وزراء الخارجية العرب يؤجلون اجتماعهم القادم بشأن سورية الى موعد غير محدد
Arab foreign ministers postpone their next meeting on Syria to an undetermined date
http://arabic.rt.com/news_all_news/news/574226/
16.12.2011 09:19
Quoted by news agency MENA, Arab League official said the Arab foreign ministers decided to postpone a meeting scheduled to be held in Cairo on Syria on Saturday, December 17 / December to a date to be determined later.
The agency quoted Ahmad Ben Helli, Deputy Secretary General of Arab League The Arab ministerial committee to resolve the crisis on Syria will meet in Doha on Saturday instead of meeting which was scheduled to be held in Cairo before the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
Ben Helli did not mention the postponement of the meeting, but said that the consultations that would hold a meeting of the Ministerial Committee in Doha instead of Cairo. The agency also said that efforts were being made to reach a formula "under which the Syrian government will sign a protocol on the Observer Mission of the Arab League until the mission assigned to it by the Council of the Arab League."
Source: Agencies
فرزلي والربيعي: بعد هزيمة الولايات المتحدة في العراق وانتصار سورية على المؤامرة لن يكون هناك قطب أوحد في العالم
Ferzli and al-Rubaie: After the defeat of the U.S. victory in Iraq and Syria on the plot will not be a uni-polar world
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/12/16/388700.htm
December 16, .2011
Damascus, (SANA) -
Said Elie Ferzli Vice Chairman of the Board of Deputies of the former Lebanese that U.S. withdrawal from Iraq is a strategic turning point not only to Iraq but the entire region and said that the withdrawal will create a new Arab dawn basic social balance Syria and Iraq.
And Ferzli said in an interview for the Syrian Arab television from Beirut today that the Zionist-American project alternative of withdrawal from Iraq was the fragmentation of the region and tampering with the security of Syria, beating heart of Arabism, pointing out that America has worked before withdrawing to create an atmosphere of ethnic conflicts in the Arab and Islamic world in order to push the region to internal fighting and to create problems in each country to be the seeds of self-destruction as an alternative to the presence of its military forces directly.
Ferzli noted that some Arab satellite channels which ran sedition and try to split and fragmentation of the unity of the social components in Syria, the line was advanced to play the role of diverting attention from the American withdrawal from Iraq and suffered a defeat Washington to focus on the situation in Syria.
Ferzli hopes to have the American retreat from Iraq, an end to foreign intervention in the Arab region, warning that the Zionist incitement of the U.S. administration is based on the culture of the United States to pay more military involvement on behalf of "Israel" and service objectives in the region.
For his part, Hussein al-Rubaie, writer and political analyst of Iraq, in an interview, said that similar to Syrian fortress of the Arab nation and its heart is a partner of victory of Iraq and the defeat of U.S. military occupation and trying to take revenge of them for its resistor and said that after this historic moment in the defeat of the United States of America and the victory of Syria, certainly there will be no pole Oouhd in the world.
al-Rubaie noted that to the first goal of the U.S. occupation of Iraq was to achieve security "of Israel" must therefore be crowned the victory of the U.S. to withdraw within the strategy of the Liberation of Palestine, where expose the horrors of the occupation and what he did in Iraq crimes during the coming days.
Rubaie confirmed that the position of the people and the Iraqi government supports and hopes to close a Syrian victory because Syria and Iraq will re-role of the Arab nation was better than the Arabs to be the share of the new world order.
More than 4,500 Syrians sheltered in Lebanon: UN
December 16, 2011 08:49 PM
Agence France Presse
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Dec-16/157104-more-than-4500-syrians-sheltered-in-lebanon-un.ashx
BEIRUT: More than 4,500 Syrians fleeing a brutal crackdown on a revolt against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have found shelter in neighbouring Lebanon, with hundreds crossing the border in the last two weeks, the United Nations said Friday.
A report released by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said 4,510 Syrians, including women and children, had registered in northern Lebanon, up from 3,798 at the beginning of December.
The majority of those who fled to Lebanon this month hail from the central Homs region and nearby Tall Kalakh, where regime forces have sought to crush massive protests demanding Assad step down.
Most of them had settled with host families "in difficult circumstances" in villages near the border as well as in the Akkar district, located between the Lebanese-Syrian border and the coastal city of Tripoli, the report said.
Nineteen wounded Syrians, including a 11-year old girl, were also hospitalised in the north this week alone, according to UNHCR.
"Several were in coma when they reached the hospitals and one person reportedly died from his injuries," read the report.
Syria has planted landmines along its border with Lebanon in a bid to prevent weapons smuggling and dissidents from fleeing the fierce crackdown by the regime in Damascus against a nine-month revolt, Lebanese officials in the north have said.
Lebanon and Syria share a 330-kilometre (205-mile) border but have yet to agree on official demarcation.
Syrian troops have regularly staged incursions into neighbouring Lebanon in recent weeks, killing at least three people when they opened fire on border villages, according to Lebanese officials.
Beirut is bitterly divided between pro- and anti-Damascus camps, and there are growing fears the bloodshed in Syria could spill over the border.
Lebanon's Western-backed opposition, Washington and the United Nations have condemned the incursions.
But the Lebanese government, largely dominated by Hezbollah, a strong ally of the Syrian regime, has for the most part stayed silent on the issue.
'US, Israel exhausted by defeats'
Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:16AM
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/215987.html
Iran's Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Roknabadi says the United States and Israel have become exhausted due to the repercussions of the duo's frequent defeats in the region.
Countering [the threats of] the occupying regime of Israel constitutes the priority in Iran's foreign policy, IRNA quoted Roknabadi as saying on Thursday.
Iran's envoy to Lebanon also slammed the dual policies of certain Western countries and their allies in the region, adding that their efforts are mainly aimed at supporting Israel and weakening the resistance of regional countries against Tel Aviv.
The Islamic Republic will support the legitimate demands of people in the region and across the world, he noted.
The Iranian diplomat pointed to the ongoing developments in Syria and stated that the majority of Syrian people have explicitly expressed their support for President Bashar al-Assad.
Syrians have proved that they are fully aware of the enemies' plots to inflict damage on their resistance and called for the implementation of reforms proposed by the Syrian government, added Roknabadi.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March, with demonstrations being held both against and in favor of President Assad.
Damascus blames "outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups" for the unrest, saying it is being orchestrated from abroad.
In interviews with Israeli news outlets over the past few months, the Syrian opposition members have "clearly expressed their vision for the future of Syria and their interest in establishing relations with the Tel Aviv regime," according to informed sources in Syria.
However, Syrian people have repeatedly expressed solidarity with the government over the past weeks.
Service taxi drivers to Syria allowed to change routes
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=44314
15 December 2011
By Muath Freij
AMMAN - The Land Transport Regulatory Commission (LTRC) on Wednesday gave owners of service taxis previously plying the Amman-Damascus-Beirut route permission to operate temporarily on other routes in light of the unsafe situation in Syria.
LTRC Spokesperson Ikhlas Yousef explained that the decision was taken after service taxi owners demanded they be allowed to change their routes temporarily after the instability in Syria significantly affected their business.
"Some owners in Mafraq held a demonstration demanding to change the route, so LTRC Director General Jamil Mujahid visited them yesterday and decided to meet their demands," she told The Jordan Times over the phone yesterday.
Yousef added that 150 out of 800 owners operating routes through Syria have already been granted licences for new routes while the rest will receive them soon.
The LTRC spokesperson noted that 1,111 service taxis travel between Jordan and other countries, the majority to Syria.
"Before the the Syrian demonstrations began, we used to operate 12 trips to Syria and earn around JD60 (USD84.3) a day, but after the unrest broke out, we hardly make one trip," Zeyad Saqir, the owner of a travel services office, told The Jordan Times.
He said drivers plan to take advantage of the decision, which allows them to operate routes within the Kingdom and to other countries, including Saudi Arabia.
Service taxi owners say domestic routes will not make up losses from Syria
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=44379
16 December 2011
By Muhammad Ghazal
AMMAN - Several owners of service taxis operating between Amman and Damascus on Thursday said that allowing them to ply routes within the Kingdom and to Saudi Arabia to make up for their losses amid low demand for travel to Syria is "good but insufficient".
They said a decision by the Land Transport Regulatory Commission (LTRC) to temporarily license their vehicles to operate inside the Kingdom and on the route to Saudi Arabia shows "good intention" but will not make up for their lost revenues.
"There is no demand for travel to Syria at all. Since the beginning of the unrest in Syria, our business has been hit hard and we are suffering," Muhammad Erbeihat, owner of Al Sham Transport Agency, told The Jordan Times on Thursday.
"There are not enough passengers wanting to travel to Damascus every day. Our office hardly sends one car with five passengers to Syria each day," he said.
The LTRC has given temporarily licences to about 150 cars out of 800 plying the Amman-Damascus-Beirut route to operate inside the Kingdom and to Saudi Arabia, LTRC Spokesperson Ikhlas Yousef told the Jordan Times on Thursday, adding that the rest will eventually receive licences to do the same.
Service taxi owners said passenger traffic to Syria has fallen 95 per cent from the beginning of this year to date, compared to the same period last year, acknowledging that the only way they will make up their losses is if the unrest in Syria ends.
"People are afraid to go to Syria nowadays," Erbeihat noted.
Owners said a majority of their taxis are 2010 and 2011 models, which makes it "illogical and unfeasible" to use them on domestic routes
"I have many brand new Mercedes cars and even if I am allowed to operate routes locally or to Saudi Arabia, I will not use them as service taxis in the country. This is not feasible," Sami Abdullah, owner of Al Abdali Transport Agency, told The Jordan Times on Thursday.
"We might use some of our old cars on internal routes, but it is illogical to use our brand new cars," he said.
Husni Abu Eldahab, who works as a driver on the Amman-Damascus-Beirut route, disagreed.
"I prefer to operate domestic routes rather than stay at home with nothing to do. I used to make about JD500 to JD700 per month before the unrest in Syria and nowadays there is no work. If I make JD300 working internal routes it is fine. At least I can pay my rent and for the gas my car consumes," he said yesterday.
Displaced Syrians 'losing faith' in opposition
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=44372
16 December 2011
By Taylor Luck
MAFRAQ/RAMTHA - Displaced Syrians say they are losing faith in opposition groups' ability to form a united front to oppose the regime of President Bashar Al Assad, urging international intervention as the "only hope" to end the conflict in their country.
Syrians residing in the northern cities of Mafraq and Ramtha expressed a growing sense of frustration towards political groups they claim are "failing" in their efforts to drum up international support to bring an end to violence that has claimed the lives of over 5,000 civilians.
"People have been dying day after day, week after week, month after month and all we have had so far is talk," said Abu Muhammad, a Homs resident who fled to Mafraq, some 90 kilometres north of Amman, earlier this month.
"By the time they are done talking, Syria will have bled dry," the 76-year-old noted.
Syrians who have fled the violence that has been ongoing since February claim that the Syrian National Council - an opposition coalition comprising several political parties, Kurdish groups and dissidents - has little legitimacy among average Syrians, who accuse the organisation of acting in the interest of "personal agendas".
"We look at this council and see the faces and names of people who left Syria decades ago and have no idea what life is like on the ground," said Nidhal Ahmad, a 43-year-old Homs resident.
"Since when did we put Burhan Ghalioun in charge of our future?" he remarked, referring to the Paris-based Syrian political scientist who was named chair of the council in August.
While displaced Syrians face a worsening situation - dwindling savings, need for costly medical care, and limited contact with loved ones back home - opposition forces have failed to mount a campaign to raise international political and monetary assistance, they said.
"When the revolutions started in Tunisia and Libya, the opposition secured support for civilians and refugees; how come we have to rely on Jordanian organisations for help?" remarked Um Muath, a mother of four.
Ongoing violence across Syria and opposition inaction has created a growing sense of "resentment" among displaced Syrians towards a political class they reject as "illegitimate".
"We have been out in the streets day after day facing bullets and tanks, demanding our basic rights for freedom," said Ayman Luoay. "What have they done for us?"
Displaced Syrians say they have particularly little faith in the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, which has been quietly positioning itself as a leading opposition voice from its base in Istanbul.
"How can they speak in our name when they haven't even lived in the country for over 30 years?" Laith, a 24-year-old from the Syrian border town of Daraa, remarked.
Syrians labelled the Islamists as "latecomers" attempting to take advantage of the crisis to build on the movement's democratic and political gains in Egypt and elsewhere.
"We all know that the Muslim Brotherhood have their eyes set on ruling the country, not saving it," said Abu Muhammad.
"If they expect to come back to Damascus after the fall of Assad to a people waiting with open arms, they will be very mistaken."
Free Army
Disillusioned with political actors, displaced Syrians maintain that the Free Syria Army - a coalition of military defectors operating within Syria - remains their "only hope" of bringing an end to the 10-month crisis.
Due to decades of living under one-party rule, Syrians say they are much more willing to throw their support behind a nonpolitical force solely dedicated to freeing the country than any ideologically driven group.
"These are our sons and brothers. These are the people who will lead our revolution, not some washed-up politicians in Paris," said Muhammad Abu Ali, a father of nine who arrived in Jordan late last month.
Syrians said they identify with the soldiers, who they claim are underfed and underpaid, and are showing a growing unwillingness to carry out orders to kill civilians.
"I have seen with my own eyes soldiers refusing to shoot peaceful protesters," said Um Majdi, a Homs resident now residing in a two-room apartment in Mafraq.
"They paid with their lives."
Syrians admit that due to a slow rate of defection - soldiers are currently leaving by the dozens rather than hundreds or thousands - the movement has yet to gain the momentum it needs to pose a real threat to the regime.
"There are thousands of soldiers ready to defect, waiting for the opportunity, but they are afraid," said Abu Yasser, a Daraa resident who has three brothers serving in the army.
Syrians claim that a buffer zone or the enforcement of a no-fly zone would give thousands of Syrian soldiers and officers the chance to defect, organise and launch a campaign against Assad loyalists.
"If the international community sets up a no-fly zone, within 48 hours the Free Syria Army will topple the regime," predicted Amar Mahmoud, an engineer from Homs.
Syrians in Jordan hope that by replicating the experience of Libyan revolutionaries - allowing army deserters to organise within areas along the Syrian-Turkish border in the north and the Syrian-Jordanian border to the south under the backing of international military support - the movement can topple four decades of Baath party rule.
"For months we have called on the Arab League, on Syria's neighbours and on the international community to give us the chance we need by establishing a no-fly zone," said Ahmad, a 33-year-old truck driver.
"But it seems the international community is failing us."
As the international community continues to struggle to form a strong consensus, Arab foreign ministers are set to gather once again on Saturday to discuss the ongoing crisis, but Syrians, who have been hardest hit by the violence say they are losing both time and patience.
"The Syrian people are done with the talk, done with statements, done with politics," said Abu Ibrahim, a 34-year-old software engineer.
"The Syrian people want freedom, and they are willing to die to get it."
حسون لوفد إعلامي مصري: سورية مستهدفة بسبب مواقفها الوطنية ودورها الداعم للمقاومة
Hassoun, a delegation of Egyptian media: Syria is targeted because of their position and role of national support for the resistance
http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2011/12/16/388725.htm
December 16, .2011
Aleppo, (SANA) -
Samaha said Dr. Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassoun, Grand Mufti of the Republic of Syria is targeted because of their adherence to national and Arab issues and support for the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon, stood in the face of American and Western schemes that target fragmentation region and the seizure of its resources.
He Hassoun, during a meeting with the delegation the Egyptian media, which is visiting Syria for the reality of the situation on the ground to the size of the plot and keep it away on Syria in order to break up national unity and sow division among the children pointing to the existence of large institutions have the plans and agenda of work for it.
He noted the Grand Mufti of the Republic of the march of comprehensive reform, led by President Bashar al-Assad referring to the package of laws, decrees and resolutions issued in this area, which is in the interest of the homeland and the citizen.
Hassoun explained that reform takes time, and that Syria will emerge from the crisis strong pointing to the importance of spreading the values of love and tolerance among people and the rejection of hatred and hatred between the various forms of all religions and sects in the community, including the good of all mankind.
In turn, through the Egyptian delegation expressed appreciation for the hospitality extended to the Syrian people, stressing the depth of the brotherly relationship and common destiny, which combines the two Syrian, Egyptian and the Egyptian people's solidarity with their brothers the Syrians in the face of what is being plotted against their own country.
He drew the delegation to understand the magnitude and the dimensions of the plot and attack the media planned on Syria to put pressure on them to achieve the goals and objectives serve the American and Zionist interests, stressing that during their tour in many Syrian cities touching the case of safety and stability enjoyed by these cities, the opposite of what broadcast channels tendentious and misleading and that the war against Syria is the media war in every sense of the word.
He said members of the delegation, we will convey the true picture to the Egyptian people and the world to tell them that Syria is strong and that broadcasts satellite channels are not biased unfounded.
The delegation includes Elhamy Melegy media columnist and editor of Abdo Moroccan news weekly newspaper and the Egyptian journalist Mohsen Abdul-Aziz Al-Ahram newspaper in Egypt.
بن جدو: الجامعة أفشلت خطة العمل العربية حول سورية من خلال عنادها وعدم واقعيتها
Ben Jeddo: The Arab League thwarted Arab Plan of Action on Syria through stubbornness and lack of realism
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/16/388683.htm
December 16, .2011
Tehran, (SANA) -
A Tunisian journalist, Ghassan Ben Jeddo, said that the Arab League, which caused the failure of Arab Plan of Action on Syria through the stubbornness and arrogance and the lack of realism.
Ben Jeddo told Fars news today that the positions of some parties within the Arab League towards Syria was based on an illusion due to lack of knowledge of reality real and what is happening on the ground in Syria, pointing at the same time that a political solution is the only way out of the crisis in Syria.
Bin Jeddo said the recent statements of Burhan Ghaliyoun on the severance of relations with the States and the forces of resistance in the event of receipt of the Board of the Istanbul office in Syria, revealed the fact that the deal held by Ghaliyoun with foreign powers against Syria, pointing out that these attitudes are rejected completely by the Syrian people and cannot be accepted at all .
On the other hand said Ben Jeddo that the policy of the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Syria have created many economic problems in Turkey, especially after losing senior traders Turks Syrian market and markets many Arab were praying to it through Syria, pointing out that there is something like the Intifada the political level in the Turkish press on the attitudes of the Turkish government, where the view of some Turkish politicians that Turkey introduced themselves in trouble with the neighboring countries such as Syria, Iran and others.
In the context of online media confirmed that Ben Jeddo statements by French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe against Syria due to considerations of personal reasons and nothing more.
Turkish Street Rejects Its Government's Support of Armed Gangs against Syria
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/12/16/388638.htm
Dec 16, 2011
ANKARA, (SANA) – The Turkish street continued its rejection of the government of Justice and Development Party's support and harboring of armed terrorist groups operating against Syria, stressing their standing by Syria in the face of all conspiracies hatched against it.
Workers' Party Secretary General Osman Yilmaz said, in an interview with the Syrian TV, said the Turkish government did not deny the presence of armed gangs on its territories which is a very serious issue as it violates the Turkish and international laws.
He added that the presence of these gangs is supported by the US and sponsored by the Turkish government.
Yilmaz expressed the Turkish street rejection of what is taking place, adding that if the ruling government insisted on its practices, the people will overthrow it.
For his part, Chief Editor of the Aydinlik Turkish Gazette described harboring armed men in Turkey as "wrong " and a crime in terms of the Turkish law since creating chaos in another country is illegal.
A Turkish citizen said that Turkish government has made a big mistake by harboring armed men operating against Syria taking into accounting the Syrian-Turkish relations, wondering that if the roles were reversed, would Turkey keep silent about Syria's interference.
Another citizen said the Israeli ambitions have been turned into the Turkish government's demands.
Syria to lose 100 mln USD transport revenue per year from Turkey: Turkish minister
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2011-12/16/c_131311447.htm
English.news.cn 2011-12-16 23:19:42
ANKARA, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Syria will lose more than 100 million U.S. dollars a year in transport revenues as Turkey is employing alternative routes to export goods to the Middle East and Gulf countries bypassing Syria, a Turkish high-ranking official said on Friday.
Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan said in a statement that Turkey had finished talks with Egypt on roll-on/roll-off (RORO) services and Egyptian city of Alexandria is ready to brace for Turkish trucks bounding for the Middle East and Gulf countries.
RORO ships are vessels designed to carry wheeled cargo like cars, trucks, trailers and railroad cars that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels.
Caglayan said Syrian economy would be affected negatively with the start of the RORO services between Mediterranean Turkish port of Mersin and Egypt's Alexandria, estimating the annual loss for Syria from transport revenues to be over 100 million dollars.
Turkey has been seeking new trade routes to the Middle East since relations with neighboring Syria deteriorated following Ankara's increased criticism of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over his crackdown on an uprising that began in March.
As Syrian officials have on Dec. 1 suspended a free trade deal between Damascus and Ankara, Turkey drafted a decree on suspension of free trade agreement with Syria last Friday amid ongoing bilateral diplomatic friction, and the decree has been submitted to the Council of Ministers for a decision.
On Nov. 30, Turkey announced a series of sanctions against Syria, including a freeze of the Syrian government's assets in Turkey, a travel ban on Syrian leaders, the suspension of relations between Turkish and Syrian central banks and a blockade of weapon delivery to Syria through the Turkish territory.
هاآرتس: قطر منحت تأشيرات لإسرائيليين لدخول أراضيها
Haaretz: Qatar granted visas to Israelis to enter the territory
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/16/388696.htm
December 16, .2011
Damascus, (SANA) -
Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ordered in particular the granting of entry visas to the occupied country a group of journalists, university professors and Israeli activists to participate in a forum hosted by Doha, despite recent conversations and information about the tension of the relations between Qatar and Israel.
The paper in its issue today that Israeli participation in the forum, titled "Alliance of civilizations" would not have been without the consent of the Emir of Qatar, which encourages Israeli businessmen to invest in his country, according to the newspaper.
The paper noted that Qatar soaked in oil but it suffers from a shortage of entrepreneurs, saying that if Israel made a political initiative in this regard to Qatar for the Emir of Qatar was ready to open the doors wide open with the emirate.
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