| DAMASCUS: Opposition figures in Syria on Tuesday denied any links with the National Salvation Front (NSF), a group of exiles who have called for the overthrow of President Bashar Assad's regime. "There was neither coordination nor consultation" with NSF figures who held a congress in London earlier this week, lawyer Hassan Abdel-Azim, a member of the steering committee of the Damascus Declaration, told AFP. "The National Salvation Front and the Damascus Declaration are two totally different things. We have previously said that we have no links with the National Salvation Front," he said. The Damascus Declaration, launched in October 2005 by several opposition parties inside Syria - including communists, nationalists, liberals and ethnic Kurds - called for "radical and democratic change" in the country. |