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June 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Press TV has interviewed Christopher Walker, Middle East expert in London about Kofi Annan’s concerns of the situation in Syria escalating and also about the inability of the West to penetrate the strong political and geo-political structure to Syria. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: It seems that Bashar Assad’s government still goes on naturally with its political structure – now they have a new parliament and Mr. Assad spoke at the new parliament. Do you [have]anything new in this regard?
Walker: No. There is a great deal of depression in the West about the possibility of the Annan plan succeeding and the main cause of that – that are subsidiary causes – is as far as I can see, the obstacle that the opposition are demanding that Mr. Assad stand down or stand aside as president before meaningful peace talks can begin.
And Mr. Assad has absolutely no intention of doing that. He has strong support from Russia, which very significantly boosted that in Peking this week with a visit by Mr. Putin to China. They are the two, as it were; hold outs on the UN Security Council.
And frankly from this end there seems absolutely no solution, though perhaps the phrase civil war is a little bit exaggerated at the moment because the opposition doesn’t have the heavy weaponry to make a civil war, it’s more like I would say a vicious guerilla war.
Press TV: Do you think the West wants Kofi Annan to fail in order for them to be able to put down their own conditions perhaps for the UN or for Russia? But they haven’t actually expressed it in clear terms because they could also be afraid that what’s happening in Syria could extend to the entire region?
Walker: No, they are afraid of that, but I think it’s too much of a conspiracy theory to say they deliberately want it to fail, but on the other hand they realize that without Russia and China coming on board not in just words, but in a positive – as they would see it – opposition to Mr. Assad continuing in power and not standing aside for another that really nothing of any significance to change the position on the ground is going to happen.
Press TV: Do you think that the Houla massacre was a turning point in the Syrian crisis?
Walker: No, not really. I think it was just more of the same and whatever the Syrian representative said, it’s falling on deaf ears in the West because they do not accept the argument that this is simply a foreign intervention. They believe that there is a considerable amount of discontent with the government inside Syria and that that began things 15 months ago.
But I think the contrary positions that we’ve heard on this interesting Middle East Today program of Press TV have shown the enormous wide problems there are in solving this and why frankly Mr. Kofi Annan has very, very little chance in bringing these different viewpoints together around the table because they will not get round the table together without preconditions on one side or the other. And with preconditions, those talks won’t take place.
Press TV: Do you think that some Western pressure could lead to putting Kofi Annan’s plan under Chapter 7 of the United Nations?
Walker: I think what’s got to happen is that Syria has got to open up coverage of this whole conflict to the world’s media, not only the Western media… because all of these YouTube movies that show horror such as the recent massacre, nobody really knows the truth behind who perpetrated them.
But there is a feeling, the fact that they allow very, very little press coverage or media coverage shows that in some way they’re covering something up.
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