I've made mistakes, Assad tells German magazine
Published October 05, 2013/
Associated Press
BERLIN – Syria's President Bashar Assad has conceded making mistakes and says no side in his country's civil war is entirely free of blame, according to an interview to be published Sunday by German magazine Der Spiegel.
The respected Hamburg-based weekly reported that Assad acknowledged "personal mistakes by individuals," though the advance version of the interview released Saturday didn't elaborate on what those mistakes might have been.
"We all make mistakes. Even a president makes mistakes," Der Spiegel quoted him as saying. Assad reportedly added that there were "gray tones" as far as the question of blame was concerned.
Assad, whose authoritarian rule prompted protests more than two years ago that evolved into a bloody civil war with over 100,000 dead, said he didn't believe in a negotiated peace with the rebels trying to oust him.
"According to my definition a political opposition isn't armed," he was quoted as saying.
In its announcement about the interview, Der Spiegel did not say when it took place or whether it was face to face.
The magazine reported that Assad had declared a willingness to call elections before his term ends in August, and that he hadn't yet decided whether to run for the presidency again.
"If I don't have the will of the people behind me then I won't run again," it quoted him as saying.
Asked about the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack near Damascus that killed hundreds of people, Assad again denied his regime's involvement.
"The picture you're painting of me as someone who kills his own people is (false)," the magazine quoted him as saying.
Western officials, who say there is little doubt Assad's troops are to blame, "trust Al Qaeda more than me," Assad reportedly said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/10/05/ive-made-mistakes-assad-tells-german-magazine/
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Friday, October 04, 2013
WORLD_ In a First, Saudis Cancel a Speech at the U.N.
In a First, Saudis Cancel a Speech at the U.N.
By RICK GLADSTONE
Published: October 3, 2013
Saudi Arabia, frustrated by what it apparently regarded as policy setbacks over Syria, Iran and Palestinian statehood, abruptly canceled its turn to speak this week at the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting, diplomatic officials and Arab news agencies reported Thursday.
They said it was the first time that the Saudis, who are strong American allies, had scrapped that opportunity to state their positions on world affairs, not even submitting a written statement in lieu of a speech.
Diplomatic officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the matter, said Saudi Arabia opted not to participate partly because it did not want to publicly criticize the Security Council over what the kingdom had judged to be a weak response to the conflict in Syria and the use of chemical weapons there.
The Council unanimously approved a resolution last Friday aimed at pressuring the Syrian government to keep its promise to give up its chemical weapons. But the measure does not automatically threaten military force for noncompliance and does not specifically call for the Syrian government to be held criminally accountable for the use of chemical weapons, notably in a mass killing outside Damascus on Aug. 21.
The news agency Al Arabiya said the Saudis were also angry over the lack of progress in settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an issue about as old as the United Nations itself.
Attention to Palestinian statehood aspirations seemed to be overshadowed at the General Assembly gathering this year — not just by a preoccupation with the Syria conflict, but by the focus on the new president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, who created a diplomatic stir with a series of interviews and meetings that ended with an extraordinary phone conversation with President Obama.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are rivals in the Middle East, and they support opposite sides in the Syrian conflict.
The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, had been scheduled to deliver his country’s speech on Monday. No explanation was given for the cancellation, and efforts to contact Saudi diplomats by telephone at the country’s United Nations mission were unsuccessful.
A version of this article appears in print on October 4, 2013, on page A8 of the New York edition with the headline: In a First, Saudis Cancel a Speech at the U.N..
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By RICK GLADSTONE
Published: October 3, 2013
Saudi Arabia, frustrated by what it apparently regarded as policy setbacks over Syria, Iran and Palestinian statehood, abruptly canceled its turn to speak this week at the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting, diplomatic officials and Arab news agencies reported Thursday.
They said it was the first time that the Saudis, who are strong American allies, had scrapped that opportunity to state their positions on world affairs, not even submitting a written statement in lieu of a speech.
Diplomatic officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the matter, said Saudi Arabia opted not to participate partly because it did not want to publicly criticize the Security Council over what the kingdom had judged to be a weak response to the conflict in Syria and the use of chemical weapons there.
The Council unanimously approved a resolution last Friday aimed at pressuring the Syrian government to keep its promise to give up its chemical weapons. But the measure does not automatically threaten military force for noncompliance and does not specifically call for the Syrian government to be held criminally accountable for the use of chemical weapons, notably in a mass killing outside Damascus on Aug. 21.
The news agency Al Arabiya said the Saudis were also angry over the lack of progress in settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an issue about as old as the United Nations itself.
Attention to Palestinian statehood aspirations seemed to be overshadowed at the General Assembly gathering this year — not just by a preoccupation with the Syria conflict, but by the focus on the new president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, who created a diplomatic stir with a series of interviews and meetings that ended with an extraordinary phone conversation with President Obama.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are rivals in the Middle East, and they support opposite sides in the Syrian conflict.
The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, had been scheduled to deliver his country’s speech on Monday. No explanation was given for the cancellation, and efforts to contact Saudi diplomats by telephone at the country’s United Nations mission were unsuccessful.
A version of this article appears in print on October 4, 2013, on page A8 of the New York edition with the headline: In a First, Saudis Cancel a Speech at the U.N..
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WORLD_ Syrian Intervention Renewal an Ankara Balancing Act
Syrian Intervention Renewal an Ankara Balancing Act
Turkish tanks positioned at a military base near the town of Suruc along the Syrian border, Sanliurfa province, Nov. 15, 2012.
Dorian Jones
VOA
October 04, 2013
ISTANBUL — Turkey's parliament voted Thursday to extend a mandate authorizing deployment of troops in Syria if necessary for another year.
Passing parliament with a show of hands, the law was strongly opposed by the country's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), which condemns the ruling AK Party’s policy of backing Syrian rebel forces, and claims the mandate would further ratchet up regional tensions.
Despite the mandate's passage, Semih Idiz, diplomatic columnist for the Turkish daily newspaper Taraf, says Ankara is unlikely to use it.
"I can’t see unilateral intervention on Turkey’s part unless there is some major national security threat involved," he said. "The government has the mandate, but it does not have the opposition on its side or public opinion on its side. So it's very unlikely it will want use the mandate to suit its own purposes."
Although the AK Party has been at the forefront of opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, public opinion polls find a growing majority of Turks oppose the party's stance.
Over the past few months, Turkey has bolstered its forces along the border, where it has been aiding the rebel forces, and last month shot down a Syrian government helicopter which it said had violated its airspace.
Sinan Ulgen, visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, says Turkish attitudes on Syria will continue to harden as the crisis worsens.
"[Turks] believe this is going to raise security issues in Turkey," he said. "They also believe Turkey is quite isolated and, given that [Syria] is [a] neighboring country, Turkey is going to be much more [vulnerable] to retaliatory action by Syria and its allies."
Assad on Friday warned in a Turkish television interview that Turkey could pay a high price for its support of al-Qaida-linked groups that are fighting his regime.
While Ankara strongly denies supporting al-Qaida, analysts say groups allegedly linked to the terror organization operate along the border, adding to growing unease on the part of the Turkish public over the government’s Syria policy.
Soli Ozel, an international relations expert at Istanbul’s Kadir Has University, says the concerns won't result in changes to the mandate.
"They put all their eggs in one basket, and they are committed — over-committed, super-committed — to the departure of Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria," she said. "They thought Bashar would go very easily, and the Islamists were set to gain power, which the current government in Turkey feels very comfortable and ideologically akin to."
But Idiz says public opinion will inevitably factor into government policymaking with elections looming and large numbers of Turkish troops and tanks amassing on the border.
"We have a spate of elections coming up in Turkey, starting with local elections in early 2014 to be followed by presidential and then parliamentary elections going on to 2015," he said. "So with this highly politically-charged environment, I would say the government will be very, very alert to how the public feels."
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Turkish tanks positioned at a military base near the town of Suruc along the Syrian border, Sanliurfa province, Nov. 15, 2012.
Dorian Jones
VOA
October 04, 2013
ISTANBUL — Turkey's parliament voted Thursday to extend a mandate authorizing deployment of troops in Syria if necessary for another year.
Passing parliament with a show of hands, the law was strongly opposed by the country's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), which condemns the ruling AK Party’s policy of backing Syrian rebel forces, and claims the mandate would further ratchet up regional tensions.
Despite the mandate's passage, Semih Idiz, diplomatic columnist for the Turkish daily newspaper Taraf, says Ankara is unlikely to use it.
"I can’t see unilateral intervention on Turkey’s part unless there is some major national security threat involved," he said. "The government has the mandate, but it does not have the opposition on its side or public opinion on its side. So it's very unlikely it will want use the mandate to suit its own purposes."
Although the AK Party has been at the forefront of opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, public opinion polls find a growing majority of Turks oppose the party's stance.
Over the past few months, Turkey has bolstered its forces along the border, where it has been aiding the rebel forces, and last month shot down a Syrian government helicopter which it said had violated its airspace.
Sinan Ulgen, visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, says Turkish attitudes on Syria will continue to harden as the crisis worsens.
"[Turks] believe this is going to raise security issues in Turkey," he said. "They also believe Turkey is quite isolated and, given that [Syria] is [a] neighboring country, Turkey is going to be much more [vulnerable] to retaliatory action by Syria and its allies."
Assad on Friday warned in a Turkish television interview that Turkey could pay a high price for its support of al-Qaida-linked groups that are fighting his regime.
While Ankara strongly denies supporting al-Qaida, analysts say groups allegedly linked to the terror organization operate along the border, adding to growing unease on the part of the Turkish public over the government’s Syria policy.
Soli Ozel, an international relations expert at Istanbul’s Kadir Has University, says the concerns won't result in changes to the mandate.
"They put all their eggs in one basket, and they are committed — over-committed, super-committed — to the departure of Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria," she said. "They thought Bashar would go very easily, and the Islamists were set to gain power, which the current government in Turkey feels very comfortable and ideologically akin to."
But Idiz says public opinion will inevitably factor into government policymaking with elections looming and large numbers of Turkish troops and tanks amassing on the border.
"We have a spate of elections coming up in Turkey, starting with local elections in early 2014 to be followed by presidential and then parliamentary elections going on to 2015," he said. "So with this highly politically-charged environment, I would say the government will be very, very alert to how the public feels."
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WORLD_ INSIGHT: Could US, Iran Agree on Syria Without Assad?
INSIGHT: Could US, Iran Agree on Syria Without Assad?
September 23, 2013
By Barbara Slavin
More than two years after President Barack Obama said it was time for Syria’s president to go, Bashar al-Assad is still in power in Damascus. But new evidence from the United Nations pointing to his regime’s large-scale use of chemical weapons makes it more plausible that Assad could leave office as part of an international peace plan.
In the aftermath of the recent Russian-American deal to remove and destroy Assad’s large chemical weapons arsenal, members of the Syrian opposition and their supporters have complained bitterly that the agreement insures that Assad stays in power to ascertain implementation of the plan through the middle of 2014. However, the new international opprobrium attached to the Syrian leader because of the gassing of hundreds of civilians outside Damascus August 21 is undercutting his support among even his most ardent allies, especially Iran, itself the victim of Iraqi poison gas attacks during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
Long before the latest revelations, Iranian officials have signaled their willingness to see a new face in charge in Damascus – so long as Iranian interests are protected by an Assad successor.
Read more at Middle East Voices: http://middleeastvoices.voanews.com/2013/09/insight-could-us-iran-agree-on-syria-without-assad-79410/#ixzz2gnj3v6nf
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September 23, 2013
By Barbara Slavin
More than two years after President Barack Obama said it was time for Syria’s president to go, Bashar al-Assad is still in power in Damascus. But new evidence from the United Nations pointing to his regime’s large-scale use of chemical weapons makes it more plausible that Assad could leave office as part of an international peace plan.
In the aftermath of the recent Russian-American deal to remove and destroy Assad’s large chemical weapons arsenal, members of the Syrian opposition and their supporters have complained bitterly that the agreement insures that Assad stays in power to ascertain implementation of the plan through the middle of 2014. However, the new international opprobrium attached to the Syrian leader because of the gassing of hundreds of civilians outside Damascus August 21 is undercutting his support among even his most ardent allies, especially Iran, itself the victim of Iraqi poison gas attacks during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
Long before the latest revelations, Iranian officials have signaled their willingness to see a new face in charge in Damascus – so long as Iranian interests are protected by an Assad successor.
Read more at Middle East Voices: http://middleeastvoices.voanews.com/2013/09/insight-could-us-iran-agree-on-syria-without-assad-79410/#ixzz2gnj3v6nf
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Thursday, October 03, 2013
WORLD_ Interview: Syria, Iran Main Buyers of North Korean Chemical Weapons
Interview: Syria, Iran Main Buyers of North Korean Chemical Weapons
RFA
2013-10-03
Weapon parts found aboard North Korea's Chong Chon Gang at Manzanillo Harbor in Panama on July 16, 2013. AFP
North Korea’s connection to Syria’s chemical weapons has drawn renewed attention following the U.N. Security Council's unanimous adoption of a binding resolution on dismantling the Middle Eastern country’s weapons of mass destruction on Sept. 28. North Korea is suspected to have begun transferring chemical weapons technology to Syria since the early 1990s. Changsop Pyon of RFA's Korean Service interviewed Bruce Bechtol, professor of International Relations at Angelo State University in Texas, about North Korea's alleged proliferation activities to nations in the Middle East, as well as the possibility that it may have supplied some non-state actors. Formerly a senior intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, Bechtol is the author of "The Last Days of Kim Jong Il" and “Red Rogue: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea.”
Q: There has been persistent speculation that North Korea has supplied chemical weapons to Syria for a very long time. Do you believe this is true?
A: That’s probably something very few people actually have knowledge of, but the sources for [those allegations] are out there and have been very clear for a long time ... Initially [North Korea] sold chemical weapons to Syria in the early 1990s and then evolved into building two chemical weapons fabrication facilities for the Syrians in the mid-1990s under a contract. Much of that was negotiated through the KPA (Korean People’s Army), and what’s interesting about that is that both facilities still exist. They have North Korean advisors living there, and in fact, there is a very posh North Korean facility that the Syrians maintain for them 365 days a year. And, at least at one of the facilities, not only do the North Koreans help them with the materials needed to fabricate these warheads and artillery shells, but they actually have the missiles. The North Koreans help the Syrians marry up these weapons ... with Scud missiles. This has been going on since the early 1990s.
Q: North Korea allegedly supplied various weapons to Middle East countries, including Iran. Hearing what you’ve said, I get the impression that Syria is North Korea’s biggest client. Is that so?
A: I wouldn’t say Syria is the main client. They are probably one of their main clients ... [Their] other key client for both chemical weapons and nuclear collaboration [is] Iran. And what Iran has, but Syria doesn’t have, is a lot of hard currency because of their oil and natural gas industry. The way this program started off between North Korea and Syria in the 1990s was the Saudi government paid Syria millions and millions of dollars for fighting on their side in the Gulf War. So they had this money and used that originally to help finance the WMD (weapons of mass destruction) programs they had with North Korea. That money is long gone now and the Iranians are paying for most of the programs that the Syrians have now. According to [North Korean] defectors, Iranians were even paying for the nuclear reactor Syria had built for them by North Korea.
Q: North Korea has no clear national interests in a remote Middle East country like Syria. Why, then, was the North so eager to sell chemical weapons to them?
A: Greed was the main motivation, money. As you know, the way that this works is the Syrians, Iranians and North Koreans all deal with banks in China. That’s how they laundered their money, and that’s how most of the money goes between North Korea and Iran, and obviously Iran has been financing much of Syria’s military for at least for ten years. That’s very important, and what makes it so important now is that Syria has been fighting a civil war for two years. So, they are using these weapons obviously, and when you use a weapon, you have got to get more of that weapon and you’ve got to get resupplied. So, what’s happened in Syria is in the past few months there’s been an uptick in the number of North Korean advisors and logistics personnel on the ground that are helping Syrians resupply themselves with missiles and chemical weapons, but not just that. Also with things like artillery, ammunition, small arms, rocket-propelled grenades, etc. All that keeps being resupplied by North Korea as the Syrians are fighting the civil war.
Q: There were some reports that Pyongyang also sold weapons to the Islamic militant group Hezbollah, now allied with Syria in its civil war. What’s your take on this?
A: Well, that’s right. Within the North Korea, Syria and Iranian connection, there is another important entity and that is Hezbollah. North Korea had been supplying weapons to Hezbollah, building facilities for Hezbollah, and actually training Hezbollah field commanders for at least 20 years now. Let me give you an example. After the war that Hezbollah fought with Israel ended in 2006, about 100 [Hezbollah] commanders went to North Korea to train under the North Korean Reconnaissance Bureau auspices in 2007. So, now you have not just one military force that the North Koreans are supporting and proliferating to, but you have two, because the Syrians are fighting the war, now Hezbollah has allied with them, and North Korea is supplying, training and advising both of these forces, and Iran is supplying hard currency that make it necessary for them to do so.
Q: So, the North Koreans have even approached non-state actors such as Hezbollah to make money?
A: That’s exactly it. And Hezbollah is not the only one. North Korea supports various non-state actors that engage in terrorism. Hezbollah is probably one of the most profitable for them because of its seemingly unending flow of cash that Iran is willing to pay for all these weapons and training and facilities that the North Koreans provide to Hezbollah. So, it’s very profitable for the North Koreans. But they are not the only ones. During the civil war in Sri Lanka the North Koreans were supplying the rebel Tamil Tigers with a lot of stuff, such as machine guns, artillery, rocket-propelled grenades, small arms, even naval patrol boats. And the way they were getting paid in that case was that there were many expatriates from the Tamil Tigers living in the United Kingdom and the United States who’re quite wealthy. These expatriates were sending money to North Korea to pay for all these weapons. Do you think North Korea cares about the Tamil Tiger cause in Sri Lanka? Of course not! But it’s just a matter of getting paid cash. Now we see over the past couple of years they’ve been supplying al-Shabab, which is an al-Qaeda-affiliated non-state actor terrorist organization in Somalia. So, this non-state actor supporting of terrorism is nothing new, certainly, for the North Koreans, and it certainly is nothing that has stopped under Kim Jong Un—it’s ongoing. But the important thing about that is ... that the biggest money-maker when it comes to support for terrorism of non-state actors is Hezbollah.
Q: The Bush administration introduced the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) in 2003 to stop the trafficking of weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear and chemical weapons. Do you think the PSI was effective in preventing North Korea from engaging in proliferation activities?
A: The North Koreans are very good at getting around sanctions against their front companies and banks, and they’re also very, very good at getting around initiatives taken to stop their actual proliferation shipments to various countries and non-state actors around the world. The PSI is a very good thing, and at least we're stopping some of the North Korean proliferation to other countries, but I don’t think we're stopping most of it. You know about the methods that the North Koreans use ... such as reflagging ships every time they go into a port. They do things such as putting their cargo in containers on ships that have nothing to do with North Korea ever, such as French ships or Spanish ships, ships from New Zealand, or Mongolia. They put the containers on these ships and fill them two-thirds full of weapons, and the other third with something like seaweed.
Q: As you know, North Korea was taken off the U.S. list of state-sponsored terrorism. If North Korea’s proliferation activities are continuing, isn’t it time for Washington to reconsider that decision?
A: Well, that’s important question and one that I've been asking ... for several years. To me, it’s just insane that North Korea has not been put on the United States State Department list of nations who support terrorism. [Former President] George W. Bush dropped them off the list as part of a deal where the North Koreans supposedly terminated their plutonium nuclear program toward the end of the Bush administration. [But] they had no intention of terminating their nuclear program, and they had no intention of letting inspectors look at their facilities or fissile materials. [North Korea] lied to the U.S. government and they ended up being taken off the list of nations supporting terrorism for no reason. My counter to that is, "Why did we take the off in the first place?" We knew they were supporting Hezbollah when we took them off the list. We knew they had supported the Tamil Tigers, and they supported Iranian Republican Guard Corps.—another terrorist-designated organization. So, why would we take them off other than to cut a deal? And then, when they broke the deal—and I think that everybody agrees they broke the deal—why did the Obama administration not put them back on the list of terrorism-supporting countries? That's a very important move by the U.S. government because if they [put them back on the list] it would take the lead in getting other nations to go along with more stringent sanctions.
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RFA
2013-10-03
Weapon parts found aboard North Korea's Chong Chon Gang at Manzanillo Harbor in Panama on July 16, 2013. AFP
North Korea’s connection to Syria’s chemical weapons has drawn renewed attention following the U.N. Security Council's unanimous adoption of a binding resolution on dismantling the Middle Eastern country’s weapons of mass destruction on Sept. 28. North Korea is suspected to have begun transferring chemical weapons technology to Syria since the early 1990s. Changsop Pyon of RFA's Korean Service interviewed Bruce Bechtol, professor of International Relations at Angelo State University in Texas, about North Korea's alleged proliferation activities to nations in the Middle East, as well as the possibility that it may have supplied some non-state actors. Formerly a senior intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, Bechtol is the author of "The Last Days of Kim Jong Il" and “Red Rogue: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea.”
Q: There has been persistent speculation that North Korea has supplied chemical weapons to Syria for a very long time. Do you believe this is true?
A: That’s probably something very few people actually have knowledge of, but the sources for [those allegations] are out there and have been very clear for a long time ... Initially [North Korea] sold chemical weapons to Syria in the early 1990s and then evolved into building two chemical weapons fabrication facilities for the Syrians in the mid-1990s under a contract. Much of that was negotiated through the KPA (Korean People’s Army), and what’s interesting about that is that both facilities still exist. They have North Korean advisors living there, and in fact, there is a very posh North Korean facility that the Syrians maintain for them 365 days a year. And, at least at one of the facilities, not only do the North Koreans help them with the materials needed to fabricate these warheads and artillery shells, but they actually have the missiles. The North Koreans help the Syrians marry up these weapons ... with Scud missiles. This has been going on since the early 1990s.
Q: North Korea allegedly supplied various weapons to Middle East countries, including Iran. Hearing what you’ve said, I get the impression that Syria is North Korea’s biggest client. Is that so?
A: I wouldn’t say Syria is the main client. They are probably one of their main clients ... [Their] other key client for both chemical weapons and nuclear collaboration [is] Iran. And what Iran has, but Syria doesn’t have, is a lot of hard currency because of their oil and natural gas industry. The way this program started off between North Korea and Syria in the 1990s was the Saudi government paid Syria millions and millions of dollars for fighting on their side in the Gulf War. So they had this money and used that originally to help finance the WMD (weapons of mass destruction) programs they had with North Korea. That money is long gone now and the Iranians are paying for most of the programs that the Syrians have now. According to [North Korean] defectors, Iranians were even paying for the nuclear reactor Syria had built for them by North Korea.
Q: North Korea has no clear national interests in a remote Middle East country like Syria. Why, then, was the North so eager to sell chemical weapons to them?
A: Greed was the main motivation, money. As you know, the way that this works is the Syrians, Iranians and North Koreans all deal with banks in China. That’s how they laundered their money, and that’s how most of the money goes between North Korea and Iran, and obviously Iran has been financing much of Syria’s military for at least for ten years. That’s very important, and what makes it so important now is that Syria has been fighting a civil war for two years. So, they are using these weapons obviously, and when you use a weapon, you have got to get more of that weapon and you’ve got to get resupplied. So, what’s happened in Syria is in the past few months there’s been an uptick in the number of North Korean advisors and logistics personnel on the ground that are helping Syrians resupply themselves with missiles and chemical weapons, but not just that. Also with things like artillery, ammunition, small arms, rocket-propelled grenades, etc. All that keeps being resupplied by North Korea as the Syrians are fighting the civil war.
Q: There were some reports that Pyongyang also sold weapons to the Islamic militant group Hezbollah, now allied with Syria in its civil war. What’s your take on this?
A: Well, that’s right. Within the North Korea, Syria and Iranian connection, there is another important entity and that is Hezbollah. North Korea had been supplying weapons to Hezbollah, building facilities for Hezbollah, and actually training Hezbollah field commanders for at least 20 years now. Let me give you an example. After the war that Hezbollah fought with Israel ended in 2006, about 100 [Hezbollah] commanders went to North Korea to train under the North Korean Reconnaissance Bureau auspices in 2007. So, now you have not just one military force that the North Koreans are supporting and proliferating to, but you have two, because the Syrians are fighting the war, now Hezbollah has allied with them, and North Korea is supplying, training and advising both of these forces, and Iran is supplying hard currency that make it necessary for them to do so.
Q: So, the North Koreans have even approached non-state actors such as Hezbollah to make money?
A: That’s exactly it. And Hezbollah is not the only one. North Korea supports various non-state actors that engage in terrorism. Hezbollah is probably one of the most profitable for them because of its seemingly unending flow of cash that Iran is willing to pay for all these weapons and training and facilities that the North Koreans provide to Hezbollah. So, it’s very profitable for the North Koreans. But they are not the only ones. During the civil war in Sri Lanka the North Koreans were supplying the rebel Tamil Tigers with a lot of stuff, such as machine guns, artillery, rocket-propelled grenades, small arms, even naval patrol boats. And the way they were getting paid in that case was that there were many expatriates from the Tamil Tigers living in the United Kingdom and the United States who’re quite wealthy. These expatriates were sending money to North Korea to pay for all these weapons. Do you think North Korea cares about the Tamil Tiger cause in Sri Lanka? Of course not! But it’s just a matter of getting paid cash. Now we see over the past couple of years they’ve been supplying al-Shabab, which is an al-Qaeda-affiliated non-state actor terrorist organization in Somalia. So, this non-state actor supporting of terrorism is nothing new, certainly, for the North Koreans, and it certainly is nothing that has stopped under Kim Jong Un—it’s ongoing. But the important thing about that is ... that the biggest money-maker when it comes to support for terrorism of non-state actors is Hezbollah.
Q: The Bush administration introduced the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) in 2003 to stop the trafficking of weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear and chemical weapons. Do you think the PSI was effective in preventing North Korea from engaging in proliferation activities?
A: The North Koreans are very good at getting around sanctions against their front companies and banks, and they’re also very, very good at getting around initiatives taken to stop their actual proliferation shipments to various countries and non-state actors around the world. The PSI is a very good thing, and at least we're stopping some of the North Korean proliferation to other countries, but I don’t think we're stopping most of it. You know about the methods that the North Koreans use ... such as reflagging ships every time they go into a port. They do things such as putting their cargo in containers on ships that have nothing to do with North Korea ever, such as French ships or Spanish ships, ships from New Zealand, or Mongolia. They put the containers on these ships and fill them two-thirds full of weapons, and the other third with something like seaweed.
Q: As you know, North Korea was taken off the U.S. list of state-sponsored terrorism. If North Korea’s proliferation activities are continuing, isn’t it time for Washington to reconsider that decision?
A: Well, that’s important question and one that I've been asking ... for several years. To me, it’s just insane that North Korea has not been put on the United States State Department list of nations who support terrorism. [Former President] George W. Bush dropped them off the list as part of a deal where the North Koreans supposedly terminated their plutonium nuclear program toward the end of the Bush administration. [But] they had no intention of terminating their nuclear program, and they had no intention of letting inspectors look at their facilities or fissile materials. [North Korea] lied to the U.S. government and they ended up being taken off the list of nations supporting terrorism for no reason. My counter to that is, "Why did we take the off in the first place?" We knew they were supporting Hezbollah when we took them off the list. We knew they had supported the Tamil Tigers, and they supported Iranian Republican Guard Corps.—another terrorist-designated organization. So, why would we take them off other than to cut a deal? And then, when they broke the deal—and I think that everybody agrees they broke the deal—why did the Obama administration not put them back on the list of terrorism-supporting countries? That's a very important move by the U.S. government because if they [put them back on the list] it would take the lead in getting other nations to go along with more stringent sanctions.
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WORLD_ Missed Opportunity in Syria Haunts U.N. Official
Missed Opportunity in Syria Haunts U.N. Official
Richard Perry/The New York Times
Angela Kane, the United Nations high representative for disarmament affairs, helped get weapons inspectors sent into Syria.
By RICK GLADSTONE and SOMINI SENGUPTA
Published: October 2, 2013
UNITED NATIONS — Locked in a disagreement with the Syrian government over access, the United Nations missed an opportunity six months ago to investigate the first suspected chemical weapons attack in that country’s civil war, the organization’s top disarmament official said in an interview on Wednesday.
The official, Angela Kane, said that the missed opportunity now haunted her.
If United Nations inspectors had been able to visit the site, in the northern town of Khan al-Assal, and confirm that chemical weapons had been used on March 19, she said, the findings might have deterred further attacks, like the one Aug. 21 that killed hundreds in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta.
Each side in the Syrian conflict blamed the other for the Khan al-Assal attack, and the Syrian government wanted the United Nations to investigate that site alone. But the United Nations insisted on investigating other sites of suspected chemical attacks, and Syria refused, leading to what Ms. Kane described as a standstill that lasted months.
“In hindsight, I think I regret that,” said Ms. Kane, the high representative for disarmament affairs, who helped broker an agreement to allow investigators into Syria, just before the August attack. “It would have been good if we had investigated. Maybe by having conclusive proof the first time when it was really used on a larger scale, it might have prevented the others.”
Even so, she said, the chemical weapons crisis — and the international inquiry into it — has accelerated diplomatic efforts, including the possible convening of a peace conference next month in Geneva. Last Friday, the Security Council unanimously passed a breakthrough resolution aimed at pressuring the Syrian government to keep its new promise to give up all chemical weapons. On Wednesday, the Security Council unanimously urged all sides in the conflict to allow unfettered access to humanitarian aid. I
n an interview at the United Nations, Ms. Kane, a veteran United Nations diplomat from Germany who is an expert in peacekeeping and disarmament issues, offered a glimpse of the painstaking, perilous work her team, comprising chemical weapons specialists and doctors, undertakes as it seeks to establish whether and when banned weapons were used.
On their first visit to Syria in August, she said, team members came under sniper fire in a buffer zone between government- and opposition-held areas in the Damascus suburbs. Already encumbered by hazardous materials suits, they worked in triple-digit summer temperatures and spoke to victims in Ghouta just days after they had been poisoned by what the investigators eventually determined was the nerve agent sarin. This sort of investigation had never been done before, Ms. Kane said.
“It was emotionally very draining,” she said.
Last week, the team, which returned to Syria to look into other suspected chemical attacks, faced a security threat that forced it to postpone its work a day, she said, declining to give details.
On both visits, following precise protocols meant to guarantee the authenticity of the evidence, investigators packed samples of blood, hair, soil and weapons fragments into special containers. Because hazardous chemicals are barred from private planes, Ms. Kane called on friendly governments — she would not identify them — to fly the samples on their official planes to Europe for testing.
Ms. Kane had pulled the team out at the end of August, over the objections of the Syrian government and only after promising that the team would return. On its second visit, which ended Monday, it looked into six other instances of suspected chemical munitions use, including three that the Syrian government said had occurred after Aug. 21 in the Damascus area.
On Tuesday, an advance group of weapons inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrived. That team, charged with carrying out the dismantling of Syria’s chemical stockpiles under the Security Council resolution, expects the Syrian government to deliver a detailed list of stockpile sites, materials and equipment, and supply information.
Ms. Kane’s team’s final report, covering all seven suspected episodes, is due at the end of October. Its initial report, on Sept. 16, focused only on the Ghouta attack and was the first independent accounting of what had happened; the forensic information it contained appeared to implicate the Syrian government.
So worried were the investigators that their findings would be leaked and cast doubt on their credibility, they delivered their report personally to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, in New York.
Parts of that report were contested by Russia, which is Syria’s principal ally and which has contended that rebels were responsible for the Ghouta attack. Ms. Kane said she had instructed the team on its second visit to review those objections. She declined to give details.
She also said that both Syria and Russia had done their own investigations into the Khan al-Assal assault and sought to have her team accept their findings as evidence. But she said that was impossible, because of strict protocols for the integrity of the evidence. Her team only uses samples it has collected itself.
There is no chance of that now, she said, because the area is controlled by Islamic extremists affiliated with Al Qaeda. The team’s final report will include an entry on Khan al-Assal, without benefit of direct evidence.
While that attack drew global attention, it was the Aug. 21 assault, with video evidence of a mass atrocity, that precipitated a worldwide crisis. By then, the conflict had killed an estimated 100,000 and uprooted millions. T
he Obama administration expressed outrage, blamed the government of President Bashar al-Assad and threatened a missile strike, only to be dissuaded by Russia. In turn, Russia persuaded Syria to join a global treaty to ban chemical weapons. The Assad government then agreed to allow its chemical weapons stockpile to be identified and destroyed by mid-2014.
What has dogged Ms. Kane’s team from the start is the limits of its mission: to establish whether chemical weapons were used, not by whom. This has been an abiding source of criticism, but United Nations officials have said it is for others to interpret the findings and seek accountability.
Ms. Kane said she was not in the least frustrated. She expressed confidence that the team’s findings would be used to hold the perpetrators accountable, even though nothing the United Nations has done yet would automatically lead to criminal prosecutions.
“You work this long in the U.N., you know that there are sometimes gray areas you just have to live with,” she said.
A version of this article appears in print on October 3, 2013, on page A10 of the New York edition with the headline: Missed Opportunity in Syria Haunts U.N. Official.
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Richard Perry/The New York Times
Angela Kane, the United Nations high representative for disarmament affairs, helped get weapons inspectors sent into Syria.
By RICK GLADSTONE and SOMINI SENGUPTA
Published: October 2, 2013
UNITED NATIONS — Locked in a disagreement with the Syrian government over access, the United Nations missed an opportunity six months ago to investigate the first suspected chemical weapons attack in that country’s civil war, the organization’s top disarmament official said in an interview on Wednesday.
The official, Angela Kane, said that the missed opportunity now haunted her.
If United Nations inspectors had been able to visit the site, in the northern town of Khan al-Assal, and confirm that chemical weapons had been used on March 19, she said, the findings might have deterred further attacks, like the one Aug. 21 that killed hundreds in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta.
Each side in the Syrian conflict blamed the other for the Khan al-Assal attack, and the Syrian government wanted the United Nations to investigate that site alone. But the United Nations insisted on investigating other sites of suspected chemical attacks, and Syria refused, leading to what Ms. Kane described as a standstill that lasted months.
“In hindsight, I think I regret that,” said Ms. Kane, the high representative for disarmament affairs, who helped broker an agreement to allow investigators into Syria, just before the August attack. “It would have been good if we had investigated. Maybe by having conclusive proof the first time when it was really used on a larger scale, it might have prevented the others.”
Even so, she said, the chemical weapons crisis — and the international inquiry into it — has accelerated diplomatic efforts, including the possible convening of a peace conference next month in Geneva. Last Friday, the Security Council unanimously passed a breakthrough resolution aimed at pressuring the Syrian government to keep its new promise to give up all chemical weapons. On Wednesday, the Security Council unanimously urged all sides in the conflict to allow unfettered access to humanitarian aid. I
n an interview at the United Nations, Ms. Kane, a veteran United Nations diplomat from Germany who is an expert in peacekeeping and disarmament issues, offered a glimpse of the painstaking, perilous work her team, comprising chemical weapons specialists and doctors, undertakes as it seeks to establish whether and when banned weapons were used.
On their first visit to Syria in August, she said, team members came under sniper fire in a buffer zone between government- and opposition-held areas in the Damascus suburbs. Already encumbered by hazardous materials suits, they worked in triple-digit summer temperatures and spoke to victims in Ghouta just days after they had been poisoned by what the investigators eventually determined was the nerve agent sarin. This sort of investigation had never been done before, Ms. Kane said.
“It was emotionally very draining,” she said.
Last week, the team, which returned to Syria to look into other suspected chemical attacks, faced a security threat that forced it to postpone its work a day, she said, declining to give details.
On both visits, following precise protocols meant to guarantee the authenticity of the evidence, investigators packed samples of blood, hair, soil and weapons fragments into special containers. Because hazardous chemicals are barred from private planes, Ms. Kane called on friendly governments — she would not identify them — to fly the samples on their official planes to Europe for testing.
Ms. Kane had pulled the team out at the end of August, over the objections of the Syrian government and only after promising that the team would return. On its second visit, which ended Monday, it looked into six other instances of suspected chemical munitions use, including three that the Syrian government said had occurred after Aug. 21 in the Damascus area.
On Tuesday, an advance group of weapons inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrived. That team, charged with carrying out the dismantling of Syria’s chemical stockpiles under the Security Council resolution, expects the Syrian government to deliver a detailed list of stockpile sites, materials and equipment, and supply information.
Ms. Kane’s team’s final report, covering all seven suspected episodes, is due at the end of October. Its initial report, on Sept. 16, focused only on the Ghouta attack and was the first independent accounting of what had happened; the forensic information it contained appeared to implicate the Syrian government.
So worried were the investigators that their findings would be leaked and cast doubt on their credibility, they delivered their report personally to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, in New York.
Parts of that report were contested by Russia, which is Syria’s principal ally and which has contended that rebels were responsible for the Ghouta attack. Ms. Kane said she had instructed the team on its second visit to review those objections. She declined to give details.
She also said that both Syria and Russia had done their own investigations into the Khan al-Assal assault and sought to have her team accept their findings as evidence. But she said that was impossible, because of strict protocols for the integrity of the evidence. Her team only uses samples it has collected itself.
There is no chance of that now, she said, because the area is controlled by Islamic extremists affiliated with Al Qaeda. The team’s final report will include an entry on Khan al-Assal, without benefit of direct evidence.
While that attack drew global attention, it was the Aug. 21 assault, with video evidence of a mass atrocity, that precipitated a worldwide crisis. By then, the conflict had killed an estimated 100,000 and uprooted millions. T
he Obama administration expressed outrage, blamed the government of President Bashar al-Assad and threatened a missile strike, only to be dissuaded by Russia. In turn, Russia persuaded Syria to join a global treaty to ban chemical weapons. The Assad government then agreed to allow its chemical weapons stockpile to be identified and destroyed by mid-2014.
What has dogged Ms. Kane’s team from the start is the limits of its mission: to establish whether chemical weapons were used, not by whom. This has been an abiding source of criticism, but United Nations officials have said it is for others to interpret the findings and seek accountability.
Ms. Kane said she was not in the least frustrated. She expressed confidence that the team’s findings would be used to hold the perpetrators accountable, even though nothing the United Nations has done yet would automatically lead to criminal prosecutions.
“You work this long in the U.N., you know that there are sometimes gray areas you just have to live with,” she said.
A version of this article appears in print on October 3, 2013, on page A10 of the New York edition with the headline: Missed Opportunity in Syria Haunts U.N. Official.
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WORLD_ Weapons experts begin Syria mission amid clashes
Weapons experts begin Syria mission amid clashes
BARBARA SURK
19 hours ago
BEIRUT (AP) — As deadly clashes raged on the edge of Damascus, international inspectors left their hotel on Wednesday to start work on the task of destroying Syria's chemical arsenal under the tightest of deadlines in the midst of a civil war.
The inspectors' mission — endorsed by a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last week — is to scrap Syria's capacity to manufacture chemical weapons by Nov. 1 and eliminate the country's entire 1,000-ton stockpile by mid-2014.
A convoy of SUVs with U.N. markings could be seen departing the central Damascus hotel where the team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was staying. It was not clear where the inspectors, who arrived in Syria on Tuesday from neighboring Lebanon, were headed on their first full day in the country.
Their work comes against a backdrop of relentless fighting.
On the northern edge of the city, fierce clashes between Syrian troops and al-Qaida-linked fighters left at least 12 soldiers and pro-government militiamen dead on Tuesday, anti-regime activists said, as the army pressed on with a campaign to dislodge opposition fighters from the capital.
The fighting in the contested district of Barzeh had flared up on Monday, when the army stepped up attacks against opposition forces who have been trying to capture the area for months, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Districts like Barzeh, on the edge of Damascus, are important for rebels based in the capital's outer suburbs in their effort to take their battle closer to President Bashar Assad's seat of power.
At least 19 government troops have been killed in Barzeh since Monday — including the 12 on Tuesday — and dozens of others have been wounded, the Observatory said. The rebels, mostly from the ranks of al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra fighters, also sustained losses but did not disclose them, the Observatory said. It also noted clashes in Jobar on the capital's eastern edge.
In northern Syria, the Observatory reported clashes between Al-Qaida rebels and more moderate groups in the town of Azaz on the Turkish border. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants made advances against fighters from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army rebels, the activists said. They did not have any reports of casualties.
Inter-rebel clashes, which have grown in intensity in recent months, add a new layer of complication to the 2 ½ year conflict, in which over 100,000 have died.
The fighting illustrates the enormous challenges the inspectors — an advance team of 19 from a Netherlands-based chemical weapons watchdog and 14 U.N. staff members — face as they kick off their work.
Within a week, a second group of inspectors is scheduled to join them to form teams that will fan out to individual locations.
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi told The Associated Press Television Network that country's will cooperate with the inspectors and facilitate their mission, "including destroying the (chemical) stockpile."
"We have a political will at the highest levels to (..) fulfill our obligations and commitments," al-Zoubi said in an interview in Damascus on Wednesday.
Experts at The Hague, where the OPCW is based, said Sunday the inspectors' priority is to reach the first milestone of helping Syria scrap its ability to manufacture chemical weapons by the Nov. 1 deadline, using every means possible.
Some of the inspectors will be double-checking Syria's initial disclosure of what weapons and chemical precursors it has and where they are located. Others will begin planning the logistics for visits to every site where chemicals or weapons are reported to be stored.
They are empowered to conduct surprise visits to sites they suspect may contain undeclared weapons, and the U.N. resolution says they must be granted unfettered access.
The inspectors' mission was born out of a deadly chemical attack on opposition-held suburbs of Damascus on Aug. 21. The U.S. and its allies accuse the Syrian government of being responsible, while Damascus blames the rebels.
The chemical attack prompted the Obama administration to threaten punitive missile strikes against the Assad regime, touching off weeks of frantic diplomacy that culminated with a Russian-brokered proposal to have Syria surrender its chemical weapons and ended with the U.N. resolution that was adopted Friday.
The resolution also endorsed a roadmap for political transition in Syria adopted by key nations in June 2012, and called for an international peace conference in Geneva to be convened "as soon as possible" to implement it.
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BARBARA SURK
19 hours ago
BEIRUT (AP) — As deadly clashes raged on the edge of Damascus, international inspectors left their hotel on Wednesday to start work on the task of destroying Syria's chemical arsenal under the tightest of deadlines in the midst of a civil war.
The inspectors' mission — endorsed by a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last week — is to scrap Syria's capacity to manufacture chemical weapons by Nov. 1 and eliminate the country's entire 1,000-ton stockpile by mid-2014.
A convoy of SUVs with U.N. markings could be seen departing the central Damascus hotel where the team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was staying. It was not clear where the inspectors, who arrived in Syria on Tuesday from neighboring Lebanon, were headed on their first full day in the country.
Their work comes against a backdrop of relentless fighting.
On the northern edge of the city, fierce clashes between Syrian troops and al-Qaida-linked fighters left at least 12 soldiers and pro-government militiamen dead on Tuesday, anti-regime activists said, as the army pressed on with a campaign to dislodge opposition fighters from the capital.
The fighting in the contested district of Barzeh had flared up on Monday, when the army stepped up attacks against opposition forces who have been trying to capture the area for months, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Districts like Barzeh, on the edge of Damascus, are important for rebels based in the capital's outer suburbs in their effort to take their battle closer to President Bashar Assad's seat of power.
At least 19 government troops have been killed in Barzeh since Monday — including the 12 on Tuesday — and dozens of others have been wounded, the Observatory said. The rebels, mostly from the ranks of al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra fighters, also sustained losses but did not disclose them, the Observatory said. It also noted clashes in Jobar on the capital's eastern edge.
In northern Syria, the Observatory reported clashes between Al-Qaida rebels and more moderate groups in the town of Azaz on the Turkish border. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants made advances against fighters from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army rebels, the activists said. They did not have any reports of casualties.
Inter-rebel clashes, which have grown in intensity in recent months, add a new layer of complication to the 2 ½ year conflict, in which over 100,000 have died.
The fighting illustrates the enormous challenges the inspectors — an advance team of 19 from a Netherlands-based chemical weapons watchdog and 14 U.N. staff members — face as they kick off their work.
Within a week, a second group of inspectors is scheduled to join them to form teams that will fan out to individual locations.
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi told The Associated Press Television Network that country's will cooperate with the inspectors and facilitate their mission, "including destroying the (chemical) stockpile."
"We have a political will at the highest levels to (..) fulfill our obligations and commitments," al-Zoubi said in an interview in Damascus on Wednesday.
Experts at The Hague, where the OPCW is based, said Sunday the inspectors' priority is to reach the first milestone of helping Syria scrap its ability to manufacture chemical weapons by the Nov. 1 deadline, using every means possible.
Some of the inspectors will be double-checking Syria's initial disclosure of what weapons and chemical precursors it has and where they are located. Others will begin planning the logistics for visits to every site where chemicals or weapons are reported to be stored.
They are empowered to conduct surprise visits to sites they suspect may contain undeclared weapons, and the U.N. resolution says they must be granted unfettered access.
The inspectors' mission was born out of a deadly chemical attack on opposition-held suburbs of Damascus on Aug. 21. The U.S. and its allies accuse the Syrian government of being responsible, while Damascus blames the rebels.
The chemical attack prompted the Obama administration to threaten punitive missile strikes against the Assad regime, touching off weeks of frantic diplomacy that culminated with a Russian-brokered proposal to have Syria surrender its chemical weapons and ended with the U.N. resolution that was adopted Friday.
The resolution also endorsed a roadmap for political transition in Syria adopted by key nations in June 2012, and called for an international peace conference in Geneva to be convened "as soon as possible" to implement it.
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Wednesday, October 02, 2013
WORLD_ Has U.S. Syria policy boosted Russia and left the "friendly" rebels in the dust?
Has U.S. Syria policy boosted Russia and left the "friendly" rebels in the dust?
CBS
October 2, 2013 11:22 AM
The White House may never have had any good options in Syria, but the decision to essentially leave the civil war to simmer for two-and-a-half years has left the allies Washington could have had in the warzone bitterly disappointed, and Russia looking like the power to contend with in Middle East politics.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57605668/has-u.s-syria-policy-boosted-russia-and-left-the-friendly-rebels-in-the-dust/
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013
WORLD_ Exchange Programs Foster an Arab Ideal of Democracy
Letter From Europe
Exchange Programs Foster an Arab Ideal of Democracy
By JUDY DEMPSEY
Published: September 30, 2013
BERLIN — Last week, a group of young men and women from North African and Middle Eastern countries packed their bags and set off for home, having spent a month on a scholarship funded by the German Parliament.
These annual scholarships were established two years ago, soon after the Arab Spring swept across Europe’s southern neighbors. The aim behind the program was to bring young people to Germany to debate with them how democratic systems function.
“These exchange programs are important,” said Zina Mahmoud Hamada El Nahel, 24, a participant who is employed by a German political foundation in Egypt. “But one of the messages that we want to get across from our side is that European countries should stop selling weapons to the region. And don’t give any money to any of the governments. It will all be stolen.”
The participants said more weapons undermined efforts to build democracy. Yet European countries continue to sell arms to many Arab governments. One exception is Syria, but that war-torn country is awash with weapons anyway.
These bright people from Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, and other Arab countries — many of whom had taken part in the democratic uprisings in 2011 — described their new governments with a considerable amount of skepticism. They were doubtful about their leaders’ commitment to building democratic institutions.
After decades of misrule in the Arab world, corruption and authoritarianism are deeply entrenched, they said. The new governments also have an inherent suspicion of independent thinking.
“Our government, for example, hates the foundations,” said Imen Nefzi, 29, who is involved in a nongovernmental organization in Tunisia. “They think we are foreign agents, that we are trying to undermine the system. It is not easy trying to build democracy even on a small level.”
Some German nonprofit organizations — like the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, which is affiliated with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party — have been under constant pressure by the Egyptian authorities since 2011. Last June, its offices and property were confiscated.
Maha Wissa, 34, from Egypt, said she had no illusions about how long it would take to build a democratic state in her country. “A decade, at least — and that’s being optimistic,” she said.
In the meantime, she would like the foundations, the European Union and individual European governments to pursue a different tack to facilitate the transition.
“First of all, we have to reach out to schools, to younger people,” Ms. Wissa said.
As it is, German and European foundations have a built-in bias. They tend to focus on university students and those who speak their language.
The German Parliament’s scholarship has particular weaknesses. The Parliament’s administration asked the German Embassy in Cairo for help in finding participants. The embassy then contacted the foundations and other prominent nongovernmental organizations, choosing established, predictable channels rather than reaching out to different strata of society.
One participant, who wished to remain anonymous, was critical of this approach.
“All of us on this scholarship are committed to democracy,” he said. “But it should not only be us who receive these scholarships. The European foundations and the E.U. should be much more ambitious about reaching out to young people and how they target their funding,”
Many participants said that the foundations and the European Union were insular in their approach.
“The foundations have to get out of the capital cities and go to the towns and villages,” Ms. Nefzi said. “You do have the problem of not having staff or funding to do this. But there is another world out there that is very important to relate to. Otherwise you won’t understand how difficult it is to build democracy.”
Other participants said the concentration on the cities by the foundations and the E.U. helped perpetuate the wide gap between the cities and the countryside.
“We don’t have illusions about how difficult it will be to overcome this huge polarization but it is something that we have to deal with if we want to build a democracy that is inclusive,” said Salma Hamed, 22, also from Egypt.
The issue of building a democracy became a recurring theme during the conversations with this fascinating mix of people. What they also want from the European foundations, European donors and the Union itself is transparency in funding.
“The funding should be transparent,” Ms. Wissa said. “We want it to help women, for example, but we also want to know the criteria for this funding.”
Others said that the Europeans were too selective. They supported only liberal parties while shunning the moderate Islamist movements that represent large parts of these countries’ populations. This writer responded that at least Europe’s approach was better than before 2011.
That was when Europe cooperated with authoritarian regimes across the region instead of supporting independent, pro-democracy movements. Even the German foundations had, for a long time, a policy of allocating funding only to nongovernmental organizations sanctioned by the regimes.
As the conversation went on, it inevitably touched on Syria, a country that descended into civil war after the regime tried to put down a democratic uprising. These engaged men and women said they opposed any Western military intervention.
It was a long, thoughtful discussion about experiences, values and the limits of outside help. These bright young Arabs want their countries to change, but according to their own values, not rules imposed by the West.
Judy Dempsey is editor in chief of Strategic Europe at Carnegie Europe.
A version of this article appears in print on October 1, 2013, in The International Herald Tribune.
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Nguyễn Hoài Trang
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___________
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Exchange Programs Foster an Arab Ideal of Democracy
By JUDY DEMPSEY
Published: September 30, 2013
BERLIN — Last week, a group of young men and women from North African and Middle Eastern countries packed their bags and set off for home, having spent a month on a scholarship funded by the German Parliament.
These annual scholarships were established two years ago, soon after the Arab Spring swept across Europe’s southern neighbors. The aim behind the program was to bring young people to Germany to debate with them how democratic systems function.
“These exchange programs are important,” said Zina Mahmoud Hamada El Nahel, 24, a participant who is employed by a German political foundation in Egypt. “But one of the messages that we want to get across from our side is that European countries should stop selling weapons to the region. And don’t give any money to any of the governments. It will all be stolen.”
The participants said more weapons undermined efforts to build democracy. Yet European countries continue to sell arms to many Arab governments. One exception is Syria, but that war-torn country is awash with weapons anyway.
These bright people from Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, and other Arab countries — many of whom had taken part in the democratic uprisings in 2011 — described their new governments with a considerable amount of skepticism. They were doubtful about their leaders’ commitment to building democratic institutions.
After decades of misrule in the Arab world, corruption and authoritarianism are deeply entrenched, they said. The new governments also have an inherent suspicion of independent thinking.
“Our government, for example, hates the foundations,” said Imen Nefzi, 29, who is involved in a nongovernmental organization in Tunisia. “They think we are foreign agents, that we are trying to undermine the system. It is not easy trying to build democracy even on a small level.”
Some German nonprofit organizations — like the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, which is affiliated with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party — have been under constant pressure by the Egyptian authorities since 2011. Last June, its offices and property were confiscated.
Maha Wissa, 34, from Egypt, said she had no illusions about how long it would take to build a democratic state in her country. “A decade, at least — and that’s being optimistic,” she said.
In the meantime, she would like the foundations, the European Union and individual European governments to pursue a different tack to facilitate the transition.
“First of all, we have to reach out to schools, to younger people,” Ms. Wissa said.
As it is, German and European foundations have a built-in bias. They tend to focus on university students and those who speak their language.
The German Parliament’s scholarship has particular weaknesses. The Parliament’s administration asked the German Embassy in Cairo for help in finding participants. The embassy then contacted the foundations and other prominent nongovernmental organizations, choosing established, predictable channels rather than reaching out to different strata of society.
One participant, who wished to remain anonymous, was critical of this approach.
“All of us on this scholarship are committed to democracy,” he said. “But it should not only be us who receive these scholarships. The European foundations and the E.U. should be much more ambitious about reaching out to young people and how they target their funding,”
Many participants said that the foundations and the European Union were insular in their approach.
“The foundations have to get out of the capital cities and go to the towns and villages,” Ms. Nefzi said. “You do have the problem of not having staff or funding to do this. But there is another world out there that is very important to relate to. Otherwise you won’t understand how difficult it is to build democracy.”
Other participants said the concentration on the cities by the foundations and the E.U. helped perpetuate the wide gap between the cities and the countryside.
“We don’t have illusions about how difficult it will be to overcome this huge polarization but it is something that we have to deal with if we want to build a democracy that is inclusive,” said Salma Hamed, 22, also from Egypt.
The issue of building a democracy became a recurring theme during the conversations with this fascinating mix of people. What they also want from the European foundations, European donors and the Union itself is transparency in funding.
“The funding should be transparent,” Ms. Wissa said. “We want it to help women, for example, but we also want to know the criteria for this funding.”
Others said that the Europeans were too selective. They supported only liberal parties while shunning the moderate Islamist movements that represent large parts of these countries’ populations. This writer responded that at least Europe’s approach was better than before 2011.
That was when Europe cooperated with authoritarian regimes across the region instead of supporting independent, pro-democracy movements. Even the German foundations had, for a long time, a policy of allocating funding only to nongovernmental organizations sanctioned by the regimes.
As the conversation went on, it inevitably touched on Syria, a country that descended into civil war after the regime tried to put down a democratic uprising. These engaged men and women said they opposed any Western military intervention.
It was a long, thoughtful discussion about experiences, values and the limits of outside help. These bright young Arabs want their countries to change, but according to their own values, not rules imposed by the West.
Judy Dempsey is editor in chief of Strategic Europe at Carnegie Europe.
A version of this article appears in print on October 1, 2013, in The International Herald Tribune.
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02102013
___________
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WORLD_ Syria chemical arms accord a 'disgrace'
Syria chemical arms accord a 'disgrace'
Sky NEWS
Updated: 22:25, Tuesday October 1, 2013
A resolution ordering the elimination of Syria's chemical arms is 'a disgrace for the United Nations', opposition figures say, arguing it is making leader Bashar al-Assad 'legitimate' again.
'This agreement is a disgrace for the United Nations, it's scandalous,' Qassem Saadeddine, a former colonel in the Syrian army who defected in 2012, told AFP on a trip to the French capital.
'The international community has grabbed on to chemical arms and forgotten the 100,000 victims of the conflict,' said Saadeddine, who represents the military command of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) inside the war-torn country.
His comments on Monday came ahead of the planned arrival of a 20-strong disarmament team in Damascus to begin ridding Syria of chemical weapons - one of the largest and most dangerous operations of its kind. T
hey are implementing a UN resolution that was passed on Friday after weeks of intense diplomatic activity following the August 21 poison gas attack in Damascus suburbs, which Washington believes killed more than 1400 people. '
Bashar al-Assad has become respectable, legitimate again,' said Yahia Nanah, head of the provincial council of Aleppo in northern Syria, which aims to organise a semblance of normal civilian life in this violence-ridden area.
'All these massacres and it comes to this? It's as if the Syrian revolution happened over a chemical arms issue, when it was actually launched to create a state ruled by law in Syria.'
Both men are due to take part in a debate on Syria on Tuesday organised by a Socialist MP at the lower house National Assembly.
Assad on Sunday told Italy's Rai News 24 his regime would comply with the accord.
'This regime lies and will save time. What we ask of France is to give us real support,' Saadeddine said.
Asked about the situation of the rebels on the ground, he said the FSA still had 'overall control of the situation.
'But the more the situation drags on, the more we wait for weapons that don't come, the more it will become intolerable.'
On the ground, the rebellion is increasingly fragmented and extremists are gaining ground.
Last week, 13 rebel factions said they no longer recognised the Syrian National Coalition - the main exiled political opposition group - to which the FSA is linked.
'If these groups have become independent, it's probably because they found better sources of finance,' Saadeddine said.
Meanwhile, in Damascus, Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said on Tuesday Assad will remain in office, and has the right to decide to run for re-election next year.
'Syria is staying put: the state, the nation, the people and the president. This is the Syrians' choice,' Zohbi told journalists.
'All the people call for President Bashar al-Assad to be president of this state, whatever the opposition, the Americans and the traitors say,' he added.
Conflict broke out in Syria 30 months ago after Assad's regime launched a crackdown on Arab Spring-inspired protests demanding political change.
The regime has consistently blamed a foreign-backed 'terrorist' plot for the violence that has racked the country ever since.
Zohbi said it is 'the president's right to take a decision' on whether he will run for a new term in mid-2014, when his mandate is set to expire.
In Tuesday's speech, Zohbi said the opposition 'does not have the courage to go to the polls', and that 'had it had the courage, we would not have reached this point'.
More than 110,000 people have been killed in Syria's war, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and millions more have been forced to flee their homes.
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Nguyễn Hoài Trang
02102013
___________
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Sky NEWS
Updated: 22:25, Tuesday October 1, 2013
A resolution ordering the elimination of Syria's chemical arms is 'a disgrace for the United Nations', opposition figures say, arguing it is making leader Bashar al-Assad 'legitimate' again.
'This agreement is a disgrace for the United Nations, it's scandalous,' Qassem Saadeddine, a former colonel in the Syrian army who defected in 2012, told AFP on a trip to the French capital.
'The international community has grabbed on to chemical arms and forgotten the 100,000 victims of the conflict,' said Saadeddine, who represents the military command of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) inside the war-torn country.
His comments on Monday came ahead of the planned arrival of a 20-strong disarmament team in Damascus to begin ridding Syria of chemical weapons - one of the largest and most dangerous operations of its kind. T
hey are implementing a UN resolution that was passed on Friday after weeks of intense diplomatic activity following the August 21 poison gas attack in Damascus suburbs, which Washington believes killed more than 1400 people. '
Bashar al-Assad has become respectable, legitimate again,' said Yahia Nanah, head of the provincial council of Aleppo in northern Syria, which aims to organise a semblance of normal civilian life in this violence-ridden area.
'All these massacres and it comes to this? It's as if the Syrian revolution happened over a chemical arms issue, when it was actually launched to create a state ruled by law in Syria.'
Both men are due to take part in a debate on Syria on Tuesday organised by a Socialist MP at the lower house National Assembly.
Assad on Sunday told Italy's Rai News 24 his regime would comply with the accord.
'This regime lies and will save time. What we ask of France is to give us real support,' Saadeddine said.
Asked about the situation of the rebels on the ground, he said the FSA still had 'overall control of the situation.
'But the more the situation drags on, the more we wait for weapons that don't come, the more it will become intolerable.'
On the ground, the rebellion is increasingly fragmented and extremists are gaining ground.
Last week, 13 rebel factions said they no longer recognised the Syrian National Coalition - the main exiled political opposition group - to which the FSA is linked.
'If these groups have become independent, it's probably because they found better sources of finance,' Saadeddine said.
Meanwhile, in Damascus, Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said on Tuesday Assad will remain in office, and has the right to decide to run for re-election next year.
'Syria is staying put: the state, the nation, the people and the president. This is the Syrians' choice,' Zohbi told journalists.
'All the people call for President Bashar al-Assad to be president of this state, whatever the opposition, the Americans and the traitors say,' he added.
Conflict broke out in Syria 30 months ago after Assad's regime launched a crackdown on Arab Spring-inspired protests demanding political change.
The regime has consistently blamed a foreign-backed 'terrorist' plot for the violence that has racked the country ever since.
Zohbi said it is 'the president's right to take a decision' on whether he will run for a new term in mid-2014, when his mandate is set to expire.
In Tuesday's speech, Zohbi said the opposition 'does not have the courage to go to the polls', and that 'had it had the courage, we would not have reached this point'.
More than 110,000 people have been killed in Syria's war, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and millions more have been forced to flee their homes.
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Nguyễn Hoài Trang
02102013
___________
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Bao che, dung dưỡng TỘI ÁC là đồng lõa với TỘI ÁC
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