Tuesday, October 12, 2010Syria, Turkey, step up (partnership) and highlighted the need to form a government in Iraq
DAMASCUS: Syria said Monday that Turkey and their relationship beyond the bilateral relationship to become a "strategic partnership" and underlined the necessity of forming a government in Iraq, Mendd the decision taken by the Israeli government about the Jewish state.
These positions came at the conclusion of talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Assad said in a joint press conference with Erdogan "is no longer the relationship between Syria and Turkey, but has become a bilateral strategic partnership between the two countries."
The talks the two sides to file the formation of the Iraqi government struggling since the legislative elections last March and expressed concern over the lack of formation of the Iraqi government.
Assad said that "the priority in these days to talk about Iraq because there is a process of forming a government is supposed to have begun immediately after the election has been more than six months was not formed."
"It is natural to have Iraq's neighboring countries of concern and hope at the same time any change is happening in Iraq because it affects us positively or negatively depending on the situation in Iraq, political or security."
He said that talk of Iraq's neighbors about this topic "does not mean we are talking on behalf of Iraqis, but through our relationship with the Iraqi forces."
For his part, Erdogan over the "sorrow" for the continuation of "the political vacuum in Iraq that must be removed through a national agreement brings together all parties and sects in Iraq."
He considered that "any government to be formed on the basis of sectarian or religious or sectarian or ethnic lines would not serve security and stability in Iraq."
Iraq is still without a government despite the passage of more than seven months since the legislative elections that took place on the seventh of last March and won by the existing Iraqi President Iyad Allawi, winning 91 seats, while the won the Prime Minister's outgoing Nuri al-Maliki's 89 seats and the National Coalition 70 seats.
And engaged in the electoral lists of difficult negotiations to reach an agreement on the distribution of the three presidential positions (the presidency and prime minister and speaker of parliament), representing the position of prime minister, the major node in the negotiations.
On the other hand, condemned the Israeli parties to the draft law which requires those wishing to obtain Israeli citizenship from non-Jews to swear allegiance "to the Jewish state of Israel democracy."
He said Assad "The decisions issued by the racism of the latest Israeli decision to swear allegiance to reflect the outbreak of Israeli murder and is represented by these laws."
The Israeli government, which is dominated by the right, approved Sunday a draft amendment bill to require the non-Jews who wish to obtain Israeli citizenship oath of allegiance to "the Jewish State of Israel democracy."
He said Assad "is not a surprise to us that what Israel is doing this scheme goes a long progressive and do not expect this scheme shows ignorance of history and shows the ignorance of Israel's declared intentions, we must rejoice as Israel began to show itself."
For his part, Erdogan said "the imposition of this resolution to the citizens of non-Jews is a crime committed against humanity."
Assad stressed that these laws "do not give any serious indication towards peace," adding that "the Arab side wants the peace process On the other hand the Israeli side, works in the opposite direction."
At the level of Syrian-Lebanese relations praised Assad role played by Turkey, which "started years ago, attempts to improve relations between Syria and Lebanon through its relationship with fingertips different in Lebanon and through its relationship with the Syrian government, and I think that the credibility of Turkey's great in this type of relationship and lead to good results."
He stressed the need for consensus among the Lebanese in order to improve the Syrian-Lebanese relationship, saying that without it, "there will still be the ceiling of this relationship is improving as is the case now, but do not improve sufficiently to return normal relations."
The Syrian president also touched on the issue of belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party in Syria and who is locked in an armed rebellion in southeast Turkey, he stressed that his country would open its doors to anyone who wants to fall for "mistake" of belonging to this party.
"It is natural and useful to any country seeking to reopen the area and the doors to anyone who wants to retract the mistake in order to be able to do such a retreat," adding that this position "is not a position was not an emergency as well."
Assad stressed that this amnesty "is not an amnesty for people as much as it is to open the door to people who want to step back from a mistake today or in the future to return a natural part of their communities in Syria and Turkey and Iran and Iraq in order to serve these communities."
And fighting the PKK, which considers Turkey and the European Union and the United States a terrorist organization, since the military conflict in 1984 calling for the granting of south-eastern Turkey autonomy. The conflict has killed 45 thousand people.
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