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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that statements by Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson demonstrate London’s part in “aggression” against Syria and showed he did not understand the situation there.
“Statements of British FM Boris Johnson reveal his complete separation from reality and his lack of realisation that the time of the (British colonial) mandate will not come back,” it said in a statement carried on state media.
On Wednesday, Johnson said a political transition plan presented in London by the Syrian opposition that requires President Bashar al-Assad to step down could help stalled peace talks to restart.
Syria remains mired in civil war more than five years after an uprising began against Assad, drawing in both regional and global powers, causing a refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe and inspiring jihadist attacks across the world.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed in the fighting and 11 million – half of Syria’s pre-war population – displaced but no party in the multi-sided conflict appears poised for an imminent victory.
(Writing by Tom Perry and Angus McDowall; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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SOURCE: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/syria-says-peace-plan-remarks-show-britain-s-johnson-out-of-touch-with-reality/42429798
Categories: Arab World, Middle East, Syria, UK
Well, readers of The Muslim Times may have noticed that I am of course among the first to say that regional problems need to be solved by regional players. However, regional problems can only be solved by regional players when all outsiders GET OUT. Politicians talk a lot about ‘no boots on the ground’ and all that, but keep quiet about their secret services and special forces. Sometimes I wonder whether the leaders of some Western Nations even know what their own secret services are up to. In other words: The next round on ‘Syria Peace Talks’ may in fact be held without any Syrians at all. The CIA, MOSSAD, MI5 or 6 or whatever, KGB (or whatever they are called these days), ‘Special Forces’, Saudi and Emirati Cash Cows, etc. (you got my point) should first of all sit together and agree among each other to ‘take a vacation’, get out of Syria and then: yes, then will be the time of Syrians to solve their own problems.