The leader of Syria’s primary political confrontation group told he was ready to talks with government officials whose hands are not “stained with blood”, when President Bashar al-Assad and his associates leave power, in accordance with an interview published on Sunday.
Abdelbasset Seida, chief of the Syrian National Council (SNC), also stated the pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that the resignation of Syria peace envoy Kofi Annan might open the doorway for a new step to dissolve the crisis.
“As far as we are interested, the authorities have lost their believability and authenticity, and we have told this in Moscow brusquely: that dialogue with this regime is no more potential,” Seida told.
“Bashar and his gang must leave and after that we’ll move to talk with other officials whose hands weren’t stained with Syrian blood and who weren’t involved in big corruptness cases,” he added.
Annan cease as the United Nations. and Arab League envoy on Syria last week because of defeat at the world body’s failure to act resolutely to cease seventeen months of bloodshed in Syria.
On Friday, United Nations. member states voted overpoweringly to condemn the Syrian government for the ferocity at a special session of the General Assembly. Syria friends Russia and China contradicted the non-binding resolution but weren’t able to apply the veto they have used in the Security Council.
Seida welcomed Friday’s vote: “We consider that the vote at the UN General Assembly represents the beginning of a new initiative that might be coming in the near future.”
He didn’t elaborate.
Seida also sounded concern over the appearing of arms in Syria’s northern Kurdish areas, which have so far not seen any fighting between the Syrian army and the opposition.
His comments shine growing concern in Turkey about the arising influence in northern Syria of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), a group associated to Kurdish separatists fighting Ankara.
“Naturally, this armed presence, particularly in the Kurdish areas, arouses more than one interrogation point, because these areas hadn’t witnessed any trouble or armed clashes,” Seida told.
Syrian Kurds see the arising as a chance to accomplish the sort of freedoms enjoyed by their kin in neighbouring northern Iraq
