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February 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“There is a humanitarian emergency,” she said. “The world has
not responded to this emergency adequately. The people in Syria feel
abandoned. They feel they are being let down by the world.”
Washington has already hinted that it may be willing to pursue such an option,
though it has been ruled out by William Hague, the Foreign Secretary.
On Wednesday Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Iranian counterpart
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed the crisis in a telephone call, but agreed to
reject foreign intervention in Syria.
“The sides spoke out in favour of the quickest resolution of the crisis
by the Syrian people themselves through exclusively peaceful means and
without foreign intervention,” a Kremlin statement said.
As the Syrian regime’s bombardment of Homs continued for a 19th straight day
yesterday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 7,636 people
had been killed since anti-regime protests erupted last March, including
5,542 civilians.
In a further example of the regime’s brutality, activists also claimed that
troops and militia loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government
had summarily executed 27 young men on Tuesday in northern villages.
Several YouTube videos taken by local activists in the northern Idlib area,
which could not be independently confirmed, showed the bodies with bullet
wounds to the head or chest and hands tied lying dead in streets.
Simon Collis, Britain’s ambassador to Syria, has returned to the country after
being withdrawn for consultations, indicating the Government’s eagerness to
exhaust every option for political pressure.
The SNC, the largest opposition group, will ask the conference to support a
seven-point plan for establishing “humanitarian corridors” to
cities and surrounding areas under sustained assault by President Bashar
al-Assad’s forces where food, water and electricity are becoming scarce.
It proposes establishing safe passages from Lebanon to the besieged city of
Homs, from Turkey to Idlib and from Jordan to Deraa.
Russia, one of the regime’s few remaining allies, said it now supported a Red
Cross proposal to allow limited daily access for aid convoys, though not
fully fledged “corridors”.
“Our initiative is aimed at providing safety of humanitarian cargo
deliveries. We are actively working with Syria and countries around it,”
said Alexander Lukashevich, a foreign ministry spokesman.
Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, was however quick to
underline his government’s hostility towards the Friends of Syria meeting,
which Russia will not attend, for failing to invite representatives of the
Syrian government.
Russia and China earlier this month vetoed United Nations Security Council
backing for an Arab League plan that asks Mr Assad to hand over power and
hold elections.
Louay Hussein, one of Syria’s leading dissidents, said the opposition inside
the country felt abandoned by the international community as the regime had
become even more brutal since the failure of the UN resolution.
“No one is able to predict how bad it will become in Syria. The regime is
moving further and further away from diplomacy. It is refusing to consider
any political initiative,” he said on a visit to London.
A senior Western official said that Russia was still not exerting any
meaningful pressure on the Assad regime.
“We would like Russia to be part of the solution but they are not
presenting themselves as such. They are delaying diplomacy to help Assad
carry out the level of atrocities he is undertaking,” he said.
The SNC’s lack of cohesion meanwhile remains a stumbling block for Western
powers, which have yet to recognise it as the legitimate representative of
the Syrian people.
“The SNC is the group that has the momentum but it is far from, and
doesn’t claim to be, the only representative of the opposition.
“We want to push for a coming together of those groups, perhaps through a
Congress, so that there is a collective moving forward.
“We would like to see a shared statement of principles and secondly some
kind of transition plan for a viable political future,” said the
official.
Meanwhile, The European Union is set to impose fresh sanctions on Syria,
including a ban on Syrian-run cargo flights into the 27-nation bloc, EU
diplomats said yesterday.
Other measures include a freeze on the European assets of the Syrian central
bank and restrictions on trade in gold and precious metals.
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