Menteri Luar Rusia Sergei Lavrov (R) dan pemimpin pembangkang Syria Ahmad Jarba tiba untuk mesyuarat di Moscow Feb 4, 2014 (Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba arrive for a meeting in Moscow February 4, 2014 (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov - thinkINpictures @1WORLD Community)
SitiWanMahani – Syria Gabungan Kebangsaan berkata ia akan mengambil bahagian dalam pusingan yang ke-2 rundingan Geneva 2. Rusia berkata kerajaan Syria menya-takan “tiada keraguan” bahawa ia juga akan menghadiri, sambil menambah bahawa ia meran-cang untuk menghantar penghantaran bahan kimia keluar dari negara ini.
Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov mengadakan perbincangan dengan Gabungan Kebang-saan Syria (SNC) pemimpin Ahmad Jarba pada Selasa. Berikutan perbincangan - yang dijalankan di Moscow dan memberi tumpuan kepada persidangan damai dihentikan buat sementara waktu di Switzerland - Jarba disahkan media Rusia bahawa SNC akan datang ke Geneva pada 10 Februari.
“Kami telah bersetuju untuk mengambil bahagian dalam Geneva [KeAMANan] persi-dangan untuk memenuhi Kenyatan Geneva . . . Kami telah menyatakan hasrat kami untuk mengambil bahagian dalam rundingan pusingan yang ke-2 pada 10 Februari,” Jarba berkata, seperti yang dipetik oleh Interfax.
Gabungan telah memutuskan ia mesti “mengikuti jalan penyelesaian politik” konflik Syria walaupun semua kemungkinan semasa pusingan pertama perbincangan dan serangan terbaru dari tentera kerajaan di atas darat, tambah Jarba.
Yang dinanti-nantikan dan banyak yang tertangguh Geneva 2 rundingan damai berpecah tanpa tanda kemajuan minggu lepas sebagai pihak yang bertentangan berulang kali menuduh satu sama lain sebagai “pengganas,” gagal untuk bergerak ke hadapan walaupun pada isu-isu kemanusiaan. Permintaan yang pembangkang bahawa Presiden Syria Bashar Assad cuti pejabat - satu langkah secara terbuka disokong oleh Washington - dibantah daripada delegasi kerajaan.
Syrian opposition, govt ready to move forward
with Geneva 2 peace talks . . .
The Syrian National Coalition says it will take part in the second round of Geneva 2 talks. Russia says the Syrian government expressed "no doubts" that it will also attend, adding that it plans to send a shipment of chemical agents out of the country.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with Syrian National Coalition (SNC) leader Ahmad Jarba on Tuesday. Following the talks - which took place in Moscow and focused on the temporarily halted peace conference in Switzerland - Jarba confirmed to Russian media that the SNC will come to Geneva on February 10.
“We have agreed to take part in Geneva [peace] conference to fulfill the Geneva Communiqué…We have stated our intention to take part in the second round of talks on February 10,” Jarba said, as quoted by Interfax.
The Coalition has decided it must “follow the way of political settlement” of the Syrian conflict despite all odds during the first round of talks and the latest offensive from government forces on the ground, Jarba added.
The much-awaited and much-delayed Geneva 2 peace talks broke up with no sign of progress last week as the opposing sides repeatedly accused one another of being “terrorists,” failing to move forward even on humanitarian issues. The opposition’s demand that Syrian President Bashar Assad leave office – a move openly backed by Washington – was met with resistance from the government delegation.
Pemimpin pembangkang Syria Ahmad Jarba (Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba (Reuters/Denis Balibouse - thinkINpictures @1WORLD Community)
Walau bagaimanapun , Moscow menjangka Damsyik untuk meneruskan rundingan. Menu-rut Timbalan Menteri Luar Rusia Gennady Gatilov, kerajaan Syria telah “menyatakan tiada keraguan berkaitan penyertaan dalam pusingan seterusnya rundingan.”
Rusia pada hari Selasa mencadangkan bahawa untuk bergerak ke hadapan dengan run-dingan, delegasi Syria perlu membentuk kumpulan tugas khusus mengenai isu-isu yang berbeza, yang dinyatakan Gatilov.
“Bagi setiap isu beberapa usaha konkrit diperlukan; ada yang lebih mudah diselesaikan, yang lain adalah lebih sukar - misalnya, penciptaan kerajaan interim. Tetapi ini tidak bermakna bahawa seseorang itu perlu memberi tumpuan kepada masalah tunggal dan tidak mengabaikan yang lain,” Gatilov memberitahu RIA Novosti.
Kumpulan tugas tersebut hendaklah hanya Syria sahaja, dan semasa kerja mereka boleh diselesaikan oleh PBB, tidak ada sebarang campur tangan asing dalam proses itu, katanya.
Ia adalah penting untuk “melaksanakan sepenuhnya” Kenyatan Geneva 30 Jun, 2012, yang termasuk “memerangi keganasan, melaksanakan gencatan senjata, memastikan bantuan kemanusiaan dan pertukaran POW,” Lavrov memberitahu Jarba, menurut kenyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh Kementerian Luar Rusia pada Selasa.
Pemimpin SNC bagaimanapun berkata beliau percaya bahawa mewujudkan badan pera-lihan adalah keutamaan yang akan menyelesaikan semua isu-isu lain secara automatik.
“Pembentukan kerajaan sementara akan menyelesaikan semua masalah lain yang disang-sikan, termasuk gencatan senjata dan siaran daripada tahanan perang,” Jarba memberi jaminan, yang menyatakan bahawa pembangkang telah pun menyediakan senarai calon-calon dan menyatakan kesediaannya “untuk menjadi fleksibel dan terbuka untuk dialog ketika membincangkan calon-calon.”
Pihak-pihak Syria telah setakat ini tidak mencapai persetujuan mengenai pertukaran POW. Pembangkang telah gagal untuk mengemukakan senarai orang yang mereka tangkap, walaupun Damsyik telah diserahkan senarai kepada SNC kata Gatilov.
However, Moscow expects Damascus to continue with the talks. According to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov, the Syrian government has “expressed no doubt regarding its participation in the next round of talks.”
Russia on Tuesday suggested that to move forward with the talks, the Syrian delegations should form specialized task groups on different issues, Gatilov stated.
“For every issue some concrete efforts are needed; some are easier solved, the other ones are tougher – for instance, the creation of interim government. But this does not mean that one should focus on a single problem and ignore the others,” Gatilov told RIA Novosti.
Such task groups should be Syrian-only, and while their work could be mediated by the UN, there can be no foreign meddling in the process, he said.
It is important to “fully implement” the Geneva Communiqué of June 30, 2012, which includes “fighting terrorism, effecting ceasefire, ensuring humanitarian access and POW exchange,” Lavrov told Jarba, according to statements issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
The SNC leader, however, said he believes that creating a transitional body is a top priority that will solve all other issues automatically.
“Formation of an interim government will solve all other disputable problems, including ceasefire and releases of the war prisoners,” Jarba assured, stating that the opposition has already prepared a list of candidates and expressed readiness “to be flexible and open for dialogue while discussing nominees.”
The Syrian parties have so far not reached an agreement on POW exchange. The opposition has failed to present a list of people they captured, though Damascus has already handed its list to the SNC, Gatilov said.
Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry (dariKiri-dariTengah), Setiausaha Agung PBB Ban Ki-moon dan Rusia Menteri Luar Sergey Lavrov (U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L-R), U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (Reuters / Gary Cameron - thinkINpictures @1WORLD Community)
Rusia ‘Official’ juga meragui bahawa pembangkang Syria mempunyai apa-apa pengaruh untuk mempengaruhi tindakan kumpulan pengganas antarabangsa berjuang di atas tanah di Syria dengan tujuan untuk mewujudkan satu undang-undang berasaskan syariah - negara Islam.
Sementara itu, Jarba berkata pembangkang enggan membincangkan masalah keganasan di Syria Walau bagaimanapun, katanya kepada wartawan Rusia yang SNC tidak meng-iktiraf Barisan Islam “manakala Assad berkuasa.” Penggabungan utama pejuang pem-berontak Syria ditubuhkan pada bulan November - sebagai organisasi pengganas, dan menganggap mereka sebagai “golongan revolusi.”
Kelewatan kimia memecahkan pada Februari’
Permulaan Geneva 2 rundingan damai bertepatan dengan satu lagi gelombang tekanan Barat terhadap kerajaan Syria, dengan Amerika Syarikat menuduh Syria (accusing) sengaja melambatkan penghantaran senjata kimia keluar dari negara ini, dan juga dilaporkan memberi kuasa penyampaian beberapa senjata (weapons) untuk pembang-kang semasa sesi Kongres tertutup.
Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry juga meminta Rusia untuk menekan Damsyik untuk mempercepatkan penyiapan kewajipan antarabangsanya, jurucakap Jabatan Negara Jennifer Psaki berkata pada hari Selasa.
Gatilov menjawab retorik Amerika Syarikat dengan berkata “tiada keperluan untuk membuat drama yang keluar dari situasi tersebut dengan perlucutan senjata”.
“Harfiah semalam orang Syria mengumumkan bahawa penyingkiran penghantaran besar bahan kimia dirancang pada bulan Februari. Mereka bersedia untuk menyelesaikan proses ini pada 1 Mac,” RIA Novosti memetik Gatilov sebagai berkata.
Terdapat, bagaimanapun, beberapa kebimbangan berkaitan keselamatan berasas, tambah Gatilov, mengatakan bahawa beberapa provokasi telah pun dicuba.
Rusia yakin senjata kimia Syria akan dimusnahkan oleh tarikh akhir 30 Jun, Rusia Timbalan Menteri Luar Sergey Ryabkov kepada Reuters pada hari Isnin.
The Russian official also doubted that the Syrian opposition has any leverage to affect the actions of international terrorist groups fighting on the ground in Syria with the aim to create a Sharia law-based Islamic state.
Meanwhile, Jarba said the opposition refuses to discuss the problem of terrorism in Syria “while Assad is in power.” However, he told Russian journalists that the SNC does not recognize the Islamic Front - a major merger of Syrian rebel fighters formed in November - as a terrorist organization, and considers them “revolutionaries.”
Chemical delay to break ‘in February’
The start of the Geneva 2 peace talks coincided with another wave of Western pressure against the Syrian government, with the US accusing Syria of deliberately delaying the delivery of its chemical weapons out of the country, as well as reportedly authorizing the delivery of some weapons to the opposition during a closed Congress session.
US Secretary of State John Kerry also asked Russia to press Damascus to speed up the completion of its international obligation, State Department spokesman Jennifer Psaki said on Tuesday.
Gatilov replied to the US rhetoric by saying there was “no need to make a drama out of the situation with the disarmament.”
“Literally yesterday the Syrians announced that the removal of a large shipment of chemical substances is planned in February. They are ready to complete this process by March 1,” RIA Novosti quoted Gatilov as saying.
There are, however, some well-founded security related concerns, Gatilov added, saying that several provocations have already been attempted.
Russia is confident that Syria’s chemical arsenal will be destroyed by the June 30 deadline, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Reuters on Monday.
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