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October 24th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Moscow has blamed the ‘Friends of Syria’ group for attempting to revise the key elements of the Geneva communique of 2012 and influence the outcome of the Geneva 2 conference.
“We have to state that contrary to previously held
understandings on how to resolve the crisis in Syria the final
document issued after the meeting attempts to revise the key
elements of the 30 June 2012 Geneva communique,” Russian
Foreign Ministry’s spokesman said in a statement.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also asserted: “It is this
document that has been recognized as the only platform to achieve
a political settlement in Syria and has recently been approved by
UN Security Council Resolution 2118.”
The spokesman states that prior to London’s meeting of 11 foreign
ministers of the ‘Friends of Syria’ group, Russia was told that
“the discussions there will be held exclusively on the basis
of the Geneva communique.”
Moscow believes that the discussions violated the diplomatic
effort and is seen as “an attempt to revise the communique
according to the political needs [of the Syrian opposition],”
to create a “regime change” in Damascus. Lukashevich also
said that the London communique contained a “poorly hidden
threat” of armed intervention in Syria.
Lukashevich added that during the London conference, participants
yet again put all the blame for chemical weapons use in Syria on
the Assad government thus contradicting the UNSC resolution
2118.
For its part, Russia is ready to help “settle the crisis in
Syria on the basis of the Geneva Communique and the earlier
reached understandings, including between Russia and the United
States and through the participation of other permanent members
of the Security Council and the UN Secretary General, in regard
to steps needed to convene an international
conference.”
Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof believes that despite all
the obstacles the talks are almost bound to go ahead as planned
“notwithstanding internal difficulties that the Western powers
are now having to get the opposition to come on in and be
involved.”
“I think talks are going to have to take place,” Maloof
told RT. “I think the United States and Russia ultimately are
going to determine what the outcome is going to be, and the other
countries are going to be told to follow.”
Moscow believes that their Western partners have been trying to
persuade Syrian opposition groups to take part in Geneva II talks
under the National Coalition umbrella.
“There is an impression the London document is aimed to
provoke Damascus to undermine Geneva 2 by drawing attention away
from opposition to Syrian authorities,” Lukashevich
said.
Russia insists that the National Coalition’s representation in
Geneva should be proportional to its political weight in
Syria.
“There is no evidence to suggest that the coalition is the
sole legitimate representative of either all Syrian people or
even the opposition as a whole.”
Lukashevich concluded that the role the outside players should
have is to persuade the conflicting Syrian parties to negotiate,
but the final settlement should be reached without foreign
pressure.
‘The sultan must leave’
The 11 states that met in London on October 22 included Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, United States, France, Germany, Italy,
Turkey, and the UK. Statements coming out of the talks suggest a
possible regime change.
“We are clear that Syrian President Assad has no role in a
peaceful and democratic Syria,” British Foreign Secretary
William Hague said after the meeting.
“The sultan must leave,” Ahmed Jarba, the leader of
Western backed opposing has said. “Geneva cannot succeed
and we cannot take part if it allows Assad to gain more time to
spill the blood of our people while the world looks
on.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry said after the conference that
“we believe that he has lost all legitimacy, all capacity to
govern the country, and therefore it’s hard to imagine any
resolution in any other way.”
Following the London talks Damascus said it was ready to attend
the Geneva 2 conference and “try its best to ensure its
success without any preconditions or any foreign
intervention.”
“The Syrian people will not allow any foreign party to impose
itself … in choosing a government, or in determining its powers
and tasks,” the foreign ministry said.
Only the UN has the authority to set a data for the Geneva 2
talks, but last week it was reported that the conference would start on November 23.
Meanwhile the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons announced that Damascus is expected to hand over its
disarmament plan on Thursday.
“We expect Syria’s initial declaration of its chemical weapons
programme within the next 24 hours,” spokesman Michael Luhan
told reporters in The Hague.
This is the next step of the disarmament process agreed under the
terms of a US-Russian deal to hand over its chemical weapons and
production facilities by mid-2014.
The Assad government has already handed over the list of its
chemical weapons and facilities while the UN-OPCW has been on the
ground since the start of the month. So far 18 of 23 declared
sites in Syria have been checked and almost all production
equipment destroyed, Luhan said.
Meanwhile violence on the ground continues in Syria with some
experts considering it to be another effort to disrupt upcoming
peace talks. In a coordinated attack Wednesday evening, rebel
fighters destroyed part of a gas pipeline near
Damascus, causing the capital and the southern part of Syria to
suffer a blackout, at the same time the rebels launched an
offensive against government forces in a number of Damascus
suburbs.
Source Article from http://rt.com/news/syria-friends-geneva-russia-645/
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