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Syrian 'Transitional Government' Set Up in Paris
[An Nahar] Exiled Syrian businessman Nofal Dawalibi announced in Gay Paree on Thursday the setting up of a "transitional government to answer the needs of the Syrian opposition.""The situation in Syria is getting worse every day. Chaos is rising," said Dawalibi, whose father Maarrouf was Syrian prime minister before Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad's Trampler of Homs... Baath party took power in 1963. "We have decided to replace existing structures with a purely executive structure which coordinates the operations of the divisions fighting for freedom and follows the will of the sovereign Syrian people," he told news hounds. He did not specify how the "transitional government" would coordinate with the Syrian National Council (SNC) headed by exiled academic Burhan Ghalioun that is considered the Syrian opposition's most representative political body. Armed opposition to President Bashir al-Assad's regime is centred on the Free Syrian Army (FSA). Dawalibi said that "many" members of the SNC and the FSA backed his transitional government, although others were subject to "pressure". "Unfortunately the SNC, which chose a legislative body while ours is an executive body, could not prove that its structure represents the Syrian people and the revolution," he said. The "transitional government's" objectives are to arm anti-regime fighters, to implement "direct international military intervention" and ensure the return of security and stability to Syria," Dawalibi said. The names of the 35 Syrians making up the "transitional government", described as civilians and soldiers within Syria, "will for security reasons be announced in a few days," he said. A truce in Syria brokered by U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy Kofi Annan  ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...earlier this month has failed to take hold, with unrest and killings reported on a daily basis in various parts of the country. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe on Wednesday said that given the persistent violence, the U.N.-backed peace plan was "seriously compromised" and held out the threat of seeking military action to end the regime's crackdown. Posted by: Fred 2012-04-27 |
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