MADAyuMadyan - Putin: Penyerahan senjata kimia Syria hanya akan berfungsi jika Amerika Syarikat panggilan hentikan serangan. Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin berkata bahawa senjata kimia Syria penyerahan hanya akan berfungsi jika Amerika Syarikat dan sekutu-sekutunya meninggalkan penggunaan kekerasan terhadap Damsyik.
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“Sudah tentu, semua ini hanya akan bermakna apa-apa jika Amerika Syarikat dan negara-negara lain yang menyokong ia memberitahu kita bahawa mereka memberi pelan mereka untuk menggunakan kekerasan terhadap Syria. Anda tidak boleh benar-benar meminta Syria, atau mana-mana negara lain, untuk melucutkan senjata unilateral manakala tindakan ketenteraan terhadap ia sedang dipertimbangkan , “kata Presiden Putin pada hari Selasa.
Presiden Putin berkata bahawa perkara yang membawa senjata kimia Syria di bawah kawalan antarabangsa telah lama menjadi subjek perbincangan oleh pakar-pakar dan ahli politik.
Putin mengesahkan bahawa beliau dan Presiden Barack Obama telah “sememangnya dibincangkan” apa-apa kemungkinan di luar sidang kemuncak G20 di St Petersburg minggu lepas.
Ia telah dipersetujui, Putin berkata, “untuk mengarahkan Setiausaha Negara [John Kerry] dan Menteri Luar Negeri [Sergey Lavrov] untuk bekerja bersama-sama dan melihat jika mereka boleh mencapai beberapa kemajuan dalam hal ini.”
Komen Presiden Putin datang tidak lama selepas kerajaan Syria berkata ia akan bersetuju untuk meletakkan senjata senjata kimia di bawah kawalan antarabangsa.
Pada hari Selasa, Britain, Perancis dan Amerika Syarikat berkata mereka akan membentangkan satu resolusi mengenai senjata kimia Syria kepada Majlis Keselamatan PBB di kemudian hari.
Satu mesyuarat tertutup kecemasan di Majlis Keselamatan dijadualkan untuk mengambil tempat pada jam 4:00 pm EST (20:00 GMT), berkata pejabat akhbar PBB.
“Jika ini adalah satu cadangan yang serius, maka kita perlu bertindak dengan sewajarnya dan saya fikir satu resolusi Majlis Keselamatan PBB adalah idea yang baik,” kata Perdana Menteri Britain, David Cameron.
Walau bagaimanapun, Amerika Syarikat dan Perancis berkata mereka tidak akan menolak apa-apa reaksi yang mungkin untuk menggunakan senjata kimia di Syria, Interfax dinamakan Istana Elysee sebagai berkata dalam satu kenyataan.
Menurut agensi berita itu, “presiden Perancis dan Amerika Syarikat mengulangi bahawa mereka akan memilih satu penyelesaian diplomatik, tetapi mereka juga telah menyatakan kesanggupan untuk mengekalkan mana-mana pilihan lain untuk meneutralkan senjata-senjata bahan kimia Syria.”
Kementerian Luar Rusia akan mencadangkan draf kenyataan oleh pengerusi Majlis Keselamatan PBB , yang menyokong inisiatif untuk memindahkan senjata kimia Syria kepada kawalan antarabangsa.
Isu ini telah dibincangkan dalam perbualan telefon antara Menteri Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov dan rakan sejawatannya dari Perancis itu, Laurent Fabius.
“[Lavrov] berkata bahawa Rusia, di bahagian , adalah mengemukakan draf kenyataan untuk pengerusi Majlis Keselamatan PBB itu , mengalu-alukan . . . inisiatif dan memanggil kepada Setiausaha Agung PBB, Ketua Pengarah Pertubuhan bagi Larangan Senjata Kimia, dan semua pihak yang berminat untuk membuat usaha-usaha untuk memudahkan pelaksanaan cadangan ini,” menurut kenyataan kementerian itu.
Pada masa yang sama, Syria berkata, ia adalah benar-benar bersedia untuk melepaskan senjata kimia dan menandatangani Konvensyen Senjata Kimia.
“Kami bersedia untuk menunjukkan laman dengan senjata kimia untuk wakil-wakil Rusia, serta wakil-wakil dari negeri-negeri lain dan PBB,” Syria Menteri Luar Walid Muallem memberitahu Lebanon berasaskan Al ‘Mayadeen TV.
Walaupun menyuarakan “beberapa keraguan yang serius,” negara-negara Barat menyokong cadangan Rusia, menekankan pentingnya Assad memenuhi perjanjian dan menyerahkan yang stok simpanan senjata.
Britain berkata ia akan seperti Rusia dan Syria untuk menunjukkan bahawa cadangan kepada Presiden Bashar Assad adalah “serius dan tulen.”
Di Washington, White House bergema kenyataan UK, berkata ia mahu mengesahkan bahawa Syria adalah serius dalam hasratnya.
Terdahulu, kerajaan Perancis berkata penyerahan senjata kimia Syria kepada kawalan antarabangsa perlu rapat diteliti. Perancis berkata ia akan membentangkan draf resolusi kepada Majlis Keselamatan PBB menyeru Syria untuk melepaskan stok simpanan daripada senjata kimia, mengancam “amat serius” akibatnya jika Syria melanggar syarat-syaratnya.
Pentadbiran Obama, yang minggu lalu telah tegas mendesak campur tangan tentera berikutan Aug. 21 serangan senjata kimia, kini telah berubah kedudukannya.
Sebagai tindak balas kepada cadangan Rusia, Obama berkata beliau bersedia untuk “benar-benar” meletakkan menghentikan serangan tentera ke atas Syria jika Assad menerima tawaran itu.
Senat Amerika Syarikat pada mulanya dijadualkan untuk mengundi sama ada untuk membenarkan “tindakan ketenteraan yang terhad,” tetapi Senat Demokrat pembantu kepimpinan berkata ia kini tidak diketahui jika Senat akan mengundi minggu ini di Syria.
“Kami mahu memberi presiden peluang untuk membuat kesnya,” pembantu itu sambil menambah bahawa selepas ucapan Presiden Obama malam Selasa, pemimpin Senat akan mengkaji semula keadaan.
Putin: Syria Chem Arms handover will Work
Only if US Calls Off Strike . . .
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Syria’s chemical arms handover will only work if the US and its allies renounce the use of force against Damascus.
"Of course, all of this will only mean anything if the United States and other nations supporting it tell us that they're giving up their plan to use force against Syria. You can’t really ask Syria, or any other country, to disarm unilaterally while military action against it is being contemplated," President Putin said on Tuesday.
President Putin said that the matter of bringing Syria’s chemical weapons under international control has long been a subject of discussion by experts and politicians.
Putin confirmed that he and President Barack Obama had “indeed discussed” such a possibility on the sidelines of the G20 summit in St. Petersburg last week.
It was agreed, Putin said, “to instruct Secretary of State [John Kerry] and Foreign Minister [Sergey Lavrov] to work together and see if they can achieve some progress in this regard."
President Putin’s comments came shortly after the Syrian government said it would agree to place its chemical weapons arsenal under international control.
On Tuesday, Britain, France and the US said they would table a resolution on Syrian chemical weapons to the UN Security Council later in the day.
An emergency closed-door meeting at the Security Council is scheduled to take place at 4:00pm EST (20:00 GMT), the UN press office said.
"If this is a serious proposal, then we should act accordingly and I think a UN Security Council resolution is a good idea," British Prime Minister David Cameron said.
However, the US and France said they would not rule out any possible reaction to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Interfax cited the Elysee Palace as saying in a statement.
According to the news agency, “the presidents of France and the US reiterated that they would prefer a diplomatic solution, but they have also expressed willingness to retain any other options to neutralize the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal.”
Russia’s Foreign Ministry will propose a draft statement by the chairman of the UN Security Council, supporting the initiative to transfer Syria’s chemical weapons to international control.
The issue was discussed during a phone conversation between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his French counterpart, Laurent Fabius.
“[Lavrov] said that Russia, on its part, is submitting a draft statement for the UN Security Council’s chairman, welcoming the… initiative and calling on the UN Secretary General, the general director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and all the interested parties to make efforts to facilitate the implementation of this proposal,” the ministry’s statement said.
At the same time, Syria said it was ready to completely give up chemical weapons and sign the Chemical Weapons Convention.
“We are ready to show sites with chemical arsenals to Russia’s representatives, as well as representatives of other states and the UN,” Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV.
Despite voicing “some serious skepticism,” Western countries supported Russia's proposal, stressing the importance of Assad fulfilling the agreement and surrendering the weapons stockpiles.
Britain said it would like Russia and Syria to show that the proposal to President Bashar Assad is “serious and genuine.”
In Washington, the White House echoed the UK statement, saying it wanted to verify that Syria was serious in its intentions.
Earlier, the French government said that the handover of Syria’s chemical weapons to international control should be closely scrutinized. France said it would table a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling on Syria to give up its stockpiles of chemical arms, threatening "extremely serious" consequences if Syria violates its conditions.
Obama’s administration, which last week was firmly insisting on military intervention following the Aug.21 chemical weapons attack, has now changed its position.
In response to Russia’s proposal, Obama said he was willing to “absolutely” put on pause a military strike on Syria if Assad accepts the offer.
The US Senate was initially scheduled to vote on whether to authorize “limited military actions,” but a Senate Democratic leadership aide said it was now not known if the Senate would vote this week on Syria.
"We want to give the president a chance to make his case," the aide said, adding that following President Obama’s speech Tuesday night, Senate leaders would review the situation.
