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March 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Walid Muallem, the foreign minister, said in talks with Amos soon after she
arrived in Damascus that Syria was ready to co-operate with the UN
humanitarian delegation.
The state SANA news agency said Mr Muallem “underlined Syria’s commitment
to co-operate with the delegation within the framework of the respect,
sovereignty and independence of Syria.”
It quoted Mr Muallem as saying Syria was doing its best to provide food and
medical assistance to its citizens despite “the burden it faces as a
result of unfair sanctions imposed by some Western and Arab nations which
are affecting the population.”
Baroness Amos’s arrival coincided with a report by the Syrian National
Council, the main opposition grouping, that army reinforcements were on
their way to Idlib province, a stronghold of Turkey-based Free Syrian Army
rebels.
“The SNC has noted 42 tanks and 131 troop carriers leaving Latakia in the
direction of the town of Saraqeb,” in Idlib, “as well as military
columns heading for the town of Idlib,” the group said in a statement.
In addition, “several martyrs were killed” in bombardment of Maaret
al-Numan, another town in Idlib province, it added.
The SNC called on the international community, the Arab League and
international NGOs to “act urgently and at all levels, to avoid a
repeat of the massacre at Baba Amr, where hundreds of martyrs fell.”
The group urged rebel fighters in the Damascus, Aleppo and Hama regions to “take
all the necessary initiatives to alleviate the pressure on our brothers in
Idlib.”
Baba Amr, a rebel district in the flashpoint city of Homs, was overrun last
Thursday after almost a month of shelling by Syrian forces that cost
hundreds of lives and which the SNC said reduced much of the city to rubble.
The Syrian army has intensified its attacks on insurgency strongholds,
particularly in Idlib, since it retook Baba Amr.
Also on Wednesday, a Chinese envoy sent to discuss ways to end the bloodshed
in Syria was to discuss a six-point peace plan with Muallem and opposition
figures.
Envoy Li Huaxin, quoted in Al-Watan newspaper, said he already met with Deputy
Foreign Minister Ahmad Arnus to discuss China’s “six-point vision”
on the year-long bloodshed in Syria.
The Chinese initiative calls for an immediate end to the violence and for
dialogue between Assad’s regime and the opposition.
Beijing’s proposal rejects foreign interference or “external action for
regime change” in Syria but supports the role of the UN Security
Council “in strict accordance with the purposes and principles of the
UN charter.”
Russia, which like China has been criticised for blocking Security Council
action on the crisis, urged its ally Damascus and the rebels to “immediately”
halt violence and assist Amos’s mission.
The Russian foreign ministry said it received Syria’s ambassador to Moscow at
his own request and made clear that “violence must end immediately, no
matter where it comes from.”
Russia also “underscored the critical need to solve acute humanitarian
problems in Syria,” the ministry said.
Vladimir Putin, the President-elect of Russia, however dismissed speculation
Moscow was granting political asylum to Bashar al-Assad.
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