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March 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
It is due to host a “Friends of Syria” conference in Istanbul on
April 1 to pressure the Damascus regime following a first such meeting in
Tunis last month attended by leading officials from Western and Arab
countries.
Syrian opposition factions including the main Syrian National Council are
meeting in Istanbul on Monday to prepare for the conference. The fragmented
opposition has struggled to remain united in the face of the regime’s deadly
crackdown on dissent.
Turkey joins a number of other countries which have already closed their
embassies in Damascus, including the United States, some EU members and the
six Arab monarchies of the Gulf.
Ahmet Davutoglu, the foreign minister, said last week that the survival of the
Assad regime was “almost impossible”.
“A regime fighting against its own people, trying to keep the status quo,
cannot survive,” he said in Vienna.
President Barack Obama meanwhile said he and Russian counterpart Dmitry
Medvedev agreed on Monday to support diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed
in Syria and ensure a “legitimate” government there.
Syria was one of the top priority issues discussed during a 90-minute meeting
between the two leaders in South Korea ahead of a nuclear summit, their
final direct talks before Medvedev steps down and makes way for Vladimir
Putin.
Mr Obama acknowledged in comments to reporters after the talks that there had
been disagreements over the past few months between the United States and
Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
But he said both agreed “we should be supportive of Kofi Annan’s efforts
to end some of the bloodshed that is taking place in Syria”, and that
the goal was to have a “legitimate” government in Damascus.
Russia and China last week backed a UN Security Council peace plan for Syria
put forward by Annan, the UN-Arab League’s envoy.
Annan’s plan calls for a halt to fighting, with the government pulling troops
and heavy weapons out of protest cities, a daily two-hour humanitarian pause
to hostilities and access to all areas affected by the fighting.
It also calls for the release of people detained over the past year of the
uprising against Assad in which the UN says well over 8,000 people have been
killed.
Before flying to Seoul, Medvedev warned that Annan represented the last chance
for avoiding a civil war in Syria.
Obama said he and Medvedev also discussed Iran’s nuclear programme, with both
expressing support for diplomatic efforts to end the impasse by the five
permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.
“We agreed that P5 plus one talks with Iran should be announced soon,”
Obama said.
“(The talks will) offer us an opportunity to talk diplomatically (on) the
critical issue of ensuring Iran is abiding by its international obligations
that will allow them to rejoin the community of nations,” he said.
The United States and much of the West believe Iran’s nuclear programme is
geared towards obtaining a weapon. Iran says its programme is for civil
power generation and medical purposes only.
Source: AFP
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