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Syria's Muslim Brotherhood Says It Will Not Monopolize Power
[An Nahar] Syria's Moslem Brüderbund will share power and respect democracy if  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... is toppled, its leader said on Sunday. "The regime is trying to show that the Mohammedan brotherhood are trying to control Syria alone," Mohammad Riad al-Shaqfa told a news conference in Istanbul in remarks translated into English. "We want a democratic Syria and we do not want to control the country alone," he said, ahead of the international conference of "Friends of Syria," scheduled in Istanbul for April 1. Meetings of various factions of Syrian opposition will take place this week in Istanbul, and "90 percent of the opposition parties will be united by April 1, under the umbrella of Syrian National Council", which already includes majority of opposition parties, said the Islamist leader. The movement's number two, Farouk Monir Khalid, described as "good news" a decision by the United States to assist Syrian rebels with "non-lethal" aid. "It is a good step to help" the rebels, he told Agence La Belle France Presse. U.S. President Barack Obama This is a teachable moment... and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed Sunday on the need to send "non-lethal" aid to Syrian rebels, including communications equipment, said U.S. deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes. "We expect to have funds to help the SNC, and more decisions to stop the killings in Syria," to emerge from the next "Friends of Syria" meeting, Khalid said. "We assure that we will accept the result of free elections. We assure that the rights of all Syrians will be guaranteed, of all groups and beliefs." When asked about the fate of the Kurdish minority in Syria, he said that the Moslem Brüderbund "are looking for a non-centralized administration in Syria." Posted by: Fred 2012-03-26 |
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