JohnnyAdam – Persidangan
keamanan di Switzerland, yang bertujuan untuk menjatuhkan kerajaan Syria dan
pembangkang, bermula dengan ucapan yg menyalahkan dan hujah pahit antara ketua
PBB dan perwakilan Syria.
Menteri
Luar Syria Walid Muallem menggunakan peluang dalam perhimpunan itu di Montreux
untuk mengkritik Gabungan Kebangsaan Syria, yang berpangkalan di Turki
organisasi disokong-Barat, yang juga menyertai persidangan itu dan sepatutnya
menjadi wakil utama pembangkang.
Muallem
dicat gambaran suram apabila menerangkan banyak bahaya rakyat Syria kini
berkekalan, manakala menuduh sesetengah negara asing, termasuk Turki, menyokong
pengganas di Syria. Tetapi gabungan itu - yang kebanyakannya terdiri daripada
dirinya dibuang Syria yang tidak berada di negara ini selama bertahun-tahun -
adalah subjek cemuhan tertentu.
Sebagai
Menteri itu letupan SNC untuk menjual kesetiaan mereka kepada pembida ter-tinggi
dan menikmati kehidupan yang selesa di hotel-hotel 5 bintang sementara orang mati
di atas tanah di Syria, Setiausaha Agung PBB Ban Ki-moon terganggu ucapan itu,
bertanya sama ada beliau perlu banyak masa untuk sehingga ia membalutnya.
‘You LIVE in NY, I LIVE in
SYRIA; let me tell our Version
Of Story’ – Syrian FM to UN Chief
The
peace conference in Switzerland, which is meant to bring down the Syrian
government and opposition, began with condemnatory speeches and a bitter
argument between the head of the UN and the Syrian delegation.
Syrian
Foreign Minister Walid Muallem used the opportunity of the gathering in
Montreux to criticize the Syrian National Coalition, a Turkey-based
West-supported organization, which is also participating in the conference and
is supposed to be the prime representative of the opposition.
Muallem
painted a bleak picture when describing the many perils the Syrian people are
currently enduring, while accusing some foreign nations, including Turkey, of
supporting terrorists in Syria. But the coalition - which mostly consists of
self-exiled Syrians who have not been in the country for years - was the
subject of particular scorn.
As the
minister was blasting the SNC for selling their allegiance to the highest
bidder and enjoying a comfortable life in five-star hotels while people died on
the ground in Syria, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon interrupted the speech,
asking whether he needed much time to wrap it up.
Menteri Luar Syria Walid al-Moualem membawa
delegasinya semasa sesi pleno di Montreux 22 Jan 2014. (Syria's Foreign
Minister Walid al-Moualem leads his delegation during a plenary session in
Montreux January 22, 2014. (Reuters/Gary Cameron – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Satu
perdebatan sengit di antara Ban dan Muallem diikuti, sebagai menteri Syria
me-negaskan bahawa beliau perlu menyimpan lantai lagi. “Anda tinggal di New York,
saya tinggal di Syria,” kata Muallem. “Biar saya memberitahu versi kami ceritanya.
Anda telah bercakap selama 25 minit. Saya memerlukan sekurang-kurangnya 30 minit.”
Ban
kembali lantai (yakni sengaja tak melayan) untuk Muallem, hanya untuk mengganggu dia lagi dan lagi berdozen2 minit
kemudian. Selepas beberapa minit tambahan, dia senbunyikan kenyataan itu. Ucapan
Muallem ini adalah satu yang konfrontasi, dan Ban berkata beliau berharap ketua
SNC Ahmad Jarba yang bercakap depan, akan menjadi kurang bermusuhan. Ini tidak
berakhir dgnNya.
Jarba
berjenama Presiden Syria Bashar Assad pengganas dan menuduhnya memudahkan
kebangkitan pengganas Al-Qaeda di negara itu. Beliau menyatakan dengan jelas
bahawa gabungan itu tidak bersedia untuk menangani Assad dan melihat peletakan
jawatannya adalah matlamat perhimpunan tersebut.
Kenyataan
itu pemimpin pembangkang pergi sepanjang garis yang Setiausaha Negara Amerika
Syarikat John Kerry, yang bercakap lebih awal dan berkata dari segi jelas,
bahawa Washington tidak membayangkan tempat untuk Assad dalam kerajaan
peralihan masa depan Syria.
Nampaknya
perunding akan berjuang perjuangan yang berat untuk membawa pihak-pihak dalam
konflik tersebut untuk apa-apa perjanjian.
A bitter
debate between Ban and Muallem followed, as the Syrian minister insisted that
he should keep the floor longer. “You live in New York, I live in Syria,”
Muallem said. “Let me tell our version of the story. You’ve spoken for 25
minutes. I need at least 30.”
Ban
returned the floor to Muallem, only to interrupt him again a dozen minutes
later. After a few additional minutes, he wrapped up the statement. Muallem’s
speech was a confrontational one, and Ban said he hoped that SNC head Ahmad
Jarba, who spoke next, would be less antagonistic. This did not eventuate.
Jarba
branded Syrian President Bashar Assad a terrorist and accused him of
facilitating the rise of Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in the country. He made it
clear that the coalition is unwilling to deal with Assad and sees his
resignation is the goal of the gathering.
The
opposition leader’s statement went along the lines of that of US Secretary of
State John Kerry, who spoke earlier and said in unambiguous terms, that
Washington does not imagine a place for Assad in the future transitional
government of Syria.
It
appears that negotiators will be fighting an uphill battle to bring the parties
in the conflict to any agreement.
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