‘West seeks tussle with Russia on Syria’

In a Saturday interview, Lawrence Freeman, with the Executive Intelligence Review said, “The West doesn’t want to see peace in Syria. Whatever Kofi Annan wants, the Western powers don’t… They want to see more chaos. They want to see regime change and they want to see confrontation on a global scale with Russia.”

He argued that the financial cartels in London and Wall Street “do not want independent nation states and therefore this confrontation is really designed to lead to a war with Russia in which they would expect Russia to back down.”

“If they see Russia, China moving in a direction of scientific progress, infrastructure development, space exploration, economic development, that becomes a danger to their existence when their existence is in trouble,” Freeman added.

“Therefore, the situation inside Syria is one in which the people themselves and their aspirations and their desires for a better world are not being represented by the West,” the American political analyst pointed out.

The remarks come as Russia and China have reiterated that any decision on a transition of power in Syria should only be made by the Syrian people.

The foreign ministers of Russia, China, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, and Iraq, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Arab League Secretary General Nabil El-Araby, and the secretary of state of the United States attended a meeting on the situation in Syria at the United Nations office in Geneva on Saturday.

The participants of the Geneva meeting agreed that the transitional governing body in Syria “could include members of the present government and the opposition and other groups, and shall be formed on the basis of mutual consent,” Annan said at a press conference after the meeting.

However, Moscow and Beijing opposed the wording of the proposal that called for an interim government that excludes those “whose continued presence and participation would undermine the credibility of the transition and jeopardize stability and reconciliation.”

The anti-Syria Western governments have been calling for President Bashar al-Assad to step down, but Russia and China remain strongly opposed to the Western drive to oust Assad.

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