Duta
Arab ke Britain, Putera Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz. (Saudi ambassador to
Britain, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz.(Reuters/Jamal Saidi – think
IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
SitiWanMahani - Arab
Saudi bercadang untuk meneruskan dasar bebas di DUNIA Arab selepas Amerika
Syarikat terpaksa penyelesaian diplomatik kepada krisis Syria dan Iran. Duta
Arab ke UK berkata kerajaan bersedia untuk memastikan “keamanan serantau” tanpa
sokongan Barat.
Duta
itu negara ke London, Putera Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz al -Saud, berkata
pendekatan Barat ke rantau ini adalah “perjudian berbahaya” yang membahayakan
kestabilan di Timur Tengah. Sebaliknya Riyadh, saingan geopolitik Iran dan
Syria, mahu bebas tangan pemberontak Syria, berkata negara ini” tidak boleh
berdiam diri , dan tidak akan berdiri oleh leka,” Abdulaziz menulis dalam
ulasan New York Times (New York Times commentary).
Putera
itu dituduh pakatan Amerka Syarikat membenarkan “satu rejim untuk terus hidup
dan yang lain untuk meneruskan program untuk memperkaya uranium, dengan segala
bahaya yang datang daripada weaponization.”
Dalam
segi Syria, Abdulaziz berkata walaupun usaha antarabangsa untuk memusnahkan
senjata pemusnah besar-besaran “Barat mesti melihat bahawa rejim itu sendiri
masih senjata paling besar pemusnah semua besar-besaran.”
Mengatakan
bahawa kerajaan telah “tanggungjawab global,” Abdulaziz mendakwa Riyadh “akan
bertindak untuk memenuhi tanggungjawab ini, dengan atau tanpa sokongan
rakan-rakan Barat kita.”
Walaupun
berdiri “bahu” selama bertahun-tahun “tahun ini, untuk semua ceramah2 mereka ‘garisan
merah,’ apabila ia dikira, rakan-rakan kami telah seolah-olah semua terlalu
bersedia untuk mengalah keselamatan dan risiko kestabilan rantau kita.”
Abdulaziz
comments mengikuti laporan bahawa diplomat Barat membayangkan semasa sidang
kemuncak dari penyokong pembangkang di London minggu lepas bahawa mereka tidak
begitu keberatan jika Presiden Syria Bashar Assad kekal berkuasa (stays
in power), sekurang-kurangnya dalam tempoh peralihan.
“Rakan-rakan
Barat kami menjelaskan di London yang Assad tidak boleh dibenarkan pergi
sekarang kerana mereka fikir huru-hara dan pengambilalihan pengganas akan
terjadi,” kata seorang anggota kanan yang tidak dinamakan Gabungan Kebangsaan Syria,
berhampiran dengan pegawai-pegawai dari Arab Saudi, Reuters.
“Ada
yang tidak kelihatan di fikiran jika ianya berjalan lagi tahun depan,” kata
sumber kepada Reuters , tertanya-tanya sama ada Barat telah lupa bahawa Assad “
menyerang dgn gas beracun kaumnya sendiri.”
'With
or without West': Saudi Arabia ready
for unilateral action on Syria . . .
Saudi
Arabia intends to pursue an independent policy in the Arab world after the US
resorted to a diplomatic solution to the Syria and Iran crises. The Saudi envoy
to UK says the kingdom is ready to ensure “regional peace” without Western
support.
The
kingdom’s ambassador to London, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz
al-Saud, said that the Western approach to the region is a “dangerous gamble”
that jeopardizes stability in the Middle East. Instead Riyadh, a geopolitical
rival of Iran and Syria, wants to independently arm the Syrian insurgents,
saying the country “cannot remain silent, and will not stand idly by,”
Abdulaziz wrote in a New York Times commentary.
The
prince accused the US coalition of allowing “one regime to survive and the
other to continue its program for uranium enrichment, with all the consequent
dangers of weaponization."
In
regards to Syria, Abdulaziz said that despite international effort to destroy
the weapons of mass destruction the “West must see that the regime itself
remains the greatest weapon of mass destruction of all.”
Saying
that the kingdom has “global responsibilities,” Abdulaziz claimed that Riyadh
“will act to fulfill these responsibilities, with or without the support of our
Western partners.”
Despite
standing “shoulder to shoulder” for years “this year, for all their talk of 'red
lines,' when it counted, our partners have seemed all too ready to concede our
safety and risk our region’s stability.”
Abdulaziz
comments follow reports that Western diplomats hinted during a summit of
opposition backers in London last week that they don’t really mind if Syrian
President Bashar Assad stays
in power, at least during a transition period.
“Our
Western friends made it clear in London that Assad cannot be allowed to go now
because they think chaos and an Islamist militant takeover would ensue,” an
unnamed senior member of the Syrian National Coalition, close to officials from
Saudi Arabia, told Reuters.
“Some
do not even seem to mind if he runs again next year,” the source told Reuters,
wondering whether the West has forgotten that Assad “gassed his own people.”
Reuters/Molhem
Barakat (think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Satu
perselisihan di antara dasar luar negara-negara ‘adalah juga relevan pada hari
Ahad, apabila bekas ketua perisikan Saudi, Putera Turki al-Faisal, menyuarakan
kebimbangan bahawa Arab Saudi sedang diasingkan daripada rundingan diplomatik
dengan Iran.
“Adalah
penting bagi kita untuk duduk di meja yang sama,” katanya dalam temu bual (interview) dengan The Wall Street Journal. “Kami tidak
hadir.” Bercakap pada Per-sidangan Dasar DUNIA di Monaco hari yang sama beliau
berkata, “Apa yang mengejutkan adalah bahawa ceramah-ceramah yang akan ke hadapan
telah disimpan dari kami. “Bagaimana anda boleh membina kepercayaan apabila
anda menyimpan rahsia dari apakah sepatutnya menjadi sekutu terdekat?”
Sementara
itu, pada hari Rabu, bekas Perdana Menteri Itali Massimo D' Alema mem-persalahkan
Arab Saudi dan Qatar untuk “membekalkan senjata dan peralatan” kepada
pemberontak di Syria, seperti yang dipetik oleh Itar -Tass.
Pada
bulan November, Washington Post memetik pegawai kanan Teluk, melaporkan bahawa
Arab Saudi telah berusaha untuk menyediakan sokongan bebas ketenteraan kepada
pemberontak selepas sebelum ini menjajarkan dirinya dengan kepentingan Amerika Syarikat
di rantau ini.
“Saudi
merancang untuk mengembangkan kemudahan latihan mereka beroperasi di Jordan dan
meningkatkan kuasa tembakan senjata dihantar kepada kumpulan pemberontak yang
berjuang elemen pelampau di antara mereka walaupun kerana mereka pertempuran
kerajaan Syria,” dilaporkan (the paper reported).
‘The
Post’ juga melaporkan bahawa rundingan sedang dilakukan antara Kerajaan
menubuhkan “operasi selari” bebas daripada Amerika Syarikat.
Laporan
(report) oleh Pusat pada hari Selasa bagi Kajian
Radikalisasi di Kolej King menganggarkan bahawa lebih 1,000 pejuang Arab
berjuang dengan radikal di Syria dari seramai 11 ribu beberapa, termasuk banyak
warga EU.
5
negara - penyumbang semua di Timur Tengah: sehingga dengan 2,089 dari Jordan,
diikuti Arab Saudi (1,016), Tunisia (970 ), Lebanon (890), dan Libya (556).
A
rift between the countries’ foreign policy was also relevant on Sunday, when a
former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal, voiced concern that
Saudi Arabia is being isolated from the diplomatic negotiations with Iran.
“It
is important for us to sit down at the same table,” he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “We have been
absent.” Speaking at World Policy Conference in Monaco same day he said,
"What was surprising was that the talks that were going forward were kept
from us.” "How can you build trust when you keep secrets from what are
supposed to be your closest allies?"
Meanwhile,
on Wednesday, a former Italian prime minister Massimo D'Alema blamed Saudi
Arabia and Qatar for “supplying weapons and equipment” to the rebels in Syria,
as cited by Itar-Tass.
In
November, The Washington Post citing senior Gulf officials, reported that Saudi
Arabia was trying to independently provide military support to the rebels after
previously aligning itself with US interests in the region.
“The
Saudis plan to expand training facilities they operate in Jordan and increase
the firepower of arms sent to rebel groups that are fighting extremist elements
among them even as they battle the Syrian government,” the paper reported.
The
Post also reported that negotiations were under way between governments of
setting up a “parallel operation” independent of the US.
Tuesday’s
report by International Centre for the Study of
Radicalisation at King’s College estimated that over 1,000 Saudi fighters are
fighting with the radicals in Syria from a total number of some 11 thousand,
including many EU nationals.
The
top five countries-contributors are all in the Middle East: with up to 2,089
from Jordan, followed by Saudi Arabia (1,016), Tunisia (970), Lebanon (890),
and Libya (556).
Pejuang
Free Syrian Army lari untuk mengelakkan penembak tepat setia kepada Presiden
Syria Bashar al-Assad di Aleppo lama (A
Free Syrian Army fighter runs to avoid snipers loyal to Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad in old Aleppo (Reuters/Mahmoud Hebbo – think IN pictures
@1WORLDCommunity)
Sementara
itu, Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat meneruskan usaha bersama mereka untuk
mengadakan persidangan Geneva- 2 set 22 Januari 2014, yang bertujuan untuk membawa
sisi konflik Syria ke meja rundingan dan mencari penyelesaian diplomatik.
Abu
Mohammed al Joulani , pemimpin Barisan Al- Nusra sehingga 20,000 pejuang, dalam
satu temu bual dengan Al Jazeera (an interview to Al Jazeera) berkata kumpulannya tidak akan
menerima hasil persidangan Geneva. Pemimpin juga mengingatkan Arab Saudi
baru-baru ini terhadap hubungan baik antara Amerika Syarikat dan Iran.
“Kami
tidak akan mengiktiraf mana-mana keputusan yang keluar dari Persidangan Geneva-
2, dan bukan kanak-kanak atau wanita Syria. Mereka yang mengambil bahagian
dalam persidangan itu tidak mewakili orang-orang yang dikorbankan dan
menumpahkan darah. Selain itu, yang telah membenarkan mereka untuk mewakili
rakyat?”
“Jika
rejim Assad kekal berkuasa , yang demi kepentingan kuasa-kuasa besar dan
Safavids, maka sasaran seterusnya akan Semenanjung Arab, kini dikenali sebagai
Arab Saudi,” kata Joulani.
Kurang
dari seminggu yang lalu, Golongan ini dari Al- Nusra Front menawan bandar Adra
kira 20 kilometer ke utara Damsyik dan menjalankan pembunuhan kejam beramai-ramai
orang2 awam. laporan RT (RT
reported) dari laman pembunuhan beramai-ramai dengan akaun saksi yang
memberitahu cerita-cerita ngeri orang yang dibakar hidup-hidup dan kanak-kanak yang
disembelih.
Meanwhile,
Russia and US continue their joint effort to stage the Geneva-2 conference set
for 22 January 2014, which is aimed at bringing the sides of the Syrian
conflict to the negotiations table and find a diplomatic solution.
Abu
Mohammed al Joulani, the leader of the Al-Nusra Front of up to 20,000 fighters,
in an interview to Al Jazeera said that his group would not
accept the outcome of the Geneva conference. The leader also cautioned Saudi
Arabia against recently improved relations between the US and Iran.
“We
will not recognize any results that come out of the Geneva-2 Conference, nor
will the children or women of Syria. Those taking part in the conference do not
represent the people who sacrificed and shed blood. Besides, who has authorized
them to represent the people?”
“If
the Assad regime remained in power, which is in the interest of the super
powers and the Safavids, then the next target will be the Arabian Peninsula,
now known as Saudi Arabia,” Joulani said.
Less
than a week ago, jihadists from the Al-Nusra Front captured the town of Adra
some 20 kilometers north of Damascus and carried out a brutal massacre of
civilians. RT reported from the massacre site with witness accounts which tell
horrific stories of people being burned alive and children slaughtered.
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