Gabungan Kebangsaan Syria (SNC) pemimpin Ahmad Jarba
memberikan sidang akhbar mengenai “Geneva II” rundingan damai, pada 23 Januari
2014 pada hotel Intercontinental di Geneva. (AFP Photo/Philippe
Desmazes – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
JohnnyAdam – Pembangkang
Syria yang terlibat dalam Geneva 2 rundingan damai ber-kata mesyuarat muka-ke-muka
dengan wakil Presiden Bashar Assad, tidak mungkin ber-laku. Perbincangan rasmi
mengenai bagaimana untuk mengurangkan perang saudara yang ganas ditetapkan untuk
memulakan pada hari Jumaat.
Bangsa-Bangsa
Bersatu orang tengah Lakhdar Brahimi akan bergerak antara kedua-dua delegasi rundingan
di Switzerland (talks
in Switzerland), yang akan jalan sehingga Jumaat di bawah naungan PBB (patronage)
dan DUNIA kuasa seperti Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat.
Haitham
Al-Maleh, seorang anggota kanan parti gabungan pembangkang, berkata adalah “tidak
mudah” untuk duduk di dalam bilik yang sama dengan rejim Assad semasa pem-bukaan
Rabu pada persidangan itu. Beliau tidak menjangka rundingan lebih intensif
untuk melibatkan kedua-dua sama ada pihak duduk dengan satu sama lain.
"Saya
tidak fikir kita bersedia untuk itu lagi. Jurang terlalu besar, “katanya kepada
Times of Israel.
Pada
hari Khamis, pembangkang terus kukuh dengan permintaan utamanya bahawa Presiden
Assad berundur melepaskan jawatannya, sebagai beliau “rejim mati” dan negara
ini mencari “ke masa depan tanpa dia.”
“Ini
adalah asas rundingan kami dan kami akan menuntutnya,” kata ketua pembangkang
Syria Ahmed Jarba, menurut Reuters.
Pegawai
kerajaan Syria yang hadir meninggalkan rundingan pada hari Khamis tanpa membuat
satu kenyataan, menegaskan bahawa Assad tidak mempunyai rancangan untuk
mengundurkan diri.
“Jelas
sekali beliau tidak bersedia pada masa ini,” kata Setiausaha Negara Amerika
Syarikat John Kerry dalam satu temu bual dengan televisyen Al-Arabiya.
Jarba
juga berkata bahawa Rusia, sekutu Assad, telah berjanji ia tidak “memegang”
kepada presiden Syria. “Apabila saya bertemu dengan Lavrov minggu lepas di
Paris, beliau mengesahkan bahawa Rusia tidak berpegang kepada Assad,” katanya.
Kerapuhan
ketara rundingan pusat di seluruh hujah dan menentang peranan Assad, dalam
kerajaan peralihan. Kedua-dua pihak yang mengancam untuk menarik diri jika
tuntutan mereka tidak dipenuhi.
“Kami
telah mula melihat ke masa depan tanpa dia. Assad dan rejim beliau adalah pada
masa lalu kini. Tiada siapa yang masih ragu bahawa ketua rejim selesai. Rejim
ini mati,” Jarba berkata, menekankan tempoh yang jangkaan terhad rundingan di
Geneva 2.
Syrian opposition refuses to meet govt
face-to-face
at Geneva 2 talks . . .
The
Syrian opposition involved in the Geneva 2 peace talks said a face-to-face
meeting with President Bashar Assad’s representatives is unlikely to happen.
Formal discussions on how to alleviate the ferocious civil war are set to begin
on Friday.
United
Nations mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will move between the two delegations at the talks in
Switzerland, which will ramp up Friday under the patronage
of the UN and world powers like Russia and the United States.
Haitham
Al-Maleh, a senior member of the opposition coalition, said it was “not easy”
to sit in the same room with Assad’s regime during Wednesday’s opening of the
conference. He does not expect the more intensive negotiations to involve the
two sides sitting down with one another, either.
“I don’t
think we’re ready for that yet. The gap is too big,” he told the Times of
Israel.
On
Thursday, the opposition stayed firm with its major demand that President Assad
should step down, as his “regime is dead” and the country is looking “into the
future without him.”
"This
is the basis of our negotiations and we will demand it," Syrian opposition
chief Ahmed Jarba said, according to Reuters.
Syrian
government officials in attendance left the talks on Thursday without making a
statement, insisting that Assad has no plans to step down.
"Obviously
he is not ready at this point in time," US Secretary of State John Kerry
said in an interview with Al-Arabiya television.
Jarba
also said that Russia, Assad’s ally, has pledged it is not “holding on” to the
Syrian president. “When I met Lavrov last week in Paris, he confirmed that
Russia isn’t holding on to Assad,” he said.
The
palpable fragility of the talks centers around arguments for and against
Assad’s role in a transitional government. Both sides are threatening to pull
out if their demands are not met.
"We
have started to look into the future without him. Assad and all of his regime
is in the past now. Nobody should have any doubt that the head of the regime is
finished. This regime is dead," Jarba said, underscoring a tenor of
limited expectations at the Geneva 2 talks.
Menteri Luar Syria Walid Muallem (dariKiri) dan
delegasinya mengambil bahagian dalam apa yang dikenali sebagai rundingan damai
Geneva II pada 22 Januari 2014 di Montreux. (AFP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini – think IN
pictures @1WORLD Community)
Hari pertama
rundingan di Switzerland, pada hari Rabu, telah penuh dengan kutukan keras yang
dibuat oleh kedua-dua belah kekurangan yang lain bertolak ansur dan kezali-man
ke atas tanah semasa perang saudara sengit.
Sementara
itu, peserta lain mempertahankan hak istimewa mereka sendiri. Negara-negara
Barat, negara-negara Arab dan Turki menyokong pembangkang dalam memanggil satu
kerajaan peralihan yang tidak termasuk Assad. Rusia menolak untuk perbincangan
itu yang akan memberi tumpuan kepada tamping turun keganasan.
Seorang
wakil pembangkang telah menyatakan bahawa, langkah demi langkah proses yang
lebih perlahan diperlukan. Beliau berkata langkah praktikal seperti ‘swap’
banduan, gencatan senjata, senjata pengeluaran, dan pusat-pusat bantuan perlu
diwujudkan sebe-lum sebarang bercakap tentang masa depan politik Syria bermula.
Pejuang
Islam bermusuhan untuk kedua-dua Assad dan pembangkang secara rasmi disokong
oleh Amerika Syarikat dan lain-lain tidak diwakili di ceramah. Al-Qaeda ber-kaitan
kumpulan militan Sunni, yang mengawal petak besar wilayah, menuduh ahli-ahli
pembangkang yang hadir menjadi pengkhianat. Sekutu utama serantau Assad, Iran,
juga tidak terlibat dalam persidangan Geneva 2. Jemputan negara telah
dibatalkan oleh PBB tidak lama sebelum rundingan bermula minggu ini.
Lebih
130,000 orang dipercayai telah terkorban sejak perang saudara di negara ini
berlaku pada tahun 2011. Hampir 1/3 daripada 22 juta penduduk Syria pelarian,
setengah memerlukan bantuan antarabangsa, menurut Reuters.
The
first day of talks in Switzerland, on Wednesday, was riddled with harsh
denunciations made by both sides of the other’s lack of compromise and
brutality on the ground during a fierce civil war.
Meanwhile,
other participants defended their own prerogatives. Western countries, Arab
states, and Turkey supported the opposition in calling for a transitional
government that excludes Assad. Russia pushed for the talks to be focused on
tamping down terrorism.
One
opposition representative has stated that a slower, step-by-step process is
needed. He said that practical moves like prisoner swaps, ceasefires, weapons
withdrawals, and aid centers should be established before any talk of Syria’s
political future begins.
Islamist
fighters antagonistic to both Assad and the opposition officially backed by the
US and others are not represented at the talks. Al-Qaeda-linked Sunni militant
groups, which control large swaths of territory, have accused opposition
members in attendance of being traitors. Assad’s main regional ally, Iran, is
also not involved in the Geneva 2 conference. The nation’s invitation was
rescinded by the UN shortly before talks began this week.
Over
130,000 people are believed to have perished since the country’s civil war
broke out in 2011. Nearly a third of Syria’s 22 million residents have been
displaced, and half are in need of international aid, according to Reuters.
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