Utusan untuk Syria PBB - Liga Arab Lakhdar Brahimi
meninggalkan taklimat akhbar di Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu pada 28 Januari 2014, di
Geneva. (AFP Photo/Fabrice
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JohnnyAdam – Hari yang
ke-4 rundingan damai Geneva 2 telah dihentikan lebih awal daripada dijadualkan
berikutan pertukaran sengit tuduhan dari kedua-dua pihak pem-bangkang dan kerajaan
Syria ke atas semula dakwaan bantuan ketenteraan Amerika Syarikat kepada
pemberontak.
Rundingan
itu dipotong pendek oleh pengantara Liga Arab - PBB Lakhdar Brahimi berikutan
sesi pagi apabila delegasi pembangkang menolak nota aduan rasmi yang disampaikan
oleh delegasi kerajaan Syria mengkritik semula bantuan Amerika Syarikat.
“Kami
percaya ini tidak hadir yang terbaik untuk persidangan Geneva,” kata Faisal al-
Mikdad, Timbalan Menteri Luar Syria, memanggil keputusan Amerika” manifestasi
lain” sokongan Amerika Syarikat untuk “kumpulan pengganas” di Syria.
“Ini
membuktikan sekali lagi bahawa Amerika Syarikat tidak berminat dalam kejayaan
proses ini, dan kami percaya Amerika Syarikat telah berhenti dan hentikan
tuntutan bahawa ia berminat untuk kejayaan persidangan ini,” katanya kepada
pemberita selepas mesyuarat itu.
Imbas pernyataan yang dikemukakan oleh delegasi
rasmi Syria (Scan of the statement submitted by the Syrian official delegation
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Penyata
kutukan berkata Amerika Syarikat, dengan memilih untuk keringat pemberontak,
membuat “keputusan provokatif” melanggar resolusi Majlis Kesela-matan no. 1371,
sebagai senjata yang dibekalkan akan berakhir di tangan pelampau seperti al-Nusra
Front dan Barisan Islam. Kenyataan itu bahawa masa keputusan ini adalah
benar-benar mengejutkan, kerana ia berfungsi “Seba-gai cubaan langsung untuk
menghalang mana-mana penyelesaian politik di Syria.”
Pada
Isnin, Reuters melaporkan bahawa “sederhana” puak pemberontak Syria
sedang dilatih oleh Amerika Syarikat selepas Kongres Amerika Syarikat rahsia
meluluskan langkah-langkahnya.
Senjata yang didakwa mencapai Syria melalui Jordan
termasuk pelbagai senjata kecil, dan dipercayai termasuk roket anti-kereta
kebal dan pelancarkan-bahu permukaan-ke-udara peluru berpandu.
Pada
Isnin, Amerika Syarikat menolak melengkapkan pemberontak, mengatakan bahawa “mana-mana
tanggapan bahawa kami menyokong pengganas adalah munasabah.”
“Rejim
Assad adalah sebuah magnet untuk pengganas,” kata jurucakap Jabatan Negara
Amerika Syarikat Edgar Vasquez dalam satu kenyataan. “Kekejaman Rejim ini
adalah sumber ekstremisme ganas di Syria hari ini. Kami menyokong pembangkang
politik dan tentera yang sederhana yang berjuang untuk kebebasan dan martabat
semua rakyat Syria.”
Sebaliknya,
Vasquez menyalahkan kerajaan Assad melemahkan rundingan, berkata doku-men itu “menunjukkan
bahawa rejim itu mengelakkan tujuan teras rundingan Geneva.”
PBB
enggan mengulas laporan mengenai keputusan itu oleh Kongres Amerika Syarikat
untuk meluluskan penghantaran senjata kecil untuk pembangkang Syria, tetapi
Brahimi memberitahu agensi berita Itar - Tass bahawa dia tidak melihat
kenyataan rasmi menge-nai isu itu oleh Washington.
Dalam
pada itu, Menteri Luar Rusia, Sergey Lavrov berkata mempersenjatai pembangkang
bermakna pengganas membekalkan senjata.
“Bekalan
New senjata maut dan bukan maut ke kawasan konflik Syria meletakkan asas untuk
menyokong pengganas,” Lavrov kepada wartawan di Brussels pada hari Selasa di
mana Kesatuan Rusia- Eropah sidang kemuncak itu diadakan.
Perbincangan
pada hari Selasa sepatutnya memberi tumpuan kepada pemindahan kuasa dan memberikan
bantuan kepada bandar Homs, tetapi tidak ada perkembangan ke arah penyelesaian
isu utama sama ada Presiden Bashar Assad perlu meletak dan memindahkan kuasa
kepada sebuah kerajaan peralihan.
Rundingan
untuk bergabung semula pada Rabu, Lakhdar Brahimi, ketua orang tengah PBB,
kepada pemberita, kerana dia berharap untuk “sesi yang lebih baik.”
“Tiada
siapa yang berjalan keluar,” kata Brahimi, “Tiada siapa yang melarikan diri.”
“Kami
belum mencapai sebarang kejayaan, tetapi kita masih pada itu, dan ini adalah cukup
baik setakat yang saya tahu,” kata Brahimi.
Seorang
ahli pasukan perunding pembangkang, Rima Fleihan, berkata orang tengah PBB
Lakhdar Brahimi telah membatalkan sesi tengah hari “kerana Saudi tidak bekerja
sama mengenai sebarang subjek, bukan pada isu-isu kemanusiaan dan tidak pada
badan pentad-biran peralihan.”
Beliau
berkata wakil-wakil kerajaan ditolak “visi” pembangkang untuk Syria. “Kita
mem-punyai wawasan, malangnya rejim dibentangkan apa-apa dan menolak semua
perbin-cangan.”
The
fourth day of the Geneva 2 peace negotiations has been halted earlier than
scheduled following a fierce exchange of accusations from both the opposition
and the Syrian government over the alleged resumption of US military aid to the
rebels.
The
talks were cut short by the UN-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi following
the morning session when the opposition delegation rejected an official
complaint note presented by the Syrian government delegation criticizing the
resumption of US aid.
“We
believe this is not the best present to the Geneva conference,” said Faisal
al-Mikdad, Syria’s deputy foreign minister, calling the American decision
“another manifestation” of US support for “terrorist groups” in Syria.
“This
proves again that the United States is not interested in the success of this
process, and we believe the US has to desist and stop its claims that it is
interested in the success of this conference,” he told reporters following the
meeting.
The
statement of condemnation said that the US, by choosing to arm rebels, made a
“provocative decision” in violation of the Security Council resolution no.
1371, as weapons supplied will end up in the hands of extremists such as
al-Nusra Front and the Islamic Front. The statement noted that the timing of
this decision was truly surprising, as it serves “as a direct attempt to
obstruct any political solution in Syria.”
On
Monday, Reuters reported that “moderate” Syrian rebel factions are being armed
by the United States after the US Congress secretly approved the measures.
Weapons which allegedly reach Syria via Jordan include a variety of small arms,
and are believed to include anti-tank rockets and shoulder-launched
surface-to-air missiles.
On
Monday, the US rejected arming the rebels, saying that “any notion that we
support terrorists is ludicrous.”
“The
Assad regime is a magnet for terrorists,” US State Department spokesman Edgar
Vasquez said in a statement. “The regime’s brutality is the source of the
violent extremism in Syria today. We support the moderate political and
military opposition who are fighting for the freedom and dignity of all the
Syrian people.”
Instead,
Vasquez blamed the Assad government of undermining the talks, saying the
document “shows that the regime is evading the core purpose of the Geneva
talks.”
The UN
refused to comment on reports of the decision by the US Congress to approve the
delivery of small arms to Syrian opposition, but Brahimi told the Itar-Tass
news agency that he had not seen an official statement on the issue by
Washington.
In the
meantime, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov said that arming the
opposition translates into arming terrorists.
“New
supplies of lethal and non-lethal weapons to the Syrian conflict area lay
groundwork for supporting terrorists,” Lavrov told journalists in Brussels on
Tuesday where Russia-European Union summit was being held.
Tuesday’s
talks were supposed to focus on the transfer of power and providing aid to the
city of Homs, but there was no progress toward resolving the key issue of
whether President Bashar Assad should step down and transfer power to a
transitional government.
Negotiations
are to reconvene on Wednesday, Lakhdar Brahimi, the chief UN mediator, told
reporters, as he hopes for a “better session.”
“Nobody
is walking out,” Brahimi said, “Nobody is running away.”
“We have
not achieved any breakthrough, but we are still at it, and this is good enough
as far as I'm concerned,” Brahimi said.
A member
of the opposition negotiating team, Rima Fleihan, said that UN mediator Lakhdar
Brahimi had cancelled the afternoon session “because the regime is not
cooperating on any subject, not on humanitarian issues and not on a
transitional governing body.”
She said
the government’s representatives rejected the opposition’s “vision” for Syria.
“We have a vision, unfortunately the regime presented nothing and refused all
discussion.”
PBB - Liga Arab utusan untuk Syria Lakhdar Brahimi (dariTengah)
tiba untuk sesi taklimat akhbar di Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu pada 28 Januari 2014,
di Geneva. (AFP Photo/Fabrice
Coffrini – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Moscow
dalam masa yang sama mahu mengelakkan “obsesi lain dengan perubahan rejim
kerana permusuhan peribadi seseorang, kebencian peribadi kepada individu
tertentu,” kata Lavrov di Brussels.
“Bayangkan
Assad hilang. Siapakah yang akan menyimpannya bersama-sama ? Tidak ada jawapan,”
kata Lavrov, sambil menambah bahawa “pakai perisytiharan prinsip kewujudan
negeri Syria harus menjadi langkah seterusnya dalam dialog antara Syria.”
Pada
hari Isnin, pasukan kerajaan membentangkan kertas kerja pada masa depan Syria,
yang Murhaf Joueijati, ahli pembangkang pasukan rundingan Syria Koalisi
Nasional, kata telah ditolak oleh parti pembangkang kerana ia “mempunyai
apa-apa kaitan dengan kera-jaan peralihan,” dan sebaliknya memberi tumpuan
kepada keperluan untuk memerangi keganasan dan berhenti pembiayaan dan
membekalkan senjata kepada kumpulan pembe-rontak.
Gabenor
wilayah Homs berkata pada Selasa bahawa pegawai-pegawai PBB cuba untuk
berunding dengan pejuang pembangkang untuk membenarkan pemindahan orang awam,
sebagai masalah keselamatan dan sel-sel dikaitkan al-Qaeda menghalang operasi.
Pada masa yang sama, Joueijati menuduh kerajaan tidak membenarkan penghantaran
bantuan kemanusiaan ke Homs, yang berada dalam kepungan selama hampir 2 tahun.
Timbalan
Menteri Luar Syria, Al-Mikdad menafikan peranan kerajaan dalam melam-batkan
penghantaran bantuan, mengatakan bahawa Damsyik memerlukan “jaminan bahawa
bantuan ini tidak akan pergi ke kumpulan bersenjata dan pengganas di bandar2.”
Dalam
pada itu, Elisabeth Byrs, seorang jurucakap Program Makanan SeDUNIA,
mengesahkan bahawa kenderaan bantuan adalah bersiap sedia.
“Kita
perlu bahawa semua syarat keselamatan dipenuhi untuk membenarkan konvoi antara
agensi ini untuk pergi," kata Byrs.
Moscow
in the meantime wants to avoid “another obsession with regime change because of
somebody’s personal animosity, personal hatred to a particular individual,”
Lavrov said in Brussels.
“Imagine
Assad disappears. Who is going to keep it together? There is no answer,” Lavrov
said, adding that the “adoption of a declaration on principles of the Syrian
state's existence should be the next step in the inter-Syrian dialogue.”
On
Monday, the government’s team presented a working paper on Syria’s future,
which Murhaf Joueijati, a member of the opposition Syrian National Coalition’s
negotiating team, said was rejected by the opposition because it “had nothing
to do with a transitional government,” and was instead focused on the need to
combat terrorism and cease funding and arming of rebel groups.
The
governor of Homs province said on Tuesday that UN officials are trying to
negotiate with opposition fighters to allow the evacuation of civilians, as
security concerns and al-Qaeda linked cells hinder the operation. At the same
time, Joueijati accused the government of not allowing the delivery of
humanitarian aid to Homs, which has been under siege for almost two years.
Syria’s
deputy foreign minister, Al-Mikdad denied the government’s role in delaying the
delivery of aid, saying that Damascus needs “assurances that the aid will not go
to armed and terrorist groups in the city.”
In the
meantime, Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program, confirmed
that aid vehicles are on standby.
“We need
that all security conditions be met to allow this interagency convoy to go,” said
Byrs.
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