Duta Arab ke Britain, Putera Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz. (Saudi ambassador to Britain, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz.(Reuters/Jamal Saidi – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
JohnnyAdam – Arab Saudi bercadang untuk meneruskan dasar bebas di DUNIA Arab sele-pas Amerika Syarikat terpaksa penyelesaian diplomatik kepada krisis Syria dan Iran. Duta Arab ke UK berkata kerajaan bersedia untuk memastikan “keamanan serantau” tanpa sokongan Barat.
Duta itu negara ke London, Putera Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz al -Saud, berkata pendekatan Barat ke rantau ini adalah “perjudian berbahaya” yang membahayakan kesta-bilan di Timur Tengah. Sebaliknya Riyadh, saingan geopolitik Iran dan Syria, mahu bebas tangan pemberontak Syria, berkata negara ini” tidak boleh berdiam diri , dan tidak akan berdiri oleh leka,” Abdulaziz menulis dalam ulasan New York Times (New York Times commentary).
Putera itu dituduh pakatan Amerka Syarikat membenarkan “satu rejim untuk terus hidup dan yang lain untuk meneruskan program untuk memperkaya uranium, dengan segala bahaya yang datang daripada weaponization.”
Dalam segi Syria, Abdulaziz berkata walaupun usaha antarabangsa untuk memusnahkan senjata pemusnah besar-besaran “Barat mesti melihat bahawa rejim itu sendiri masih senjata paling besar pemusnah semua besar-besaran.”
Mengatakan bahawa kerajaan telah “tanggungjawab global,” Abdulaziz mendakwa Riyadh “akan bertindak untuk memenuhi tanggungjawab ini, dengan atau tanpa sokongan rakan-rakan Barat kita.”
Walaupun berdiri “bahu” selama bertahun-tahun “tahun ini, untuk semua ceramah2 mere-ka ‘garisan merah,’ apabila ia dikira, rakan-rakan kami telah seolah-olah semua terlalu bersedia untuk mengalah keselamatan dan risiko kestabilan rantau kita.”
Abdulaziz comments mengikuti laporan bahawa diplomat Barat membayangkan semasa sidang kemuncak dari penyokong pembangkang di London minggu lepas bahawa mereka tidak begitu keberatan jika Presiden Syria Bashar Assad kekal berkuasa (stays in power), sekurang-kurangnya dalam tempoh peralihan.
“Rakan-rakan Barat kami menjelaskan di London yang Assad tidak boleh dibenarkan pergi sekarang kerana mereka fikir huru-hara dan pengambilalihan pengganas akan terjadi,” kata seorang anggota kanan yang tidak dinamakan Gabungan Kebangsaan Syria, berham-piran dengan pegawai-pegawai dari Arab Saudi, Reuters.
“Ada yang tidak kelihatan di fikiran jika ianya berjalan lagi tahun depan,” kata sumber kepada Reuters , tertanya-tanya sama ada Barat telah lupa bahawa Assad “ menyerang dgn gas beracun kaumnya sendiri.”
'With or without West': Saudi Arabia ready
for unilateral action on Syria . . .
Saudi Arabia intends to pursue an independent policy in the Arab world after the US resorted to a diplomatic solution to the Syria and Iran crises. The Saudi envoy to UK says the kingdom is ready to ensure “regional peace” without Western support.
The kingdom’s ambassador to London, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, said that the Western approach to the region is a “dangerous gamble” that jeopardizes stability in the Middle East. Instead Riyadh, a geopolitical rival of Iran and Syria, wants to independently arm the Syrian insurgents, saying the country “cannot remain silent, and will not stand idly by,” Abdulaziz wrote in a New York Times commentary.
The prince accused the US coalition of allowing “one regime to survive and the other to continue its program for uranium enrichment, with all the consequent dangers of weaponization."
In regards to Syria, Abdulaziz said that despite international effort to destroy the weapons of mass destruction the “West must see that the regime itself remains the greatest weapon of mass destruction of all.”
Saying that the kingdom has “global responsibilities,” Abdulaziz claimed that Riyadh “will act to fulfill these responsibilities, with or without the support of our Western partners.”
Despite standing “shoulder to shoulder” for years “this year, for all their talk of 'red lines,' when it counted, our partners have seemed all too ready to concede our safety and risk our region’s stability.”
Abdulaziz comments follow reports that Western diplomats hinted during a summit of opposition backers in London last week that they don’t really mind if Syrian President Bashar Assad stays in power, at least during a transition period.
“Our Western friends made it clear in London that Assad cannot be allowed to go now because they think chaos and an Islamist militant takeover would ensue,” an unnamed senior member of the Syrian National Coalition, close to officials from Saudi Arabia, told Reuters.
“Some do not even seem to mind if he runs again next year,” the source told Reuters, wondering whether the West has forgotten that Assad “gassed his own people.”
Reuters/Molhem Barakat (think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Satu perselisihan di antara dasar luar negara-negara ‘adalah juga relevan pada hari Ahad, apabila bekas ketua perisikan Saudi, Putera Turki al-Faisal, menyuarakan kebimbangan bahawa Arab Saudi sedang diasingkan daripada rundingan diplomatik dengan Iran.
“Adalah penting bagi kita untuk duduk di meja yang sama,” katanya dalam temu bual (interview) dengan The Wall Street Journal. “Kami tidak hadir.” Bercakap pada Per-sidangan Dasar DUNIA di Monaco hari yang sama beliau berkata, “Apa yang mengejutkan adalah bahawa ceramah-ceramah yang akan ke hadapan telah disimpan dari kami. “Bagaimana anda boleh membina kepercayaan apabila anda menyimpan rahsia dari apakah sepatutnya menjadi sekutu terdekat?”
Sementara itu, pada hari Rabu, bekas Perdana Menteri Itali Massimo D' Alema mem-per-salahkan Arab Saudi dan Qatar untuk “membekalkan senjata dan peralatan” kepada pemberontak di Syria, seperti yang dipetik oleh Itar -Tass.
Pada bulan November, Washington Post memetik pegawai kanan Teluk, melaporkan baha-wa Arab Saudi telah berusaha untuk menyediakan sokongan bebas ketenteraan kepada pemberontak selepas sebelum ini menjajarkan dirinya dengan kepentingan Amerika Syarikat di rantau ini.
“Saudi merancang untuk mengembangkan kemudahan latihan mereka beroperasi di Jordan dan meningkatkan kuasa tembakan senjata dihantar kepada kumpulan pem-berontak yang berjuang elemen pelampau di antara mereka walaupun kerana mereka pertempuran kerajaan Syria,” dilaporkan (the paper reported).
‘The Post’ juga melaporkan bahawa rundingan sedang dilakukan antara Kerajaan menu-buhkan “operasi selari” bebas daripada Amerika Syarikat.
Laporan (report) oleh Pusat pada hari Selasa bagi Kajian Radikalisasi di Kolej King menganggarkan bahawa lebih 1,000 pejuang Arab berjuang dengan radikal di Syria dari seramai 11 ribu beberapa, termasuk banyak warga EU.
5 negara - penyumbang semua di Timur Tengah: sehingga dengan 2,089 dari Jordan, diikuti Arab Saudi (1,016), Tunisia (970 ), Lebanon (890), dan Libya (556).
A rift between the countries’ foreign policy was also relevant on Sunday, when a former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal, voiced concern that Saudi Arabia is being isolated from the diplomatic negotiations with Iran.
“It is important for us to sit down at the same table,” he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “We have been absent.” Speaking at World Policy Conference in Monaco same day he said, "What was surprising was that the talks that were going forward were kept from us.” "How can you build trust when you keep secrets from what are supposed to be your closest allies?"
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, a former Italian prime minister Massimo D'Alema blamed Saudi Arabia and Qatar for “supplying weapons and equipment” to the rebels in Syria, as cited by Itar-Tass.
In November, The Washington Post citing senior Gulf officials, reported that Saudi Arabia was trying to independently provide military support to the rebels after previously aligning itself with US interests in the region.
“The Saudis plan to expand training facilities they operate in Jordan and increase the firepower of arms sent to rebel groups that are fighting extremist elements among them even as they battle the Syrian government,” the paper reported.
The Post also reported that negotiations were under way between governments of setting up a “parallel operation” independent of the US.
Tuesday’s report by International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College estimated that over 1,000 Saudi fighters are fighting with the radicals in Syria from a total number of some 11 thousand, including many EU nationals.
The top five countries-contributors are all in the Middle East: with up to 2,089 from Jordan, followed by Saudi Arabia (1,016), Tunisia (970), Lebanon (890), and Libya (556).
Pejuang Free Syrian Army lari untuk mengelakkan penembak tepat setia kepada Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad di Aleppo lama (A Free Syrian Army fighter runs to avoid snipers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in old Aleppo (Reuters/Mahmoud Hebbo – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)
Sementara itu, Rusia dan Amerika Syarikat meneruskan usaha bersama mereka untuk mengadakan persidangan Geneva- 2 set 22 Januari 2014, yang bertujuan untuk membawa sisi konflik Syria ke meja rundingan dan mencari penyelesaian diplomatik.
Abu Mohammed al Joulani , pemimpin Barisan Al- Nusra sehingga 20,000 pejuang, dalam satu temu bual dengan Al Jazeera (an interview to Al Jazeera) berkata kumpulannya tidak akan menerima hasil persidangan Geneva. Pemimpin juga mengingatkan Arab Saudi baru-baru ini terhadap hubungan baik antara Amerika Syarikat dan Iran.
“Kami tidak akan mengiktiraf mana-mana keputusan yang keluar dari Persidangan Geneva- 2, dan bukan kanak-kanak atau wanita Syria. Mereka yang mengambil bahagian dalam persidangan itu tidak mewakili orang-orang yang dikorbankan dan menumpahkan darah. Selain itu, yang telah membenarkan mereka untuk mewakili rakyat?”
“Jika rejim Assad kekal berkuasa, yang demi kepentingan kuasa-kuasa besar dan Safavids, maka sasaran seterusnya akan Semenanjung Arab, kini dikenali sebagai Arab Saudi,” kata Joulani.
Kurang dari seminggu yang lalu, Golongan ini dari Al- Nusra Front menawan bandar Adra kira 20 kilometer ke utara Damsyik dan menjalankan pembunuhan kejam beramai-ramai orang2 awam. laporan RT (RT reported) dari laman pembunuhan beramai-ramai dengan akaun saksi yang memberitahu cerita-cerita ngeri orang yang dibakar hidup-hidup dan kanak-kanak yang disembelih.
Meanwhile, Russia and US continue their joint effort to stage the Geneva-2 conference set for 22 January 2014, which is aimed at bringing the sides of the Syrian conflict to the negotiations table and find a diplomatic solution.
Abu Mohammed al Joulani, the leader of the Al-Nusra Front of up to 20,000 fighters, in an interview to Al Jazeera said that his group would not accept the outcome of the Geneva conference. The leader also cautioned Saudi Arabia against recently improved relations between the US and Iran.
“We will not recognize any results that come out of the Geneva-2 Conference, nor will the children or women of Syria. Those taking part in the conference do not represent the people who sacrificed and shed blood. Besides, who has authorized them to represent the people?”
“If the Assad regime remained in power, which is in the interest of the super powers and the Safavids, then the next target will be the Arabian Peninsula, now known as Saudi Arabia,” Joulani said.
Less than a week ago, jihadists from the Al-Nusra Front captured the town of Adra some 20 kilometers north of Damascus and carried out a brutal massacre of civilians. RT reported from the massacre site with witness accounts which tell horrific stories of people being burned alive and children slaughtered.
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