Bürgerkrieg in Syrien
05.06.2012 um 17:43Erst China, und langsam auch Russland:
Ich habe so das Gefühl dass Assad nur noch Moskaus Druckmittel spielen darf bis man eine Lösung gefunden hat die Syrien im russischen Einflussgebiet belassen würde, danach wird er entsorgt...http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=405671
Russia says Assad could go in Syria settlementhttp://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=405613 (Archiv-Version vom 08.06.2012)
June 5, 2012
Russia said on Tuesday it was prepared to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leave power in a negotiated solution to 15 months of bloodshed that has claimed more than 13,000 lives.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said a day after meeting mediator Kofi Annan in Geneva that Moscow would back any peaceful settlement to the crisis as long as it did not involve the use of outside force.
"We have never said or insisted that Assad necessarily had to remain in power at the end of the political process," Gatilov told the ITAR-TASS news agency in Switzerland.
"This issue has to be settled by the Syrians themselves."
The comments represent one of Russia's most explicit declarations of a position first signaled by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a day after a February 7 meeting in Damascus with Assad.
Lavrov at the time refused to explicitly back Assad and said the leadership structure of Moscow's Soviet-era ally "should be the result of agreement between the Syrians themselves."
Russia has been facing mounting pressure to back Assad's departure as a first step in a settlement that would see his inner circle assume command on an interim basis.
Ich habe so das Gefühl dass Assad nur noch Moskaus Druckmittel spielen darf bis man eine Lösung gefunden hat die Syrien im russischen Einflussgebiet belassen würde, danach wird er entsorgt...
Saudi Arabia says it's time Russia changed stance on Syria
June 5, 2012
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal bin Abdel Aziz said Tuesday that it is time for Russia to change its stance on Syria and work to ensure a peaceful transfer of power.
"The time has come for Russia to change its stance from supporting the Syrian regime to working to stop the killing and [supporting] a peaceful transition of power," Prince Saud told a news conference.
He said such a policy change would "preserve [Russia's] interests in Syria and the Arab world," adding that he "hoped Russia would re-evaluate its policies in the region, especially with regard to Syria."
Otherwise, "Moscow would lose a lot [of credibility] among the Arabs.”