Gabungan Kebangsaan Syria (SNC) pemimpin Ahmad Jarba memberikan sidang akhbar mengenai “Geneva II” rundingan damai, pada 23 Januari 2014 pada hotel Intercontinental di Geneva. (AFP Photo/Philippe Desmazes – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
SitiWanMahani – Pembangkang Syria yang terlibat dalam Geneva 2 rundingan damai ber-kata mesyuarat muka-ke-muka dengan wakil Presiden Bashar Assad, tidak mungkin ber-laku. Perbincangan rasmi mengenai bagaimana untuk mengurangkan perang saudara yang ganas ditetapkan untuk memulakan pada hari Jumaat.
Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu orang tengah Lakhdar Brahimi akan bergerak antara kedua-dua delegasi rundingan di Switzerland (talks in Switzerland), yang akan jalan sehingga Jumaat di bawah naungan PBB (patronage) dan DUNIA kuasa seperti Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat.
Haitham Al-Maleh, seorang anggota kanan parti gabungan pembangkang, berkata adalah “tidak mudah” untuk duduk di dalam bilik yang sama dengan rejim Assad semasa pem-bukaan Rabu pada persidangan itu. Beliau tidak menjangka rundingan lebih intensif untuk melibatkan kedua-dua sama ada pihak duduk dengan satu sama lain.
"Saya tidak fikir kita bersedia untuk itu lagi. Jurang terlalu besar, “katanya kepada Times of Israel.
Pada hari Khamis, pembangkang terus kukuh dengan permintaan utamanya bahawa Presiden Assad berundur melepaskan jawatannya, sebagai beliau “rejim mati” dan negara ini mencari “ke masa depan tanpa dia.”
“Ini adalah asas rundingan kami dan kami akan menuntutnya,” kata ketua pembangkang Syria Ahmed Jarba, menurut Reuters.
Pegawai kerajaan Syria yang hadir meninggalkan rundingan pada hari Khamis tanpa membuat satu kenyataan, menegaskan bahawa Assad tidak mempunyai rancangan untuk mengundurkan diri.
“Jelas sekali beliau tidak bersedia pada masa ini,” kata Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry dalam satu temu bual dengan televisyen Al-Arabiya.
Jarba juga berkata bahawa Rusia, sekutu Assad, telah berjanji ia tidak “memegang” kepada presiden Syria. “Apabila saya bertemu dengan Lavrov minggu lepas di Paris, beliau menge-sahkan bahawa Rusia tidak berpegang kepada Assad,” katanya.
Kerapuhan ketara rundingan pusat di seluruh hujah dan menentang peranan Assad, dalam kerajaan peralihan. Kedua-dua pihak yang mengancam untuk menarik diri jika tuntutan mereka tidak dipenuhi.
“Kami telah mula melihat ke masa depan tanpa dia. Assad dan rejim beliau adalah pada masa lalu kini. Tiada siapa yang masih ragu bahawa ketua rejim selesai. Rejim ini mati,” Jarba berkata, menekankan tempoh yang jangkaan terhad rundingan di Geneva 2.
Syrian opposition refuses to meet govt face-to-face
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The Syrian opposition involved in the Geneva 2 peace talks said a face-to-face meeting with President Bashar Assad’s representatives is unlikely to happen. Formal discussions on how to alleviate the ferocious civil war are set to begin on Friday.
United Nations mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will move between the two delegations at thetalks in Switzerland, which will ramp up Friday under the patronage of the UN and world powers like Russia and the United States.
Haitham Al-Maleh, a senior member of the opposition coalition, said it was “not easy” to sit in the same room with Assad’s regime during Wednesday’s opening of the conference. He does not expect the more intensive negotiations to involve the two sides sitting down with one another, either.
“I don’t think we’re ready for that yet. The gap is too big,” he told the Times of Israel.
On Thursday, the opposition stayed firm with its major demand that President Assad should step down, as his “regime is dead” and the country is looking “into the future without him.”
"This is the basis of our negotiations and we will demand it," Syrian opposition chief Ahmed Jarba said, according to Reuters.
Syrian government officials in attendance left the talks on Thursday without making a statement, insisting that Assad has no plans to step down.
"Obviously he is not ready at this point in time," US Secretary of State John Kerry said in an interview with Al-Arabiya television.
Jarba also said that Russia, Assad’s ally, has pledged it is not “holding on” to the Syrian president. “When I met Lavrov last week in Paris, he confirmed that Russia isn’t holding on to Assad,” he said.
The palpable fragility of the talks centers around arguments for and against Assad’s role in a transitional government. Both sides are threatening to pull out if their demands are not met.
"We have started to look into the future without him. Assad and all of his regime is in the past now. Nobody should have any doubt that the head of the regime is finished. This regime is dead," Jarba said, underscoring a tenor of limited expectations at the Geneva 2 talks.
Menteri Luar Syria Walid Muallem (dariKiri) dan delegasinya mengambil bahagian dalam apa yang dikenali sebagai rundingan damai Geneva II pada 22 Januari 2014 di Montreux. (AFP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Hari pertama rundingan di Switzerland, pada hari Rabu, telah penuh dengan kutukan keras yang dibuat oleh kedua-dua belah kekurangan yang lain bertolak ansur dan kezali-man ke atas tanah semasa perang saudara sengit.
Sementara itu, peserta lain mempertahankan hak istimewa mereka sendiri. Negara-negara Barat, negara-negara Arab dan Turki menyokong pembangkang dalam memanggil satu kerajaan peralihan yang tidak termasuk Assad. Rusia menolak untuk perbincangan itu yang akan memberi tumpuan kepada tamping turun keganasan.
Seorang wakil pembangkang telah menyatakan bahawa, langkah demi langkah proses yang lebih perlahan diperlukan. Beliau berkata langkah praktikal seperti ‘swap’ banduan, gencatan senjata, senjata pengeluaran, dan pusat-pusat bantuan perlu diwujudkan sebe-lum sebarang bercakap tentang masa depan politik Syria bermula.
Pejuang Islam bermusuhan untuk kedua-dua Assad dan pembangkang secara rasmi disokong oleh Amerika Syarikat dan lain-lain tidak diwakili di ceramah. Al-Qaeda ber-kaitan kumpulan militan Sunni, yang mengawal petak besar wilayah, menuduh ahli-ahli pembangkang yang hadir menjadi pengkhianat. Sekutu utama serantau Assad, Iran, juga tidak terlibat dalam persidangan Geneva 2. Jemputan negara telah dibatalkan oleh PBB tidak lama sebelum rundingan bermula minggu ini.
Lebih 130,000 orang dipercayai telah terkorban sejak perang saudara di negara ini berlaku pada tahun 2011. Hampir 1/3 daripada 22 juta penduduk Syria pelarian, setengah memerlukan bantuan antarabangsa, menurut Reuters.
The first day of talks in Switzerland, on Wednesday, was riddled with harsh denunciations made by both sides of the other’s lack of compromise and brutality on the ground during a fierce civil war.
Meanwhile, other participants defended their own prerogatives. Western countries, Arab states, and Turkey supported the opposition in calling for a transitional government that excludes Assad. Russia pushed for the talks to be focused on tamping down terrorism.
One opposition representative has stated that a slower, step-by-step process is needed. He said that practical moves like prisoner swaps, ceasefires, weapons withdrawals, and aid centers should be established before any talk of Syria’s political future begins.
Islamist fighters antagonistic to both Assad and the opposition officially backed by the US and others are not represented at the talks. Al-Qaeda-linked Sunni militant groups, which control large swaths of territory, have accused opposition members in attendance of being traitors. Assad’s main regional ally, Iran, is also not involved in the Geneva 2 conference. The nation’s invitation was rescinded by the UN shortly before talks began this week.
Over 130,000 people are believed to have perished since the country’s civil war broke out in 2011. Nearly a third of Syria’s 22 million residents have been displaced, and half are in need of international aid, according to Reuters.
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