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Syria: foreign minister says there will be no peace plan without Assad
Syria's
government will not accept any transition peace plan that excludes President
Bashar Assad, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem has said. He spoke on the
sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, a day after the Security
Council approved a resolution that obliges Syria's government to comply with an
international plan to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal. The resolution also
endorsed the outcome of the Geneva conference between the government and the
opposition in June 2012. The Syrian opposition, which has been embroiled in a
bloody conflict with Assad's forces for two and a half years, has repeatedly
said it will not take part in any transition government that includes the
president. For the Syrian people, Bashar Assad is the elected president until
mid-2014, when presidential elections will be held," al-Moallem said.
Other candidates are welcome to run under the country's constitution, he added,
stressing that only the Syrian people can choose their president, not outside
governments or the opposition, which is based abroad. Iran has been a key
supporter of Assad, and the opposition claims that elements of Iran's Revolutionary
Guard and the Tehran-supported Hezbollah are operating freely within Syria.
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