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DOHA, Jan 9 (KUNA) -- Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani on Wednesday urged the Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad to consider the interest of his country and take a bold
decision to stop the bloodshed.
"All parties are now ready for any real and quick solution to stop the
bloody conflict in Syria," Qatar News Agency quoted Sheikh Hamad as saying in
an interview with Al Jazeera Satellite TV Channel this evening.
"The speech, made by Al-Assad three days ago, did not come up with
something new to resolve the crisis in the country but comes within framework
of ongoing procrastination, as if the crisis in Syria began a week or a month
ago," Sheikh Hamad regretted.
He stressed that the Arab League was not powerless about Syria crisis but
did not do what needed to be to done in full.
Dealing with his previously-unannounced visit to Egypt and his meeting with
the UN- Arab League Joint Envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi, Sheikh Hamad
said: "The visit was in fact scheduled to follow up the bilateral ties between
the two brotherly countries Egypt and Qatar, and there was also an agreement
for a meeting with Lakhdar Brahimi, to review the t trilateral or bilateral
talks between Russia and the United States on Syria."
"We also talked with other parties that participated in this meeting and
how to follow up this meeting, and as you know there is another meeting
between Russia and the United States attended by Lakhdar Brahimi.
"We support this path because if there is an understanding between the two
countries and China, this will facilitate the process of reaching a solution
at the Security Council" Sheikh Hamad went on.
"Brahimi has extensive experience and we are in the Arab League and the
Committee on Syria we fully support his efforts, and we are sure he is the
right person if there is a solution. The problem in fact is in the Syrian side
and its procrastination," the Prime Minister noted.
Asked about the Russian stance on the Syrian crisis, he said: "I do not
think that the Russians were maneuvering, we may disagree with them in views
on this issue but I do not think they are maneuvering as this issue has
become, however, at the hand of the Syrian people and the resistance, and not
at the hand of the Arab or even the international organizations."
He added that the Arab and international organizations are required first
to relief the Syrian people, to stop the bloodshed through stern decisions by
the Security Council a matter which did not happen, moreover these
organizations are also required to help the Syrian people to defend itself
this also did not happen. (end)
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