eastern cities of Deir el-Zour and Qamishli. Contrary to the regime's promise to allow independent reporting, The Daily Telegraph has been prevented from travelling to Homs.
In the coastal town of Banias, security forces beat worshippers as they came out of the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq mosque, opposition activists said. Then they blockaded dozens more inside the building so that they could not join the march.
In another flashpoint city, Hama, four civilians were shot, according to the London-based Syrian Human Rights Observatory. Four people were killed in the town of Kanaker, outside the capital, and a protester was shot dead by security forces in Damascus.
Two more people were killed, one of them an army deserter, when troops opened fire on a group of people trying to slip across the border into Jordan, the Observatory said.
In the Midan neighbourhood of Damascus, the atmosphere was tense. The Daily Telegraph witnessed six or seven people being detained and loaded into a police van as a small crowd watched. Video, said to be from yesterday, was posted on YouTube showing dozens of demonstrators marching through Midan, chanting anti-Assad slogans.
The government on Friday announced an amnesty for people handing in arms until Nov 12. In his interview, Mr Ammura promised that "either today or tomorrow, there will be some release of detainees. I don't know how many. It will be in stages".
But he also laid the ground for reneging on the Arab League deal, saying it required the "cessation of violence from any source", not just the regime. "The government and leadership are very keen on implementing the agreement," he said. "But it is the responsibility of any government to protect its citizens from armed groups. And it is very clear that there are armed groups which threaten Syria's security."
Most opposition groups, including the newly formed Syrian National Council, reject the Arab League deal and say that only President Bashar al-Assad's removal will satisfy them. Mr Ammura said: "There is a proverb that when you point an accusing finger, the other three fingers are directed at you. By rejecting dialogue, the opposition prove they have their own political agenda, and that will isolate them from the people."
The Homs activist said: "The army has not been withdrawn from any part of Homs. Buildings have been attacked and some buildings have been totally evacuated to allow the army to position snipers and heavy machineguns on the roofs.
"There have been mass waves of arrests across the city and a lot of small towns around Homs are under siege. The deal is just another chance for the regime to kill more people, and [try to] finish the revolution in the next couple of weeks."
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