Syrian Coalition: We Are Committed To Go On With Geneva II

Ahmad Jarba, head of the Syrian Coalition, said that the Coalition is committed to going along with the second round of negotiations on February 10. “There are those who are trying to equate between the victim and the criminal. Although there are millions of refugees and displaced people as well as tens of thousands of detainees, there is still talk about a political solution,” Jarba said during a conference on security in Munich. He also said that “the Syrian Coalition has taken a brave decision to go to Geneva II. We support a political solution that leads to a democratic solution and the implementation of Geneva I terms and the formation of a transitional ruling body, and this is the content of a message sent by the UN Secretary General to forty countries.” Jarba points out that the Assad regime used the opening of humanitarian corridors as a card on the negotiating table, and killed more than 1,500 people during the first round of the negotiations. Even though the Assad regime has been bombing the civilians with missiles and barrel bombs, the Syrian Coalition decided to go on with the negotiations. We do not lie nor we came here to play, but where is the role of the international community and members of the Security Council, especially Russia and the United States?” Jarba attributed the persistence of the Assad regime in the killing of the Syrian people to the absence of a UN Security Council resolution at the beginning of the Syrian revolution, which remained peaceful for nine month. “We are going to enter the second round of the negotiations. You heard in Montreux two speeches, that of the Coalition and the Assad regime’s speech, which was bloated, arrogant and accused half of the world of being terrorists.” Jarba concluded his speech calling for the foreign militias to get out of Syria. “We reiterate our demand that Hezbollah’s terrorist militias pull out of Syria, and also ISIS terrorist fighters whom the FSA has been fighting in Aleppo, Idlib and Hama.” (Source: Syrian Coalition)