دور القطاع الخاص في مواجهة العقوبات العربية
The role of the private sector in the face of Arab sanctions
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Thursday 12/01/2011
Are you convinced the Arab regimes, it can punish the Syrian people economically? Is this unjust decision can erase the Syrian trade and the abolition of which extends the age-old human
Which amounts to thousands of years.
Syrian merchants and manufacturers extend their business to the corners of the globe in the east and west and in the north and south.
The sanctions will fall?! If we are out of trade, headed, and those penalties if we shorten the manufacturing world, including so-called «Product Syrian» What are the basic needs required by human beings and do not exist in Syria, whether in the food that comes from our agricultural, which includes everything in basic needs such as wheat, beets, olive oil access to a broad basket of vegetables and fruits.
The clothing we have forgotten his masters Is the textile industry, which penetrated into the depths of history.
Transformations of the world ideology and for more than a hundred years had been unable to stop the development of gene Syrian acquired trade-private, and which continued through the years, such as air which enters from the smallest holes, and here they are Syrian merchants began to roam the earth to search for markets required for the disposal of their goods and get the raw materials needed.
That this was not the Arab consensus on the imposition of economic sanctions that pure coincidence, I have realized that the Arab neighbors they punish themselves and their people as a result of the application of economic sanctions on Syria, which recognizes the call volume of goods that flow to them through the Syrian ports, maritime and land through the arteries.
Barakat: to build a complex study of Syrian products in South Africa
Said Najib Barakat, head of Syrian Business Council - South Africa need to work very hard to open overseas markets for Syrian products and intensifying the movement of businessmen between Syria and other countries and find channels to support trade and facilitate the transmission of business, goods and capital in cooperation with the sectors of other nations. He said the Syrian Business Council - South Africa and since about three months to participate in the exhibition Johannesburg, saying that South Africa is thirsty for Syrian products and all types and brands and markets in South Africa and its people has a great desire products Syrian and private, including clothes, food and grain.
He said the Council took part in 25 of the businessman was presented obstetric and women's clothing and women's evening clothes, sweets, olive oil, pistachios, lentils, oatmeal and other food commodities and this has seen the Syrian popular and high demand by the community there.
He also said the Council is currently considering the establishment of a pool of Syrian products in South Africa to be a semi-permanent exhibition of products and goods, Syria's different.
Sanadiki: not to lay off workers
The same level of attention arose Sanadiki Chairman Syrian businessman - to the British should not the private sector is laying off employees or reduce their number, with the need to combine efforts between the private sector and all sectors of other countries to face the current economic conditions. He confirmed that the phase experienced by Syria require a vital role of business in Syria to the address it.
At the level of its work in the field of aviation and tourism Sanadiki said he did not resort to reduce the number of staff did not seek to change it or the nature of its business offices in a manner that did not work as well as reduced hours of work and said we are continuing.
Khaddour: trade based on barter
It is proposed to Muhammad Khaddour Chairman Syrian businessman Cypriot re-link the import to export, while seeking to make foreign trade based on barter and non-objection, or prevent any substance that can be a value alternative materials Syrian exporters and that the goods are oil and called for the need for investment markets, Iraqi, Iranian, and especially in the petrochemical industry and to be trade on the basis of barter. According Khaddour also need to seek to develop local industry and export-east direction and work on the urgency and Minister of Economy of the signing of a free trade agreement with Ukraine.
Advised the businessmen who had opened accounts in neighboring countries to move to Syria, particularly the money that had been smuggled through this period as a crisis, European banks and that this stretch is required to secure and seal the events of a national economic council.
Favor of Hamidi
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Shihabi: dependence on local industries and supporting alternative
Faris Al-Shihabi Chairman of Aleppo Chamber of Industry, said: We are a private sector we have to cope with the new reality and find ways and alternative solutions for alternative markets and finding solutions to banking alternative that allows us to continue to work and focus on our own capabilities in the development of our industries and rely on each other and reduce import dependence on local industries supporting and complementary to other industries and I think the industry has an opportunity to open new markets like Iran, India, but we need to help the government to stand firm and continuity.
Hoahani: the trend to alternative markets, tissue
Suha Hoahani member of Aleppo Chamber of Industry said that the private sector a chance to rehabilitate himself and reboot again and rely on our resources and support the national industry and the trend of other countries, industries are weaving in front of markets, European, Arab and European markets will not be able to fairly cut and separate the contracts signed with companies, but after contracts would be separated and linked us to check out the alternative markets such as India, Iran, Iraq, and we will work on the exchange of industrial and trade delegations between the countries to overcome the current crisis.
Hammour: Arab federation can breach the sanctions and pressure on the rulers
Mazen Hammour member of Damascus Chamber of Commerce said that the private sector and specifically Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Federation of Chambers can penetrate the penalties Arab relations to personal with all federations and chambers of the Arab, whether (industry, trade, tourism) and that the Arab Chambers can click on the rulers to overcome sanctions and to the traders and industrialists to go to the targeted markets to find alternative solutions and markets is required.
Ramya Ghazal
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Hatahet: agreement on a mechanism to export to new markets
In the same context, the industrial Bashar Hatahet that the focus on local materials is what is working on it during the current phase, especially materials that add value 100%, which we can through maintaining the foreign exchange and national employment, noting that there are materials to be imported but not actual value is only 30-35% and the remaining domestic industry, particularly with regard to the clothing industry, which is developed in Syria, but until we can secure the value of our exports of textiles and foodstuffs, which will reach 40-60% increase of local production and the rest from exports.
Hatahet that in the present circumstances can only work on one frequency because there are developments every day, these developments appear as needed, status, and today we can agree on a mechanism to export to the markets of Iran, Russian and even Ukraine in this case only, we can make up our exports to the Gulf States and up to the extent of 60% and if we have opened up these markets, we can completely dispense with the Gulf and its markets.
Hamoui: focus on domestic markets rather than export
Said Bassel Hamwi, Deputy Chairman of Damascus Chamber of Industry that he and some of the imposition of these sanctions will be placed on the internal market, especially as we The unexpected that there is a closure of the Arab markets for Syrian products directed industrialists to local markets compensates for export and at the same time there will be competition in prices lead not to higher prices because of this the competition.
The Hamwi for securing raw materials, there are many alternatives for countries like Turkey, where the intersection of Syria can import raw materials and production requirements of the countries of East Asia, India, China and Russia.
For materials strategy, the government made it clear that there is a stockpile of wheat, enough for two years and therefore there will be no shortage of goods in local markets, especially that there are many offers by the States and there are alternatives in light of Europe's crisis and recession suffered by many foreign companies, especially European.
He concluded that the death Hamwi Syria not to export goods, it is in itself a reward for local products that will take a stake in the domestic market rather than imported products.
Welding: Go to new markets
Industrial Abul Huda welding said: We are sector is flexible and can adapt to all circumstances, and this facilitates us to provide goods and face all the difficulties in the next phase, but this does not mean that we are a private sector not affected by these sanctions, pointing out that we are constantly working on a daily basis Kathadat of Chambers of Industry and Commerce and Agriculture find alternative solutions to secure production inputs and raw materials on one hand and maintaining the continuity of employment available to us on the other. The welding that what we are seeking through the next stage is to go to open new markets for our products and ask the government to provide us with all the facilities to be able to overcome the current crisis, especially as the Syrian exports will be affected by the sanctions, and certainly there will be a shortage of foreign exchange and this requires us to create new solutions to continue and with the least possible losses, noting that it will lose is the relationships and clients even cooperating with the government will not affect our ability to develop alternatives, which is originally present but we must increase Nchattna and our competitiveness and to find these new markets and secure the goods and materials. The welding we will find it difficult also in the transfer of products which must be a new mechanism it up, but today can not predict what is coming because all that was not outside the framework of general reports What are the actual decisions and what are the materials and goods that will be imposed by the sanctions, all this does not still vague.
Wafa Faraj
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Salman: converting national savings into investment channels
Finally I did the Arab League in an unprecedented move, the imposition of economic sanctions on Syria, a country-founder of this university, and the sanctions came as a sequel to the Arab American and European sanctions and the previous line and parallel with the sanctions, Turkish and this confirms two cases:
The large size of the plot on Syria because of its approach-resistant and speed to seize the western U.S. dictations, hired by her ..
With these words began, Dr. Salman Hayyan economic analyst, speaking of the revolution, stressing that Syria was formerly for many of the sanctions and was able to get out and surrounded the victorious siege of wanted, surprising that these sanctions (Arab brothers).
Salman pointed to the need to look for and how to resist these penalties and win it, but harnessed to be a real impetus for the continuing development process, especially that there are many countries in the world exposed to similar sanctions increased their strength, such as Cuba, China, Brazil and Iran ..
Suggesting that the focus is on our economy Bjanabih material and service, especially convert comparative advantages into competitive advantages especially in the agricultural and industrial sectors and focus on achieving food security, which is the material basis for economic security national, as is well known, this needs to activate the relationship partnerships between sectors of production material, whether relations of vertical or horizontal, front or back that is, output of agriculture seasons, grain, fruit and vegetable inputs for industry and vice versa ..
Add to reset on exports of raw materials which do not allow the export of any raw material and manufactured only after ensuring that we increase the value added and profitability and operation of the national workforce and reduce unemployment.
And the development of monetary and fiscal policy geared towards the economic and disease control, including inflation, recession and maintain the exchange rate of the Syrian pound and the cash reserves in our Bank's central and cooperation with the interest rate in a realistic and scientific ..
The eastward expansion with friendly countries such as Russia, China, India, Iran and Malaysia ..
Salman pointed to the need to establish harmony between the political and economic policy and to support each other, and increase the specific gravity of attention to direct investments commensurate with the resources available and in particular with the regional planning.
Dr. Salman that all penalties and penalty of $ 11 applied to the government sector and therefore the private sector in front of a historic moment that can contribute to work to avoid the consequences and effects of these sanctions, especially since it has more attention and care proposal:
- Activating the banking business in the private banking system's 20 banks in order to avoid the sanctions proposed by the central bank, commercial and profit-sufficiency and little to do with the economic cycle of the Syrian production to consumption.
- And the creation of a special committee in the chambers of industry and Commerce, tourism and coordination with government departments to address all the bottlenecks (neck glass) that can be exposed to our economy by these unfair penalties and Allamithaqih.
- Formation of joint committees between the private and public events and common to study what could be a result of these sanctions and to develop solutions to address them and to predict what could impose sanctions later.
And more active relationship with the banks and work to increase deposits and reduce the withdrawals and the establishment of better relations with the Syrians who are abroad in support of the Syrian economy.
And confirmed. Salman that the private sector can play an active role in supporting the investment process because the investments are pregnant for real economic development and this requires converting national savings into investment channels and the responsibility of all citizens and special events, civil, and government and shared.
Yousuf: Do not raise the prices of industrial products
In the view of the appearance of Dr. Yousuf, professor of economics at the University of Damascus, said that the sanctions so far does not exceed the threats and all the cases the duty of caution and should therefore be on the actors and the private sector to look for alternative markets for its production and the opinion of the d. Yousuf an opportunity to improve the reality of the industry or the product of the Syrian point of reducing foreign competition on this product. He wished that do not exploit this aspect of the pre-industrial to raise prices.
Dr. Yousuf said that exporters are the most affected by the suppliers, because the importer is easy to find alternative markets, pointing out that these penalties would be for the benefit of the local market because it will increase the supply of goods which will depend exported to abroad.
Hence Dr Yousuf is expected lower prices of vegetables, fruits, meats until they find alternative markets and thus rising prices of goods imported temporarily for a while to find alternative markets as well.
suggested Dr. Yousuf issuing treasury bonds by the government to individuals, companies and banks with interest limited and specified period to aid the State Treasury, which does not appear as yet no indication of its inability to stressing the necessity of partnerships between public and private sectors to support the economic process in Syria. Especially since the Syrian citizen has the sense of a large national campaigns embody through deposit by the overwhelming support of the Syrian pound in the previous round.
ناقوس العمالة السورية يُقرع خَطَراً.. الآلاف في الخليج مهددون بالتسريح التعسفي تحت ستار العقوبات
Syrian workers bell rings danger .. Thousands are threatened in the Gulf demobilization under the guise of arbitrary sanctions
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Friday 02/12/2011
14:50:11
There is need of employment Syrian abroad, specifically in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is more pressing than the destination of economic and social development in this particular time after the admission of the Arab League package its economic sanctions on Syria, and consider some of the economic and social with concern to this issue where sources indicate that the impacts of the crisis The global economic Gulf states, in addition to the positions of the Arab States towards Syria will cast on this issue, and thus may take the companies and institutions a convenient pretext for the demobilization of Syrian workers from work, and relying on economic sanctions against the Arab argument for unfair dismissal, which means exacerbating the economic problem in the country after the return to such employment.
Agreements are not clear
Some argue that the real crisis did not start yet, because the worst is yet to come for employment Syrian abroad, particularly from the Gulf states, in addition to questioning some economists the possibility of agreements between these countries and the Syrian state to reduce the wave of demobilization, which are exposed Syrian workers in some Gulf countries, and sources say that the Gulf states, which began to take specific actions for the abolition of many jobs, which employs about one million Syrian workers, in addition to the growing numbers of these workers feel the danger of losing their jobs as a result of attitudes Almkhveh of the Arab countries, particularly the Gulf of Syrian crisis.
Alarm bells started beating
Some say that the union began beating in all meetings of the alarm to warn of the consequences of this issue, expressing his conviction that broadside direction of the government to encourage foreign investment, simplify licensing procedures, as one of the solutions to find some kind of balance between supply and demand in the equation work.
The Union considered that the best solution lies in expanding the productive sectors vertically and horizontally, in particular in the administration of strategic projects and industry labor-intensive, with forecast published by some websites to lay off 50 thousand Syrian workers during the last period of the Gulf alone, economists say that the government put Plan to accommodate developments in the labor market in terms of inflation and unemployment which would double the impact of the economic crisis that can afflict the country following the Arab economic sanctions and unfair targeting the Syrian citizen and a living and not as they claim the regime in Syria.
Also called in some circles of economic and media should be developed a comprehensive strategic plan not only to confront a crisis that must be included in the framework of the dismantling of several crises, the most important labor force, estimated at some 5 million workers, those working in the public sector about 1.35 million, but also to the overall crisis of recession and unemployment through a strategy of the labor force and about the impact of the return of workers abroad exacerbate the unemployment situation.
And approved an official of the Federation of Trade Unions refused to be named the inevitability of the high proportion of the unemployed, but he wished not to be rising significantly, a reminder that the official estimates of unemployment (8%) remains lower than the true figure, and to accommodate the quarter of a million new people entering the job market every year requires high rates of development, and implementation of large projects.
According to this official, the State noted in its budget for the current year to provide large numbers of jobs, there may be more scope for the contribution of workers belonging to provide job opportunities for themselves and others, by virtue of what Ciozvonh savings collected, which means the possibility of converting negative demobilization and the return of labor to the point of positive .
No official statistics
Through one economic researchers believed that there was no exaggeration, either in estimating the laid-off hundreds of thousands, or warning of the consequences of this situation, unlikely to survive Syria "as a country has a surplus labor" from falling including hit large economies in Europe, America and China, particularly hand, high rates of unemployment to more than 20%. The researcher acknowledged the economic impossibility of the existence of actual figures of the Syrian labor abroad, because most of them work individually not regulated by formal agreements and controls, indicating that not all of it and returned to his home.
Since more than ten years to the day did not have any accurate statistics or estimates on the size of Syrian workers abroad, nor any information on the qualifications and the nature of the tasks and actions that you make, even if remittances do not appear clearly to the public only in the last few years.
If the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs are responsible, first, that the uncertainty surrounding the economic file important of the state, many others share with liability depending on the function starting from Syrian embassies abroad and access to the banking system, and perhaps try the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs organized database of employees countries in the Persian Gulf and it Osafarth of incomplete results indicate the nature and responsibility of each hand!.
And provision of statistical data and information is not a luxury statistically significant can be implemented and that's it, is an essential step should be based upon other steps are more important such as coordination with the countries of destination to preserve the rights of Syrian workers and address their problems and defend them, and then begin the process of expanding markets for these countries to receive more Syrian workers like what they do many of the countries that crowd our workforce.
Funds lost
Despite the economic importance posed by this file and financial returns with its huge per year, but he continued to file delayed for years under the arguments relating to all the non-availability of data and key information such as the number of workers and levels of cultural, educational and employment which they occupy, that alerted the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour to the need to create such a This rule of data.
Estimated the International Organization for Migration remittances Syrian migrants to Syria less than a billion dollars just a year, which contributes about 2% of GDP, while showing a report by the World Bank, remittances Syrian expatriates around the world into their home, and reached to 800 million dollars per year. Which accounts for 2.3% of GDP in Syria.
However, the government estimates the Syrian estimated size of the flows more than that, it refers to about $ 2 billion, the fact that the largest proportion of these transfers are not done by banks and financial channels traditional, and the World Bank estimates and estimates of the Syrian government, there is a difference of one billion dollars, However this difference was about the size of transfers, it will be difficult to estimate the size of damage to the emigrants. And thus the extent of the impact on the Syrian economy, which benefits from remittances, which have a direct impact also in the more revenue the popular classes and the fragility of the poorest ..
Accounts for stakeholders
On the other hand told the Syrians returning from the UAE stories of many of what Ainoh and heard in the field of "Tfnich" Syrian workers, and revealed them in conversations that they began to feel the pinch of the acute crisis when I started their company in Tejeaarham between the leaves of mandatory open, or reduce the salary, or demobilization final, a things fine they passed in their own words.
The assistant engineer Jamil Ibrahim from his personal experience, explaining that his company tended to give leave open for Syrian workers to provide them with a free plane ticket in one direction, indicating that the issue is not merely a "Tsriha polite."
And tried Ibrahim zoom it was in fact demobilization, saying he had to have in a site thousand workers were "Achtsarhm" to 50 workers between the overnight, and when we asked him about the likelihood that these will be casual laborers are not to ensure that the company strongly denied this.
As Eng Samir Zein Group in the UAE branch of a major real estate in Damascus, they recently Jerh between leaving work altogether, or accept a salary cut by 50%.
Official data
Confirm the data sent from the Syrian Embassy in Abu Dhabi that the approximate number of Syrians living in the UAE is about (140 249) a citizen of them (32 117) a citizen registered with the mission in Abu Dhabi and (42 581), a citizen registered with the Syrian consulate in Dubai (the numbers mentioned above do not include members of their families with them from the non-working).
Occupies the Emirate of Dubai ranked first in terms of the number of Syrians a modest increase from the capital Abu Dhabi, with which some (53.7) A Syrian citizen, while located in Abu Dhabi around (52.8) thousand citizens, to come to the Emirate of Sharjah III by (22.7) thousand citizens, Principality of Fourth, about Ajman (4) of thousands of citizens, and Ras Al Khaimah V b (3.7) thousand, Valvgerh by (2.2) A, and finally about Umm Al (842) Syrian citizen.
And reveal the data in the table approximate the distribution of the percentage of workers that are in Abu Dhabi (2.40%) of employees of employer (contractor dealer investor ... etc.) In Dubai, a figure that rises to about (4.54%), while workers in the service businesses of the owners of university degree (engineer, doctor, pharmacist, etc. ..) in Abu Dhabi they account for about (19.50%) and Dubai (18.26%), and workers in business services from vendors, drivers ... etc, these accounted for in the capital (56.89% and 61.16% ) in Dubai, forming the largest proportion, and finally for those engaged in productive work of construction workers, craftsmen, etc. ..., the ratio of (21.21%) in Abu Dhabi and (16.13%) in Dubai.
And add that data to the profession of agent is the first in terms of the number of Syrian citizens who are working in Qatar, as the number registered at the embassy this profession (4169) national and (9) of thousands of citizen estimates of the number of non-registered, and then came the profession of representative (Public Relations Sales ) (1318) citizens registered and (1500) are not registered, profession employee (bank's) (710) citizens registered users (500) is registered, the lowest occupations are the profession of university professor and the number registered at the embassy and employees to those three citizens and (8) citizens are not registered, and a career artist (5) citizens and registered the same number of non-registered.
The latest data received by the Department of Labor concerning employment Syrian in the Sultanate of Oman, where the information indicates that the number of Syrian workers registered with the Syrian Embassy, about (800) citizen (without their families and accompanying non-working) with the estimates of workers and non-registered around (3500) a citizen.
With regard to the assessment percentage distribution of workers, he said the data that business owners make up (20%), and workers of a university degree (engineer, doctor, pharmacist, economic ... etc.) account for (30%), Valmstglun in service businesses ( 20%) and in production occupations (30%).
Conventions neglected
The Ministry of Social Affairs Syria signed an agreement with the UAE side to regulate the recruitment and use of Syrian workers in the UAE, the agreement aims to organize and to bring Syrian workers in the UAE, in addition to providing legislation that regulates and protects the legal employment in both countries.
The number of Syrian workers in the UAE, according to official estimates, about 100 thousand people, 60 percent of them skilled workers in various economic sectors.
Some argue that the real problem is that the Syrian workers in the Gulf countries do not have many rights as labor and immigration laws, and this makes it easy for companies to demobilization, and that those laws are imposed on expatriates who lose their jobs find new employment within a month or leave the country.
Complained a number of Syrian expatriates in the Gulf States rising cost of living without work, with an annual rental costs about 15 thousand U.S. dollars for an apartment, furnished, and between 30 thousand and 70 thousand dollars to three-bedroom villa, according to quality, location and facilities.
Views of specialists
The Syrian government fears that an increase in the return of large numbers of migrants could raise the unemployment rate to 20 percent, according to economic researcher, Dr. Qadri Jamil.
Jamil says: "The return of large numbers of workers who lose their jobs as a result of the positions of the Arab countries, especially those with skills will increase the burden on the Syrian economy, and the Syrian government will have a new issue need to be addressed urgently."
The researcher says economist Samir Muhammad, "It is not fair to expect for those returning workers to find jobs immediately."
He adds, "There is a rise in unemployment in Syria even before the current crisis, and there are people searching for work for several months, but for several years."
On the other hand, confirms the director of a private bank in Damascus that he "received hundreds of requests for employment of expatriate Syrians previously worked in the financial sector abroad and adds," I think it might be useful to Syria in the long run the return of such a large number of skilled workers to their homes, but in Currently, there is simply enough job opportunities for those with skills and qualifications. "
Laid off from work or no work
Underscoring the engineer lost his job recently with a leading construction company in Dubai that he believed that the chance of finding work when he returned to the city of Aleppo will be very small.
He adds, "I am here to settle some financial matters and must then return to Syria, and I hope if I have some time to look for a job here, because I know that finding a job in Syria would be almost impossible, despite all the reassuring statements from officials."
The engineer adds not only the impact of this crisis on Syrian workers abroad but extends extends to workers in the private sector at home, I heard one of the media talk that large numbers of Syrian workers in the private sector lost their jobs during this period. The Syrian industrialists revealed that more than 500 small industrial facility in the cities of Damascus and Aleppo, closed its doors because of vulnerability to economic sanctions, European, and Arab sanctions Here's to come What will we do now.
Unofficial statistics
Can not know the real number of the Syrians, who will return from the Gulf countries, the World Bank reports show that Gulf companies laid off more than 45 thousand jobs, with the end of the year will reach the number to 120 thousand, as would the number 300 thousand jobs if they have taken the Gulf States to the implementation of threat to Syrian workers.
The statistics indicate informal access to about 200 thousand arrivals to the labor market every year in Syria, while the labor market attracts about 50 thousand workers each year, or 150 thousand unemployed are added annually to the unemployed. The biggest problem is that many of these unemployed are new graduates, who do not have the skills they really need the labor market, while employers complain of work from a shortage of these skills, most notably the English, and modern techniques, a weak point in many of the graduates of Syrian universities.
Workers returning from the Gulf
Most Syrians working in the Gulf represent a high level of skills, where they moved from the middle level in Syria to the high level and skilled in these countries, primarily because the ability of Syrian workers to adapt to the conditions and international labor standards applicable in these economies, both in terms of the administrative productivity, as mastering the conditions of work "despite the cruelty often" experience of expatriate Syrians, and they have at the same time experience and working methods of the new and additional.
From here can be divided labor returning from the Gulf into two main, educated workers are eligible, such as "engineers, accountants, consultants, executives," and labor is educated qualified as "drivers, construction workers, and observers of the workers," but that in both cases will suffer employment attributable the income gap between what they get abroad, and what you would get in Syria,
The Gulf hub for employment, the Syrian and Syrian experts estimate there are more than a million Syrians in the Gulf States, while the number of Syrian workers in the UAE alone, about 150 thousand workers, mostly skilled and specialized.
For the Syrians in Qatar, the data that have reached the Ministry of Labour says that the approximate number of members of the community is estimated at (30) thousand citizens, and the number of citizens registered at the embassy computer a (9888) them (9573) over the age of (18) years and (315) under the that, and distributors as academic degrees as follows: Doctor of Philosophy (3), degree (1157), Institute for the average (753), secondary (1841), PREP (1376), and primary (2156).
لا يوجد آلية حتى الآن للبدء بتنفيذ العقوبات.. رجال الأعمال العرب سيجدون وسائلهم للتعامل مع مصالحهم في سورية
There is no mechanism yet to start implementing the sanctions .. Arab businessmen will find their methods to deal with interests in Syria
http://www.syriandays.com/index.php?page=show_det&select_page=67&id=29125
Friday 02/12/2011
14:19:12
2011/12/03
Dec 2 Regional
كتاب ومحللون: قرارات الحكومة التركية لن يكون لها قيمة من منظور الشعب التركي كونها أحد عملاء الناتو
Analysts: Sanctions against Syria Null and Void, Will Yield Counter-Productive Results on Neighboring Countries
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/02/385544.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/12/02/385556.htm
Dec 02, 2011
DAMASCUS, (SANA) – The Turkish political analyst Barakat Tar regretted that the Arab League (AL) which has never made a decision condemning the Zionist occupation of Palestine agreed today to punish a founding member through a set of sanctions, which Turkey based on and exploited to exert more pressures on Syria.
In an interview with the Syrian TV on Thursday, Tar said the people of the region should be united in the face of the Israeli-American scheme to occupy Syria, Lebanon and Iran; Israel which still occupies the Arab territories and the U.S. which occupied Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan.
He added the Turkish people view whatever decisions the Turkish government made as null and void after they exposed its role with the NATO and the "New Middle East" project.
In turn, the Lebanese strategic expert and analyst, Amin Hteit, highlighted a sharp difference between Turkey's official stance and that of the Turkish intellectual elites which recognize the reality of the whole situation.
He added that the statement due to be published by the recently convened Syrian-Turkish Forum from the headquarters of the Turkish government in condemnation of the Development and Justice government which work against the interest of the Turkish people and Turkey in general will prove the Turkey's efforts to know what really happened and differentiate between reforms and corruption and destruction in favor of the West.
For his part, Former Egyptian MP, Jamal Asa'ad, said what is taking place in Syria constitutes a part of the Zionist-American project which aims at fragmenting the region.
"From the beginning, the AL made provocative decisions against Syria and Turkey took the lead talking about economic sanctions on Syria," he added.
Syria's Ambassador to Lebanon: Sanctions against Syria will yield counter-productive results
Syria's Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Kareem stressed Syria's keenness on establishing best relations with the Arab countries despite that some Arab leaders and politicians erred in prioritizing their interests and responding to foreign pressures.
In a press conference following his meeting with the former Lebanese Premier Omar Karami, the Ambassador stressed that Syria has long experience in dealing with blockade and that the sanctions against it will yield the opposite results.
He added that Syria has many ways to overcome the sanctions as the world's greatest powers are Syria's best friends and allies such as China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa and Iran.
Abdel Kareem added that Syria is punished because it is the supporter of all liberation movements in Iraq and Lebanon against the Israeli and U.S. ambitions in the region.
He expressed confidence in that the public pressure will force the Arab countries to review their policies, adding that Syria will come out stronger from the current situation thanks to the Syrian people's unity.
The Ambassador underlined cooperation between the Syrian and Lebanese armies to stop smuggling operations from Lebanon to Syria, calling upon the Lebanese government to have effective role in preventing all forms of smuggling arms and armed men to Syria.
Jordanian analyst: Economic sanction against Syria will affect the neighboring countries
The economic analyst and member of the Jordanian national initiative in solidarity with Syria George Haddadin said that the economic sanctions against Syria will affect the neighboring countries.
He added that these sanctions serve particular ambitions in rebuilding the "new Middle East" in line with the American interests and the Capitalist powers in the world.
He added that social classes in Jordan were the first to denounce the AL decisions against Syria as the two people have joint interests and the Jordanian farmers published a statement in rejection of the AL decisions which damage their interests.
لا يوجد آلية حتى الآن للبدء بتنفيذ العقوبات.. رجال الأعمال العرب سيجدون وسائلهم للتعامل مع مصالحهم في سورية
There is no mechanism yet to start implementing the sanctions .. Arab businessmen will find their methods to deal with interests in Syria
http://www.syriandays.com/index.php?page=show_det&select_page=67&id=29125
Friday 02/12/2011
14:19:12
Adnan Yousif, Chairman of the Union of Arab Banks said in a statement to stock exchanges and markets that the resolution adopted by the Arab League of Arab States and the new sanctions imposed on Syria is the wrong decisions and no one knows how to implement them because they are just decisions, there is no mechanism yet to begin implementation and work out for Syrian or Arab businessmen will find several ways to communicate and deal with their interests in Syria and other Arab countries and the implementation of these sanctions is up to the states and depending on the country and its interests with Syria.
Youssef pointed out that the Arab financial institutions dealings with the central bank will continue unless the instructions for each country separately, order the banks to halt trading in its territory pursuant to the Arab League's decision to impose economic sanctions on Syria.
Will be subject to evaluation of the results will not appear until after 6 months
Predicted Adnan Yousef that if implemented economic sanctions, the impact will be after at least 6 months and will be primarily on the state banks, which have large deposits in the banks of Gulf and Arab, as they will freeze their deposits only, that is, it will affect the financial resources of the budget of the Syrian and hope that does not affect commercial banks' dealing with the Central Bank.
Yousuf said, in contrast, the decisions of the Arab League will be subject to assessment by each State on the basis that each State has the right to permit or maintain on its exports and imports to and from Syria if it were to serve the parties and according to the agreements concluded between them.
Affect the private banks are not affected
As for private banks operating in Syria take it that Yousuf has a great role they affect and will not be affected by such sanctions and resolutions, but will be the primary beneficiary because it is the only place, safe deposit, which the owners feared that the freeze out of Syria.
And for the prevention of airlines to deal with Syria, Yousuf said: that the decision will include a state-owned companies only and will not apply to private companies, in the present time we note the development of private aviation more than any other of the existence of many private companies in Syria and other countries, and reject the implementation of this resolution, and if the implementation, there are other ways of dealing for the passengers to Syria and follow the work of businessmen who have interests which will be by either Lebanon or Jordan, while the significant impact for these sanctions would be on foreign investments to Syria will be affected by this aspect in the event of cessation of trading with the Central Bank Syrian.
Difficult to implement sanctions
The head of the Federation of banks that Syria went through tough times in the past in terms of handling and great deal of experience, and during the previous years, Syria withdrew many of the deposits from the European market and the U.S. and put it in the market of Asia and the Gulf, indicating the presence of many Arab countries, like Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan have good ties with Syria terms of trade, so it will be difficult to implement these sanctions for the transition of commercial traffic to these countries on the grounds that the first exports from Syria.
Baraka continued to expand the center of the Syrian conditions
Yousuf said we are continuing to expand the midst of this atmosphere in Syria, and whatever the problems and difficulties, and we are conservative in terms of branching and terms of funding, and for us, Al Baraka Bank is the Bank of Syria and regulations in Syria, a subsidiary of the Central Bank will not be affected by the decisions of the outside, The mechanism is not clear at all and the decisions For all the banks have not been implemented, and, if implemented by the States with the decisions we will swap the bank, and will provide assistance or funding of the Bank who carried out these decisions, it will bypass most of the banks of these sanctions.
Nasrallah: Ongoing Events Political and Never Sectarian
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/12/02/385547.htm
Dec 02, 2011
BEIRUT, (SANA) _ Hizbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, called on some Lebanese to rationalize, be calm, keeping their discourse a political and not a sectarian one.
In a televised speech, aired yesterday by al-Manar Satellite TV, Nasrallah pointed out that the ongoing events came within a political and never a sectarian spectrum, calling on media outlets, owned by former Premier Saa'd al-Hariri of the 'Future Trend', to halt their provocative sectarian and ethnic campaigns.
Al-Hariri's media outlets have been – tirelessly but in vain- disseminating fabricated news as to sow sectarian divisions inside Lebanon and in Syria as well.
Sayyed Nasrallah categorically refuted the accusations by some sides, in particular al-Hariri's 'Future Trend', that fighters from Hizbollah or the Iraqi 'Al-Mihdi Army' were sent to Syria, asserting that the Resistance, despite the sinister campaigns to tarnish its image, is but to remain strong, determined and never to back off.
Hizbollah Secretary General, a prominent symbol of Arab Resistance against the Israeli occupation, renewed his Party's rejection to financing the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) because it is unconstitutional and illegitimate, declaring, however, that Hizbollah considers Lebanon's national interest as the priority.
When it comes to STL, Nasrallah called on Najib Miqati, Lebanese Premier, who transferred money to STL, to consider the issue of false witnesses, and the four prominent Lebanese Officers, who were put behind bars, under false and fabricated allegations.
لبنانيون: من يقيم علاقات مع إسرائيل لا يحق له معاقبة سورية
Lebanese: From assesses relations with Israel is not entitled to punish Syria
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/02/385600.htm
02 December 0.2011
Beirut - Cairo, (SANA) -
Denounced the Lebanese MP Hani Kobeissi the Arab League position of Syria is not surprising how the Arabs feel the danger which threatens Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and all the Arab region, while the step forward to punish Syria because it supported the resistance and prevented the partition of Lebanon.
Kobeissi asked in a statement today do not need Jerusalem to edit and Israeli settlements to the stop calling these countries to re-correct the compass direction of the real danger which threatens the nation in its security and unity, but is Israel, saying that it maintains relations with Israel is not entitled to punish Syria.
For his part, warned the MP Ali Fayyad, a member of the Loyalty to Resistance Bloc representative of a scheme seriously to involve Syria in the conflict burn region, pointing to the existence of conspirators and the ignorant taking lightly and without a real appreciation of the risks.
The Fayyad said in a statement that the foreign intervention in the crisis does not present the Syrian resolution mechanisms, but mechanisms of blockade and exacerbate the crisis.
Khreis: Syria will emerge from the crisis stronger and more solid
In turn, MP Ali Khreis member of the Liberation and Development Bloc parliamentary speech that what is going on in the Arab region is a clear U.S. plan to divide it into small, however, to become the United States and its allies.
The Khreis that required Syria to not-in the U.S. plan is to move away from the line of resistance and opposition and abandon our principles and maxims, stressing that the alliance of the national forces with Syria principled and strategic and will continue as long as there is near us and on our borders, the Israeli enemy.
Khreis stressed that Syria will emerge from the crisis stronger and more solid.
Moussawi: What is going on in Syria falls under the U.S. plan to protect Israel and the elimination of the resistance in the region
For his part, Lebanese MP Nawaf Moussawi, a member of Fidelity to the parliamentary resistance to what is happening in Syria now falls under the U.S. plan to target the resistance in the region to protect Israel.
Moussawi said in a speech that this targeting is designed to eliminate the resistance in the region and transform this part of the Mediterranean to the advance base for NATO as a guarantee for Israeli security and trying to control Syria, as it is a response and coverage of the Americas on the crushing defeat suffered by the U.S. military in Iraq.
He noted that the resistance to al-Moussawi has already faced such a project was dropped by the Israeli and the U.S. This is not the first time where they have suffered such a project, stressing that the resistance will fall the American project and will bring new Israeli victory and glory in the face of this ongoing project.
Hamid: targeting Syria is intended to contain the tide of resistance in the region and Almmana
In turn, the Lebanese parliament member Hamid Ayoub, Liberation and Development Bloc parliamentary that targeting Syria is an attempt to contain the tide of resistance and Almmana in the region.
Hamid stressed in a statement that the opposition forces opposed to colonialism will be able to overcome the attempts being made successively and procedures, political and economic blockades standing exposed.
He pointed out that the goals of Syria and Iran is supporting the Palestinian cause and the return of her family and her children to the land of our fathers and grandfathers also want Lebanon to be an impregnable fortress, and do not penetrate the sovereignty of every day.
For his part, said the mark on Fadlallah said Arab and Islamic region live a power struggle between the axles International, pointing out that what is happening in Syria than it is to enter the internal situation in the interactions of the major international hubs and regional hubs that operate as an agent for others.
Fadlallah called on the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic cooperation to work hard in order to facilitate the solution in Syria to avoid any negative consequences that result at the level of Arab and Islamic relations and thwart the plans of those who draw their foreign policies to impose a new reality in the Middle East.
For his part, former MP Emile Emile Lahoud will be subject to U.S. and Israeli hegemony is not entitled to criticize Syria, which raised the top of the Arabs in more than one location.
He asked Lahoud said in a statement 00 Where was the Arab League, which Astnhitha the United States to perform the role of the playwright, while a poor Lebanese were dying under the brutal Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, while Israeli tanks bulldozed Palestinian homes, including the.
Hayek: desperation has crept into the hearts of some Arabs in the hearts of Americans and Europeans of the steadfastness of the Syrian
In turn, a beautiful Hayek Chairman of the Political Bureau of the Amal Movement Targeting the axis of resistance and opposition today is a result of the humiliating U.S. withdrawal from Iraq under the blows of the resistance.
Hayek and renewed emphasis on this theme that the U.S. rejects the Zionist project, and stems from the big issues, especially the great cause of the central base in this region, namely the issue of Palestine, which was abandoned by the Arabs did not win it, but the center of resistance and opposition.
He said Hayek, the Arab League has become political deadwood driven the U.S. at will because it abdicated its responsibilities and the United States hire a stand named the Arab League in order to launch warnings, threats and sanctions towards Syria and tomorrow the direction of Lebanon and accepted the direction of Palestine and what is being plotted now for the entire region within this vision.
He believed Hayek that despair has crept into the hearts of some Arabs in the hearts of Americans and Europeans of the steadfastness of Syria and the resistance and the situation was Lebanon's pro-Syrian Arab League Agazam adding that we will not renounce will Ngdr Syria because we will stand by ourselves and from this standpoint we address the Zionist project, which wants to break up the region and Cherzmtha .
In turn, was considered a member of the Presidency in the Amal Khalil Hamdan, the Western powers and colonial want to weaken Syria because it is the only Arab country that stands in the face of Israel, pointing out that the West wants to distinguish between resistance and Syria and Iran to protect Israel's security.
The other hand, international relations official Ammar Moussawi, Hezbollah and the Ambassador of Cuba in Lebanon Manuel Acosta to stand by Syria in the face of what is under his attack on the international background of the national positions.
The al-Moussawi said in a statement that blocks the international anti-American policy based on unilateralism and hegemony is in the development and the increasing U.S. unilateralism and the stage of the resolution of international stages were more volatile and unstable, as witnessed great wars and conflicts, and international and regional crises.
He emphasized that the United States to resort to fabricating new crises or ignite fires in more than one region in the world to cover up the crises and failures, saying that even Washington's allies not safe from their policies and compulsion in reference to the rumors about Washington's responsibility to deepen the financial crisis in the European Union and to speak in this regard became announcing and became used in the context of the conflict between European leaders.
Yafi: the war on Syria aimed at disintegrating the region and facilitate the looting of their wealth
Confirmed the Lebanese political analyst Ghada Yafi that the war is waged against Syria under the slogans of different causes of back to the old map aims to impose American control over gas resources in the region and the reduction of Russia's emerging capacity to confront Iran.
The Yafi in an article published in the Arab Egyptian under Anoanasrar war on Syria The story of the war on Syria began in 1992 as was approved the Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and to prevent the aggravation of global warming, bringing the gas is more important than oil, while lies upstream core of the fuel vital in Iran and Russia.
The Yafi The new Middle East project put forward by the United States was based on the perception the U.S. administration to map the gas in the region, based in Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Egypt as well as the gas was known to Washington only in the Mediterranean coast between Palestine, Lebanon and Cyprus, from where I realized that the control its sources on the mean survival Oouhd pole, runs the world through the ability to compete with Russian gas.
The writer that the administration was facing difficulty in access to gas, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan their being located in the area of influence of Russia, therefore, the alternative was to control the gas, the Mediterranean and the supply of gas to Europe in case of incapacity of Moscow for the purchase of gas from Central Asia, they would be forced to engage in the tunnel the U.S..
She drew the writer to get that gas in the medium needs to be peace in the region and this peace will be the beginning of the end of the Israeli entity and that Washington decided to divide the Middle East to the countries of sectarian-run Israel so that you can liquidate the Palestinian cause, through the elimination of the forces of resistance in the area that became an obstacle to the future of Washington and this was manifested in the war on Lebanon in 1996 and that has not been completed so far over the ongoing attacks on this country and who are the resistance which the most strength and stiffness as well as the pressure on Syria over several attempts, including the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and charged to up to what we are seeing now plotted against Syria.
She explained the writer that there are two regional formed part of the American plan to target the region are Qatar and Turkey, where he was held in 1995, a deal in Qatar led to the coup, Jr. on his father was the demarcation of the border with Iran and began the extraction of gas to meet European demand was starting to liquidate Qatari gas for the non-pipeline gas from Qatar to Europe while the observer may be noted that Bahrain and the Sultanate of Oman Tstraean gas from distant places, while the Qatari gas intended for the European market to compete with Russian gas.
And followed the writer that in parallel, held in Washington in 2002 deal with Recep Tayyip Erdoganris Turkish Prime Minister and President Turkaabd Gul, which capsized on the teacher Necmettin Erbakan and founded the Justice and Development Party, noting that the coup in Turkey was due to gas, as was the case in Qatar, where Washington announced for the Nabucco gas pipeline, which can be inferred from his name on many meanings Vabuku name of a musical work to speak of what Verdi called the captivity of Nebuchadnezzar of the Jews in Iraq.
The writer said that Washington was planning first to get gas from Egypt and the Mediterranean coast in Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus and see with the strike at Syria that it will get a ruling without a war on Iran's gas and therefore Russia will not be able to buy gas Azeri and thus lose Moscow's influence in the Mediterranean, Europe and Central Asia at once and be Washington dominated the world forever.
And confirmed the writer that, despite continued U.S. administration in its goal to control the sources of gas lines, though, this scheme is facing setbacks and pitfalls of large, whether in Lebanon or Syria or the region in general and Russia in the face of the blockade which the United States tries to impose upon the movements and projects wide, starting from the draft flood the North that connects the gas from northern Russia to Germany across the sea through a dirty south through the Black Sea to Bulgaria, including the distributed line through Romania, Hungary, Austria and south through Greece and Italy, down to the D line from Nigeria to Niger, Algeria is to liquefy the gas and moved to Europe and later pipeline to Europe.
The writer explained that these points actually reveal parts of the reality of the war being waged against Syria, and intended to be subject to subject and the region through the participation of countries in the Decree of the planned projects aimed at the U.S. division and its control over its resources.
المقاومة الوطنية اللبنانية تحبط عملية تجسس إسرائيلية جديدة
Lebanese national resistance frustrate the process of a new Israeli spy
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/02/385642.htm
02 December 0.2011
Beirut, (SANA) -
Announced that the Lebanese national resistance today that it has managed to foil an Israeli spying operation in South Lebanon resistance achieved a new milestone in this regard.
A statement issued by Media Relations at the Hezbollah resistance that evening I discovered a device on the line wire in the valley between the towns of Srifa and Deir quantity before the enemy bombed by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft from the air, stressing that none of the resistance was not hurt.
The Israeli enemy continues its attacks on Lebanon's sovereignty to planting spy networks inside Lebanese territory, where resistance was detected earlier this year, a number of spy networks and foiled, including the discovery of a Mossad agents rivers.
Did Hizballah Beat the CIA at Its Own Techno-Surveillance Game?
http://www.lebanese-forces.org/articles/Did-Hizballah-Beat-the-CIA-at-Its-Own-Techno-Surveillance-Game-Read-more-http-www-time-com-time-world-article-0-8599-2100667-00-html-ixzz1fHaBheQR1005623.shtml
By Robert Baer (Time)
Dec 1, 2011 - 6:44:50 AM
The CIA found itself in some rough waters in the Middle East last week. On Thursday, an influential member of Iran's parliament announced that the Islamic republic had arrested 12 "CIA agents" who had allegedly been targeting Iran's military and its nuclear program. The lawmaker didn't give the nationality of the agents, but the presumption is that they were Iranians recruited to spy for the CIA. The agency hasn't yet commented, but from what I've heard it was a serious compromise, one which the CIA is still trying to get to the bottom of.
Even more curious was the flap in Lebanon. In June, Hizballah's secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah announced that the movement had arrested two of its own members as CIA spies. But it wasn't until last week that the story got traction in Washington. The CIA confirmed that operations in Beirut had been compromised but declined to offer details. As in the case of the alleged Iranian debacle, it's no doubt still doing a "damage assessment" - a process that can take years. Even then, it will be difficult to determine exactly what happened.
From what I've been able to piece together, Hizballah aggressively went after the CIA in Lebanon using telephone "link analysis." That's a form of electronic intelligence gathering that uses software capable of combing through trillions of gigabytes of phone-call data in search of anomalies - prepaid cell phones calling each other, series of brief calls, analysis of a cell-phone company's GPS tracking. Geeks who do this for a living understand how it works, and I'll take their word for it.
But it's not the technology that's remarkable, as much as the idea that it's being employed by Hizballah, a militant Islamic organization better known for acts of terror than for electronic counterespionage. That's another reminder that Hizballah has effectively supplanted the Lebanese state, taking over police and security functions that in other countries are the exclusively the domain of sovereign authority. Indeed, since Nasrallah's announcement of catching the CIA agents, no Lebanese authority has questioned why Hizballah, rather than Lebanese intelligence, would be responsible for catching alleged spies for foreign powers in Lebanon. Nobody bothers to ask what would be a pointless question; everyone knows that when it comes to military and security functions, Hizballah might as well be the state.
Since I served in Beirut during the '80s, I've been struck by the slow but inexorable shift of sovereign power to Hizballah. Not only does the movement have the largest military, with nearly 50,000 rockets pointed at Israel; it has de facto control over Lebanon's spies, both military and civilian. It green-lights senior appointments. Hizballah also is wired into all the databases, keeping track of who enters the country, who leaves, where they stay, whom they see and call. It's capable of monitoring every server in the country. It can even tap into broadband communications like Skype. And, of course, it doesn't bother with such legal niceties as warrants. If foreigners are going to be caught spy in Lebanon, it will be Hizballah that catches them.
I have a feeling last week's events bodes ill for U.S. intelligence because it suggests that anyone capable from organized crime to terrorist groups can greatly enhance their counterintelligence capability by simply buying off-the-shelf equipment and the know-how to use it. Like a lot of people, I thought it would be easy coasting at the end of the Cold War after the KGB was defanged. Instead, globalization and the rapid spread of sophisticated technologies have opened an espionage Pandora's box.
Baer, a former Middle East CIA field officer, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower.
الرابطة السريانية استغربت استمرار التعديات على مسيحيي الشرق قتلا وتهجيرا تحت ذرائع متنوعة
Syriac League surprised the continued encroachment on the Eastern Christians were killed and uprooted, under various pretexts
http://www.lebanese-forces.org/local/syriac-league-killing-christians1005625.shtml
By NNA
Dec 2, 2011 - 6:51:51 AM
Held Syriac League regular meeting at its headquarters in the new headed Habib Afram and handled in the affairs of variety, and after the meeting aired Secretary General George ASIO statement welcoming "the election of Rev. Dr. Paul Rouhana Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Arab League of Kaslik new secretary general of the Council of Churches of the Middle East," calling for "intellectual renaissance in the institutional regulatory spiritual understanding of the reality of the Christians in the East and the serious challenges they face."
He was surprised at the continuation of "infringements of the Eastern Christians were killed and uprooted under the pretext of a variety of the latest targeting Copts in the process of revenge in the heart of the village of them what resulted in the deaths and injuries," reprehensible "disregard for the permanent security of the Christians and considered dissenter and letting off steam, and we ask the Egyptian state why linger in the protection of its citizens, and for any reason, and why the judiciary and the security measures do not reflect respect for equality among its citizens. "
I asked the Association in a statement: "the Islamic forces of the Muslim Brotherhood to the Salafi trend is your position on what is going on? Why not hear from you in condemnation of the attack on the safe? That the announcement of the Salafi trend in Egypt, he reassures Christians that we will not touch a hair of you is in itself a consecration Zmah to the logic flawed. Why was already thinking about any any touching a Copt? Is not there a national security and full citizenship, and most importantly that it is required not only the security or the protection of the Coptic, but political and cultural rights and the right representation in all state institutions. "
The Association condemned the "escalation of violence in Iraq against all innocent, and especially the attempt to assassinate the Iraqi Minister of Environment Sargon Lazar Salioa congratulate him survive is the one who represents the composition of the Christian in the government and considered them as an episode of the series hit the Christian presence in Mesopotamia."
مجلس كنائس الشرق الأوسط يدعو إلى اعتماد مبدأ الحوار في حل المشاكل ونبذ العنف
Middle East Council of Churches calls for the adoption of the principle of dialogue to solve problems and to renounce violence
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/02/385636.htm
02 December 0.2011
Beirut, (SANA) -
Called the Council of Churches of the Middle East to the need to adopt the principle of dialogue in resolving problems when located by any party, and renouncing violence.
The Council stressed in the final statement of its General Assembly were distributed today that Christians Mtasalon in the East and are willing to follow the construction and co-existence and support the process of reform and development for the good of man reiterated his support for Arab causes, fair, especially the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination according to international legitimacy resolutions reminding the international community to take into account humanitarian principles which is human freedom, especially intellectual, religious and political.
خامنئي يصدر فتوى بشراء كل المنتجات السورية رداً على العقوبات العربية
Khamenei issued a fatwa to buy all the products in response to the sanctions, the Syrian Arab
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=e8a8701a229d9cdd58da416459fdf71a&ar=521492935
Friday - December 2 - 2011 - 13:11:29
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa to buy all the Syrian products of any kind, quantity in hard currency.
Khamenei asked (as quoted by several media outlets) to buy all the Syrian products, without exception and regardless of the specifications and quantities and in hard currency.
And the Arab League imposed economic sanctions and political and Syria after negotiations between the parties reached an impasse with regard to the Protocol of dispatching observers.
And sanctions included freezing assets of Syrian officials and stop dealing with the Syrian banks and stop trade agreements, as recommended by the ad hoc committee of the Arab League to stop flights to and from Syria as from 15 December, the current.
السفير الإيراني في لبنان: العقوبات على سورية لا جدوى منها
Iranian Ambassador in Lebanon: Syria sanctions futile
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/02/385609.htm
02 December 0.2011
Beirut, (SANA) -
Considered the Iranian ambassador in Lebanon Ghazanfar Abadi corner that sanctions on Syria are useless.
He was surprised Abadi said in a statement after his talks today with Lebanese Minister of Health Ali Hassan Khalil deal the United States and some countries in the twenty-first century the language of the threat of no use stressing that states must return to the truth and focus on support issues, the just and fair and support the truth and the right holder the principle that Iran is heading.
وزارة الزراعة الأردنية : لا قرار بإيقاف التبادل التجاري بين الأردن وسوريا
Ministry of Agriculture of Jordan: no decision to stop trade exchange between Jordan and Syria
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=c7a445eff6a5be64459d955b055c8e6e&ar=257529270
Friday - December 2 - 2011 - 13:20:48
Said the Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture Dr. "Satisfied Troana" the continuation of the export and import of vegetables and fruits from Syria and to the normal, indicating that there is no official government decision to stop the trade between the two countries.
According to the newspaper, "al-Dustour," Jordan said, "Troana" to import and export door open with Syria, as it serves the economic interests of both countries.
The head of the Federation and exporters of vegetables and fruits, "Solomon Hiyari" that the volume of shipments of Jordanian vegetables and fruits that are exported to Syria rose to about 17 a day packed with Prada option, squash, eggplant and tomatoes.
He noted, "Hiyari" that refrigerators Jordanian and Syrian movement of consignments to all the Syrian governorates, without exception, most notably Damascus and Aleppo, Hama and Homs, which made the missionaries rise much to the point that will be with them starting on Friday increased the number of refrigerators to 20 will be loaded with vegetables and exported to Syria, as well to return laden with fruits and citrus fruits from there.
The "Hiyari" that the Syrian market of the most important markets for the sector exporters and producers of vegetables, fruits, Jordan, where imports Syria each year from Jordan about 8000 Brad valued at 100 million dinars, in addition to the Jordan made agricultural products to Eastern Europe and Turkey via Syria, as underlines the importance of the Syrian market for the agricultural sector in the Kingdom.
Syria suspends FTA with Turkey in response to sanctions
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-264571-syria-suspends-fta-with-turkey-in-response-to-sanctions.html
02 December 2011, Friday / TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
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In a related development, a local TV channel in Gaziantep reported on Thursday that Syria is preparing to close down the Syrian Consulate in Gaziantep, adding that Syria will maintain relations through the Syrian Embassy in Ankara and the Syrian Consulate in İstanbul.
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Reason behind Topkapı attack by Libyan remains mystery
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-264653-reason-behind-topkapi-attack-by-libyan-remains-mystery.html
02 December 2011, Friday / TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
The motive of the Libyan attacker who opened fire in one of the courtyards of Topkapı Palace, one of İstanbul's most frequently visited tourist attractions, still remains unclear, but investigators say some progress has been made in the probe.
The assailant, identified as Samir Salem Ali Elmadhavri, was shot dead at the end of a one-and-a-half-hour-long clash with police after wounding three people inside the courtyard behind the main entrance of Topkapı Palace in the city's Sultanahmet neighborhood on Wednesday. Two soldiers and a private security officer were wounded in the attack. Security footage shows him yelling in Arabic, “This will be a massacre like in Norway.” Indeed, the intervention of a non-commissioned officer who was able to stall him for 45 minutes before the police arrived is now seen as the only reason that stopped the gunman from proceeding further into the palace, visited by hundreds of tourists every day.
His motives remain unclear in spite of many details that have emerged since Wednesday, including footage showing the gunman at a nearby cafe before the attack. Investigators have established that Elmadhavri was a 36-year-old businessman and co-owned a construction company in Libya. He was also carrying a passport given to businessmen by the Libyan government. The man walked into the scene with a pump-action rifle and a hunter’s rifle, but also seized an MP5 rifle from a soldier. A total of 301 cases from the hunter rifle and 66 cases from the MP5 were found near the columns of the St. Irene Museum. A Libyan passport, a hotel room keycard and a mobile phone were found on his body.
Investigators have established that he arrived in İstanbul on Nov. 27 on a Turkish Airlines (THY) flight from Benghazi. This was his first visit to Turkey, where he stayed at Hotel Crystal in Taksim. No evidence of prior plans to stage a shooting were found in his hotel room.
Thirteen people have testified in the investigation so far. Police have established that the assailant bought the pump-action rifle for TL 200 and the hunting rifle for TL 300 on Nov. 28, sparking a debate on the laxness of rules for buying firearms for foreigners. One person, who was detained after witnesses claims he had had a meeting with the gunman, was released after testifying to police. Both police and the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) are conducting an investigation to establish his motive.
On the day of the attack, the assailant first entered a café near Topkapı Palace before climbing upstairs while taking his two rifles with him to the café’s restroom, and walked out after strapping the rifles onto his body. He then went into another cafe, ordered a cup of coffee, paid for it but left without having taken a sip.
The police haven’t ruled out the possibility that he might be linked to Libyan officials, İstanbul Governor Hüseyni Avni Mutlu said.
There are also other possibilities. Some have claimed that he was just a mad man seeking revenge for an overpriced entertainment facility in Taksim. Witnesses say he walked into a bar in Taksim with a person whom he’d reportedly just met, but was upset with the bill, which appeared to be inflated.
Heavy bag he carried
Footage from the two cafés the assailant visited before the attack show him wearing a baseball hat hiding most of his face and a box to carry the rifles, as well as a black plastic bag and a knapsack. He stayed in this first cafeteria for nearly two minutes, and walked out without looking at the security camera at all and holding his head down. The owner of the first café, Orhan Güngör, said he had to move the box and the bag in the man’s hand out of the way after he went to the bathroom. “The knapsack was really heavy, so I left it. The box was also hefty. I wanted to look inside for a minute, but then I changed my mind. He came downstairs after a short while. I asked him where he was from. He told me he was Libyan. He didn’t want to talk much. I gave him a brochure. He took it and left.”
Meanwhile, security in Topkapı Palace was tightened significantly after the attack, with a metal detector being placed at the main entrance, the Bab-ı Hümayün. Previously, there were no security checks at the front gate.
The palace walls, trees and signs in the courtyard still bear the traces of the terrifying one-and-a-half hours of the Libyan gunman’s terrorism. There are bullet holes everywhere, including on a door and marble columns in the court yard. Tourists visiting the palace stopped to take pictures of the damage on Friday.
Gunman’s father in Libya
In related developments, the assailant’s 72-year-old father, Salim Elmadhavri, visited the Turkish Embassy in Benghazi on Wednesday, and apologized for the incident. “Officials [at the embassy] were nice to me. I want his body to be returned to Libya,” he said, according to a report in the Haber Türk daily on Friday. He also apologized and claimed that his son had psychological issues. “We apologize a thousand times to Turkey and the Turkish nation. His mental health wasn’t very good. Do not take this as an attack on Turkey.”
The Umut Foundation, an anti-gun civil society organization, has said the attack, which could have had devastating results, was the consequence of Turkey’s lax gun sale policies for foreigners. Any foreigner who walks in with his or her passport can obtain a hunting rifle without a permit. Meanwhile, store owners said they had received orders from officials to stop all firearm sales to foreigners until further notice.
The Umut Foundation, however, says it is also fairly easy for Turkish citizens to obtain a gun. Acquiring a permit only takes about 10 days, and there is insufficient oversight of the process. Annually, about 3,000 people are killed in Turkey by firearms.
Analysts: Sanctions against Syria Null and Void, Will Yield Counter-Productive Results on Neighboring Countries
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/02/385544.htm
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/12/02/385556.htm
Dec 02, 2011
DAMASCUS, (SANA) – The Turkish political analyst Barakat Tar regretted that the Arab League (AL) which has never made a decision condemning the Zionist occupation of Palestine agreed today to punish a founding member through a set of sanctions, which Turkey based on and exploited to exert more pressures on Syria.
In an interview with the Syrian TV on Thursday, Tar said the people of the region should be united in the face of the Israeli-American scheme to occupy Syria, Lebanon and Iran; Israel which still occupies the Arab territories and the U.S. which occupied Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan.
He added the Turkish people view whatever decisions the Turkish government made as null and void after they exposed its role with the NATO and the "New Middle East" project.
In turn, the Lebanese strategic expert and analyst, Amin Hteit, highlighted a sharp difference between Turkey's official stance and that of the Turkish intellectual elites which recognize the reality of the whole situation.
He added that the statement due to be published by the recently convened Syrian-Turkish Forum from the headquarters of the Turkish government in condemnation of the Development and Justice government which work against the interest of the Turkish people and Turkey in general will prove the Turkey's efforts to know what really happened and differentiate between reforms and corruption and destruction in favor of the West.
For his part, Former Egyptian MP, Jamal Asa'ad, said what is taking place in Syria constitutes a part of the Zionist-American project which aims at fragmenting the region.
"From the beginning, the AL made provocative decisions against Syria and Turkey took the lead talking about economic sanctions on Syria," he added.
Syria's Ambassador to Lebanon: Sanctions against Syria will yield counter-productive results
Syria's Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Kareem stressed Syria's keenness on establishing best relations with the Arab countries despite that some Arab leaders and politicians erred in prioritizing their interests and responding to foreign pressures.
In a press conference following his meeting with the former Lebanese Premier Omar Karami, the Ambassador stressed that Syria has long experience in dealing with blockade and that the sanctions against it will yield the opposite results.
He added that Syria has many ways to overcome the sanctions as the world's greatest powers are Syria's best friends and allies such as China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa and Iran.
Abdel Kareem added that Syria is punished because it is the supporter of all liberation movements in Iraq and Lebanon against the Israeli and U.S. ambitions in the region.
He expressed confidence in that the public pressure will force the Arab countries to review their policies, adding that Syria will come out stronger from the current situation thanks to the Syrian people's unity.
The Ambassador underlined cooperation between the Syrian and Lebanese armies to stop smuggling operations from Lebanon to Syria, calling upon the Lebanese government to have effective role in preventing all forms of smuggling arms and armed men to Syria.
Jordanian analyst: Economic sanction against Syria will affect the neighboring countries
The economic analyst and member of the Jordanian national initiative in solidarity with Syria George Haddadin said that the economic sanctions against Syria will affect the neighboring countries.
He added that these sanctions serve particular ambitions in rebuilding the "new Middle East" in line with the American interests and the Capitalist powers in the world.
He added that social classes in Jordan were the first to denounce the AL decisions against Syria as the two people have joint interests and the Jordanian farmers published a statement in rejection of the AL decisions which damage their interests.
لا يوجد آلية حتى الآن للبدء بتنفيذ العقوبات.. رجال الأعمال العرب سيجدون وسائلهم للتعامل مع مصالحهم في سورية
There is no mechanism yet to start implementing the sanctions .. Arab businessmen will find their methods to deal with interests in Syria
http://www.syriandays.com/index.php?page=show_det&select_page=67&id=29125
Friday 02/12/2011
14:19:12
Adnan Yousif, Chairman of the Union of Arab Banks said in a statement to stock exchanges and markets that the resolution adopted by the Arab League of Arab States and the new sanctions imposed on Syria is the wrong decisions and no one knows how to implement them because they are just decisions, there is no mechanism yet to begin implementation and work out for Syrian or Arab businessmen will find several ways to communicate and deal with their interests in Syria and other Arab countries and the implementation of these sanctions is up to the states and depending on the country and its interests with Syria.
Youssef pointed out that the Arab financial institutions dealings with the central bank will continue unless the instructions for each country separately, order the banks to halt trading in its territory pursuant to the Arab League's decision to impose economic sanctions on Syria.
Will be subject to evaluation of the results will not appear until after 6 months
Predicted Adnan Yousef that if implemented economic sanctions, the impact will be after at least 6 months and will be primarily on the state banks, which have large deposits in the banks of Gulf and Arab, as they will freeze their deposits only, that is, it will affect the financial resources of the budget of the Syrian and hope that does not affect commercial banks' dealing with the Central Bank.
Yousuf said, in contrast, the decisions of the Arab League will be subject to assessment by each State on the basis that each State has the right to permit or maintain on its exports and imports to and from Syria if it were to serve the parties and according to the agreements concluded between them.
Affect the private banks are not affected
As for private banks operating in Syria take it that Yousuf has a great role they affect and will not be affected by such sanctions and resolutions, but will be the primary beneficiary because it is the only place, safe deposit, which the owners feared that the freeze out of Syria.
And for the prevention of airlines to deal with Syria, Yousuf said: that the decision will include a state-owned companies only and will not apply to private companies, in the present time we note the development of private aviation more than any other of the existence of many private companies in Syria and other countries, and reject the implementation of this resolution, and if the implementation, there are other ways of dealing for the passengers to Syria and follow the work of businessmen who have interests which will be by either Lebanon or Jordan, while the significant impact for these sanctions would be on foreign investments to Syria will be affected by this aspect in the event of cessation of trading with the Central Bank Syrian.
Difficult to implement sanctions
The head of the Federation of banks that Syria went through tough times in the past in terms of handling and great deal of experience, and during the previous years, Syria withdrew many of the deposits from the European market and the U.S. and put it in the market of Asia and the Gulf, indicating the presence of many Arab countries, like Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan have good ties with Syria terms of trade, so it will be difficult to implement these sanctions for the transition of commercial traffic to these countries on the grounds that the first exports from Syria.
Baraka continued to expand the center of the Syrian conditions
Yousuf said we are continuing to expand the midst of this atmosphere in Syria, and whatever the problems and difficulties, and we are conservative in terms of branching and terms of funding, and for us, Al Baraka Bank is the Bank of Syria and regulations in Syria, a subsidiary of the Central Bank will not be affected by the decisions of the outside, The mechanism is not clear at all and the decisions For all the banks have not been implemented, and, if implemented by the States with the decisions we will swap the bank, and will provide assistance or funding of the Bank who carried out these decisions, it will bypass most of the banks of these sanctions.
Nasrallah: Ongoing Events Political and Never Sectarian
http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2011/12/02/385547.htm
Dec 02, 2011
BEIRUT, (SANA) _ Hizbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, called on some Lebanese to rationalize, be calm, keeping their discourse a political and not a sectarian one.
In a televised speech, aired yesterday by al-Manar Satellite TV, Nasrallah pointed out that the ongoing events came within a political and never a sectarian spectrum, calling on media outlets, owned by former Premier Saa'd al-Hariri of the 'Future Trend', to halt their provocative sectarian and ethnic campaigns.
Al-Hariri's media outlets have been – tirelessly but in vain- disseminating fabricated news as to sow sectarian divisions inside Lebanon and in Syria as well.
Sayyed Nasrallah categorically refuted the accusations by some sides, in particular al-Hariri's 'Future Trend', that fighters from Hizbollah or the Iraqi 'Al-Mihdi Army' were sent to Syria, asserting that the Resistance, despite the sinister campaigns to tarnish its image, is but to remain strong, determined and never to back off.
Hizbollah Secretary General, a prominent symbol of Arab Resistance against the Israeli occupation, renewed his Party's rejection to financing the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) because it is unconstitutional and illegitimate, declaring, however, that Hizbollah considers Lebanon's national interest as the priority.
When it comes to STL, Nasrallah called on Najib Miqati, Lebanese Premier, who transferred money to STL, to consider the issue of false witnesses, and the four prominent Lebanese Officers, who were put behind bars, under false and fabricated allegations.
لبنانيون: من يقيم علاقات مع إسرائيل لا يحق له معاقبة سورية
Lebanese: From assesses relations with Israel is not entitled to punish Syria
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/02/385600.htm
02 December 0.2011
Beirut - Cairo, (SANA) -
Denounced the Lebanese MP Hani Kobeissi the Arab League position of Syria is not surprising how the Arabs feel the danger which threatens Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and all the Arab region, while the step forward to punish Syria because it supported the resistance and prevented the partition of Lebanon.
Kobeissi asked in a statement today do not need Jerusalem to edit and Israeli settlements to the stop calling these countries to re-correct the compass direction of the real danger which threatens the nation in its security and unity, but is Israel, saying that it maintains relations with Israel is not entitled to punish Syria.
For his part, warned the MP Ali Fayyad, a member of the Loyalty to Resistance Bloc representative of a scheme seriously to involve Syria in the conflict burn region, pointing to the existence of conspirators and the ignorant taking lightly and without a real appreciation of the risks.
The Fayyad said in a statement that the foreign intervention in the crisis does not present the Syrian resolution mechanisms, but mechanisms of blockade and exacerbate the crisis.
Khreis: Syria will emerge from the crisis stronger and more solid
In turn, MP Ali Khreis member of the Liberation and Development Bloc parliamentary speech that what is going on in the Arab region is a clear U.S. plan to divide it into small, however, to become the United States and its allies.
The Khreis that required Syria to not-in the U.S. plan is to move away from the line of resistance and opposition and abandon our principles and maxims, stressing that the alliance of the national forces with Syria principled and strategic and will continue as long as there is near us and on our borders, the Israeli enemy.
Khreis stressed that Syria will emerge from the crisis stronger and more solid.
Moussawi: What is going on in Syria falls under the U.S. plan to protect Israel and the elimination of the resistance in the region
For his part, Lebanese MP Nawaf Moussawi, a member of Fidelity to the parliamentary resistance to what is happening in Syria now falls under the U.S. plan to target the resistance in the region to protect Israel.
Moussawi said in a speech that this targeting is designed to eliminate the resistance in the region and transform this part of the Mediterranean to the advance base for NATO as a guarantee for Israeli security and trying to control Syria, as it is a response and coverage of the Americas on the crushing defeat suffered by the U.S. military in Iraq.
He noted that the resistance to al-Moussawi has already faced such a project was dropped by the Israeli and the U.S. This is not the first time where they have suffered such a project, stressing that the resistance will fall the American project and will bring new Israeli victory and glory in the face of this ongoing project.
Hamid: targeting Syria is intended to contain the tide of resistance in the region and Almmana
In turn, the Lebanese parliament member Hamid Ayoub, Liberation and Development Bloc parliamentary that targeting Syria is an attempt to contain the tide of resistance and Almmana in the region.
Hamid stressed in a statement that the opposition forces opposed to colonialism will be able to overcome the attempts being made successively and procedures, political and economic blockades standing exposed.
He pointed out that the goals of Syria and Iran is supporting the Palestinian cause and the return of her family and her children to the land of our fathers and grandfathers also want Lebanon to be an impregnable fortress, and do not penetrate the sovereignty of every day.
For his part, said the mark on Fadlallah said Arab and Islamic region live a power struggle between the axles International, pointing out that what is happening in Syria than it is to enter the internal situation in the interactions of the major international hubs and regional hubs that operate as an agent for others.
Fadlallah called on the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic cooperation to work hard in order to facilitate the solution in Syria to avoid any negative consequences that result at the level of Arab and Islamic relations and thwart the plans of those who draw their foreign policies to impose a new reality in the Middle East.
For his part, former MP Emile Emile Lahoud will be subject to U.S. and Israeli hegemony is not entitled to criticize Syria, which raised the top of the Arabs in more than one location.
He asked Lahoud said in a statement 00 Where was the Arab League, which Astnhitha the United States to perform the role of the playwright, while a poor Lebanese were dying under the brutal Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, while Israeli tanks bulldozed Palestinian homes, including the.
Hayek: desperation has crept into the hearts of some Arabs in the hearts of Americans and Europeans of the steadfastness of the Syrian
In turn, a beautiful Hayek Chairman of the Political Bureau of the Amal Movement Targeting the axis of resistance and opposition today is a result of the humiliating U.S. withdrawal from Iraq under the blows of the resistance.
Hayek and renewed emphasis on this theme that the U.S. rejects the Zionist project, and stems from the big issues, especially the great cause of the central base in this region, namely the issue of Palestine, which was abandoned by the Arabs did not win it, but the center of resistance and opposition.
He said Hayek, the Arab League has become political deadwood driven the U.S. at will because it abdicated its responsibilities and the United States hire a stand named the Arab League in order to launch warnings, threats and sanctions towards Syria and tomorrow the direction of Lebanon and accepted the direction of Palestine and what is being plotted now for the entire region within this vision.
He believed Hayek that despair has crept into the hearts of some Arabs in the hearts of Americans and Europeans of the steadfastness of Syria and the resistance and the situation was Lebanon's pro-Syrian Arab League Agazam adding that we will not renounce will Ngdr Syria because we will stand by ourselves and from this standpoint we address the Zionist project, which wants to break up the region and Cherzmtha .
In turn, was considered a member of the Presidency in the Amal Khalil Hamdan, the Western powers and colonial want to weaken Syria because it is the only Arab country that stands in the face of Israel, pointing out that the West wants to distinguish between resistance and Syria and Iran to protect Israel's security.
The other hand, international relations official Ammar Moussawi, Hezbollah and the Ambassador of Cuba in Lebanon Manuel Acosta to stand by Syria in the face of what is under his attack on the international background of the national positions.
The al-Moussawi said in a statement that blocks the international anti-American policy based on unilateralism and hegemony is in the development and the increasing U.S. unilateralism and the stage of the resolution of international stages were more volatile and unstable, as witnessed great wars and conflicts, and international and regional crises.
He emphasized that the United States to resort to fabricating new crises or ignite fires in more than one region in the world to cover up the crises and failures, saying that even Washington's allies not safe from their policies and compulsion in reference to the rumors about Washington's responsibility to deepen the financial crisis in the European Union and to speak in this regard became announcing and became used in the context of the conflict between European leaders.
Yafi: the war on Syria aimed at disintegrating the region and facilitate the looting of their wealth
Confirmed the Lebanese political analyst Ghada Yafi that the war is waged against Syria under the slogans of different causes of back to the old map aims to impose American control over gas resources in the region and the reduction of Russia's emerging capacity to confront Iran.
The Yafi in an article published in the Arab Egyptian under Anoanasrar war on Syria The story of the war on Syria began in 1992 as was approved the Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and to prevent the aggravation of global warming, bringing the gas is more important than oil, while lies upstream core of the fuel vital in Iran and Russia.
The Yafi The new Middle East project put forward by the United States was based on the perception the U.S. administration to map the gas in the region, based in Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Egypt as well as the gas was known to Washington only in the Mediterranean coast between Palestine, Lebanon and Cyprus, from where I realized that the control its sources on the mean survival Oouhd pole, runs the world through the ability to compete with Russian gas.
The writer that the administration was facing difficulty in access to gas, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan their being located in the area of influence of Russia, therefore, the alternative was to control the gas, the Mediterranean and the supply of gas to Europe in case of incapacity of Moscow for the purchase of gas from Central Asia, they would be forced to engage in the tunnel the U.S..
She drew the writer to get that gas in the medium needs to be peace in the region and this peace will be the beginning of the end of the Israeli entity and that Washington decided to divide the Middle East to the countries of sectarian-run Israel so that you can liquidate the Palestinian cause, through the elimination of the forces of resistance in the area that became an obstacle to the future of Washington and this was manifested in the war on Lebanon in 1996 and that has not been completed so far over the ongoing attacks on this country and who are the resistance which the most strength and stiffness as well as the pressure on Syria over several attempts, including the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and charged to up to what we are seeing now plotted against Syria.
She explained the writer that there are two regional formed part of the American plan to target the region are Qatar and Turkey, where he was held in 1995, a deal in Qatar led to the coup, Jr. on his father was the demarcation of the border with Iran and began the extraction of gas to meet European demand was starting to liquidate Qatari gas for the non-pipeline gas from Qatar to Europe while the observer may be noted that Bahrain and the Sultanate of Oman Tstraean gas from distant places, while the Qatari gas intended for the European market to compete with Russian gas.
And followed the writer that in parallel, held in Washington in 2002 deal with Recep Tayyip Erdoganris Turkish Prime Minister and President Turkaabd Gul, which capsized on the teacher Necmettin Erbakan and founded the Justice and Development Party, noting that the coup in Turkey was due to gas, as was the case in Qatar, where Washington announced for the Nabucco gas pipeline, which can be inferred from his name on many meanings Vabuku name of a musical work to speak of what Verdi called the captivity of Nebuchadnezzar of the Jews in Iraq.
The writer said that Washington was planning first to get gas from Egypt and the Mediterranean coast in Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus and see with the strike at Syria that it will get a ruling without a war on Iran's gas and therefore Russia will not be able to buy gas Azeri and thus lose Moscow's influence in the Mediterranean, Europe and Central Asia at once and be Washington dominated the world forever.
And confirmed the writer that, despite continued U.S. administration in its goal to control the sources of gas lines, though, this scheme is facing setbacks and pitfalls of large, whether in Lebanon or Syria or the region in general and Russia in the face of the blockade which the United States tries to impose upon the movements and projects wide, starting from the draft flood the North that connects the gas from northern Russia to Germany across the sea through a dirty south through the Black Sea to Bulgaria, including the distributed line through Romania, Hungary, Austria and south through Greece and Italy, down to the D line from Nigeria to Niger, Algeria is to liquefy the gas and moved to Europe and later pipeline to Europe.
The writer explained that these points actually reveal parts of the reality of the war being waged against Syria, and intended to be subject to subject and the region through the participation of countries in the Decree of the planned projects aimed at the U.S. division and its control over its resources.
المقاومة الوطنية اللبنانية تحبط عملية تجسس إسرائيلية جديدة
Lebanese national resistance frustrate the process of a new Israeli spy
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/02/385642.htm
02 December 0.2011
Beirut, (SANA) -
Announced that the Lebanese national resistance today that it has managed to foil an Israeli spying operation in South Lebanon resistance achieved a new milestone in this regard.
A statement issued by Media Relations at the Hezbollah resistance that evening I discovered a device on the line wire in the valley between the towns of Srifa and Deir quantity before the enemy bombed by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft from the air, stressing that none of the resistance was not hurt.
The Israeli enemy continues its attacks on Lebanon's sovereignty to planting spy networks inside Lebanese territory, where resistance was detected earlier this year, a number of spy networks and foiled, including the discovery of a Mossad agents rivers.
Did Hizballah Beat the CIA at Its Own Techno-Surveillance Game?
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By Robert Baer (Time)
Dec 1, 2011 - 6:44:50 AM
The CIA found itself in some rough waters in the Middle East last week. On Thursday, an influential member of Iran's parliament announced that the Islamic republic had arrested 12 "CIA agents" who had allegedly been targeting Iran's military and its nuclear program. The lawmaker didn't give the nationality of the agents, but the presumption is that they were Iranians recruited to spy for the CIA. The agency hasn't yet commented, but from what I've heard it was a serious compromise, one which the CIA is still trying to get to the bottom of.
Even more curious was the flap in Lebanon. In June, Hizballah's secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah announced that the movement had arrested two of its own members as CIA spies. But it wasn't until last week that the story got traction in Washington. The CIA confirmed that operations in Beirut had been compromised but declined to offer details. As in the case of the alleged Iranian debacle, it's no doubt still doing a "damage assessment" - a process that can take years. Even then, it will be difficult to determine exactly what happened.
From what I've been able to piece together, Hizballah aggressively went after the CIA in Lebanon using telephone "link analysis." That's a form of electronic intelligence gathering that uses software capable of combing through trillions of gigabytes of phone-call data in search of anomalies - prepaid cell phones calling each other, series of brief calls, analysis of a cell-phone company's GPS tracking. Geeks who do this for a living understand how it works, and I'll take their word for it.
But it's not the technology that's remarkable, as much as the idea that it's being employed by Hizballah, a militant Islamic organization better known for acts of terror than for electronic counterespionage. That's another reminder that Hizballah has effectively supplanted the Lebanese state, taking over police and security functions that in other countries are the exclusively the domain of sovereign authority. Indeed, since Nasrallah's announcement of catching the CIA agents, no Lebanese authority has questioned why Hizballah, rather than Lebanese intelligence, would be responsible for catching alleged spies for foreign powers in Lebanon. Nobody bothers to ask what would be a pointless question; everyone knows that when it comes to military and security functions, Hizballah might as well be the state.
Since I served in Beirut during the '80s, I've been struck by the slow but inexorable shift of sovereign power to Hizballah. Not only does the movement have the largest military, with nearly 50,000 rockets pointed at Israel; it has de facto control over Lebanon's spies, both military and civilian. It green-lights senior appointments. Hizballah also is wired into all the databases, keeping track of who enters the country, who leaves, where they stay, whom they see and call. It's capable of monitoring every server in the country. It can even tap into broadband communications like Skype. And, of course, it doesn't bother with such legal niceties as warrants. If foreigners are going to be caught spy in Lebanon, it will be Hizballah that catches them.
I have a feeling last week's events bodes ill for U.S. intelligence because it suggests that anyone capable from organized crime to terrorist groups can greatly enhance their counterintelligence capability by simply buying off-the-shelf equipment and the know-how to use it. Like a lot of people, I thought it would be easy coasting at the end of the Cold War after the KGB was defanged. Instead, globalization and the rapid spread of sophisticated technologies have opened an espionage Pandora's box.
Baer, a former Middle East CIA field officer, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower.
الرابطة السريانية استغربت استمرار التعديات على مسيحيي الشرق قتلا وتهجيرا تحت ذرائع متنوعة
Syriac League surprised the continued encroachment on the Eastern Christians were killed and uprooted, under various pretexts
http://www.lebanese-forces.org/local/syriac-league-killing-christians1005625.shtml
By NNA
Dec 2, 2011 - 6:51:51 AM
Held Syriac League regular meeting at its headquarters in the new headed Habib Afram and handled in the affairs of variety, and after the meeting aired Secretary General George ASIO statement welcoming "the election of Rev. Dr. Paul Rouhana Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Arab League of Kaslik new secretary general of the Council of Churches of the Middle East," calling for "intellectual renaissance in the institutional regulatory spiritual understanding of the reality of the Christians in the East and the serious challenges they face."
He was surprised at the continuation of "infringements of the Eastern Christians were killed and uprooted under the pretext of a variety of the latest targeting Copts in the process of revenge in the heart of the village of them what resulted in the deaths and injuries," reprehensible "disregard for the permanent security of the Christians and considered dissenter and letting off steam, and we ask the Egyptian state why linger in the protection of its citizens, and for any reason, and why the judiciary and the security measures do not reflect respect for equality among its citizens. "
I asked the Association in a statement: "the Islamic forces of the Muslim Brotherhood to the Salafi trend is your position on what is going on? Why not hear from you in condemnation of the attack on the safe? That the announcement of the Salafi trend in Egypt, he reassures Christians that we will not touch a hair of you is in itself a consecration Zmah to the logic flawed. Why was already thinking about any any touching a Copt? Is not there a national security and full citizenship, and most importantly that it is required not only the security or the protection of the Coptic, but political and cultural rights and the right representation in all state institutions. "
The Association condemned the "escalation of violence in Iraq against all innocent, and especially the attempt to assassinate the Iraqi Minister of Environment Sargon Lazar Salioa congratulate him survive is the one who represents the composition of the Christian in the government and considered them as an episode of the series hit the Christian presence in Mesopotamia."
مجلس كنائس الشرق الأوسط يدعو إلى اعتماد مبدأ الحوار في حل المشاكل ونبذ العنف
Middle East Council of Churches calls for the adoption of the principle of dialogue to solve problems and to renounce violence
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/02/385636.htm
02 December 0.2011
Beirut, (SANA) -
Called the Council of Churches of the Middle East to the need to adopt the principle of dialogue in resolving problems when located by any party, and renouncing violence.
The Council stressed in the final statement of its General Assembly were distributed today that Christians Mtasalon in the East and are willing to follow the construction and co-existence and support the process of reform and development for the good of man reiterated his support for Arab causes, fair, especially the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination according to international legitimacy resolutions reminding the international community to take into account humanitarian principles which is human freedom, especially intellectual, religious and political.
خامنئي يصدر فتوى بشراء كل المنتجات السورية رداً على العقوبات العربية
Khamenei issued a fatwa to buy all the products in response to the sanctions, the Syrian Arab
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=e8a8701a229d9cdd58da416459fdf71a&ar=521492935
Friday - December 2 - 2011 - 13:11:29
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa to buy all the Syrian products of any kind, quantity in hard currency.
Khamenei asked (as quoted by several media outlets) to buy all the Syrian products, without exception and regardless of the specifications and quantities and in hard currency.
And the Arab League imposed economic sanctions and political and Syria after negotiations between the parties reached an impasse with regard to the Protocol of dispatching observers.
And sanctions included freezing assets of Syrian officials and stop dealing with the Syrian banks and stop trade agreements, as recommended by the ad hoc committee of the Arab League to stop flights to and from Syria as from 15 December, the current.
السفير الإيراني في لبنان: العقوبات على سورية لا جدوى منها
Iranian Ambassador in Lebanon: Syria sanctions futile
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/12/02/385609.htm
02 December 0.2011
Beirut, (SANA) -
Considered the Iranian ambassador in Lebanon Ghazanfar Abadi corner that sanctions on Syria are useless.
He was surprised Abadi said in a statement after his talks today with Lebanese Minister of Health Ali Hassan Khalil deal the United States and some countries in the twenty-first century the language of the threat of no use stressing that states must return to the truth and focus on support issues, the just and fair and support the truth and the right holder the principle that Iran is heading.
وزارة الزراعة الأردنية : لا قرار بإيقاف التبادل التجاري بين الأردن وسوريا
Ministry of Agriculture of Jordan: no decision to stop trade exchange between Jordan and Syria
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Said the Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture Dr. "Satisfied Troana" the continuation of the export and import of vegetables and fruits from Syria and to the normal, indicating that there is no official government decision to stop the trade between the two countries.
According to the newspaper, "al-Dustour," Jordan said, "Troana" to import and export door open with Syria, as it serves the economic interests of both countries.
The head of the Federation and exporters of vegetables and fruits, "Solomon Hiyari" that the volume of shipments of Jordanian vegetables and fruits that are exported to Syria rose to about 17 a day packed with Prada option, squash, eggplant and tomatoes.
He noted, "Hiyari" that refrigerators Jordanian and Syrian movement of consignments to all the Syrian governorates, without exception, most notably Damascus and Aleppo, Hama and Homs, which made the missionaries rise much to the point that will be with them starting on Friday increased the number of refrigerators to 20 will be loaded with vegetables and exported to Syria, as well to return laden with fruits and citrus fruits from there.
The "Hiyari" that the Syrian market of the most important markets for the sector exporters and producers of vegetables, fruits, Jordan, where imports Syria each year from Jordan about 8000 Brad valued at 100 million dinars, in addition to the Jordan made agricultural products to Eastern Europe and Turkey via Syria, as underlines the importance of the Syrian market for the agricultural sector in the Kingdom.
Syria suspends FTA with Turkey in response to sanctions
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02 December 2011, Friday / TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
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In a related development, a local TV channel in Gaziantep reported on Thursday that Syria is preparing to close down the Syrian Consulate in Gaziantep, adding that Syria will maintain relations through the Syrian Embassy in Ankara and the Syrian Consulate in İstanbul.
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Reason behind Topkapı attack by Libyan remains mystery
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02 December 2011, Friday / TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
The motive of the Libyan attacker who opened fire in one of the courtyards of Topkapı Palace, one of İstanbul's most frequently visited tourist attractions, still remains unclear, but investigators say some progress has been made in the probe.
The assailant, identified as Samir Salem Ali Elmadhavri, was shot dead at the end of a one-and-a-half-hour-long clash with police after wounding three people inside the courtyard behind the main entrance of Topkapı Palace in the city's Sultanahmet neighborhood on Wednesday. Two soldiers and a private security officer were wounded in the attack. Security footage shows him yelling in Arabic, “This will be a massacre like in Norway.” Indeed, the intervention of a non-commissioned officer who was able to stall him for 45 minutes before the police arrived is now seen as the only reason that stopped the gunman from proceeding further into the palace, visited by hundreds of tourists every day.
His motives remain unclear in spite of many details that have emerged since Wednesday, including footage showing the gunman at a nearby cafe before the attack. Investigators have established that Elmadhavri was a 36-year-old businessman and co-owned a construction company in Libya. He was also carrying a passport given to businessmen by the Libyan government. The man walked into the scene with a pump-action rifle and a hunter’s rifle, but also seized an MP5 rifle from a soldier. A total of 301 cases from the hunter rifle and 66 cases from the MP5 were found near the columns of the St. Irene Museum. A Libyan passport, a hotel room keycard and a mobile phone were found on his body.
Investigators have established that he arrived in İstanbul on Nov. 27 on a Turkish Airlines (THY) flight from Benghazi. This was his first visit to Turkey, where he stayed at Hotel Crystal in Taksim. No evidence of prior plans to stage a shooting were found in his hotel room.
Thirteen people have testified in the investigation so far. Police have established that the assailant bought the pump-action rifle for TL 200 and the hunting rifle for TL 300 on Nov. 28, sparking a debate on the laxness of rules for buying firearms for foreigners. One person, who was detained after witnesses claims he had had a meeting with the gunman, was released after testifying to police. Both police and the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) are conducting an investigation to establish his motive.
On the day of the attack, the assailant first entered a café near Topkapı Palace before climbing upstairs while taking his two rifles with him to the café’s restroom, and walked out after strapping the rifles onto his body. He then went into another cafe, ordered a cup of coffee, paid for it but left without having taken a sip.
The police haven’t ruled out the possibility that he might be linked to Libyan officials, İstanbul Governor Hüseyni Avni Mutlu said.
There are also other possibilities. Some have claimed that he was just a mad man seeking revenge for an overpriced entertainment facility in Taksim. Witnesses say he walked into a bar in Taksim with a person whom he’d reportedly just met, but was upset with the bill, which appeared to be inflated.
Heavy bag he carried
Footage from the two cafés the assailant visited before the attack show him wearing a baseball hat hiding most of his face and a box to carry the rifles, as well as a black plastic bag and a knapsack. He stayed in this first cafeteria for nearly two minutes, and walked out without looking at the security camera at all and holding his head down. The owner of the first café, Orhan Güngör, said he had to move the box and the bag in the man’s hand out of the way after he went to the bathroom. “The knapsack was really heavy, so I left it. The box was also hefty. I wanted to look inside for a minute, but then I changed my mind. He came downstairs after a short while. I asked him where he was from. He told me he was Libyan. He didn’t want to talk much. I gave him a brochure. He took it and left.”
Meanwhile, security in Topkapı Palace was tightened significantly after the attack, with a metal detector being placed at the main entrance, the Bab-ı Hümayün. Previously, there were no security checks at the front gate.
The palace walls, trees and signs in the courtyard still bear the traces of the terrifying one-and-a-half hours of the Libyan gunman’s terrorism. There are bullet holes everywhere, including on a door and marble columns in the court yard. Tourists visiting the palace stopped to take pictures of the damage on Friday.
Gunman’s father in Libya
In related developments, the assailant’s 72-year-old father, Salim Elmadhavri, visited the Turkish Embassy in Benghazi on Wednesday, and apologized for the incident. “Officials [at the embassy] were nice to me. I want his body to be returned to Libya,” he said, according to a report in the Haber Türk daily on Friday. He also apologized and claimed that his son had psychological issues. “We apologize a thousand times to Turkey and the Turkish nation. His mental health wasn’t very good. Do not take this as an attack on Turkey.”
The Umut Foundation, an anti-gun civil society organization, has said the attack, which could have had devastating results, was the consequence of Turkey’s lax gun sale policies for foreigners. Any foreigner who walks in with his or her passport can obtain a hunting rifle without a permit. Meanwhile, store owners said they had received orders from officials to stop all firearm sales to foreigners until further notice.
The Umut Foundation, however, says it is also fairly easy for Turkish citizens to obtain a gun. Acquiring a permit only takes about 10 days, and there is insufficient oversight of the process. Annually, about 3,000 people are killed in Turkey by firearms.
Why Syria refused to sign the Arab League protocol?
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Legal justification to Syria's distance from the signing of the Protocol, as the Arab League imposed
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Interventions accelerated the Arab League Council on the impact of the war on the Syrian plan to justify external intervention, within the restructuring of the Middle East, including comfort America after graduating from Iraq at the end of this year, and to achieve the interests of the West re-division of this region and enslaved. Search will not increase the ambitions of the West and America, this awareness of the Muslim Arab citizens, and also will increase our research in the dedication of some Arab regimes to achieve what is sought in the region greedy
And also will not linger in the narrative pace of the Arab League Council to legitimize external intervention in the Syrian This fact does not doubt in any Arab citizen in Syria or abroad.
For this limit ourselves to consider the legal reasons that led to distance Syria itself from signing Parwabrocokol concerning the legal status and functions of the Observer Mission of the Arab League to Syria, as imposed on them, which was released under Resolution No. / 7439 / for the Arab League Council at the ministerial level in non-resumed its regular session in Rabat on 16/11/2011.
And here will not go into the paragraphs contained in the Arab League Council resolution No. / 7439 / dated 16/11/2011,
But highlight only the obligation imposed on the wording of the draft Protocol on Syria, without taking into account as an independent state, sovereign, and a founding member of the Arab League, and has a role Evqo the sun clarity and safety features in the crucial Arab issues.
Errors should be clarified
Paragraph I of the Executive Decree No. / 7439 / on «Approval of the draft protocol on the legal status and functions of the Observer Mission of the Arab League and Syria to the task of verifying
From the implementation of the Arab plan to solve the crisis, Syrian and provide protection for civilians Syrians, as attached and signed by the General Secretariat of the Arab League of Arab States and the Syrian government ».
Thus, the Arab League Council decided that Syria sign a draft Protocol as adopted by the Council of the Arab League (we do not know who drafted texts), and without the paragraphs entitled to discuss or express an opinion or objection to its content.
And the Secretariat, the Secretary-General of the Arab League expressed its readiness to answer any questions or clarifications
Protocol relating to the content, but it can not be prejudice to the purity of its provisions and the application for amendment due to sacred status
The decision of the Arab League Council.
Before going into the draft Protocol requires Bmtahat Almaagelh legal reference to the following:
Paragraph I of the decision of the Executive Council of the Arab League of Arab States / 7438 / dated 12/11/2011 to «suspend the participation of Syria in the meetings of the Council of the Arab League and all the organizations and its subsidiary bodies as
On 16/11/2011 and until its full implementation of the commitments that have agreed under the Arab Plan of Action to resolve the crisis and the Syrian adopted by the Council at its meeting on 11.02.2011 ».
Show here:
1 - that the suspension of Syrian involvement in the meetings of the Arab League Council means the removal of Syria from the meetings of the Arab League and its contribution to the non-University events or share discussion topics and decisions that may be taken
This Council.
Given that any agreement be put to a protocol or other requires the presence of both parties have considering the terms of this agreement to get to aim it and to achieve the intended purpose of the contract, the text of operative paragraph I of resolution / 7438 / stand in the way without a contract such a deal, because he can not comment Syria's participation in the meetings of the Arab League Council, and then asked to sign a protocol. How agreement shall be concluded with the state suspended its participation
No longer a party to the Council of the Arab League?! .
Moreover, Syria, and its history and by nature derived from the pride, dignity and filed, do not accept dictation nor bow to compel including detract from their rights and their sovereignty. However, despite the violation of the Protocol for the general principles of law, in order to maintain the joint Arab action, and a Muslim in good faith that the goal is to join hands to discuss the developments of the situation in Syria, has expressed its willingness to sign the Protocol, after some modifications and additions to it.
And show the following amendments and additions with the reasons for its requirements.
First - in the title of the Protocol and the preliminary paragraphs:
Download Protocol address of «a draft protocol between the Secretariat of the Arab League of Arab States and the Syrian Arab Republic in implementation of the clause / 2 / of the decision of the Arab League Council at the ministerial level number / d 7438. G. P. M /
On 12/11/2011 on follow-up developments of the situation in Syria ».
As stated in the introductory paragraph of the resolution first «that in pursuance of clause / 2 / of the decision of the Arab League Council at the ministerial level number / d 7438. G. P. M / dated 12/11/2011 and private sectors to provide protection for civilians, the Syrian».
And the importance we recall that the item / / 2 referred to states «to provide protection for civilians, the Syrians and the prompt access to the international organizations concerned with human rights, including the United Nations and in consultation with the spectra of the Syrian opposition to conceptualize appropriate action to stop this bleeding, and presented to the Arab League Council of Ministers for decision in» .
The establishment of the draft Protocol to this paragraph carries many inaccuracies, including:
1 - The Arab League Council at the ministerial level was considered that the main purpose of the Protocol is to provide protection to civilians and that the Syrians will be through:
- Immediate access to the international organizations concerned with human rights, including the United Nations.
- Consultation with the spectra of the Syrian opposition to conceptualize appropriate action to stop this bleeding.
And taken this text:
1 - There is no reference to any coordination or cooperation with Syria to achieve the protection of civilians all the Syrians, while the Council of the Arab League of Arab States limit its consultations with the spectra of the Syrian opposition to conceptualize appropriate action to stop the bleeding, as it claims.
How is coordination with the opposition? And any opposition (at home or abroad)? Opposition with guns and killing and demanding exercise regime or the opposition to drop, which calls for dialogue to end the crisis?.
If the protection of civilians, its the land of Syria, what action will be taken to provide protection without the participation of Syria?.
2 - There is not any reference to provide adequate protection for the threat to the people and the army and security forces
Of attack by armed gangs, and the adoption of a mechanism to stop these attacks.
3 - If the initiative to resolve the crisis with the Arab character, and within the Arab house, what is the need for instant communication with international organizations concerned with human rights, including the United Nations? Is there another concept to this paragraph, only the boot of the international intervention in Syria under the pretext of protecting civilians.
4 - most importantly in this paragraph afford it assumed the existence of mutually antagonistic in Syria, one dominates the other, the government used excessive force and repression against unarmed people not its people, and this should protect the people. And ignored the Arab League, all the facts of the earth and reality and morality that civilians Almtbaky to provide protection to them, they are Syrian citizens, and that the Syrian state and the duty to protect and provide safety and security, and they were found to carry out their will, and, for this is to protect them from armed gangs funded Manalforeig, which runs panic them and Troahm and assaults on their honor and their property, but she had to take the army of the site to protect Syria from enemies abroad and Zjtah site is not located in, in order to provide safety and security of civilians who have used them abroad in the political Pazarh.
2 - indicated Altiveh first paragraph of the resolution / 7438 / to suspend the participation of the delegations of the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic will continue until its full implementation of the commitments agreed upon under the Arab Plan of Action to resolve the crisis and the Syrian adopted by the Council at its meeting on 2/11/2011.
Since it is alleged that the purpose of the Protocol required Syria to expect blindly without discussing its conditions are fully implemented its commitments agreed upon under the Arab Plan of Action to resolve the crisis and adopted by the Council at its meeting on 2/11/2011, it means that this plan which Hialosas based on the protocol, not resolution / 7438 / dated 2/11/2011, which suspended participation of Syria and the farthest from the activities of the Arab League Council to impose and then provide the means to protect its people aim to intervene
International duties.
For these reasons, Syria has requested an amendment to the protocol address to read as follows:
«A draft protocol between the Syrian Arab Republic, the Secretariat of the Arab League of Arab States on the follow-up developments of the situation in Syria».
As the Action Plan agreed in Doha, adopted by the Arab League Council on 2/11/2011 referred to spare outside interference in the internal affairs of Syria, and to the approval of the Syrian government to stop all acts of violence from any source to protect the Syrian citizens, then it follows necessarily build on this paragraph and give it a character of the process and amend the introductory paragraph of the first Protocol to read:
«Implementation of what came in the first item of the work plan that was agreed upon between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Arab Ministerial Committee in Doha, and adopted by the Arab League Council at the ministerial level
On 2/1/2011. And the affirmation of the unity, sovereignty and independence of the Syrian Arab Republic and the safety of its land and to prevent outside interference in the internal affairs ».
Second - in the formation of the Arab League mission:
Paragraph I of the Executive on the draft protocol: «the formation of an independent mission of civilian and military experts of the candidates of Arab States, Arab organizations relevant to the activities of human rights and provide protection for civilians, for sending to the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, headed ....... Known as the Observer Mission of the Arab League and the work in which is charged with verifying implementation of the Arab plan to solve the Syrian crisis and provide protection for civilians, the Syrian ».
It is taken on this text:
1 - will be the mission of military and civilian experts from Arab candidates of Arab States and organizations relevant to the activities of human rights and provide protection for civilians.
The presence of observers from the Arab organizations could leave the door open for the infiltration of people seeking to exacerbate the crisis and the internationalization of the unknown through links going in the orbit of these organizations, while the civilian and military experts from the Arab countries will be candidates state their reference
Which nominated the candidate do you trust Syria.
Therefore, Syria welcomes the civilian and military experts from the Arab candidates of Arab States
Do not want to go into private organizations and links to cross-cutting objectives.
2 - The term ((to provide protection for civilians, the Syrians)), which came in the last paragraph does not agree with the first item
Of the work plan agreed in Doha, which provides «a cessation of violence from any source».
In addition, these words indicate, very clearly, that there are two parties to the conflict in Syria
One of them civilians, Syrian, and Syria exercised violence on its citizens. Which is not Palmqpol
All standards and international legal and ethical.
And it asked Syria to read the first paragraph of the Executive as follows: «the formation of an Arab mission of civilian and military experts from Arab countries Arab candidates for sending to the Syrian Arab Republic, headed .... Known as the mission of the Arab League of Arab States and operating in the framework, which is charged with investigating the implementation of the Arab plan
Resolve the current crisis in Syria, the Syrian side to submit a list containing the names and recipes
The ranks and nationalities of members of the mission ».
And asked to submit Syria this list is only to facilitate the coordination and the identification of experts for the proper diplomatic engagement and knowledge of Arab countries participating in the mission.
Third - the start of the mission and determine the number of observers:
The text of the first item of the second operative paragraph of the Protocol on the «Mission begins work immediately after the signing
The Syrian government on this protocol and perform its functions with a delegation composed of introduction, the head of mission and a sufficient number
Observers (from 30 to 50 observers) supported by an adequate number of administrative staff and security personnel
For personal protection for members of the mission ».
The text of the second item of the operative paragraph II that «The president of the Mission, in consultation with the Secretary General the number of observers at the discretion of the requirements for completion of tasks of the mission to monitor implementation of the Syrian government to its commitments to protect civilians, to the fullest, and to the Secretary-General's technical expertise and observers from the Arab and Islamic countries and friendly countries to implement the tasks entrusted to the mission ».
And taken on the first item that:
1 - Select the number of observers accompanying the head of the mission (from 30 to 50 observers), while that the proposal to Syria is not defined and if you leave the text on the launch, it can increase the number of observers accompanying the head of the mission for more than fifty observers and this is up to his decision according to the data.
2 - requires text entry security personnel to protect the personal members of the mission, and this detracts from the sovereignty of the state where that Syria is responsible for the protection of any person on its territory, and the introduction of special protection is intended to give an indication of lawlessness in Syria, and they become unable to protect persons within its territory, and add to that that the protection of diplomatic missions and the like from the responsibility of the State on its territory and that the mainstay of the Geneva Conventions and therefore can not accept this text.
Also taken on the second item that:
1 - Select the functions of the mission to monitor implementation of the Syrian government to its commitments to protect civilians. As discussed previously, the protection of civilians is not consistent with the first item of the work plan agreed at Doha, and it is not in Syria, two parties were totally one of them civilians.
2 - The Secretary-General's use of technical expertise and observers from the Islamic and friendly countries. For as long as the Arab initiative in the framework of joint Arab action, and as long as the basics to avoid outside interference, what is the justification for the use of technical expertise and observers from the Islamic and friendly countries? In addition, the use of such a step towards the internationalization of the situation in Syria. This is contrary to the Arab Plan of Action adopted at Doha.
3 - the number of observers determined by the Head of Mission in consultation with the Secretary-General, without reference to any coordination with the Syrian government, as if a party to an adversary in the dispute and has no sovereignty, while the coordination with the procedures for administrative and security which stakeholders to address the situation actually on its territory, and therefore have the right to be coordinated with them in this regard.
Therefore, Syria proposed to amend the text of the second operative paragraph reads as follows:
- The mission begins its work immediately after the signing the Syrian government to this Protocol, and perform its functions will be provided with a delegation from the Chief of Mission and a sufficient number of monitors supported by an adequate number of administrative staff.
- The president of the mission with the Secretary-General, in coordination with the Syrian government the number of observers at the discretion of the requirements for completion of tasks of the mission to monitor implementation of the Syrian government to its commitments to the fullest, and to the Secretary-General's technical expertise and observers from the Arab countries to implement the tasks entrusted to the mission.
IV - in the tasks of the mission:
Enumerated the third operative paragraph of the draft Protocol eight tasks of the mission, which will see the reality of the situation and current events in Syria.
In this regard, we review the items that needed to be reconsidered:
1 - Section II of the tasks on the «make sure there was the Syrian security services and so-called gangs Cbihh peaceful demonstrations».
The apparent meaning of this text suggests:
A - the presence of gangs along the Syrian security services under the orders of power as part of the structure of the State or the security they enjoy the support and protection from the state.
B - that security services violent demonstrations in spite of Slmatha, as if to silence the freedom of opinion and expression and the right of peaceful demonstration. In fact, the freedoms and rights, including the Syrian Constitution and can not be as long as the exposure was duly provided for by law
Therefore, Syria proposed to write off this item.
2 - third item of the tasks of the mission is «to ensure the release of the detainees because of current events».
It is noted that this item means the release of all detainees because of current events but it did not take into account that there are detainees have committed crimes of murder, sabotage, intimidation and assault people on the funds and symptoms.
For these reasons, Syria proposed that the third item read as follows: «to ensure the release of batches of detainees because of current events is not involved murder and acts of sabotage».
3 - the fourth item of the tasks of the mission text to «ensure the withdrawal and the evacuation of all armed manifestations of cities and residential areas that have experienced or witnessed demonstrations and protest movements».
And taken this text:
1 - that the withdrawal of armed manifestations by all means the security forces and the forces of the system.
These are the devices that protect the security and order in accordance with all international norms and regulations.
The presence of the army in some areas is dictated by the imperatives of current events, a task that are temporary and expire once the return of calm and a sense of security and safety of people.
2 - What made the army is spreading in some areas is not peaceful demonstrations and protests movements, but the terrorist operations carried out by gunmen targeting parents and public buildings and private property land and wreak havoc.
This amendment proposal was the fourth item of the tasks of the mission to read as follows: «ensuring the withdrawal and the evacuation of all aspects of military armed forces from towns and residential areas».
4 - the sixth item of the text on the functions of the mission «Mission of the freedom of communication and coordination with NGOs and government officials with whom you see and personalities of individuals and families affected by current events». The main task of the Arab League mission is to check the implementation of the Arab plan to solve the crisis
Which include the following items:
The release of the detainees because of current events.
Evacuation of cities and neighborhoods of all armed manifestations.
Open the way for organizations of the Arab League of Arab States and the Arab media and international to move freely.
While the sixth item of the tasks of the mission in the formula developed by the Arab League Council, giving the mission the task of the investigation, and this is not in any of the terms of the Arab plan to solve the crisis. Not to mention that the investigation is the business of the sovereign, therefore, propose removal of Syria this item because it is not legal in the place.
5 - Section VII of the tasks of the mission is «the mission full freedom of movement and freedom of action as it deems appropriate
Of visits and contacts relevant to the issues relating to its functions and working methods of
Provide protection to civilians ».
What was missing item is the need for coordination with the Syrian government to accomplish this mission, the protection of the mission
And secure the integrity of its mission to conduct and facilitate contacts and visits, requires informed the Syrian government.
The Mission does not work on the land devoid of the rule.
This is the reason for Syria's proposal to adjust the seventh item to read as follows: «Mission of the full freedom of movement and freedom of action as it deems appropriate visits and contacts relevant to matters relating to its functions and the framework and methods of work in coordination with the Syrian side».
6 - Article VIII of the tasks of the mission provides for «the mission visited refugee camps in neighboring countries to view their situation».
In this, we say no to Syria no control over the camps in neighboring countries, and not a competent authority
Or to give permission to allow the Mission to visit the camps, and thus the existence of such a clause in the Protocol
Does not have any binding legal effect to others.
This was Syria's proposal to write off this item.
V. - the mission to help fulfill its mission:
Enumerated the fourth operative paragraph of the Protocol, the undertakings that are committed by Syria in order to assist the Mission
On the performance of its mission.
And show the following commitments that were the subject of review by Syria.
1 - The first item of the pledges of assistance provided to «provide all the facilities and to allow the necessary technical equipment for the success of the mission, and provide Mgarat in the Syrian capital and other locations determined by the mission».
The above text was requested to allow Syria to enter the necessary technical equipment. As it can not determine in advance the equipment it requires to make the regulations to Syria to be able to give approval.
This was supposed to include the text refers to it. This is called a request to amend the item to read as follows: «provide all the facilities and allow access to technical equipment required under the regulations approved by the Syrian authorities for the success of the mission as well as facilitate the provision of premises in the Syrian capital and other locations determined by the mission».
2 - the second item of the text of the aid pledges to «ensure freedom of access and safe access for all members of the mission throughout the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic at a time determined by the mission».
The provision of access and freedom of movement requires that there be coordination with the Syrian side to be able to secure access and freedom of movement in the places and the dates set by the mission.
As the text Khaly of reference for such coordination has asked Syria to amend the second item reads as follows: «secure access and freedom of safe movement in coordination with the Syrian side to all members of the mission in all parts of the Syrian Arab Republic At a time determined by the mission».
3 - the third section of the text of the aid pledges to «work to provide full freedom of the mission to visit prisons and detention centers, police stations and hospitals at a time determined by the mission». In this, we say that all the contractual obligation must have a goal consistent with the will of the parties to achieve a very accredited
Before them, and must not be inconsistent with this commitment and other obligations contained in the instrument of obligations held.
And come back to say if the plan of joint Arab action, on the situation in Syria approved by the Council of the Arab League of Arab States at the ministerial level and approved by Syria, provided for the release of detainees, what is the reason to visit prisons and detention centers, police stations and hospitals? Is that good faith requires?.
If the Arab is not the mission, the task of investigating what is the justification Almtaklat visit prisons and police stations and hospitals?. Is it in the belief that all protocol jeweler in prisons and detention centers and hospitals in Syria are peaceful demonstrators and there is no criminal cases or cases of disease than those resulting from the demonstration? And then where to draw the mission information on prisons and police stations and hospitals? What is the purpose of these visits.
If its good we went, how long to continue these visits?.
And the foregoing and the absence of legal justification, Syria proposed the deletion of this item of the Protocol.
4 - the fifth item of the pledges of assistance provided to «ensure not to punish or embarrass or harass any person in any way and his family to contact with the mission or to provide testimony or information with». As noted included text phrases harassment or embarrassment, and the concept of these two phrases is specified, any word or act that could Evsraly that harassment or embarrassment, and what constitutes harassment of a person Oaharaj
May be considered a normal reaction to someone else. And more claims.
And also, the term contact with the mission denies the statement then because of communication to provide testimony and information
Therefore, Syria proposed an amendment to the item referred to reads as follows: «guarantee not to punish or pressure on any person in any way and his family to contact with the mission of the issues assigned tasks».
VI - reporting:
Paragraph V of the Executive Protocol provides that «The Mission periodic reports on its findings to the Secretary-General of the Arab League of Arab States in preparation for submission to the Ministerial Council by the Arab Ministerial Committee on the situation in Syria for consideration and take action in this respect».
The Syrian proposal in this regard that it is necessary to provide the Syrian side copy of the reports prepared by the mission as a party to the Protocol and as on the first of these reports.
VII - proposed additions Syria:
Syria proposed to the Secretary-General of the Arab League of Arab States to add two paragraphs to the Protocol.
First: «The duration of this Protocol two months from the date of signature can be extended with the consent of the parties». And upheld find this add-in that each agreement must specify the period for its implementation can not be left open.
If necessary it can be agreed upon extension.
II: «The Syrian government does not bear any financial costs for the functioning of the mission».
After what has been its review of the paragraphs of the draft Protocol and proposed by Syria from the cancellation or modification of some of these paragraphs or some of its clauses, it is clear beyond any doubt that all the proposals the Syrian did not affect the substance of the Protocol and the main purpose of which is to check the implementation of the Arab plan to solve the Syrian crisis that plan approved by Syria.
As noted, the amendments were proposed to correct inaccuracies and legal sovereignty contained in the Protocol or deletion of filler and repetition. But, as was evident that the end is not Arab participation in the follow-up the situation in Syria and the Arab League, but the use of a vehicle for international intervention and planned use of them to give the blessing of this intervention.
This was clear by rejecting the Arab League Council to any proposal or amendment, but refused any query regarding the subject of the Protocol. All that is needed is for Syria to sign and wait for the next steps to be taken right to the internationalization of the domestic situation.
Legal justification to Syria's distance from the signing of the Protocol, as the Arab League imposed
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wrote the article Dr Bashir al-Qawaadiri
Thursday, 01 December 2011 23:35
Interventions accelerated the Arab League Council on the impact of the war on the Syrian plan to justify external intervention, within the restructuring of the Middle East, including comfort America after graduating from Iraq at the end of this year, and to achieve the interests of the West re-division of this region and enslaved. Search will not increase the ambitions of the West and America, this awareness of the Muslim Arab citizens, and also will increase our research in the dedication of some Arab regimes to achieve what is sought in the region greedy
And also will not linger in the narrative pace of the Arab League Council to legitimize external intervention in the Syrian This fact does not doubt in any Arab citizen in Syria or abroad.
For this limit ourselves to consider the legal reasons that led to distance Syria itself from signing Parwabrocokol concerning the legal status and functions of the Observer Mission of the Arab League to Syria, as imposed on them, which was released under Resolution No. / 7439 / for the Arab League Council at the ministerial level in non-resumed its regular session in Rabat on 16/11/2011.
And here will not go into the paragraphs contained in the Arab League Council resolution No. / 7439 / dated 16/11/2011,
But highlight only the obligation imposed on the wording of the draft Protocol on Syria, without taking into account as an independent state, sovereign, and a founding member of the Arab League, and has a role Evqo the sun clarity and safety features in the crucial Arab issues.
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Paragraph I of the Executive Decree No. / 7439 / on «Approval of the draft protocol on the legal status and functions of the Observer Mission of the Arab League and Syria to the task of verifying
From the implementation of the Arab plan to solve the crisis, Syrian and provide protection for civilians Syrians, as attached and signed by the General Secretariat of the Arab League of Arab States and the Syrian government ».
Thus, the Arab League Council decided that Syria sign a draft Protocol as adopted by the Council of the Arab League (we do not know who drafted texts), and without the paragraphs entitled to discuss or express an opinion or objection to its content.
And the Secretariat, the Secretary-General of the Arab League expressed its readiness to answer any questions or clarifications
Protocol relating to the content, but it can not be prejudice to the purity of its provisions and the application for amendment due to sacred status
The decision of the Arab League Council.
Before going into the draft Protocol requires Bmtahat Almaagelh legal reference to the following:
Paragraph I of the decision of the Executive Council of the Arab League of Arab States / 7438 / dated 12/11/2011 to «suspend the participation of Syria in the meetings of the Council of the Arab League and all the organizations and its subsidiary bodies as
On 16/11/2011 and until its full implementation of the commitments that have agreed under the Arab Plan of Action to resolve the crisis and the Syrian adopted by the Council at its meeting on 11.02.2011 ».
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1 - that the suspension of Syrian involvement in the meetings of the Arab League Council means the removal of Syria from the meetings of the Arab League and its contribution to the non-University events or share discussion topics and decisions that may be taken
This Council.
Given that any agreement be put to a protocol or other requires the presence of both parties have considering the terms of this agreement to get to aim it and to achieve the intended purpose of the contract, the text of operative paragraph I of resolution / 7438 / stand in the way without a contract such a deal, because he can not comment Syria's participation in the meetings of the Arab League Council, and then asked to sign a protocol. How agreement shall be concluded with the state suspended its participation
No longer a party to the Council of the Arab League?! .
Moreover, Syria, and its history and by nature derived from the pride, dignity and filed, do not accept dictation nor bow to compel including detract from their rights and their sovereignty. However, despite the violation of the Protocol for the general principles of law, in order to maintain the joint Arab action, and a Muslim in good faith that the goal is to join hands to discuss the developments of the situation in Syria, has expressed its willingness to sign the Protocol, after some modifications and additions to it.
And show the following amendments and additions with the reasons for its requirements.
First - in the title of the Protocol and the preliminary paragraphs:
Download Protocol address of «a draft protocol between the Secretariat of the Arab League of Arab States and the Syrian Arab Republic in implementation of the clause / 2 / of the decision of the Arab League Council at the ministerial level number / d 7438. G. P. M /
On 12/11/2011 on follow-up developments of the situation in Syria ».
As stated in the introductory paragraph of the resolution first «that in pursuance of clause / 2 / of the decision of the Arab League Council at the ministerial level number / d 7438. G. P. M / dated 12/11/2011 and private sectors to provide protection for civilians, the Syrian».
And the importance we recall that the item / / 2 referred to states «to provide protection for civilians, the Syrians and the prompt access to the international organizations concerned with human rights, including the United Nations and in consultation with the spectra of the Syrian opposition to conceptualize appropriate action to stop this bleeding, and presented to the Arab League Council of Ministers for decision in» .
The establishment of the draft Protocol to this paragraph carries many inaccuracies, including:
1 - The Arab League Council at the ministerial level was considered that the main purpose of the Protocol is to provide protection to civilians and that the Syrians will be through:
- Immediate access to the international organizations concerned with human rights, including the United Nations.
- Consultation with the spectra of the Syrian opposition to conceptualize appropriate action to stop this bleeding.
And taken this text:
1 - There is no reference to any coordination or cooperation with Syria to achieve the protection of civilians all the Syrians, while the Council of the Arab League of Arab States limit its consultations with the spectra of the Syrian opposition to conceptualize appropriate action to stop the bleeding, as it claims.
How is coordination with the opposition? And any opposition (at home or abroad)? Opposition with guns and killing and demanding exercise regime or the opposition to drop, which calls for dialogue to end the crisis?.
If the protection of civilians, its the land of Syria, what action will be taken to provide protection without the participation of Syria?.
2 - There is not any reference to provide adequate protection for the threat to the people and the army and security forces
Of attack by armed gangs, and the adoption of a mechanism to stop these attacks.
3 - If the initiative to resolve the crisis with the Arab character, and within the Arab house, what is the need for instant communication with international organizations concerned with human rights, including the United Nations? Is there another concept to this paragraph, only the boot of the international intervention in Syria under the pretext of protecting civilians.
4 - most importantly in this paragraph afford it assumed the existence of mutually antagonistic in Syria, one dominates the other, the government used excessive force and repression against unarmed people not its people, and this should protect the people. And ignored the Arab League, all the facts of the earth and reality and morality that civilians Almtbaky to provide protection to them, they are Syrian citizens, and that the Syrian state and the duty to protect and provide safety and security, and they were found to carry out their will, and, for this is to protect them from armed gangs funded Manalforeig, which runs panic them and Troahm and assaults on their honor and their property, but she had to take the army of the site to protect Syria from enemies abroad and Zjtah site is not located in, in order to provide safety and security of civilians who have used them abroad in the political Pazarh.
2 - indicated Altiveh first paragraph of the resolution / 7438 / to suspend the participation of the delegations of the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic will continue until its full implementation of the commitments agreed upon under the Arab Plan of Action to resolve the crisis and the Syrian adopted by the Council at its meeting on 2/11/2011.
Since it is alleged that the purpose of the Protocol required Syria to expect blindly without discussing its conditions are fully implemented its commitments agreed upon under the Arab Plan of Action to resolve the crisis and adopted by the Council at its meeting on 2/11/2011, it means that this plan which Hialosas based on the protocol, not resolution / 7438 / dated 2/11/2011, which suspended participation of Syria and the farthest from the activities of the Arab League Council to impose and then provide the means to protect its people aim to intervene
International duties.
For these reasons, Syria has requested an amendment to the protocol address to read as follows:
«A draft protocol between the Syrian Arab Republic, the Secretariat of the Arab League of Arab States on the follow-up developments of the situation in Syria».
As the Action Plan agreed in Doha, adopted by the Arab League Council on 2/11/2011 referred to spare outside interference in the internal affairs of Syria, and to the approval of the Syrian government to stop all acts of violence from any source to protect the Syrian citizens, then it follows necessarily build on this paragraph and give it a character of the process and amend the introductory paragraph of the first Protocol to read:
«Implementation of what came in the first item of the work plan that was agreed upon between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Arab Ministerial Committee in Doha, and adopted by the Arab League Council at the ministerial level
On 2/1/2011. And the affirmation of the unity, sovereignty and independence of the Syrian Arab Republic and the safety of its land and to prevent outside interference in the internal affairs ».
Second - in the formation of the Arab League mission:
Paragraph I of the Executive on the draft protocol: «the formation of an independent mission of civilian and military experts of the candidates of Arab States, Arab organizations relevant to the activities of human rights and provide protection for civilians, for sending to the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, headed ....... Known as the Observer Mission of the Arab League and the work in which is charged with verifying implementation of the Arab plan to solve the Syrian crisis and provide protection for civilians, the Syrian ».
It is taken on this text:
1 - will be the mission of military and civilian experts from Arab candidates of Arab States and organizations relevant to the activities of human rights and provide protection for civilians.
The presence of observers from the Arab organizations could leave the door open for the infiltration of people seeking to exacerbate the crisis and the internationalization of the unknown through links going in the orbit of these organizations, while the civilian and military experts from the Arab countries will be candidates state their reference
Which nominated the candidate do you trust Syria.
Therefore, Syria welcomes the civilian and military experts from the Arab candidates of Arab States
Do not want to go into private organizations and links to cross-cutting objectives.
2 - The term ((to provide protection for civilians, the Syrians)), which came in the last paragraph does not agree with the first item
Of the work plan agreed in Doha, which provides «a cessation of violence from any source».
In addition, these words indicate, very clearly, that there are two parties to the conflict in Syria
One of them civilians, Syrian, and Syria exercised violence on its citizens. Which is not Palmqpol
All standards and international legal and ethical.
And it asked Syria to read the first paragraph of the Executive as follows: «the formation of an Arab mission of civilian and military experts from Arab countries Arab candidates for sending to the Syrian Arab Republic, headed .... Known as the mission of the Arab League of Arab States and operating in the framework, which is charged with investigating the implementation of the Arab plan
Resolve the current crisis in Syria, the Syrian side to submit a list containing the names and recipes
The ranks and nationalities of members of the mission ».
And asked to submit Syria this list is only to facilitate the coordination and the identification of experts for the proper diplomatic engagement and knowledge of Arab countries participating in the mission.
Third - the start of the mission and determine the number of observers:
The text of the first item of the second operative paragraph of the Protocol on the «Mission begins work immediately after the signing
The Syrian government on this protocol and perform its functions with a delegation composed of introduction, the head of mission and a sufficient number
Observers (from 30 to 50 observers) supported by an adequate number of administrative staff and security personnel
For personal protection for members of the mission ».
The text of the second item of the operative paragraph II that «The president of the Mission, in consultation with the Secretary General the number of observers at the discretion of the requirements for completion of tasks of the mission to monitor implementation of the Syrian government to its commitments to protect civilians, to the fullest, and to the Secretary-General's technical expertise and observers from the Arab and Islamic countries and friendly countries to implement the tasks entrusted to the mission ».
And taken on the first item that:
1 - Select the number of observers accompanying the head of the mission (from 30 to 50 observers), while that the proposal to Syria is not defined and if you leave the text on the launch, it can increase the number of observers accompanying the head of the mission for more than fifty observers and this is up to his decision according to the data.
2 - requires text entry security personnel to protect the personal members of the mission, and this detracts from the sovereignty of the state where that Syria is responsible for the protection of any person on its territory, and the introduction of special protection is intended to give an indication of lawlessness in Syria, and they become unable to protect persons within its territory, and add to that that the protection of diplomatic missions and the like from the responsibility of the State on its territory and that the mainstay of the Geneva Conventions and therefore can not accept this text.
Also taken on the second item that:
1 - Select the functions of the mission to monitor implementation of the Syrian government to its commitments to protect civilians. As discussed previously, the protection of civilians is not consistent with the first item of the work plan agreed at Doha, and it is not in Syria, two parties were totally one of them civilians.
2 - The Secretary-General's use of technical expertise and observers from the Islamic and friendly countries. For as long as the Arab initiative in the framework of joint Arab action, and as long as the basics to avoid outside interference, what is the justification for the use of technical expertise and observers from the Islamic and friendly countries? In addition, the use of such a step towards the internationalization of the situation in Syria. This is contrary to the Arab Plan of Action adopted at Doha.
3 - the number of observers determined by the Head of Mission in consultation with the Secretary-General, without reference to any coordination with the Syrian government, as if a party to an adversary in the dispute and has no sovereignty, while the coordination with the procedures for administrative and security which stakeholders to address the situation actually on its territory, and therefore have the right to be coordinated with them in this regard.
Therefore, Syria proposed to amend the text of the second operative paragraph reads as follows:
- The mission begins its work immediately after the signing the Syrian government to this Protocol, and perform its functions will be provided with a delegation from the Chief of Mission and a sufficient number of monitors supported by an adequate number of administrative staff.
- The president of the mission with the Secretary-General, in coordination with the Syrian government the number of observers at the discretion of the requirements for completion of tasks of the mission to monitor implementation of the Syrian government to its commitments to the fullest, and to the Secretary-General's technical expertise and observers from the Arab countries to implement the tasks entrusted to the mission.
IV - in the tasks of the mission:
Enumerated the third operative paragraph of the draft Protocol eight tasks of the mission, which will see the reality of the situation and current events in Syria.
In this regard, we review the items that needed to be reconsidered:
1 - Section II of the tasks on the «make sure there was the Syrian security services and so-called gangs Cbihh peaceful demonstrations».
The apparent meaning of this text suggests:
A - the presence of gangs along the Syrian security services under the orders of power as part of the structure of the State or the security they enjoy the support and protection from the state.
B - that security services violent demonstrations in spite of Slmatha, as if to silence the freedom of opinion and expression and the right of peaceful demonstration. In fact, the freedoms and rights, including the Syrian Constitution and can not be as long as the exposure was duly provided for by law
Therefore, Syria proposed to write off this item.
2 - third item of the tasks of the mission is «to ensure the release of the detainees because of current events».
It is noted that this item means the release of all detainees because of current events but it did not take into account that there are detainees have committed crimes of murder, sabotage, intimidation and assault people on the funds and symptoms.
For these reasons, Syria proposed that the third item read as follows: «to ensure the release of batches of detainees because of current events is not involved murder and acts of sabotage».
3 - the fourth item of the tasks of the mission text to «ensure the withdrawal and the evacuation of all armed manifestations of cities and residential areas that have experienced or witnessed demonstrations and protest movements».
And taken this text:
1 - that the withdrawal of armed manifestations by all means the security forces and the forces of the system.
These are the devices that protect the security and order in accordance with all international norms and regulations.
The presence of the army in some areas is dictated by the imperatives of current events, a task that are temporary and expire once the return of calm and a sense of security and safety of people.
2 - What made the army is spreading in some areas is not peaceful demonstrations and protests movements, but the terrorist operations carried out by gunmen targeting parents and public buildings and private property land and wreak havoc.
This amendment proposal was the fourth item of the tasks of the mission to read as follows: «ensuring the withdrawal and the evacuation of all aspects of military armed forces from towns and residential areas».
4 - the sixth item of the text on the functions of the mission «Mission of the freedom of communication and coordination with NGOs and government officials with whom you see and personalities of individuals and families affected by current events». The main task of the Arab League mission is to check the implementation of the Arab plan to solve the crisis
Which include the following items:
The release of the detainees because of current events.
Evacuation of cities and neighborhoods of all armed manifestations.
Open the way for organizations of the Arab League of Arab States and the Arab media and international to move freely.
While the sixth item of the tasks of the mission in the formula developed by the Arab League Council, giving the mission the task of the investigation, and this is not in any of the terms of the Arab plan to solve the crisis. Not to mention that the investigation is the business of the sovereign, therefore, propose removal of Syria this item because it is not legal in the place.
5 - Section VII of the tasks of the mission is «the mission full freedom of movement and freedom of action as it deems appropriate
Of visits and contacts relevant to the issues relating to its functions and working methods of
Provide protection to civilians ».
What was missing item is the need for coordination with the Syrian government to accomplish this mission, the protection of the mission
And secure the integrity of its mission to conduct and facilitate contacts and visits, requires informed the Syrian government.
The Mission does not work on the land devoid of the rule.
This is the reason for Syria's proposal to adjust the seventh item to read as follows: «Mission of the full freedom of movement and freedom of action as it deems appropriate visits and contacts relevant to matters relating to its functions and the framework and methods of work in coordination with the Syrian side».
6 - Article VIII of the tasks of the mission provides for «the mission visited refugee camps in neighboring countries to view their situation».
In this, we say no to Syria no control over the camps in neighboring countries, and not a competent authority
Or to give permission to allow the Mission to visit the camps, and thus the existence of such a clause in the Protocol
Does not have any binding legal effect to others.
This was Syria's proposal to write off this item.
V. - the mission to help fulfill its mission:
Enumerated the fourth operative paragraph of the Protocol, the undertakings that are committed by Syria in order to assist the Mission
On the performance of its mission.
And show the following commitments that were the subject of review by Syria.
1 - The first item of the pledges of assistance provided to «provide all the facilities and to allow the necessary technical equipment for the success of the mission, and provide Mgarat in the Syrian capital and other locations determined by the mission».
The above text was requested to allow Syria to enter the necessary technical equipment. As it can not determine in advance the equipment it requires to make the regulations to Syria to be able to give approval.
This was supposed to include the text refers to it. This is called a request to amend the item to read as follows: «provide all the facilities and allow access to technical equipment required under the regulations approved by the Syrian authorities for the success of the mission as well as facilitate the provision of premises in the Syrian capital and other locations determined by the mission».
2 - the second item of the text of the aid pledges to «ensure freedom of access and safe access for all members of the mission throughout the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic at a time determined by the mission».
The provision of access and freedom of movement requires that there be coordination with the Syrian side to be able to secure access and freedom of movement in the places and the dates set by the mission.
As the text Khaly of reference for such coordination has asked Syria to amend the second item reads as follows: «secure access and freedom of safe movement in coordination with the Syrian side to all members of the mission in all parts of the Syrian Arab Republic At a time determined by the mission».
3 - the third section of the text of the aid pledges to «work to provide full freedom of the mission to visit prisons and detention centers, police stations and hospitals at a time determined by the mission». In this, we say that all the contractual obligation must have a goal consistent with the will of the parties to achieve a very accredited
Before them, and must not be inconsistent with this commitment and other obligations contained in the instrument of obligations held.
And come back to say if the plan of joint Arab action, on the situation in Syria approved by the Council of the Arab League of Arab States at the ministerial level and approved by Syria, provided for the release of detainees, what is the reason to visit prisons and detention centers, police stations and hospitals? Is that good faith requires?.
If the Arab is not the mission, the task of investigating what is the justification Almtaklat visit prisons and police stations and hospitals?. Is it in the belief that all protocol jeweler in prisons and detention centers and hospitals in Syria are peaceful demonstrators and there is no criminal cases or cases of disease than those resulting from the demonstration? And then where to draw the mission information on prisons and police stations and hospitals? What is the purpose of these visits.
If its good we went, how long to continue these visits?.
And the foregoing and the absence of legal justification, Syria proposed the deletion of this item of the Protocol.
4 - the fifth item of the pledges of assistance provided to «ensure not to punish or embarrass or harass any person in any way and his family to contact with the mission or to provide testimony or information with». As noted included text phrases harassment or embarrassment, and the concept of these two phrases is specified, any word or act that could Evsraly that harassment or embarrassment, and what constitutes harassment of a person Oaharaj
May be considered a normal reaction to someone else. And more claims.
And also, the term contact with the mission denies the statement then because of communication to provide testimony and information
Therefore, Syria proposed an amendment to the item referred to reads as follows: «guarantee not to punish or pressure on any person in any way and his family to contact with the mission of the issues assigned tasks».
VI - reporting:
Paragraph V of the Executive Protocol provides that «The Mission periodic reports on its findings to the Secretary-General of the Arab League of Arab States in preparation for submission to the Ministerial Council by the Arab Ministerial Committee on the situation in Syria for consideration and take action in this respect».
The Syrian proposal in this regard that it is necessary to provide the Syrian side copy of the reports prepared by the mission as a party to the Protocol and as on the first of these reports.
VII - proposed additions Syria:
Syria proposed to the Secretary-General of the Arab League of Arab States to add two paragraphs to the Protocol.
First: «The duration of this Protocol two months from the date of signature can be extended with the consent of the parties». And upheld find this add-in that each agreement must specify the period for its implementation can not be left open.
If necessary it can be agreed upon extension.
II: «The Syrian government does not bear any financial costs for the functioning of the mission».
After what has been its review of the paragraphs of the draft Protocol and proposed by Syria from the cancellation or modification of some of these paragraphs or some of its clauses, it is clear beyond any doubt that all the proposals the Syrian did not affect the substance of the Protocol and the main purpose of which is to check the implementation of the Arab plan to solve the Syrian crisis that plan approved by Syria.
As noted, the amendments were proposed to correct inaccuracies and legal sovereignty contained in the Protocol or deletion of filler and repetition. But, as was evident that the end is not Arab participation in the follow-up the situation in Syria and the Arab League, but the use of a vehicle for international intervention and planned use of them to give the blessing of this intervention.
This was clear by rejecting the Arab League Council to any proposal or amendment, but refused any query regarding the subject of the Protocol. All that is needed is for Syria to sign and wait for the next steps to be taken right to the internationalization of the domestic situation.
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