Khoja and FSA General Staff Meet Establish Nucleus for a National Army

President Khoja discussed the political and military situation in Syria during a meeting with the FSA’s Supreme Military Council (SMC) held today in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. The meeting discussed mechanisms of establishing safe havens in northern and southern of Syria and ways to integrate the revolutionary and military forces into the SMC to create a central force that represents the nucleus of a national army. Conferees stressed that any negotiations with the Assad regime or the rest of the opposition spectra must be kept under fundamental principles of the Syrian revolution and take into account the international resolutions on Syria which calls for the formation of a transitional governing body and with full executive powers. Khoja points to the need to restructure the SMC to include professional senior and NCOs and also the rebels who take up arms and push regime forces out of the many areas across Syria. (Source: Syrian Coalition)