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US backs Syrian opposition to open talk with Assad

Agencies/China Daily | Updated: 2013-02-06 09:47

The United States has strongly backed a move by Syria's opposition chief to open a dialogue with President Bashar al-Assad to end 22 months of warfare that has cost tens of thousands of lives.

Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, the leader of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, told pan-Arab television channel Al-Jazeera on Monday that "the ball is now in the government's court. They will either say yes or no".

He was following up on his surprise announcement last week that he was ready for talks with the government, but subject to conditions, including the release of 160,000 detainees.

He later elaborated, telling Al-Arabiya news channel he was ready to meet Assad's deputy, Vice-President Faruq al-Sharaa.

"Since the start of the crisis, Mr Sharaa has seen that things are not going in the right direction," Khatib said. "If the government accepts the idea, I ask it to delegate Faruq al-Sharaa for us to hold discussions with him."

US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that if Damascus is interested in peace "it should sit down and talk now with the Syrian Opposition Coalition, and we would strongly support al-Khatib in that call".

US backs Syrian opposition to open talk with Assad

But she stressed that the US position remains unchanged on bringing to account those, on both sides, who have committed atrocities.

Assad last month announced he was ready for talks with the opposition but ruled out meeting groups such as Khatib's National Coalition.

Opposition groups, including the National Coalition, have in the past demanded Assad step down before peace talks can begin.

"Doctor Bashar, this country is in grave danger. Come out of your bubble, if only for a moment. Look into the eyes of your children and you will recover some of your humanity," Khatib said, addressing Assad by the term adopted by state media and his supporters.

"We can help each other in the interest" of the people, Khatib said.

Some opposition figures have denounced Khatib's proposal as traitorous.

But he rejected the criticism and said: "Our people are dying, and we will not allow that."

His comments came as Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Teheran would continue talks with Khatib, following a preliminary meeting on Sunday on the sidelines of a security conference in the southern German city of Munich.

"We had 45 (minutes) to an hour discussion which was very fruitful ... and we committed ourselves to continuing this discussion," Salehi said in Berlin.

Khatib also met in Munich on Sunday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

But, while Lavrov expressed an interest in "maintaining regular contact" with the opposition, he said the dissidents' insistence on Assad going was "the main reason for the continuation of the Syrian tragedy".

Israel will 'regret'

Adding to the latest flurry of diplomatic activity, another Iranian official, Saeed Jalili, the head of his country's Supreme National Security Council, was in Damascus on Monday, where he renewed Teheran's support for Assad.

Jalili issued a warning to Israel after the Jewish state confirmed an airstrike near Damascus, saying it would regret its latest "aggression against Syria".

"Just as it has regretted all its wars ... The Zionist entity will regret its aggression against Syria," Jalili said. "Syria is at the forefront of the Muslim world's confrontation with the Zionist entity."

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak implicitly confirmed that the Jewish state staged the airstrike on Syria, following reports of a raid which Damascus said targeted a military complex near the capital.

The airstrike targeted surface-to-air missiles and an adjacent military complex believed to house chemical agents, according to a US official.

Fresh violence on Monday killed at least 81 people across Syria, including six children who died as government warplanes raided the outskirts of the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus, observers said.

The UN humanitarian office warned on Tuesday that Syria's civil war may soon result in a big spike in the number of civilians who need urgent help.

Jens Laerke, the spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said some 4 million people are in need of urgent assistance while more than 2 million people are displaced inside Syria.

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