TURKEY: Syrian National Council member in Turkey says the agreement reached by international powers for the future of Syria is "unacceptable"

Record ID: 276408

  • Title: TURKEY: Syrian National Council member in Turkey says the agreement reached by international powers for the future of Syria is "unacceptable"
  • Date: 1st July 2012
  • Summary: YAYLADAGI, TURKEY (JUNE 30, 2012) (REUTERS) YAYLADAGI REFUGEE CAMP TENTS INSIDE CAMP
  • Embargoed: 16th July 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Conflict,International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA65X0PIE086NOI2AFYO83QY0PG
  • Story Text: Syrian refugees in Turkey expressed dissatisfaction with the conclusions of a meeting of world powers on Syria on Saturday (June 30), saying the plan did not go far enough as it does not include the departure of President Bashar al-Assad.
    "I think this agreement will not be helpful at all because we don't accept [Syrian President] Bashar [al-Assad] to stay there, he must leave. This plan does not say he will leave for sure, so this agreement will not help anything," said Abo Tayyib.
    High profile meetings represent a kind of inaction, Syrian refugee Abo Ali told Reuters.
    "Before everything Bashar must leave power, there is no solution to this. If those meetings were helpful, they would have been helpful a year and a half ago. After a year and a half, they want the murderer to share power with us, there is no logic in it," he said.
    Syrian National Council member Adib Shishakly's comments mirrored those of the Syrian refugees.
    "It's totally unacceptable for the Syrian opposition and for the people on the ground to accept any plan without stating the Assad departure."
    World powers agreed on Saturday that a transitional government should be set up in Syria to end the conflict there but they remained at odds over what part Assad might play in the process.
    Peace envoy Kofi Annan said after talks in Geneva the government should include members of Assad's administration and the Syrian opposition and that it should arrange free elections.
    The talks had been billed as a last-ditch effort to halt the worsening violence in Syria but hit obstacles as Russia, Assad's most powerful ally, opposed Western and Arab insistence that he must quit the scene.
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